Grindhouse Nostalgia Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom David Church The Author David Church is based at the Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. January 2016 Pb • 978 1 4744 0900 1 • £24.99 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN Description Too often dismissed as ‘trash cinema’, exploitation films have nevertheless become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to home video formats. Focusing on both the re-release of archival exploitation films on DVD and the recent cycle of ‘retrosploitation’ films like Grindhouse, Machete, Viva, and Black Dynamite, Church examines how nostalgia shapes the aesthetics and politics of exploitation films and the fan cultures devoted to them. An indispensable study of exploitation cinema’s continuing allure 296 pp 234 x 156 mm 21 b&w illustrations Film Studies Key Features • The first in-depth critical examination of the recent and ongoing ‘retrosploitation’ cycle • Expands a growing body of research on the importance of home video as containers of material history • Unites cultural memory studies and fan studies in productive ways for understanding a broad range of fan investments • Restores questions of affect and non-ironic reception to understandings of exploitation cinema’s continuing appeal Readership Scholars in Cult Cinema, Fan Studies, Home Video, Taste Politics and American Cinema. Alternative Formats: Hb • 978 0 7486 9910 0 • £70.00 • January 2015 Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9911 7 • £70.00 • January 2015 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0354 2 • £24.99 • January 2015 New in Paperback The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected]www.euppublishing.com Praise for the Hardback ‘David Church’s new book for Edinburgh University Press, Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom, is a book which very ably takes its title and spins it into an entertaining and informative read. Church does what so many authors fail at, in that he lays out the exact amount of historical context required to understand the topic at hand… It’s a fabulous addition to any film library.’ – Nick Spacek, Starburst Magazine
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Grindhouse NostalgiaMemory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom
David Church
The AuthorDavid Church is based at the Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University.
DescriptionToo often dismissed as ‘trash cinema’, exploitation films have nevertheless become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to home video formats. Focusing on both the re-release of archival exploitation films on DVD and the recent cycle of ‘retrosploitation’ films like Grindhouse, Machete, Viva, and Black Dynamite, Church examines how nostalgia shapes the aesthetics and politics of exploitation films and the fan cultures devoted to them.
An indispensable study of exploitation cinema’s continuing allure
296 pp 234 x 156 mm21 b&w illustrations
Film Studies
Key Features• The first in-depth critical examination of the recent and ongoing
‘retrosploitation’ cycle • Expands a growing body of research on the importance of home video as
containers of material history • Unites cultural memory studies and fan studies in productive ways for
understanding a broad range of fan investments • Restores questions of affect and non-ironic reception to understandings of
exploitation cinema’s continuing appeal
Readership Scholars in Cult Cinema, Fan Studies, Home Video, Taste Politics and American Cinema.
Alternative Formats:Hb • 978 0 7486 9910 0 • £70.00 • January 2015Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9911 7 • £70.00 • January 2015Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0354 2 • £24.99 • January 2015
Praise for the Hardback‘David Church’s new book for Edinburgh University Press, Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom, is a book which very ably takes its title and spins it into an entertaining and informative read. Church does what so many authors fail at, in that he lays out the exact amount of historical context required to understand the topic at hand… It’s a fabulous addition to any film library.’– Nick Spacek, Starburst Magazine
Straight Girls and Queer GuysThe Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television
Christopher Pullen
The AuthorChristopher Pullen is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Bournemouth University, UK.
DescriptionExploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the ‘hetero media gaze’ and the way it contextualizes sexual diversity and gender identity. Offering both an historical foundation and a rigorous conceptual framework, Christopher Pullen draws on a range of case studies, including the films of Doris Day and Rock Hudson, the performances of Kenneth Williams, televisions shows such as Glee, Sex and the City and Will and Grace, the work of Derek Jarman, and the role of the gay best friend in Hollywood film. Critiquing the representation of the straight girl and the queer guy for its relation to both power and otherness, this is a provocative study that frames a theoretical model which can be applied across diverse media forms.
Examines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary media
208 pp 234 x 156 mm
Film Studies
Readership Academics and researchers in film studies, gender studies and queer studies.
