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NEW TITLES AUTUMN/WINTER 2020
NEW TITLES: AUTUMN/WINTER 2020
Classics and Ancient History..........................................3 Politics.................................................................................31
Film Studies.........................................................................4 Scottish Studies...............................................................37
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies........................10 Law.......................................................................................38
Literature...........................................................................15 Scots Law............................................................................40
Language and Linguistics...........................................24 Representatives, Agents & Distribution................42
Philosophy.........................................................................26
Welcome to our Autumn/Winter 2020 seasonal catalogue. We find ourselves in strange and difficult
times, and recognise that many – if not all – of our colleagues across the academic world now find
themselves dealing with new ways of working. Our vision seems all the more important at present: to
publish the best academic books and journals that seek to promote understanding, stimulate debate
and communicate scholarly ideas to the world.
The new books and series you will find across these pages do just that, and I hope there is much
here to inform, and in some cases entertain you (see the exploration of Monty Python in And Now
for Something Completely Different and a cultural history of the werewolf film, Phases of the Moon p.4).
You might also want to lose yourself in some beautiful books of Islamic art (see p.10–11). Meanwhile
lecturers in linguistics will be delighted to see a new edition of Lyle Campbell’s Historical Linguistics
(p.24) alongside a range of other textbooks. And anyone with an interest in thinking critically about the
world and how we live in it will want to read Tristan Garcia’s We Ourselves as well as Etienne Balibar’s
Spinoza, the Transindividual (p.28). In the world of politics, new books in the Intelligence, Surveillance
and Secret Warfare series give much food for thought.
Nicola Ramsey, Head of Editorial
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SECTION TITLE CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
Screening the Golden Ages of the The Politics of Association in
Classical Tradition Hellenistic Rhodes
Edited by Meredith Safran, Trinity College, Christian Thomsen, The Saxo Institute,
Hartford, USA University of Copenhagen
• A collection of fourteen essays exploring • The first comprehensive study of Rhodes
how the dominant media of our time – film in more than 20 years and one of the few
and television – have engaged with the books dedicated to a single Hellenistic
golden age as formulated in the Western city-state
classical tradition
• Introduces the reader to Hellenistic
• Draws on ancient Greek and Roman Rhodes, an important, but also remarkably
NEW IN PAPERBACK literature and culture, from Hesiod to understudied, city-state of the ancient Greek
Suetonius and Roman world
• Considers prestige projects, cult classics and • Challenges traditional assumptions about
classical influence on genre productions political organization in the ancient Greek
Paperback £24.99 August 2020 352 pages city-state
978 1 4744 4085 1 Also available in Ebook
Hardback £80.00 August 2020 192 pages
28 b&w illustrations Screening Antiquity
978 1 4744 5255 7 Also available in Ebook
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New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History
Screening Divinity Early Rome to 290 BC
Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan University, Israel The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the
• Investigates a single issue over a range of Republic
genres in cinema and television from fantasy Guy Bradley, Cardiff University
movies to biopics to Bible stories • Offers a view of early Rome as a
• Considers the gods of Greek and Roman highly mobile society within a wider
mythology alongside the biblical God of the interconnected Mediterranean networks
Judeo-Christian tradition • Covers the rise of Rome from small scale
• Draws on recent trends in scholarship community to supremacy in central Italy
in both classical reception and film and • Uses the latest archaeological evidence
NEW IN PAPERBACK INSPECTION COPY
theology to provide an interdisciplinary to demonstrate the sophisticated and
study and synthesis between two rarely cosmopolitan nature of early Rome
connected fields • Analyses the origins of Rome’s Republican
• Examines the portrayal of deity on screen in form of government and of its aggressive
films such as Le Tonnerre de Jupiter (1903), The drive to conquer
Ten Commandments (1956) and Troy, Fall of a Paperback £29.99 October 2020 320 pages
City (2018) 978 0 7486 2109 5 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
Paperback £19.99 February 2021 240 pages 70 b&w illustrations
978 1 4744 2574 2 Also available in Hardback & Ebook The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome
18 b&w illustrations Screening Antiquity
The Stoic Theory of Beauty Plutarch and the Persica
Aiste Celkyte, Utrecht University Eran Almagor
• Highlights the important contribution Stoic • Bridges the gap between Plutarch Studies
philosophy made to aesthetics and Achaemenid Studies through analysis of
• Shows that this is a largely unexplored key texts
area of interest to scholars of both ancient • Builds a picture of the character and
philosophy and aesthetics structure of the lost Persica works by Ctesias
• Analyses material to show that there of Cnidus, Deinon of Colophon, Heracleides
is a coherent and substantial attempt of Cyme
at systematic enquiry into aesthetic • Shows how Plutarch used the Persica works
phenomena NEW IN PAPERBACK
in his Lives with a specific focus on Artaxerxes
• Discusses how Stoic ideas could enhance • Considers the depiction of famous
our understanding of ancient aesthetics and figures such as Alexander the Great and
even contribute to contemporary aesthetics Themistocles in Plutarch’s works
Hardback £80.00 September 2020 224 pages
Paperback £24.99 November 2020 352 pages
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Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia
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FILM STUDIES
Gillian Armstrong Phases of the Moon
Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film
Julia Erhart, Flinders University Craig Ian Mann, Sheffield Hallam University
• Explores how Armstrong’s films re-work • Develops a cultural understanding of the
conventions about literary adaptation, werewolf film
biography and realist storytelling • Reconsiders the psychoanalytic paradigms
