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AMERICAN HISTORY
Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner By André Bastian The first volume to focus entirely on the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek.
This is the first volume entirely published on Jelinek’s work in Australia and gathers a series of analyses around the first-ever production of one of her plays on an Australian stage, in Melbourne, 2011. It discusses questions of the Austrian writer’s complex writing strategies, potential problems of cultural transfer, the international reception of Jelinek’s work, and the contribution her work for theatre can make to a series of fundamental aspects of the global discourse of current times: feminism, sports and racism.
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Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925588514 • Paperback 230 pages • November 2020 • £30.00
Lost in History
Women in Literature and Philosophy By Supakwadee Amatayakul and Ilenia De Bernardis Deals with the issue of women’s absence from the visible horizons of literature and philosophy.
This book explores why and how women authors and philosophers are not included in the literary and philosophical canon. Women authors and philosophers seem to be left out of classes on great literature or the history of philosophy, leaving students with the impression that both literature and philosophy are shaped almost exclusively by men’s hands. The authors examine the sources and consequences of such exclusion and investigate the scholarly movements that have been set in place to rectify women’s absence in these fields.
Mimesis International • 9788869772870 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 100 pages • October 2020 • £8.99
Poets, Philosophers, Lovers
On the Writings of Giannina Braschi Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O'Dwyer Explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi.
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi’s linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical thinking, and poetic hilarity have spanned the genres of theatre, poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, political philosophy, and spoken word. This volume explores how Brasci’s texts shake up our ideas of ourselves and enrich our understanding of how powerful narratives can wake us to our higher expectations.
An Anthology Edited by Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd and Rebecca Stephens A diverse and comprehensive anthology from and about Appalachian writers.
Despite the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Appalachia, the region has nurtured and inspired some of the nation’s finest writers. Featuring dozens of authors born into or adopted by the region over the past two centuries, this collection showcases for the first time the nuances and contradictions that place Appalachia at the heart of American history.
University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178790 • Hardback • 14 illus 235 x 156mm • 784 pages • February 2020 • £37.50
The Politics of Richard Wright
Perspectives on Resistance Edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh Explores the controversies surrounding African American author Richard Wright.
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. Here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.
University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179599 • Paperback • 3 b/w illus. 229 x 152 386 pages • April 2020 • £30.00
The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens
Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century through Knowledge Exchange By Adam Coward Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. This book examines his correspondence, includes comments by many of the most noted historians, literary critics and Celticists of his day on a wide range of subjects. More than this, however, Stephens’s correspondence shows the complex networks of knowledge exchange which stretched across the nineteenth-century scholarly world.
Not just another ordinary illness By Ludomyr Mykyta A critique of the state of dementia diagnosis and care in Australia.
The conventional way that dementia is evaluated and managed is one-dimensional and outdated. We are fixated on identifying a cause, when we should be identifying the consequences. We use tests when we should be seeing and talking to people. Drawing from his long career in geriatric medicine, Dr Ludomyr Mykyta critiques the state of dementia treatment and care in Australia, highlighting the discrimination faced by our ageing residents.
Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801248 • Paperback 354 pages • May 2020 • £30.00
Varieties of Causal Explanation in Medical Contexts
By Raffaella Campaner Examines causal explanations in medicine.
Explanation in terms of causes has nourished a wide debate addressing diseases, what produces them, and how. The aims of this volume are two-fold: to stress the core features, differences and interaction between various theories and their suitability in medicine, and to advocate a form of pluralism grounded in deep analysis of specific features of explanatory context in the health sciences, especially in cancer and mental health studies.
Mimesis International • 9788869772788 • Paperback 208 x 140mm • 170 pages • April 2020 • £20.99
The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia
Kentucky Students Take ACTION Edited by Nathan L. Vanderford, Lauren Hudson and Chris Prichard Endeavours to convey how life-changing cancer diagnoses can be.
Kentucky has more cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths than any other US state, and most of these cases are concentrated in the Appalachian region of the commonwealth. This collection features essays written by a group of twenty high school and five undergraduate students detailing the effects of cancer diagnoses and deaths on individuals and communities.
Galenic Pharmacy in Colonial Mexico By Paula De Vos Examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy.
This book examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico. Paula De Vos traces the evolution of the Galenic pharmaceutical tradition from its foundations in Ancient Greece to the physician-philosophers of the Islamic empires in the medieval Latin West and eventually through the Spanish Empire to Mexico, offering a global history of the transmission of these materials, knowledges, and techniques.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946496 • Hardback • 40 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 352 pages • November 2020 • £38.00
The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920
Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease By James F. Stark Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance.
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the banner of "anthrax." Stark offers a fresh perspective on the history of infectious disease. He examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance, and constructs a narrative that spans public, professional and geographic domains.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966494 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 272 pages • December 2020 • £26.50
Typhoid in Uppingham
Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–1877 By Nigel Richardson Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Examines nineteenth-century health strategy through a well-documented market town.
After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the midnineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a microhistorical case study.