Being PalestinianPersonal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora
Edited by Yasir Suleiman
The EditorYasir Suleiman is the first holder of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa'id Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
DescriptionThis collection of 100 personal reflections on being Palestinian is the first book of its kind. Reflecting on Palestinian identity as it is experienced at the individual level, issues of identity, exile, refugee status, nostalgia, belonging and alienation are at the heart of the book. The contributors, mainly from the UK and North America, speak in many voices, exploring the richness and diversity of identity construction among Palestinians in the diaspora.Yasir Suleiman sets the scene with an Introduction, and his Epilogue deals with issues of identity, exile and diaspora as concepts that give sense to the personal reflections.
What does it means to be Palestinian in the diaspora?
320 pp 244 x 172 mm120 colour illustrations
Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
Key Features• The first book to gather personal reflections on what it means to be Palestinian • Contributes to the debate on what it means to be Palestinian • Asks what the diaspora is for Palestinians • Looks at how being Palestinian varies across gender, generation, religious
affiliation and professional interest
Readership Academics and students in Middle Eastern Studies and Diaspora Studies. A general readership amongst journalists, diplomats and members of Palestinian communities in the (particularly Anglo American) diaspora; also those interested in personal accounts of exile.
Competition• Seeking Palestinian: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home, edited by
Eds. Penny Johnson & Raja Shehadeh. Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press, 2013
• What it means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood, by Dina Matar. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011
Importantly, Being Palestinian focuses on Palestinian’s living in the diaspora and brings together a range of contributors from different walks of life who are all excellent writers.
Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
A Selection of Contributors
Being PalestinianPersonal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora
Lila Abu Lughod, the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, teaches Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies.
Sami Al Arian was born in 1958 in Kuwait to Palestinian refugees from Jaffa, and grew up in Egypt. Since his arrival to America in 1975, Dr Al Arian has been an active community leader and organiser.
Najwa al Qattan is associate professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in philosophy from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in history from Harvard University.
Ibtisam Barakat is a bilingual author, poet, artist and the only Arab to win the International Reading Association’s Best Book Award since the beginning of the prize in 1975, for her memoir Tasting the Sky, A Palestinian Childhood.
Sharif S. Elmusa, scholar, poet and translator, is currently an associate professor of political science at the American University in Cairo. He holds a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, poet, critic, literary historian and professor of Arabic literature, is founder and director of The Project of the Translation of Arabic (1980), and the East West Nexus (1990) for studies on Arabic civilisation. She lives between Cambridge, MA and Jordan.
Ghada Karmi is a physician, writer and academic at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. She fled from her birthplace, Jerusalem, in 1948 and settled in London, where she has lived ever since.
Maha Nassar, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. She is currently writing a book that explores the cultural and intellectual connections between Palestinians in Israel and the Arab world during the 1950s and 1960s.
The JalayiridsDynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East
Patrick Wing
The AuthorPatrick Wing is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Redlands.
DescriptionThe period of Middle Eastern history between the collapse of the Mongol Ilkhanate in 1335 and the rise of Timur (Tamerlane) at the end of the 14th century is commonly seen as a time of political breakdown and disorder. This book helps to make sense of this confusing period by tracing continuities through the history of the Jalayirid tribe, whose members founded a dynasty and claimed to be the rightful heirs of the Chinggisid Mongols. The story of how the Jalayirids came to power is illustrative of the political dynamics that shaped much of the Mongol and post-Mongol period in the Middle East.
The story of how one tribal family claimed the legacy of Chiggis Qa’an in Persia
224 pp 234 x 156 mm12 b&w illustrations
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Readership Masters level students and academics studying History of the Middle East, Pre-modern Islamic History and the Mongol Empire.
Description• Traces the origins, history and memory of the Jalayirid dynasty • Examines the relationship between tribal and dynastic identity among the
post-Mongol rulers in Iran, Iraq and Anatolia • Fills a gap in the field of Mongol, Iranian and Islamic Studies by examining
a previously neglected period
Reforging a Forgotten HistoryIraq and the Assyrians in the 20th Century
Sargon George Donabed
The AuthorSargon George Donabed is Assistant Professor of History at the Department of History and American Studies at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.
DescriptionWho are the Assyrians and what role did they play in shaping modern Iraq? Were they simply bystanders, victims of collateral damage who played a passive role in the history of Iraq? And how have they negotiated their position throughout various periods of Iraq's state-building processes?
This book details the narrative and history of Iraq in the 20th century and reinserts the Assyrian experience as an integral part of Iraq's broader contemporary historiography. It is the first comprehensive account to contextualize this native people's experience alongside the developmental processes of the modern Iraqi state. Using primary and secondary data, this book offers a nuanced exploration of the dynamics that have affected and determined the trajectory of the Assyrians' experience in 20th century Iraq.