• Highlights parallels between Armstrong’s that have dominated scholarly discussion of
filmmaking and topical, cutting-edge werewolves in pop culture
themes in feminist media scholarship • Includes over 40 individual case studies
• Reflects Armstrong’s activities across several to illustrate how werewolf films can be
OPEN ACCESS inter/national filmmaking industries and understood as products of their cultural
thus appeals to both international and moment
Australianist readerships • Identifies the cinematic werewolf’s most
• Includes a never-before-utilised oral history common metaphorical dimensions
project with Armstrong Paperback £19.99 November 2020 256 pages
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Visionaries
And Now for Something Contemporary Cinema and the
Completely Different Philosophy of Iris Murdoch
Critical Approaches to Monty Python Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University of
Edited by Kate Egan, Aberystwyth University, London
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan • Opens a dialogue between contemporary
University film and Iris Murdoch’s thinking on art,
• Explores the range of factors that contribute goodness and existentialism
to Monty Python’s continuing status as • Stages an encounter between Murdoch’s
‘something different’ moral philosophy and a range of
• Offers a reappraisal of the originality, international contemporary films
NEW IN PAPERBACK
influence and impact, from the perspective • Furthers the discipline of film–philosophy
of its 50 years of cultural circulation by bringing Murdoch’s thinking into relation
• Includes analyses of a range of output, from with cinema in a sustained and detailed
the Monty Python’s Flying Circus television analysis
show, to the Monty Python films, albums, Paperback £19.99 February 2021 248 Pages
and live shows, including consideration of 978 1 4744 8135 9 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
Monty Python’s use of music and songs and 25 b&w illustrations
forms of animation
Hardback £75.00 October 2020 240 pages
978 1 4744 7515 0 Also available in Ebook
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Cinematic Realism Shoe Reels
Lukács, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic The History and Philosophy of Footwear in
Real Film
Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University Edited by Elizabeth Ezra, University of Stirling,
• Explores classical and contemporary theories Catherine Wheatley, King’s College London
of cinematic realism to assess their overall • Traces the relationship between one
key concepts and intellectual configurations particular object (shoes) and film as a
• Provides analysis of Lukacs/Bergson/time medium in order to reveal the significance
and Kracauer/Husserl/Space of material things to cinema, thematically,
• Offers conclusions on what the central key formally and philosophically
concepts and intellectual configuration • Reveals the political, cultural and economic
of cinematic realism are; and on what power of film through its deployment of the
consequences flow from this iconography of shoes
Hardback £80.00 December 2020 352 pages
• Asks if, and how, film “uses” shoes differently
978 1 4744 4134 6 Also available in Ebook from other art forms, and if so what this
1 b&w illustration difference reveals about the medium, and
about our current age of art
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Films and Fashions
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FILM STUDIES
Lesbian Cinema after Queer The Pulse in Cinema
Theory The Aesthetics of Horror
Clara Bradbury-Rance, King’s College London Sharon Jane Mee, University of New South
• Explores lesbian cinema in the context of Wales
political, social and cultural transformations • Develops a concept of the pulse and argues
in LGBT civil rights while challenging the for the importance of its use in cinema
assumed relationship between visibility and spectatorship theory
progress • Builds on ideas of rhythm in early and
• Explores the gendered invisibility instituted experimental cinema to develop a
in critical discourses of sexuality by queer progressive theory that is valuable for a
NEW IN PAPERBACK theory’s departure from identity politics cinematic understanding of body horror
• Proposes the mutual, rather than • Analyses five body horror films – Le Sang des
synonymous or substitutive, use of ‘queer’ bêtes/Blood of the Beasts, The Tingler, Dawn of
and ‘lesbian’ to describe sexuality on screen the Dead, L’aldilà/The Beyond and Possession –
• Situates contemporary lesbian cinema in using aspects of the pulse
the history of the image of the woman as Hardback £75.00 December 2020 216 pages
theorised by feminist film theory 978 1 4744 7584 6 Also available in Ebook
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Paperback £19.99 November 2020 208 pages
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The Cinema of Disorientation Contemporary Political Cinema
Inviting Confusions Matthew Holtmeier, Ithaca College
Dominic Lash, film scholar • Explores political films that have emerged on
• Examines disorientation and confusion, the global film festival circuit (1990s–2010s)
and their theoretical implications, in • Updates and critiques the work of Deleuze
contemporary narrative film and Foucault in order to develop its efficacy
• Explores the relationship between for understanding recent cinematic and
orientation and disorientation for the film political trends
viewer • Draws upon the study of Third Cinema and
• Critically discusses a very wide range of texts Deleuze’s film–philosophy
NEW IN PAPERBACK
in film criticism, film theory, philosophy, and • Situates each film discussed within its
beyond particular national or regional context, such
Hardback £75.00 September 2020 208 pages as the specific issue of Kurdish filmmaking
978 1 4744 6277 8 Also available in Ebook in Iran
30 b&w illustrations Paperback £19.99 November 2020 200 pages
978 1 4744 7771 0 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
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No Power Without an Image Intermedial Dialogues
Icons Between Photography and Film The French New Wave and the Other Arts
Libby Saxton, Queen Mary, University of Marion Schmid, University of Edinburgh
London • A wide-ranging study which examines the
• Reviews the lives of seven legendary complex, often ambivalent ways in which
photographs through the lens of cinema, the New Wave engages the other arts in
expanding understanding of these both its discursive construction and filmic
interlocking media practice
• Presents new archival research into and • Affords a new optic for understanding
close analysis of the double lives of four of French New Wave cinema and innovative
these photographs as pieces of footage, NEW IN PAPERBACK readings of New Wave films
enhancing knowledge of some of film • Offers an inclusive view of the New Wave
