Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Explores the political aspects of sainthood, martyrdom and relics in late antique Caucasia

Examines the production, distribution, reception and repair of mina'i ware

Explores the multifaceted relationship between Greeks and Turks

[headline]The emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century sparked a period of creative innovation in the popular press While today we might associate 'new media' with digital technologies, such innovations have a long history that precedes - and in many ways anticipates - the present moment. This collection reveals how the period between 1820 and 1845 was crucial in the development of the modern press, including experimentation with new publication formats; the reinvention and remediation of older forms; and the definition of new kinds of contributors and audiences for print. It brings to light the contributions of many important but long-forgotten writers, illustrators and editors who created and harnessed the idea of a mass reading public and shows how steam printing, popular education campaigns and new technologies of illustration led to new trends in book and periodical production. [bio]Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70 (2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914 (2011). She has also co-edited four books, most recently Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s, with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers (2019).

[headline]The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction Many major modernists - including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison - wrote central scenes describing characters reading. In most cases, the readers depicted suffer unfortunate fates. Intriguingly, the act of reading is also often intertwined with sexual activities. The Reader in Modernist Fiction analyses the construction of fictional readers, tracing their development and transformation over the first half of the twentieth century. Brian Richardson explores how the effects of reading are represented within modernist and postmodern fiction, and studies misreading as a personal limitation, sexual invitation, aesthetic allegory and ideological critique. [bio]Brian Richardson is a Professor in the English Department of the University of Maryland and former president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. He is the author of several books, including A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-first Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives (2019) and Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (2006).

[headline]Extends the existing body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover new media, contemporary texts and writing from a range of cultures Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion explores the role of irony, satire, parody, pastiche and the absurd in Gothic texts dating from the eighteenth century to the present day. By bringing together important analyses of classic and recent Gothic texts, this collection assesses the place of Comic Gothic in the realms of culture, social interaction and politics. From revisiting foundational Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole to highlighting contemporary Gothic fiction from across the world, seventeen essays examine the role of comedy in early formations of the Gothic and the genre today. Its particular focus on the use of Comic Gothic in social media, popular culture and the visual domain make this book a distinctive and original contribution to Gothic Studies. [editor biographies] Avril Horner is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Kingston University, London. With Sue Zlosnik she has co-authored many articles and several books, including Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (1998), Gothic and the Comic Turn (2005) and Women and the Gothic (2016). Other works include Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman (with Janet Beer, 2011) and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 (with Anne Rowe, 2015). Sue Zlosnik is Emeritus Professor of English at Manchester Metropolitan University and former co-President of the International Gothic Association. With Avril Horner, she has published six books, including the aforementioned, as well as numerous articles. Alone, she has published essays on writers as diverse as J. R. R. Tolkien and Chuck Palahniuk, and a monograph, Patrick McGrath (2011). She is co-editor (with Agnes Andeweg) of Gothic Kinship (2013).

[headline]Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer Virginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf's engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire in Woolf's writing, this collection draws attention to her thinking about history, labour and economics and gives space for understandings of Woolf in the context of our own late-capitalist moment. Chapters by leading and emerging scholars range across Woolf's oeuvre in all its generic diversity, from her earliest short fiction and Night and Day to Three Guineas and Between the Acts, showcasing a range of critical approaches from the archival to the creative to the pedagogical. This collection demonstrates how productive and provocative thinking about Woolf's fiction and non-fiction through the lens of capitalism can be for Woolf scholars. [bio]Clara Jones is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at King's College London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (2016).

Presents a new way of examining the historical significance and endurance of Mary, Queen of Scots

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

Cinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture. It theorises machine vision through a selection of aesthetics, film theory, and applied machine learning research, dispelling widely held assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images on our behalf. At its heart, Cinema and Machine Vision is an invitation for film and media scholars to critically engage with AI at a technical level, a prompt for scientists and engineers working with images and cultural data to critically reflect on where their assumptions about vision come from, and a joint recognition of the fruitful problems of working together to understand the algorithmic governance of the visual. Daniel Chávez Heras is a Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing at King's College London.

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

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

Brings Spinoza's philosophy into engagement with contemporary debates on climate change

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

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

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

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

Theorises how people can judge and respond to their complicity in injustice and violence

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

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987

Uses The Innocence of Muslims controversy as a starting point for exploring Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.

Examines the development in Sufism in Western Europe in the 21st Century

A history and analysis of how films have figured in TV programming in the UK and the role that British television services have played in changing the nature of film entertainment

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature

Traces changing approaches to governing migrants in the Ottoman Empire during the global era of mass migration through the term muhacir (migrant).

Illuminates the core beliefs of twentieth-century Arab philosophers in response to Western ideas of modernisation

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

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