A narrative history and analysis of the Assyrian experience in 20th-century Iraq
DescriptionThis project is the culmination of 7 years of intensive research into Russian-speaking identities in Latvia.
Covering a period up to and including the Ukrainian crises of 2014, the research examines the complex relationships between diverse groups of Russian speakers, the Latvian state, the Russian Federation, and Latvia’s (often competing) transnational political and cultural spaces.
The empirical analysis is grounded on a theoretical model of discourse analysis that is specifically designed to account for temporal change. Utilising this framework, the study traces how Russian-speaking identity positions have been evolving in Latvia since the late Soviet period. By mapping adjustments in how the Latvian and Russian states relate to an imagined community of Russian-speakers, the analysis points to the emergence of distinct identity strategies that simultaneously create, reinvent, and rupture discursive ties with Latvia, Russia, and Europe.
In a time when many will question the loyalty of Russian speakers to their various ‘host states’ this book provides a timely, scholarly account of ethnic politics in Latvia.
A theoretical and empirical study of discourse among Russian-speakers in Latvia
The EditorsJason Haslam is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, past-president of the Canadian Association for American Studies, and president-elect of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English.
Joel Faflak is Professor and Director, School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Western Ontario.
DescriptionThis new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture – its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events.
A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American Culture
256 pp 234 x 156 mm10 b&w illustrations
Literary Studies
Key Features• Features original critical writing by established and emerging scholars • Surveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to 21st century
works • Includes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologies • Will establish new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American
Gothic traditions
Series
Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Readership Academics, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates in Gothic Literature, Gothic Fiction, Gothic Studies, American Gothic, American Literature, American Culture, Media & Culture.
DescriptionWe know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others, or involve others in him. He has been branded many times over – as Catholic, Protestant, Materialist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Postcolonial, Popular, Cultural, and, even, Popular-Cultural. In many ways, Shakespeare is overwrought. Why one more ‘approach’ to Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever these approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. Or, rather, they subordinate tragedy to something else – to considerations of, say, class, race, or gender. What these approaches manage to do is explain tragedy away. What this book does is to help us feel tragedy first and foremost – hence to perceive it better. The aim of Amir Khan’s counterfactual criticism of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, A Winter’s Tale and Othello, then, is precisely to reanimate the tragic effect, long since lost in some deluge of explanation.
This bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare’s tragedies
248 pp 234 x 156 mm
Literary Studies
Key Features• The book provides a novel methodology designed to make Shakespeare, and
his tragedies in particular, more approachable to students and scholars alike • As such, the book provides a way past historicist methods in Shakespearean
scholarship• The reading of Shakespeare’s tragedies will transform less the way they are
read and more the way they are perceived• The book introduces the promise of, while modeling ways to exercise,
counterfactual scholarship in literary studies
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
Readership Academics, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates in Shakespeare, Shakespearean Tragedy, Renaissance Tragedy, Philosophy and Literature, Early Modern Literature.
DescriptionHenry James famously dismissed the works which constitute Anthony Trollope’s ultimate compositions for their ‘fatal dryness of texture’ and ‘mechanical movement’. Taking its cue from James’s observations while challenging his assessment, this study examines the full stylistic range of the novels and biographies which Trollope explored in his final decade, from allegory, satire, and parody, through poignancy, the classics, and paraphrasis, to character, bathos, and fantasy. Blending literary criticism with intellectual history and Frankfurt School theory, Frederik Van Dam shows how Trollope’s creation of this new, impersonal aesthetic was driven by a desire to intervene in contemporary debates on topics such as suburban sociability and marginalist economics, colonialism and national sovereignty, educational and jurisprudential reforms.
Exporing Anthony Trollope’s stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalism
256 pp 234 x 156 mm
Literary Studies
Key Features• Presents a stylistic analysis of a major Victorian novelist • Reads Victorian literature through the lens of German Romanticism • Presents a panorama of Victorian intellectual debates on colonialism,
economics, nationalism, the classics, pedagogy, legal reform and urban sociability
• Examines the writings from the last decade of Trollope’s life that have received only scant critical attention, such as his novellas and his biographies
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Readership Academics, researchers, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates, members of the Trollope Societies in the UK and US.