history’s most haunting moments through discussion of lesser-known directors
• Explores developments in technology and alongside renowned New Wave filmmakers
aesthetics that shaped the iconic image,
Paperback £19.99 February 2021 240 pages
enriching appreciation of its historical 978 1 4744 8137 3 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
emergence 18 b&w illustrations
Hardback £75.00 October 2020 184 pages Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
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Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
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FILM STUDIES
Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits
Impurity The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura
Remaking the Image in the 1960s Edited by Lindsay Coleman, University of
Melbourne, David Desser, University of Illinois
Matilde Nardelli, University of West London
• A thorough exploration of the work of one of
• Critically and comprehensively explores the
Japan’s most controversial directors
relation between Antonioni’s cinema and art
in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time of profound • The first book to look at the entire career of
transformation in, and dialogue between, Imamura Shohei
both cinema and art • Incorporates the work of top Japanese
• Moves away from traditional readings of Cinema scholars from the US, UK, Australia,
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Antonioni’s cinema in terms of ‘purity’ by Canada and Japan
addressing its engagement with mixed and • Organised by thematic concerns that cut
mass media across Imamura’s career
• Approaches Antonioni’s work through a Paperback £24.99 February 2021 360 pages
comparative – trasnational and transmedial 978 1 4744 8136 6 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
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Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film
Hardback £75.00 September 2020 248 pages
978 1 4744 4404 0 Also available in Ebook
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Geraldine Chaplin British Music Videos 1966 – 2016
The Gift of Film Performance Genre, Authenticity and Art
Steven Rybin, Minnesota State University, Emily Caston, University of West London
Mankato • A historical and theoretical study of British
• Offers new readings of Chaplin’s presence in music video culture and industry from 1966
important films by key film directors across to 2016
various international cinemas, including • Sets out a new theoretical framework for
Carlos Saura (Spain), Jacques Rivette music video analysis
(France), David Lean (Britain), Robert Altman • Locates music video within the larger
(America), Alain Resnais (France) historical context of the entertainment
• Offers a unique approach to film PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
industries
performance studies, showing how • Considers evidence from detailed case study
performative moments created by one actor analyses of one hundred landmark videos
evoke the memory and performances of
another related star in a different historical Hardback £75.00 September 2020 232 pages
978 1 4744 3532 1 Also available in Ebook
and aesthetic context
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Hardback £75.00 September 2020 264 pages Music and the Moving Image
978 1 4744 2796 8 Also available in Ebook
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International Film Stars
Volume 43 Number 1 March 2020
New Takes on Film and Legacies of the Past
Paragraph
Mediating Thought: Essays in Honour
43.1
Imagination
of Christopher Johnson
Edited by Nicholas Harrison
New Takes on Film and
Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and
March
Contents
Imagination
2020
Introduction: Chris Johnson in his Writing
Screen Cultures
Nicholas Harrison
Leroi-Gourhan and the Field of Ethnology
Mediating Thought (ed. Nicholas Harrison)
Paragraph, Volume 43, Issue 3
Christopher Johnson (edited by Judith Still)
Imagining the Emergence of the Human: Reflections on
Chris Johnson’s Late Work
Edited by Sarah Cooper
Terence Cave
Edited by Niamh Thornton, University of
‘The Prey or the Shadow’: Klossowski, Kierkegaard, Desire
Leslie Hill
Edited by Sarah Cooper, King’s College
‘Give us back our eleven days’: Brexit or Breaksit
Marian Hobson
Liverpool, Miriam Haddu, Royal Holloway,
Translating Mouvement, Translating Movement
Michael Holland
On (Not) Translating Lacan:
London
Barbara Cassin’s Sophistico-Analytical Performances
Michael Syrotinski
University of London
Chris Johnson’s Writing Lesson
Peggy Kamuf
Notes on Contributors
• Features discussion of theoretical and
• Examines how trauma haunts the spaces
philosophical explorations of imagination as
and places of Mexican film and visual culture
Edinburgh University Press
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they relate to questions of spectatorship, film
• Case studies include Flor en Otomi, El
Edinburgh University Press
form, and cinematographic time.
Atentado, Mujer Guerrilla, Biutifel and Children
• Ranging widely in historical and
of Men
geographical purview, and intersecting with
political and especially ethical concerns • A decade-long period of commemoration
where relevant. in Mexico (2010-2020) makes it a timely
moment for reflection on memory and
• Includes solely theoretical pieces in addition
traumas of the past
to close analyses of particular films, with
examples from documentary through art • Engages in an interdisciplinary investigation
house and experimental to narrative cinema. of space and the spectral
Hardback £75.00 December 2020 192 pages
Paperback £24.99 November 2020 128 pages
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FILM STUDIES
ReFocus: The Films of Barbara ReFocus: The Films of Michel
Kopple Gondry
Edited by Jeff Jaeckle, Portland Community Edited by Marcelline Block, LIM College,
College, Susan Ryan, The College of New Jennifer Kirby, Massey University
Jersey
• Explores a range of complex works by Michel
• Traces Kopple’s entire career to date,
Gondry, examining significant themes
including her deft navigations of
throughout his filmography including
independent documentary production,
surrealism, adaptation, memory, dreams,
ethical relationships between filmmaker
play, and African–American identity
and subject, and the shifting digital media
NEW IN PAPERBACK • Compares Gondry to other filmmakers
landscape
including Wes Anderson and Jean Vigo,
• Provides cultural contexts for Kopple’s films,
allowing for an understanding of how
including representations of class, gender,
Gondry’s films might compare with both his
sexuality and race
global contemporaries and his predecessors
• Assesses the contours of Kopple’s critical in French and international cinema
reputation and popularity, including her
influence on contemporary filmmakers Hardback £80.00 September 2020 240 pages
978 1 4744 5601 2 Also available in Ebook
