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Explores how the longest peace of the early modern Middle East was established and consolidated

Explores Scottish and international Christian responses to social problems in urban-industrial societies since 1800 How did Christians perceive and respond to new social problems of distinctly modern societies as they developed in Scotland and other countries during the 19th century? Amid the complexities of industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding global trade networks and nascent democratic politics, what kinds of social policies and initiatives did Christians in Scotland pursue and why? In honour of Stewart J. Brown's 34 years as Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity, new research on one of his main areas of interest is presented in this edited collection from 14 distinguished and emerging scholars in modern religious history. Centred on historical analyses of religious communities in Scotland, the chapters provide comparative lenses with which to view sociological and theological developments in Scotland, through examinations of similar religious phenomena in England, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. Andrew Kloes is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a historian in Washington, DC. Laura M. Mair is the Mary R. S. Creese Lecturer in Modern Scottish History at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity.

[headline]Examines Jane Austen's engagement with the broad range of artistic practices featured in her work Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games. [editor biographies]Joe Bray is Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of books and articles on fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including The Language of Jane Austen (2018) and The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period (2016). Hannah Moss works in the heritage industry. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Women's Writingo on the topic of women writers and the creative arts in Britain, 1660-1830. She has also published articles on Germaine de Staël, Ann Radcliffe and Felicia Hemans.

Studies captivity as cross-cultural interaction in the late medieval Mediterranean

How does art transform our understanding of realism in the post-truth era? Arguing for the necessity of taking art's contribution to contemporary realism seriously, this edited collection intervenes on contemporary debates about realism by demonstrating that the arts do not simply illustrate philosophical theories. The significance of art's realism in times characterised by the normalisation of fake, manipulated and distorted representations of reality can only be fully understood by attending to the ways that the arts mediate, visualise and even shape reality. Each chapter features a different approach to realism and its aesthetic dimensions not only in the visual arts, but also in sound art, film, scientific imaging and literature. Maryse Ouellet is Research Associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Bonn. Amanda Boetzkes is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph.

FRONT FLAP THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY GENERAL EDITOR: Alison Lumsden Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771 and had a remarkable literary career as a translator, editor, poet, novelist and dramatist. His work was read across the world and his literary and cultural legacies both at home and abroad are profound. Scott died at Abbotsford, his home in the Scottish Borders, in 1832. Scott's poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century. However, his significance for Romantic poetry has been lost by the absence of a recent and reliable edition. This new critical edition, which offers a companion to the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, aims to redress this situation with the very first complete collection of his poetry, offering newly edited texts, material hitherto uncollected, and supportive materials to allow readers to experience afresh the poetry that Scott wrote throughout his career. Bringing together for the first time Scott's complete poetical works, including several unpublished works, this edition: - restores Scott's notes to the status that they held during the early stages of publication - is edited to the standards established by the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, revisiting all the textual witnesses to establish reliable fresh texts - provides full textual apparatus and explanatory annotation to aid the reading of these neglected masterpieces by a twenty-first-century audience The Edinburgh Edition invigorates our understanding of Walter Scott's poetry and provides the contexts for understanding the foundations of his literary career BACK COVER [headline] The original poetry by Walter Scott in the Waverley Novels and other works This scholarly edition offers the first reliably identified collection of Walter Scott's original poetry in the Waverley Novels, the letters and the Journal. Past editors of Scott found it hard to recognise what is and is not quotation; but thanks to modern databases the poems in this volume have been identified as almost certainly his own. This collection demonstrates, again, Scott's brilliant versatility in the handling of verse forms and his extraordinary range of voice. The poetry of the Waverley Novels is often dramatic, being uttered or sung by one of the characters; mottoes at the heads of chapters stand in a critical relationship to the narrative; the poetry of the letters and Journal is often quizzical and self-mocking; and there are many superb parodies. As part of the 'meaning' of these poems lies in their context, this collection succinctly contextualises each one. It also provides full textual and explanatory annotation and an essay which explores, among other things, the wavering boundary between new creation and quotation. [bio] David Hewitt was formerly Regius Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, for which he edited: Rob Roy (2008), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (with Alison Lumsden; 2004), Redgauntlet (with G. A. M. Wood; 1997), and The Antiquary (1995). BACK FLAP THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY The Lay of the Last Minstrel Marmion The Lady of the Lake Rokeby Don Roderick, The Bridal of Triermain, The Field of Waterloo and Harold the Dauntless The Lord of the Isles Shorter Poems Poetry from the Waverley Novels and Other Works Verse Drama Scott's Reflections on Poetry: 1830 Introductions and 1833 essays [bio] Alison Lumsden is Regius Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen where she directs the Walter Scott Research Centre.

[headline]Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of queer desire. Queer Books of Late-Victorian Print Culture explores print culture adaptations of the material book, examining the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Field, John Gray, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and Oscar Wilde. It closely analyses the material book, including the elements of binding, typography, paper, ink and illustration, and brings textual studies and queer theory into conversation with literary experiments in free verse, fairy tales and symbolist drama. King argues that queer authors and artists revised the Revival of Printing's ideals for their own diverse and unique desires, adapting new technological innovations in print culture. Their books created a community of like-minded aesthetes who challenged legal and representational discourses of same-sex desire with one of aesthetic sensuality. [bio]Frederick D. King teaches at Dalhousie University as an Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Management. His research examines Victorian literature and print culture, aestheticism, decadence, and queer theory. His work has been published in the Journal of Modern Literature, Contemporary Literature, Victorian Periodicals Review, Cahiers Victoriens et édouardiens and Victorian Review.