DescriptionLiterature Now provides a thought-provoking argument as well as an authoritative exploration of the key terms of literary studies. It will appeal to anyone who wants to epxlore theoretical issues from a historically informed perspective.
Introduces the most important terms for understanding literature, past and present
320 pp 234 x 156 mm
Literary Studies
Key Features• 19 chapters on the key terms used in literary studies today• Emphasis on the importance of literary history today• Authors are leading literary critics, theorists and historians
Readership Upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and lecturers in Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literary History and Methodology.
Literature NowKey Terms and Methods for Literary History
Edited by Sascha Bru, Ben de Bruyn and Michel Delville
Textbook
List of ContributorsDavid Ayers, University of Kent.Tomas O. Beebee, Pennsylvania State University. Sascha Bru, Leuven University. Ben De Bruyn, Maastricht University. Ortwin de Graef, Leuven University.Michel Delville, University of Liège. Ed Folsom, University of Iowa. David Glover, University of Southampton. Julian Hanna, University of Lisbon. Scott McCracken, Keele University.Tyrus Miller, the University of California Santa Cruz. Jonathan Monroe, Cornell University. Timothy Morton, Rice University. Julian Murphet, University of New South Wales. Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago. Sarah Posman, Ghent University. Jed Rasula, University of Georgia. Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College. Sydney J. Shep, Victoria University of Wellington.
Competition• While there is no like-for-like competition, this book has been informed by a similar book project in art history: Critical
Terms for Art History (University of Chicago Press, 1996 and 2003)
François Laruelle's Principles of Non-PhilosophyA Critical Introduction and Guide
Anthony Paul Smith
The AuthorAnthony Paul Smith is Assistant Professor in Religion at La Salle University.
DescriptionAnthony Paul Smith – one of the translators of Principles of Non-Philosophy – introduces you to this key Laruelle text. He guides you through the figures and concepts Laruelle engaged with, helping you to understand and, more importantly, use the project of non-philosophy.
In Principles of Non-Philosophy, Laruelle develops the concepts and method of a more democratic form of thought where science and philosophy are not subjected to one another, but are brought together in a productive theoretical and practical relationship.
The insider’s guide through the difficult terrain of Laruelle’s most complete development of non-philosophy
216 pp 234 x 156 mm
Philosophy
Textbook
Key Features• Provides you with the essential historical background to non-philosophy,
which Laruelle leaves out of his writing• Explains how non-philosophy contributes to contemporary debates in
European philosophy, especially in relation to the philosophy of science, theories of the subject and the role of language in philosophy
• Shows how non-philosophy can be a useful research paradigm for interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary work
Readership Upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working on Laruelle in particular and in the fields of contemporary Continental philosophy; philosophy of science; theology and religious studies more generally.
DescriptionDespite the broad range of resources they draw on – from geology, Riemannian spaces and metallurgy to psychoanalysis, literature and the game Go – Deleuze and Guattari nonetheless consider themselves to be doing philosophy.
In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari set out to answer precisely that question. Jeffrey A. Bell explores their answer, that it is the ‘art of forming, inventing and fabricating concepts’. In so doing, he draws out the issues at play in their other writings.
A reader’s guide to Deleuze and Guattari’s final collaborative work
240 pp 234 x 156 mm
Philosophy
Textbook
Key Features• The guide's structure mirrors the chapters and themes of What is Philosophy? • Places a special emphasis on concepts, philosophy, art and science • Discusses each example given in What is Philosophy? individually, together
with suggestions for further reading • Clarifies a number of key contemporary debates in philosophy using the
approach laid out by Deleuze and Guattari
Readership Undergraduates, postgraduates and academics working on Deleuze and in Continental philosophy more generally.
Description‘Human Trafficking’ is a term that does little to convey the horrific acts that underpin the forced movement, exploitation and enslavement of men, women and children across the world. Despite legislative developments and the introduction of national and international interventions, definitions of this form of exploitation, estimates of its extent and nature, and responses to victims and perpetrators have been limited. This book provides contributions from academics and practitioners, who both examine the competing discourses surrounding human trafficking and explore the impact of this phenomenon in the UK and worldwide.