Paperback £19.99 November 2020 272 pages 7 b&w illustrations
978 1 4744 3995 4 Also available in Hardback & Ebook ReFocus: The International Directors Series
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ReFocus: The American Directors Series
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid ReFocus: The Films of Pablo
Bouchareb Larraín
Edited by Michael Gott, University of Edited by Laura Hatry, Universidad Autonoma
Cincinnati, Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, University de Madrid
of Rhode Island
• Provides cultural and historical context for
• Devotes attention to Bouchareb’s under- Larraín‘s films, including consideration of his
explored films, including the Oscar- own influences
nominated Poussières de vie/Dust of Life
• Assesses Larraín‘s standing in Chilean film
(1994), those shot in English, and recent
and his cinematic style through close
made-for- television films
analysis of all his works
• Offers an interdisciplinary approach to
• Analyses Larraín‘s oeuvre in the context
Bouchareb’s work, drawing on gender
of film aesthetics, philosophy, history,
studies, cinema studies, French and
adaptation studies and cultural studies
francophone studies, Islamic studies, and
history, among others Hardback £80.00 September 2020 248 pages
978 1 4744 4828 4 Also available in Ebook
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978 1 4744 6651 6 Also available in Ebook ReFocus: The International Directors Series
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ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Film Reboots Contemporary Hollywood
Edited by Daniel Herbert, University of
Michigan, Constantine Verevis, Monash
Animation
Noel Brown, Liverpool Hope University
University, Melbourne
• A cultural history of the contemporary
• Offers a specific focus on the new millennial
Hollywood animated feature, from Toy Story
phenomenon of rebooting
to The Lego Movie
• Provides extended case studies of key
• Examines critically a range of prominent
rebooted films and franchises
contemporary Hollywood animated features
• Interrogates the film reboot as an industrial,
• Reveals the aspects which make these texts
textual and discursive category
attractive to multiple audience sections
• Considers the reboot in relation to other
• Situates the genre in its social, cultural, and
formatting practices: remakes, sequels,
industrial contexts
prequels, series and franchises
• Contributes to current debates on children’s
• Situates film reboots in relation to larger
media
political and social realities, including issues
of gender and race Hardback £70.00 January 2021 208 pages
978 1 4744 1056 4 Also available in Ebook
Hardback £75.00 October 2020 256 pages 18 b&w illustrations
978 1 4744 5136 9 Also available in Ebook Traditions in American Cinema
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Screen Serialities
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FILM STUDIES
The Franchise Era The Other Hollywood Renaissance
Managing Media in the Digital Economy Edited by Dominic Lennard, University
Edited by James Fleury, Washington of Tasmania., R. Barton Palmer, Clemson
University in St. Louis, Bryan Hikari University, Murray Pomerance, independent
Hartzheim, Waseda University, Stephen scholar
Mamber, UCLA • Provides a revisionist account of the
• A collection of essays that examine the Hollywood Renaissance (which took place
management strategies of franchises across between the late 1960s to the early 1980s)
multiple media, including film, television, • Includes in-depth analysis of 24 directors
video games and mobile apps working within this period, such as Jerry
NEW IN PAPERBACK • Explores the production, distribution and Schatzberg, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich,
marketing of franchises as a historical form of William Friedkin, Peter Yates, Joan Micklin
media-making Silver and John Boorman
• Case studies include: the Alien franchise, • Reassesses American art cinema of the 1970s
Disney theme parks, Star Wars franchise, the Hardback £80.00 November 2020 384 pages
Marvel Cinematic Universe and Nintendo 978 1 4744 4264 0 Also available in Ebook
Classic Edition mini-consoles 48 b&w illustrations
Paperback £24.99 November 2020 336 pages Traditions in American Cinema
978 1 4744 7774 1 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
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Traditions in American Cinema
Contemporary Balkan Cinema Francophone Belgian Cinema
Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits Jamie Steele, Bath Spa University
Edited by Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool • An industrial and representational analysis
John Moores University, Ana Grgić, Monash of films produced in Wallonia since the early
University Malaysia 2000s
• A critical and comprehensive analysis • Includes detailed case studies of five key
of post-2008 Balkan cinema through a filmmakers to emerge from Belgium and
transnational and cross-cultural approach Wallonia: the Dardenne brothers; Joachim
Lafosse; Olivier Masset-Depasse; Lucas
• Emphasis on co-productions, transnational
Belvaux; and Bouli Lanners
exchanges and global circulation
NEW IN PAPERBACK • Provides a new outlook on European film
• Reference tables on national and regional
cultures and cinemas from small nations that
film supporting institutions and film festivals
share linguistic partners
• Focus on small and as-yet underrepresented
cinemas, such as Montenegro, Kosovo, Paperback £19.99 November 2020 240 Pages
Macedonia, and Albania 978 1 4744 5963 1 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
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Hardback £75.00 November 2020 256 pages Traditions in World Cinema
978 1 4744 5843 6 Also available in Ebook
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Traditions in World Cinema
The New Romanian Cinema Moroccan Cinema Uncut
Christina Stojanova, University of Regina Decentred Voices, Transnational Perspectives
• This pioneering collection of essays on New Will Higbee, University of Exeter, Flo
Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise Martin, Goucher College, Jamal Bahmad,
it aesthetically, theoretically and historically Mohammed V University at Agdal, Morocco
• Covers more than forty films made since • Features interviews with key industry figures
2001 – including The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, and filmmakers
The Paper will be Blue, Police, Adjective and • Case studies include the controversial Much
Beyond the Hills Loved, and an analysis of its reception within
• Includes thorough bibliographic and outwith Morocco
NEW IN PAPERBACK and filmographic references, and a • Argues that Moroccan cinema has de-
comprehensive historical overview orbited from Francophone cinema and
Paperback £24.99 February 2021 344 pages
Morocco’s postcolonial legacy to become a
