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amsterdam university press
Fighting for a Living A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 Edited by Erik Jan Zürcher coming soon
This compelling volume investigates systems of recruiting and employing soldiers over the past 500 years on the basis of worldwide comparative studies. The authors, including Robert Johnson, Frank Tallett and Gilles Weinstein, undertake a systematic analysis of military labour, addressing two distinct communities: labour historians and military historians.
Amsterdam University Press, June 2013
A critical reassessment of the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature.
Anthem Press, October 2012
HB 9789089644527
£120.00 e-ISBN 9789048517251
anthem press
Empire and the Animal Body Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction John Miller
HB 9780857285348
£60.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Jane Austen’s Families June Sturrock
This title provides insight into family dynamics in Jane Austen’s six novels, focusing particularly on interaction between parents and children.
Anthem Press, February 2013 HB 9780857282965
£60.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager
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On Beckett Essays and Criticism Revised ed. Edited by S.E. Gontarski
The first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
Anthem Press, December 2012 HB 9780857286635
£60.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
Statemaking and Territory in South Asia Lessons from the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816) Bernardo A. Michael
Seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories.
Anthem Press, December 2012 HB 9780857285195
£60.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Anthem Modern South Asian History
bloomsbury publishing
The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Claudia Parodi coming soon
Evil A History in Modern French Literature and Thought Damian Catani coming soon
Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance Edited by Farah Karim-Cooper and Tiffany Stern
The most wide-ranging, state-of-the-art resource to a key area of contemporary linguistics. It covers fundamental issues, concepts, movements and approaches within the most relevant theoretical perspectives on syntax, encompassing the relationship between syntax and other levels of grammar.
In this original, interdisciplinary approach to evil in French literature, Damian Catani links literary depictions of evil with cultural events to chart a history of the concept in some of the most important texts in modern literature.
A landmark collection of essays by leading scholars, giving a sustained analysis of theatre technologies in early modern England and how they affected the drama of the time.
Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2013 HB 9781441124609
£100.00
Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2013 HB 9781441185563
£60.00
Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2013 HB 9781408146927
£55.00 The Arden Shakespeare Library
coming soon
brill academic publishers
A Companion to Meister Eckhart Edited by Jeremiah M. Hackett
A Companion to Roman Imperialism Edited by Dexter Hoyos
Drawing on the latest European research on Meister Eckhart since 1970, the volume provides a comprehensive rereading of the life, works, career, and trial of Meister Eckhart. Includes central philosophical ideas and sources with an account of his preaching, teaching and the reception of his work from the 14th to the 21st century.
‘A Companion to Roman Imperialism,’ written by a distinguished body of scholars, explores Rome’s rise to empire, and its vast historical impact on her subject peoples and, equally momentous, on the Romans themselves, an impact still felt today.
Brill Academic Publishers, December 2012 HB 9789004183476
€ 195.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition
Brill Academic Publishers, November 2012 HB 9789004235939
€ 146.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager History of Warfare
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Eight Decades of General Linguistics The History of CIPL and Its Role in the History of Linguistics Edited by Ferenc Kiefer and Piet van Sterkenburg
The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay A Case of Extreme Language Contact Sebastian Nordhoff
Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs Mingya Liu
Spanish in Bilingual and Multilingual Settings around the World Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy
A Typological Grammar of Panare A Cariban Language of Venezuela Thomas E. Payne & Doris L. Payne
‘Eight Decades of General Linguistics’ offers the lectures of outstanding scholars including Otto Jesperson, Louis Hjelmslev, André Martinet, Uriel Weinreich, Noam Chomsky and others held during the eighteen conferences organized by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists.
Sri Lanka Malay shows extreme language contact: Malay phonology and lexicon are squared with clearly Indian morphosyntax and semantics. Historical, anthropological, typological and structural approaches shed light on the complex genesis and rapid evolution of this language.
Suitable for linguists and philosophers of language, this book provides a multidimensional analysis for the lexical semantics of evaluative adverbs. Nonfactive evaluative adverbs trigger a conventional implicature, whereas, factive evaluative adverbs not only trigger a conventional implicature but also a conventional presupposition.
Suitable for linguists, sociolinguists, language acquisitionists, as well as teachers who deal with topics relating to bilingualism as it relates to Spanish speakers around the world. This title focuses on bilingual theories, issues on the teaching of bilinguals, bilingual policies abroad, and research on bilinguals.