A critical examination of the socio-economic exploitation underpinning human trafficking and the limitations of survivor care
192 pp 234 x 156 mm
Politics
Key Features• Locates human trafficking within a theoretical and legislative framework of
global, political and economic development• Brings together expert contributions from researchers and practitioners
working in the field of human trafficking• Critically considers the conceptual basis of global responses to human
trafficking• Presents findings from original, ground-breaking research in the field of
human trafficking • Highlights the challenges of research and evaluation in this contentious and
hidden economy
Readership Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners and researchers working in the field of International Relations, Human Rights, Law and Social Policy.
DescriptionRuth Kinna reassesses Kropotkin’s political thought and suggests that the ‘classical’ tradition which has provided a lens for the discussion of his work has had a distorting effect on the interpretation of his ideas. By setting the analysis of his thought in a number of key historical contexts, she reveals the enduring significance of his political thought and questions the usefulness of those approaches to the history of ideas that map historical changes to philosophical and theoretical shifts.
One of the key arguments of the book is that Kropotkin contributed to the elaboration of an anarchist ideology, which has been badly misunderstood and which today is too often dismissed as outdated. Kinna corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin’s thought, explains his unique contribution to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology.
A sympathetic critical analysis that dispels myths and highlight the importance of Kropotkin's anarchist thought
224 pp 234 x 156 mm
Politics
Readership Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and academics in The History of Ideas; Socialist and Radical Thought; Protest; Anti-globalisation; Peace Studies, Utopian studies; Political Ideology.
The Trouble with DemocracyPolitical Modernity in the 21st Century
Edited by Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner
The EditorsGerard Rosich is doctoral researcher within the ERC Advanced Grant Research Project Trajectories of Modernity at The University of Barcelona.
Peter Wagner is CREA Research Professor at University de Barcelona.
DescriptionIs democracy here to stay? On one hand, the commitment to democracy is more widely shared than ever. On the other, popular will has a decreasing impact on political decisions. Existing democracies suffer from a combination of technocratic governance and populist reactions; exported democracy creates failed states and increases international tensions; global political communication has foundered with addressing urgent problems such as climate change, global social justice and economic–financial crises.
This book places our political condition in its historical context, reconsiders key issues of political thought and compares current democracies across different world regions.
Critically analyses the current state of democracy in examples from throughout the world, including the global South
288 pp 234 x 156 mm
Politics
Key Features• Challenges prevailing assumptions about the stability and smooth evolution
of democracies • Provides critical re-assessments of the place of democracy in the history of
political thought• Links the political theory of democracy with sociological analysis of
democratic experiences• Broadens political-theory debate about democracy by including experiences
from the ‘global South’
Readership Postgraduates, MA students, academics and researchers in poltical philosophy, history of politcal thought, comparitive political analysis, democracy: theory and practice.
Post-Liberal Peace TransitionsBetween Peace Formation and State Formation
Oliver P. Richmond and Sandra Pogodda
The AuthorsOliver P. Richmond is Research Professor of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute & Department of Politics Ellen Wilkinson Building, The University of Manchester.
Sandra Pogodda is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester.
DescriptionWhy is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the last 25 years appear to be ‘failed by design’? This study explores how local peace-formation dynamics must develop their role, influence and capacity against a backdrop of internal violence, external intervention, international actors and the (neo)liberal peacebuilding project.
This study explores the interplay of forces that shape "peace" in the modern conflict-affected state
208 pp 234 x 156 mm
Politics
Key Features• Comparative case studies, based on wide-ranging fieldwork, look at
Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cyprus, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Israel-Palestine, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone and the Solomon Islands
• Takes an innovative theoretical approach, engaging with local and contextual forms of peacebuilding agency and including local authors
Readership Undergraduate and postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in IR theory, peace/conflict theory (conflict management, resolution, peacebuilding etc).
Russian Language and Society Series Editor: Lara Ryazanova Clarke, University of Edinburgh
ForthcomingFrench and Russian in Imperial RussiaVolume 1: Language Use Among the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Russian EliteEdited by Derek Offord, Lara Ryazanova Clarke, Vladislav Rjeoutski and Gesine ArgentHb 978 0 7486 9551 5 £75.00July 2015
Discourses of Regulation and ResistanceCensoring Translation in the Stalin and Khrushchev Soviet EraSamantha SherryHb 978 0 7486 9802 8 £75.00July 2015
The profound transformations over recent decades in Russian speaking society have revealed rich linguistic undercurrents, be it the Gorbachev initiated perestroika, the collapse of communism, disintegration of the Soviet Union or the post Soviet search for identity. The language question has been a key instrument in the formation of the new post Soviet independent states which continue to present contested linguistic spaces where Russia’s post imperial ambitions clash with nationalising local policies. Russian language policies produced for internal as well as external consumption, and the emergence of the global, postcolonial Russian spoken by communities outside the mainland, are among the emerging fields in which new theoretical approaches are expected to be formed. The fact that Russia has always been multicultural and multilingual opens further dimensions for exploration, including questions of language contact, endangered languages, and linguistic identities among many. The series will provide a forum for scholars to examine these issues and expand the field of Russian Studies.