978 1 4744 7773 4 Also available in Hardback & Ebook transnational cinema
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FILM STUDIES
Blood in the Streets Greek Cinema and Migration,
Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema 1991–2016
Austin Fisher, Bournemouth University Philip E. Phillis, independent scholar
• Winner of the BAFTSS Best Monograph
• Discusses issues of immigration and
Award 2020
identity within contemporary Greek cinema
• A historical contextualisation of 1970s Italian (1991–2016)
genre films that depicted violent crime in
• Brings Greek cinema to the forefront of
contemporary Italy
Anglophone Film and Cultural Studies,
• Case studies include Giallo films and responding to growing needs to investigate
Poliziottesco films the cinema of small nations and to provide a
NEW IN PAPERBACK
• Offers a range of fascinating insights into the holistic study of European cinema
wider anxieties of this decade • Includes a wide selection of case studies
Paperback £19.99 November 2020 240 pages covering the period from 1991 to 2016
978 1 4744 7772 7 Also available in Hardback & Ebook illustrate the growing fascination of Greek
15 b&w illustrations filmmakers with the plight of immigrants
and refugees in Greece and the shifting
ideological and cultural zeitgeist
Hardback £75.00 December 2020 240 pages
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New Blood in Contemporary Mediating War and Identity
Cinema Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-
century War Representation
Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
Edited by Lisa Purse, University of Reading,
Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam
Ute Wölfel, University of Reading
• Discusses how contemporary women
• Examines the processes of conceptualising
directors have appropriated horror
the self through ambivalent figures like
aesthetics, enlarging its generic scope and
traitors in representations of war
expanding its emotional spectrum
• Includes case studies from a range
• Includes case studies of important female
of disciplinary and interdisciplinary
directed films, including A Girl Walks Home
perspectives, examining different types of
Alone at Night, The Babadook and Venefica
cultural representation
• Revisits feminist themes such as female
• Extends understanding of how figures of
agency, gender and race relations and affect
transgression are situated in Western visual
by returning to the work of feminist directors
and media culture, and to what ends
of the 1970s and 1980s
Hardback £75.00 November 2020 208 pages
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RECENT RELEASES
Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956- Nasty Business
1975 The Marketing and Distribution of the Video
Nasties
Michael Guarneri
• Actively engages in the ongoing academic Mark McKenna, Staffordshire University
debate about the cultural legitimacy of • Examines factors that contributed to the
Italian genre cinema common understanding of the “video
• Covers unpublished film production data nasties moment” outside of the established
(from the Archivio Centrale dello Stato and well documented social history
in Rome), original screenplays (from the • Draws upon global technological histories
Biblioteca Luigi Chiarini in Rome), cinematic to better understand how they relate and
paratexts and vampire-themed paraliterature impact on the British marketplace in the
(from libraries all over Italy) early 1980s, considering how these forces
• Outlines the 1945-1985 historical and and factors contributed to the economics of
industrial context of Italian cinema the early British video industry
• Historicises and examines the marketing
Hardback £75.00 July 2020 232 pages
materials/promotional strategies that are
978 1 4744 5811 5 Also available in Ebook
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believed to have triggered the video nasties’
moral panic
Hardback £75.00 July 2020 216 pages
978 1 4744 5108 6 Also available in Ebook
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ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Reframing the Alhambra
Medieval Rum, 1270–1370 Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court
Ceremonial
Production, Patronage and the Arts of the
Book Olga Bush, Vassar College
Cailah Jackson, The Oxford Centre for Islamic • Integrates the study of poetic inscriptions,
Studies textiles and court ceremonial into the
discussion of architecture
• Meticulously analyses 15 Persian and Arabic
manuscripts including the Masnavi of Jalal • Investigates the neglected, interdisciplinary
al-Din Rumi (1278), the Qaramanid Qur’an contexts of medieval poetics and optics
(1314–15) and the Divan-i Kabir of Jalal al- • Reconstructs the Alhambra’s underlying,
Din Rumi (1368) integrated aesthetic, focusing on the
• Translates new and unpublished primary harmonious relationship between
sources, including manuscript colophons, architecture, poetry and textiles
dedications and endowment notes • Case studies explore specific, relatively
• Includes a catalogue of key manuscripts neglected spaces within the Alhambra
• Fully illustrated with 150 colour illustrations, Paperback £35.00 October 2020 344 pages
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94 colour illustrations and 21 b&w illustrations
Hardback £95.00 September 2020 320 pages Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
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150 colour illustrations
Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Architectural Culture in British- Art, Allegory and the Rise of
Mandate Jerusalem, 1917–1948 Shi’ism in Iran, 1487–1565
Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Sapir Academic Chad Kia
College & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev • Explores the ways in which esoteric religion
• An architectural history of 4 prominent shaped the masterpieces of classical Persian
buildings in in the contested urban space painting
of Jerusalem: the Muslim Palestinian Palace • Marks an important interpretation of
Hotel, the Jewish–Zionist Zionist Executive celebrated, but enigmatic paintings from
Buildings, the British Palestine Archaeological collections in the Metropolitan Museum, the
Museum and the American Jerusalem YMCA British Library and the Freer Gallery
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Building • An interdisciplinary work that bridges art
• Includes new research on public and civic history, literature and religion to offer a novel
architecture of Mandate Palestine reconsideration of Shia and Safavid cultural
• Reveals the major role that architecture and and intellectual history
architectural culture had in constructing Paperback £24.99 February 2021 304 pages
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Jerusalem and in Mandate Palestine 12 colour illustrations
Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and
Hardback £95.00 November 2020 224 pages Culture