Panare, also known as E’ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. ‘A Typological Grammar of Panare’ by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar, written from a modern functional/typological perspective.
Brill Academic Publishers, November 2012 HB 9789004218130
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Brill Academic Publishers, November 2012 HB 9789004234130
€ 107.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
Brill Academic Publishers, November 2012 HB 9781781902714
€ 89.95 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Brill Academic Publishers, November 2012 HB 9781780529264
€ 59.99
Brill Academic Publishers, November 2012 HB 9789004228214
€ 123.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
cambridge scholars publishing
Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan Studies in Contemporary Myth; Estudios sobre un mito contemporáneo Edited by Alfonso Muñoz Corcuera and Elisa T. Di Biase
Peter Pan is such a powerful icon that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial. This bilingual book (in English and Spanish) shows that, although he considered dying to be an awfully big adventure, Peter Pan is, on his one hundredth birthday, more alive than ever.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, August 2012 HB 9781443840026
£49.99 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager
de gruyter
Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and its Reflection in Film Edited by Claudia Simone Dorchain and Felice Naomi Wonnenberg
This anthology presents challengingly new insights into topics rarely covered, such as youth culture or humor, and finally discusses the images of Jewish life as realities still to be constructed. De Gruyter, November 2012
HB 9783110265125
€ 99.95 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager. eBook ISBN 9783110265132 Print/eBook ISBN 9783110268324
€ 149.95 Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge
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Max Pechstein The Rise and Fall of Expressionism Bernhard Fulda and Aya Soika
This long overdue biography combines the portrayal of an outstanding artistic personality with the story of an individual German who struggled through the political upheavals of his time.
eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager.
De Gruyter, September 2012
Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies
HB 9783110296624
eBook ISBN 9783110282085 Print/eBook ISBN 9783110282092
€ 149.95
€ 99.95 mcgill-queen’s university press
Companion to Medieval Society Franco Cardini
Presenting one thousand years of Medieval European society through its pivotal political events, The Companion to Medieval Society is the most comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of the period to date. Franco Cardini, one of Italy’s foremost experts in medieval studies distils a lifetime’s worth of knowledge into this compelling work.
McGill-Queen’s University Press, December 2012 HB 9780773541030
£34.00
new york university press
Classical Arabic Literature A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology Selected and Translated by Geert Jan van Gelder
NYU Press and NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) announce the establishment of the Library of Arabic Literature, a series offering Arabic editions and English translations of great works of classical Arabic literature. Rendered in parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages.
New York University Press, December 2012 HB 9780814770276
£59.00 PB 9780814738269
£16.99 Library of Arabic Literature
oxford university press
The Atlas and Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4 Vol. Set Edited by Susanne Michaelis et al coming soon
John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources coming soon
5 Vol. Set Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Clarke and Elizabeth Goldring
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature Volume 3 (1660-1790) Edited by David Hopkins and Charles Martindale
The Atlas and three-volume Survey present by far the most comprehensive source of reference ever published on the distribution and linguistic characteristics of the world’s pidgin and creole languages. On sale as a combined item at a special price, they comprise a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists.
Queen Elizabeth I often used the summer months to embark on tours or ‘progresses’ - of England, when she and her courtiers visited towns, cities, universities, and her subjects. This annotated collection of texts relating to the progresses includes accounts of dramatic performances, orations, and poems, and a wealth of supplementary material.
Offers an investigation into the many diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have been responded to and refashioned by English writers. Covering English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present, it both synthesizes exisiting scholarship and presents new research. This third volume covers the years 1660-1790.
Oxford University Press, September 2013 HB 9780199677702
£450.00
Oxford University Press, December 2013 HB 9780199205066
£495.00
Oxford University Press, September 2012 HB 9780199219810
£140.00 Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
taylor & francis
The Demonic Literature and Experience Ewan Fernie
literature, history & linguistics
Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agnoised and intimate experiences. The Demonic ranges across the breadth of western culture engaging with writers as central and various as Luther, Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Melville & Mann.
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Ltd, November 2012 HB 9780415690249
£75.00 PB 9780415690256
£24.99
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Global Literary Theory An Anthology Richard J. Lane
This title comprises a selection of classic, must-read essays alongside contemporary and global extracts providing an engaging and timely overview of literary theory.