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Edinburgh University Press Series
New Series
Competitors
There are no directly competing series. Taylor and Francis publish the Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, and Harvard University Press publish books in the Russian Research Centre Studies series. However neither of these series focus specifically on language; they cover economics, politics, sociology and history instead and are aimed at the Russian Studies market more broadly.
AvailableFrench and Russian in Imperial RussiaVolume 2: Language Attitudes and the Formation of Social, Political and National IdentityEdited by Derek Offord, Lara Ryazanova Clarke, Vladislav Rjeoutski and Gesine ArgentHb 978 0 7486 9553 9 £75.00July 2015
The Russian Language Outside the NationLara Ryazanova ClarkeHb 978 0 7486 6845 8 £75.00March 2014
Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Series Editor: Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield and William Hughes, Bath Spa University
ForthcomingRomantic Gothic An Edinburgh CompanionEdited by Angela Wright and Dale TownshendHb 978 0 7486 9674 1 £80.00November 2015
American Gothic Culture An Edinburgh CompanionEdited by Jason Haslam and Joel FaflakHb 978 1 4744 0161 6 £80.00January 2016
Scottish Gothic An Edinburgh CompanionEdited by Carol Margaret Davison and Monica GermanàHb 978 1 4744 0819 6 £80.00May 2016
Provides a comprehensive overview of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day
Each volume in this series takes either a period or a theme and explores their diverse attributes, contexts and texts via completely original essays. Each volume provides an authoritative critical tool for both scholars and students of the Gothic.
Key Features
• Presents an innovative and critically challenging exploration of the historical, thematic and theoretical understandings of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day
• Provides a critical forum in which ideas about Gothic history and established Gothic themes are challenged
• Supports the teaching of the Gothic at an advanced undergraduate level and at masters level• Helps readers to rethink ideas concerning periodisation and to question the critical approaches
which have been taken to the Gothic
www.euppublishing.com/series/edcg
Edinburgh University Press Series
AvailableVictorian Gothic An Edinburgh CompanionEdited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes2014: Pb 978 0 7486 9116 6 £19.992012: Hb 978 0 7486 4249 6 £80.00
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and PhilosophySeries Editor: Kevin Curran, University of North Texas
AvailableRethinking Shakespeare’s Political PhilosophyFrom Lear to LeviathanAlex SchulmanHb 978 0 7486 8241 6 £7.00July 2014
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy takes seriously the speculative and world-making properties of Shakespeare’s art. Maintaining a broad view of ‘philosophy’ that accommodates foundational questions of metaphysics, ethics, politics and aesthetics, the series also expands our understanding of philosophy to include the unique kinds of theoretical work carried out by performance and poetry itself.
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Edinburgh University Press Series
New Series
ForthcomingRethinking Shakespeare’s Political PhilosophyFrom Lear to LeviathanAlex SchulmanHb 978 0 7486 8241 6 £7.00July 2014
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys, University of Portsmouth
Forthcoming British India and Victorian Literary CultureMáire ni FhlathúinHb 978 0 7486 4068 3 £70.00September 2015
Anthony Trollope’s Late StyleVictorian Liberalism and Literary FormFrederik Van DamHb 978 0 7486 9955 1 £70.00January 2016
Developing from recent and current interests in rethinking the 19th century, and drawing on the most provocative and thoughtful research. This series provides timely revisions of the 19th century's literature, culture, history and identity.
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Edinburgh University Press Series
AvailableThe Decadent ImageThe Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and DowsonKostas BoyiopoulosHb 978 0 7486 9092 3 £70.00May 2015
Women and the Railway, 1850–1915Anna DespotopoulouHb 978 0 7486 7694 1 £70.00March 2015
AvailableRoomscapeWomen Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia WoolfSusan D. BernsteinPb 978 0 7486 9794 6 £17.99September 20142013: Hb 978 0 7486 4065 2 £70.00