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49 colour illustrations and 75 b&w illustrations
Ottoman Historical Documents
The Institutions of an Empire
V. L. Menage (1920–2015), SOAS
Edited by Colin Imber, University of
Manchester (retired)
• The first systematic collection of source
materials for students of Ottoman history
• Includes notes and a glossary to explain
technical terms and interpretive problems
• Organises documents around key topics:
INSPECTION COPY
Legitimation and Titulature; Princes;
Recruitment into the Sultan’s service; the
Vizierate and the Dīvān; the Religio-Legal
Institution; Kānūnnāmes (sultanic legislation);
Taxation and Finance; Waqfs (endowments);
and Treaties and Foreign Relations
• Contextualises the documents in a succinct
introduction to each chapter
Paperback £24.99 January 2021 272 pages
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16 colour illustrations
10 edinburghuniversitypress.comISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Henrietta Liston’s Travels The Politics of Armenian
The Turkish Journals, 1812–1820 Migration to North America,
Edited by Patrick Hart and Valerie Kennedy,
both Bilkent University, Ankara, and Dora 1885–1915
Petherbridge, National Library of Scotland Migrants, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens
• A scholarly edition of Henrietta Liston’s David Gutman, Manhattanville College
Constantinople journal and associated • A study of migration, mobility control and
writings, giving an original perspective on state power in the late Ottoman Empire
the early 19th-century Ottoman Empire • Sheds light on the phenomenon of migrant
• Includes extensive critical apparatus smuggling from a historical perspective
• Sheds light on the events described in the NEW IN PAPERBACK
• Demonstrates the effects of different
journal, the Listons’ life in Turkey and the regimes of mobility control on the migration
circles in which they worked, socialised and process
corresponded • Examines the limits of citizenship and
• Includes online access to a complete set of nationality in the context of global migration
digitised images of the original manuscripts,
Paperback £19.99 February 2021 264 pages
semi-diplomatic transcriptions and other 978 1 4744 4525 2 Also available in Hardback & Ebook
related visual material 2 b&w illustrations
Hardback £80.00 October 2020 288 pages Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
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19 colour illustrations
Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul Migrating Texts
The Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath Circulating Translations around the Ottoman
Nina Macaraig, Koç University, Istanbul Mediterranean
• Istanbul’s Çemberlitaş Hamamı provides Edited by Marilyn Booth, University of
a case study for the cultural, social and Edinburgh
economic functions of Turkish bathhouses • Explores translation in the context of the
over time multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman
• Applies a biographical approach that Mediterranean world
presents a new paradigm for the discussion • Provides a lively picture of cultural transfer
of architectural monuments, not only in an and culture production in the eastern
NEW IN PAPERBACK Ottoman context, but across time and space NEW IN PAPERBACK Mediterranean as new nationalisms were
• Reconstructs the story of the hamam using OPEN ACCESS forming within late imperial formations
architectural surveys, archival documents, • Goes beyond a documentation of what
media analysis and participant observation was translated to explore how works were
Paperback £24.99 February 2021 392 pages
interpreted and conveyed by translators
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Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire 18 b&w illustrations
Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Arabs in the Early Islamic Empire
Exploring al-Azd Tribal Identity
Brian Ulrich, Shippensburg University
• Asks what tribal identity meant to Arabs at
different stages of the caliphate’s evolution
• Provides a study of early Islamic
tribalism influenced by more up-to-date
anthropological ideas than the theory of
segmentation
• Applies developments in cultural memory
NEW IN PAPERBACK studies and early Islamic source criticism to
the study of tribal identity
• Provides an in-depth look at the large al-Azd
tribal confederation, which has previously
been examined only in Oman
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New Titles: Autumn/Winter 2020 11ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Conflict on Mount Lebanon Protestants, Gender and the Arab
The Druze, the Maronites and Collective
Memory
Renaissance in Late Ottoman
Makram Rabah, the American University of Syria
Beirut Deanna Ferree Womack, Emory University
• Explores the underlying reasons for the • An exhaustive study of Arab Protestantism
conflict between the Druze and the during the Nahda in Ottoman Syria
Maronites of Lebanon • Explores macro-questions of Arab–American
• Introduces collective memory as an relations and gender roles in the Islamic
innovative lens and framework for world
understanding sectarian and communal NEW IN PAPERBACK
• Makes rare and neglected writings by
hostilities: equally applicable to other Syrian Protestants accessible to non-Arabic
disputes including the current Sunni–Shiite speakers
conflict in the region • Brings Middle Eastern studies into
• Uses untapped primary and secondary conversation with the field of World
sources, paving the way for further research Christianity
on collective memory and conflict
Paperback £24.99 November 2020 424 pages
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67 b&w illustrations 1 tables Alternative Histories
Alternative Histories
The Arab Lefts EU Diplomacy and the Israeli–
Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s Arab Conflict, 1967–2019
Edited by Laure Guirguis, Aarhus Institute of Anders Persson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Advanced Studies
• Argues that the Israeli–Arab conflict has
• Introduces new transnational and
been more important for the EU than other
generational approaches to the study of
left-wing revolutionary movements across • Provides a reader-friendly historical overview
the Arab world with chronologically organised chapters,
making it easy to find the EU’s position on
• Addresses concerns including radicalisation
each specific event
processes, revolutionary hopes, neoliberal
globalisation, Islam and the Left, and the • Covers recent events that contributed to the
legacy of Marxism and communism fragmentation of the EU’s policy vis-à -vis
the conflict, such as the election of Donald
• Examines the interventions of a wide range
Trump, Brexit, and the rise of various right-
of leftist parties and groups, and individuals
wing, nationalist or populist parties and
such as Khaled Bakdash, Mahdi Ben Barka,