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Ltd, January 2013 HB 9780415783019
£120.00 PB 9780415783026
£24.99
coming soon
Modernism & Literature An Introduction and Reader Mia Carter and Alan Friedman
coming soon
Practical Phoenetics and Phonology A Resource Book for Students 3rd ed. Beverley S. Collins and Inger M. Mees coming soon
The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World Paula S. Fass
Translation Changes Everything Theory and Practice Lawrence Venuti
Addressing current and historical debates about Modernism, this book includes discussion of the Harlem Renaissance, feminism and women’s writing, international and global movements and acknowledges a variety of competing modernisms.
This book presents the essentials of the subject and their day-to-day applications. Revised throughout, this edition features expanded material on orthography, foreign language teaching and learning and description of three new languages, Japanese, Italian and Polish.
This title redefines how the history of children and childhood can best be understood. This important collection drawing together a leading group of international scholars presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field.
Venuti is one of the most important theorists in translation studies and his work has helped shape the development of this vibrant field. This book brings together thirteen of his most significant articles.
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Ltd, January 2013 HB 9780415581639
£85.00 PB 9780415581646
£26.99
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Ltd, January 2013 HB 9780415506502
£70.00 PB 9780415506496
£20.99 Routledge English Language Introductions
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Ltd, December 2012 HB 9780415782326
£100.00 Routledge Histories
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Ltd, November 2012 HB 9780415696289
£90.00 PB 9780415696296
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Ways of reading Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature 4th
Ways of reading is a best-selling textbook that provides the reader with the tools to analyse and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts.
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Ltd, October 2012 HB 9780415677486
£85.00 PB 9780415677479
Martin Montgomery et al
£24.99
university of toronto press
Comics Versus Art Bart Beaty
Beaty’s analysis centres around two questions: why were comics excluded from the history of art for most of the twentieth century, and what does it mean that comics production is now more closely aligned with the art world?
University of Toronto Press, October 2012 HB 9781442643512
£45.99 PB 9781442612044
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university of toronto press
Disraeli The Romance of Politics Robert O’Kell
coming soon
The Pleasant Nights 2 Vol. Set By Giovan Francesco Straparola. Edited with an Introduction by Donald Beecher
Provides a remarkable biographical portrait of Disraeli as both a statesman and a storyteller. Drawing extensively on Disraeli’s published letters and speeches, as well as on archival sources, Robert O’Kell illuminates the intimate, symbiotic relationship between his fiction and his politics.
Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. This collection features seventythree folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature readers’ and seventeen proto-fairy tales.
University of Toronto Press, May 2013 HB 9781442644595
£66.99 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager
University of Toronto Press, December 2012 HB Volume 1: 9781442644267
£76.99 Volume 2: 9781442644274
£66.99 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy Sean Carney
A detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.
University of Toronto Press, April 2013 HB 9781442645738
£52.99 PB 9781442613973
£24.99 coming soon
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university of wales press
The Fantastic and European Gothic History, Literature and the French Revolution Matthew Gibson coming soon
Robert Recorde The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician Edited by Gareth Roberts and Fenny Smith
R.S. Thomas Serial Obsessive M. Wynn Thomas
coming soon
The Spanish Civil War Exhuming a Buried Past Edited by Anindya Raychaudhuri
coming soon
literature, history & linguistics
This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel. It examines the rise of Fantastic literature on the continent in the nineteenth century, the development of a European Gothic and the influence which this exerted on British writers.
The inventor of the equals sign (=), this books begins with an account of Recorde’s life and an overview of his work in mathematics, medicine and cosmography and a historical perspective of Recorde’s work and its wider European links and one that sets his work within the general knowledge economy.
This study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an ‘alternative’ war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul.
This book features cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on the political, historical, cultural, and literary legacy of the Spanish Civil War by a mixture of new and leading scholars from Europe, North America and New Zealand.
University of Wales Press, February 2013 HB 9780708325728
£95.00 Gothic Literary Studies
University of Wales Press, September 2012 HB 9780708325261
£60.00 eBook options available. View on Blackwell’s Collection Manager
University of Wales Press, February 2013 HB 9780708325704
£75.00 PB 9780708326138
£19.99
University of Wales Press, March 2013 HB 9780708325780
£90.00 Iberian and Latin American Studies
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