Explores the relationship between the arts, political agency and peace formation Artpeace represents a conceptual framing of the synergy between the arts and peacemaking, as well as a methodological strategy for addressing war and political conflict through the arts. Building on fieldwork undertaken in seven locations across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, this book investigates to what extent local and community art projects have played a role in broader national peace projects. Equally, it also looks into the factors that have blocked artists from translating their social imaginaries into political change in contexts of war and violence. The edited collection brings together peace and conflict scholarship with arts-based studies of social movements in conflict-affected societies to examine the proposition that the arts may offer an opportunity to shape peace processes in emancipatory ways, whilst examining the blockages that, at times, prevent them from making a tangible difference to the variations of peace being designed. Stefanie Kappler is Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Oliver Richmond is Research Professor in IR and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester. Birte Vogel is Senior Lecturer in Humanitarianism, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester.

[headline]A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul Mina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. Elevated Realms is the first study book-length study devoted to Loy's affinities with alternative spiritualities ancient and modern. Aligning Loy's heterodoxies with her vanguardism, this volume considers Loy's engagements with mesmerism, spiritualism and telepathy; enchantment and visionariness; psychoanalysis, philosophy and physics; Christian Science and Theosophy. Attending to Loy's presentations of the upper half of the body - heartscapes, spines, eyes and nerve centres - Elevated Realms unearths the coordinates of Loy's esoteric Eros, a transcendent, orgasmic love that is cosmic, intimate, aesthetic and a corrective to women's disregarded satiation. The requisite counterpart to her acerbic feminist satires, Loy's Eros re-envisions abjectified, feminised posturing as a dorsality with the potential to access the beyond. [bio]Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex, where she researches and teaches literature and culture from 1850 onward, emphasising approaches experimental and decolonial. Her books include I'm Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn (2020); On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Peter Nicholls, 2012); Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (2011); and Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).

Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of transnational repression - using tactics that include surveillance, coercion, harassment and physical violence - in a comparative perspective.

[headline]A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee This study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, including the novels of the South African and Australian periods, to demonstrate the development of Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph, Pawel Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzee's multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions, such as ocularnormativism, mute speech, eco-disability, disability Gothic, dismodernism, autogerontography, and bibliotherapy, Wojtas shows how Coetzee's 'disabled textuality' provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultural denigration of disability experience. [bio]Pawel Wojtas is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of 'Artes Liberales, ' University of Warsaw, Poland. He completed his PhD in Arts and Humanities at the University of Warsaw (2012), was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of York (2018) and The Kosciuszko Foundation Research Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (2022). His research examines literary representations of disability in contemporary English and related literary fiction.

Presents and sets in context all of Cunninghame Graham's Scottish works, transcribed from their original sources R. B. Cunninghame Graham was a hugely influential figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish politics and literature. For the first time, his entire Scottish oeuvre has been compiled chronologically, from their original sources, into one volume, and set in their historical, cultural and social contexts. This volume highlights Graham's writings on landscape, climate, history, local traditions, mythology, Scots dialect and social diversity - but also pays rare attention to his writings about Scots abroad. Almost every location of Graham's sketches has been visited and investigated, and the editors - one of whom has intimate connections to his family history - have sought out individuals with local knowledge and insights, lending depth and substance to his descriptions, and to their commentaries. The book also explores the works themselves, and traces Graham's development as a much-admired literary artist and social documentarist whose atmospheric evocations of Scottish landscape and character are unique within Scottish literature. Lachlan Munro is an independent scholar and freelance historian. W. R. B. (Robin) Cunninghame is the great-great-nephew of R. B. Cunninghame Graham and holds the Barony of Gartmore as head of the Cunninghame Graham family. He is a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries (Scotland).

[headline]Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two approaches to consider the ethical implications of decisions made when artists and scholars appropriate Shakespeare. The essays in this book, written by established and emerging scholars in subfields such as premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, performance studies, adaptation/appropriation studies and fan studies, demonstrate how remaking the plays across time, cultures or media changes the nature both of what Shakespeare promises and the expectations of those promised Shakespeare. Using examples such as rap music, popular television, theatre history and twentieth-century poetry, this collection argues that understanding Shakespeare at different intersections between performance and appropriation requires continuously negotiating what is signified through Shakespeare to the communities that use and consume him. [bios]Louise Geddes is Professor of English at Adelphi University, USA. Kathryn Vomero Santos is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Humanities Collective at Trinity University, USA. Geoffrey Way is the Manager of Publishing Futures for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and ACMRS Press, where he serves as the Managing Editor for The Sundial and Borrowers and Lenders.

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions

In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but 'the philosopher's serenity and philosophy's achievement.' LeRon Shults illustrates the uses and effects of an 'atheist machine' throughout Deleuze's work, demonstrating its central role in his philosophical achievements in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Shults also brings Deleuze's philosophy into dialogue with recent advances in computational social simulation, specifically multi-agent artificial intelligence modelling. Framing his argument in the context of empirical findings and theoretical developments in the scientific study of religion, he points toward the potentially creative role of atheist assemblages in addressing societal challenges associated with the Anthropocene. F. LeRon Shults is Professor at the Institute for Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder and Research Professor at the NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems in Kristiansand, Norway.

Analyses the struggles for accountability and the resurgence of militarism in Brazil

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form.

Examines dramatic acts of nostalgia as rhetorical moves designed to precipitate future action.

The first booklength literarygeographical study of late modernist poetry.

Provides the first booklength analysis of modernism and the Anthropocene.

Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.

A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.