governments in Europe
Khalid Ahmad Zaki and Arwa Salih
• Includes an annotated selection of key EC/
• Opens new avenues for research on the Cold
EU declarations on the Israeli–Arab conflict in
War, the Sixties and national emancipation
an appendix
struggles
Hardback £75.00 July 2020 232 pages
Hardback £80.00 August 2020 312 pages
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Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Matzpen
Entanglements A History of Israeli Dissidence
Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations Lutz Fiedler, Humboldt University, Berlin
Translated by Jake Schneider
Edited by Christoph Günther and Simone
Pfeifer, both Johannes Gutenberg University • Tells the story of the Israeli Socialist
Mainz Organization – better known under the
name of its journal Matzpen (compass) –
• Fosters theoretical approaches to visuality
who advocated for a community of Israeli
in the context of ‘propagandistic’ imagery in
Jews and Palestinian Arabs in a socialist
images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media
Middle Eastxx
• Explores the use of humour, re-enactments
• Focuses on Matzpen’s protagonists and their
and memes in cultural resistance
links to the key events in Israeli history
• Includes a chapter by renowned Sudanese
• Uses the history of Matzpen as an entry point
artist and political cartoonist Khalid Albaih
to broader questions around Israeli and
• Draws on empirical data collected in online Middle Eastern history, politics and culture
environments and through ethnographic
• Tells a history of Israel from the margins and
research in Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia,
raises new questions about the Jewish state
Sudan, Spain, Switzerland and Germany
in the Middle East
Hardback £85.00 December 2020 336 pages
Hardback £80.00 December 2020 408 pages
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41 colour illustrations
15 b&w illustrations
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Islam in Modern Turkey Religion, Identity and Power
Kim Shively, Kutztown University of Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First
Pennsylvania Century
• Explores how the secular policies and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, London Metropolitan
practices of the Turkish state have University and Linköping University
continuously shaped Turkish Islam • Discusses the effects of Turkey’s authoritarian
• Investigates Islamic beliefs and practices in turn during the AKP rule on the political
Turkey since the foundation of the modern relations between Erdoğan’s Turkey and the
Republic Balkan states of Bulgaria, North Macedonia
• Includes case studies on issues that have and Albania
INSPECTION COPY • Examines the role of religion, ethnicity, state
shaped public debates on the role of
religion in the secular state, for example the identity and power in the relations between
Kemalist state’s attempt to cultivate the ideal Turkey and the Balkan Peninsula
Republican woman; the evolving debate • Draws on the results of 120 semi-structured
around veiling; and the liberalisation of the interviews with political actors, diplomats,
media religious leaders, scholars, journalists and
Paperback £24.99 January 2021 224 pages
religious community representatives
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Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey
Modern Hadith Studies The Rise of Islamic Political
Continuing Debates and New Approaches Movements and Parties
Edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas and Christopher Morocco, Turkey and Jordan
Melchert, both University of Oxford, and
Esen Kirdiş, Rhodes College, Memphis
Michael Dann, University of Illinois
• Examines the variation and similarity in the
• Brings together western and Middle Eastern
political choices of Islamic movements
scholars to explore medieval and modern
approaches to the study of Hadith • Compares three sub-regions of the greater
Middle East/North Africa: Morocco, Turkey
• Addresses several methodological issues and
and Jordan
questions in evaluating Hadith reports
NEW IN PAPERBACK • Contrasts different Islamic movements
• Provides a rich analysis of the global
coming from diverse Islamic trends including
trends in Hadith studies, affording a broad
the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafism, Sufism
understanding of the field
and Islamic parties
Hardback £85.00 August 2020 232 pages • Based on qualitative fieldwork before
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personal interviews with leading party and
movement leaders
Paperback £19.99 February 2021 240 pages
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16 b&w illustrations, tables, graphs and charts
The Life and Work of Dialectical Encounters
W. Montgomery Watt Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in
Dialogue
Edited by Carole Hillenbrand, University of
Edinburgh Taraneh R. Wilkinson, The Foundation for
Religious Sciences John XXIII
• Celebrates the life and work of one of the
• Critically reframes the category of modernity
most famous of all Western scholars of Islam:
through the responses of Turkish theologians
W. Montgomery Watt (1909–2006)
– both critical and appreciative – to the
• Publishes Watt’s diary and ‘The Testament of Western intellectual tradition
a Search’ for the first time
• Provides a concise survey of Turkish Muslim
NEW IN PAPERBACK • Discusses different aspects of NEW IN PAPERBACK positions on religious pluralism and atheism
W. Montgomery Watt’s career and his
• Offers a fresh look at the mediation of
outstanding achievements
authenticity and authority in Turkish
• Contributors include Carole Hillenbrand, expressions of Islam
Fred Donner, Bishop Richard Holloway and
• Features the work of Recep Alpyağıl and
the late David Kerr
Şaban Ali Düzgün
Paperback £19.99 November 2020 192 pages
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New Titles: Autumn/Winter 2020 13ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
Hydrofictions Islamic Modernism and the
Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Re‑Enchantment of the Sacred in
Palestinian Literature
Hannah Boast, University of Warwick the Age of History
• Places water at the centre of a new approach Monica M. Ringer, Amherst College
to literary criticism • Shows how the adoption of historicism
• Covers a broad range of contemporary Israeli in the 19th century engendered Islamic
and Palestinian authors including Mourid modernism as a theological reform
Barghouti, Sayed Kashua and Amos Oz movement
• Brings together approaches from literary • Shows that Islamic Modernists adopted
studies, cultural geography and world intellectual frameworks that first emerged in
politics Europe, then deployed them to argue for the
• Contributes to debates within literary studies superiority of Islam
on the environmental humanities, national • Includes case studies of 4 Islamic Modernists:
literatures and ‘cli-fi’ Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (Iran), Imam
Hardback £80.00 August 2020 248 pages Bayezidof (Russia), Namik Kemal (Ottoman
978 1 4744 4380 7 Also available in Ebook Empire) and Syed Ameer Ali (India)
Hardback £80.00 September 2020 216 pages
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Aging in the Modern Arabic Novel Women, Writing and the Iraqi
Samira Aghacy, Lebanese American
University
Ba‘thist State
Contending Discourses of Resistance and
• Examines the representation of aging men Collaboration, 1968–2003
and women as it is understood, practiced
Hawraa Al-Hassan, University of Cambridge
and problematised in the modern Arabic
novel • Explores discourses on gender and
representations of women in Iraqi writing
• Offers close readings of 16 novels, including
under the Ba‘th, when illiteracy among
semi-autobiographies, bringing together
women was almost completely eradicated
authors from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia and
Egypt published since the 1950s PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED • Expands the canon by including
marginalised voices in Arabic literary
• Incorporates younger and older – and
scholarship, such as religious writings by Iraqi
female and male – authors in a bid to
Shia women, and propaganda texts, such as
distinguish between their representations of
the novels of Saddam Hussein
the aging process
• Relates to broader regional issues such as
• Uses feminist theories of aging and
national identity and the status of women in
gerontology that focus on sexism and
Arabic societies
ageism
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Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Blogging from Egypt Occidentalism
Digital Literature, 2005–2016 Literary Representations of the Maghrebi
Teresa Pepe, University of Oslo Experience of the East–West Encounter
• Explores blogs as a new form of literature Zahia Smail Salhi, University of Manchester
emerging in Egypt during the rise of political • Explores the encounters between East and
protests West in Maghrebi literature in the pre-1945
• Studies these ‘autofictional’ blogs through period
a combination of literary analysis and • Focuses on the work of early Algerian
interviews with the authors intelligentsia known as the Young Algerians
• Sets out an innovative methodology for and their insistent letters to the Occident
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studying literary texts distributed on social • Includes readings of key texts by Chukri
media, opening new avenues for research Khodja, Saad ben Ali, Djamila Débêche,
• Based on the study of 40 blogs written from Fadhma Amrouche, Mouloud Feraoun,
Egypt, 6 of which are analysed as detailed Mohamed Dib, Ferhat Abbas and Albert
case studies Memmi, amongst many others
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Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
14 edinburghuniversitypress.comLITERATURE
The Gothic and Theory Ovidian Transversions
An Edinburgh Companion ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300–1650
Edited by Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Edited by Valerie Traub, University of
Arizona, Robert Miles, University of Victoria Michigan, Patricia Badir, University of British
• Provides the first detailed discussion of the Columbia, Peggy McCracken, University of
interrelationship between literary theory and Michigan
the Gothic from the inception of the Gothic • Intervenes in the history of Ovidian
to the present day reception and literary history, particularly in
• Enables students to connect what otherwise terms of gender and sexuality
seem a wide variety of diverse phenomena, • Brings medieval and early modern, English
NEW IN PAPERBACK from the rise of philosophical ‘emotivism’ to NEW IN PAPERBACK and French appropriations of the tale into
poetic tales of terror and Gothic film productive dialogue
• Advances current scholarly investigation, • Provides new readings of John Lyly’s
by invigorating debates within both Gothic Galathea and Issac Benserade’s ‘Iphis and
studies and literary theory Ianthe’, and of medieval versions of the story
Paperback £24.99 November 2020 344 pages Paperback £24.99 November 2020 344 pages
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Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic 29 b&w illustrations
Conversions
Shakespeare’s Body Parts Shakespeare’s Essays
Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The
Huw Griffiths, University of Sydney Tempest
• Presents a sustained, formalist reading of Peter G. Platt, Barnard College
Shakespeare’s history plays • Offers a new way of accounting for the
• Reads Shakespeare’s history plays for their different sorts of plays that Shakespeare
contribution to political thought, and to wrote later in his career
theories of sovereignty • Provides a detailed history of the
• Delivers a thorough and wide-ranging literary-critical interest in the Montaigne-
formal analysis of Shakespearean body parts, Shakespeare connection, from the
both literal and figurative eighteenth century to the present day
Hardback £75.00 October 2020 192 pages
• Includes case studies that, through sustained
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Shakespeare’s plays, shows the shared
concerns of the authors
Hardback £75.00 September 2020 200 pages
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Face-to-Face in Shakespearean The Poetics of Friendship in Early
Drama Modern Spain
Ethics, Performance, Philosophy A Study in Literary Form
Edited by Matthew James Smith, Azusa Donald Gilbert-Santamaria, University of
Pacific University, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Washington
University of California, Irvine • Traces the evolution of classical Aristotelian-
• Bridges philosophy and performance studies Ciceronian notions of perfect friendship into
in original readings of plays by Shakespeare an independent formal principle within the
• Broadens recent interest in the ethics of the literary production of early modern Spain
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face associated with Emmanuel Levinas to • Includes chapters covering several important
the ideas of other prominent writers and genres from the period including the
theorists, including Hannah Arendt, Bernard interpolated short story, the pastoral novel,
Beckerman, J. L. Austin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the comedia, and the picaresque novel
and Bernard Steigler • Argues for a dialectical transformation within
• Includes thirteen original essays that cover the poetics of friendship as an important
major plays by Shakespeare, including influence in the oft-cited modernity of
Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Richard II, and the Cervantes’s Don Quixote
comedies Hardback £75.00 September 2020 272 pages
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