Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield. Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton. Todd Martin is Professor of English at Huntington University and President of the Katherine Mansfield Society.

Explores Beckett's artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studies This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an interest in 'abnormals' and 'degenerates'? How did he reconceive 'the human' in the wake of Hitler and Stalin? Drawing on Beckett's voluminous archive, as well as his primary texts, the authors use psychoanalysis, queer theory, disability theory and biopolitics to push Beckett studies beyond the normal. Seán Kennedy is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A novel, interdisciplinary approach to populism and Turkish politics over the past 100 years This book enhances our understanding of 'the popular' in the study of politics through a critical examination of the uses and constructions of 'the people', from the establishment of the Turkish Republic to the present. It proposes ways of reading the insertion and operationalisation of the notion of 'the people' as a concept, a political subject, the object of policy and politics over the past century. The author assesses the ways 'the people' have been shaped by the history of the republic and how - in turn - they have informed ways of visualising society, the country's political culture and institutional architecture, and framed the parameters and repertoires of political action. Key Features  Offers a genealogy of the notion of 'the people' in Turkish political culture  Provides a highly original analysis of the performative, discursive, cognitive and affective elements that underpin Turkey's populist adventure  Proposes key conceptual tools to study popular and populist politics and applies them to the Turkish case  Intertwines contemporary political analysis with extensive historical research, bringing together insights from critical and political theory, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies Spyros A. Sofos is a Political Sociologist at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.

A pioneering collection studying religion as a wider determinant of health in Britain This landmark volume presents the lived experience of British Muslims with regard to health inequalities, access to health services and involvement in health promotion initiatives. Exploring religion, ethnicity, racism, social class and deprivation, it examines how British Muslims interact with the UK health care system and the subsequent marginalisation in accessing benefits from those systems. The authors expose the unequal distribution of health benefits among British Muslims and explore how this has come to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using reflexive, interpretive, critical and evidence-based data-driven scenarios from across the UK, the book identifies loopholes in the health care system affecting high-risk groups. In doing so, it analyses why and how British Muslims live with the worst health outcomes when compared with all deprived social groups and ethnicities in the country. Key Features - Highlights the role of religion in exacerbating health inequalities, along with ethnicity, racism, social class and deprivation - Investigates contemporary health inequalities among second- and third-generation British Muslims, with a particular focus on disadvantaged children - Captures a wide range of health issues that British Muslims live with, such as: structural discrimination; COVID-19; mental health; consanguinity; genetic predispositions; dementia; domestic violence; end of life care; absentee fathers; and migration - Critically appraises current health practices and methods and offers practical guidelines on how to involve British Muslims in health promotion initiatives - Includes a foreword by Professor Aziz Sheikh OBE, Chair of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Edinburgh Sufyan Abid Dogra is Principal Research Fellow at Bradford Institute for Health Research, specialising in the anthropology of modern Britain.

Examines ideas, beliefs and practices of identification in the medieval East Roman world This book offers an interdisciplinary approach - historical, literary, art-historical and archaeological - to the topics of ideology and identity in the medieval East Roman world. The individual chapters explore ideological discourses and practices in various contexts. In particular, they focus on the content of ideas and their role in shaping different kinds of group attachments and identifications within the imperial social order. Moreover, they explore the various visions of community which different collective identity discourses projected within and beyond the political boundaries of the empire. Including both top-down and bottom-up perspectives, and exploring both the empire's centre and its periphery, this collection offers new insights into ideology and identity in the Byzantine world. Yannis Stouraitis is Lecturer in Byzantine History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His recent publications include A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, c. 300-1204 and, as co-editor, Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of Mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300- 500 CE.

The last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield's place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation.

Explores how midterm elections have shaped the American presidency Midterm elections have forced presidents to adjust course, reshaped their relationship with the party they lead, and heralded the rise or fall of new electoral coalitions. This book presents a fresh perspective on the American presidency by analysing how midterms modify in crucial ways the mandate that a president gained at the time of their election to the White House. Midterms not only provide an important opportunity for voters to evaluate the record of a president so far, but also have consequences for an administration's pursuit of the president's agenda over the two years that follow. Bringing together political scientists and historians, this collection presents a multidisciplinary understanding of the interplay between midterm elections and the American presidency. Patrick Andelic is Senior Lecturer in American History at Northumbria University. Mark McLay is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century US History at Lancaster University. Robert Mason is Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh.

Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page shows how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies.

The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technology Though modernism's emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognised, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology re-examines the machines and media that functioned as modernism's contexts and competitors. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach informed by the theoretical and socio-historical frames of current teaching and research on modernism and technology, this research volume makes a crucial and timely intervention in the field of modernist studies. The scholarly contributions on machines that govern transport, production and public utilities, on media and communication technologies, on the intersections of technology with the human body, and on the technological systems of the early twentieth century capture the contemporary state of modernist technology studies and chart the future directions of this vibrant area. The Editors Alex Goody is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature & Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of Gender, Leisure Technology and Modernist Poetry: Machine Amusements (2019), Technology, Literature and Culture (2011) and Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein (2007), and co-editor of Reading Westworld (2019) and American Modernism: Cultural Transactions (2009). Ian Whittington is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 (2018) as well as a number of essays on radio studies and twentieth-century British, Irish, and Anglophone literature, and is editor of a special issue of The Global South on 'Radio Cultures of the Global South' (2022).

A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism. The first English translation of François Hemsterhuis' widely influential late dialogues, which came to be entwined in contemporary philosophical debates in Germany The four published dialogues offer diverse treatments of non-materialist philosophy. Sophylus is concerned with providing the basic epistemological structures that Hemsterhuis believes are compatible with common sense, Socratic inquiry and Newtonian science. Aristeaus is a sustained series of reflections on arguments for the existence of God, concepts of order and chaos in the universe. Simon is closely modelled on Plato's Symposium in style, structure and content and provides the clearest statement of Hemsterhuis' late ethics and aesthetics. Finally, Alexis - the favourite work of many of the German Romantics - uses contemporary discussions of astronomy and optics to formulate a mythic ode to the role of enthusiasm and feeling in the constitution of wisdom. Two editorial introductions supplement these translations - the first by Daniel Whistler considers Hemsterhuis' relationship with Amelia Gallitzin and how that influenced what he came to call 'our philosophy' and the second by Laure Cahen-Maurel examines the role played by Jacobi and others in the transmission of these texts and their influence on Hölderlin's Hyperion and Novalis' Hemsterhuis-Studies in particular. Jacob van Sluis is a former subject librarian at the University Library of Groningen. Daniel Whistler is Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism. The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis' early series of philosophical letters published during the 1760s and 1770s In this edition, the Letter on an Antique Gemstone, Letter on Sculpture, Letter on Desires and Letter on Man and his Relations are published chronologically to gradually reveal Hemsterhuis' complete systematic vision. They are supplemented with three introductions: the first by Peter Sonderen pinpoints the significance of Hemsterhuis' remarkably influential aesthetics; the second by Jacob van Sluis provides the context to his comprehensive Letter on Man and his Relations; and the third by Gabriel Trop focuses on the importance of these writings in the history of ideas, especially Herder's translation and 'Postscript' to the Letter on Desires, Diderot's commentary on the Letter on Man and his Relations and Goethe's incorporation of Hemsterhuis' definition of beauty into his aesthetic reflections. Jacob van Sluis is a former subject librarian at the University Library of Groningen. Daniel Whistler is Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The US political system is designed to ensure that freedom and opportunity will always be protected, by making it almost impossible for power to become concentrated in the hands of a few people seeking to run society for their own benefit. Have these aims been achieved?The answer is that Americans have sharply contrasting views on how well their political system works. They disagreed with each other when they established the system at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and have continued to disagree ever since. This book covers the key issues, political systems and governing institutions at the heart of these disagreements, outlining the thinking behind the main points of view, to help its readers decide for themselves which viewpoint they find most persuasive.This new edition of the best-selling introduction to US Government and Politics has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changes in the area since the election of the new President.

An analysis of the insider information and insights that over eighty Soviet intelligence officer defectors revealed during the first half of the Soviet periodIdentifies 88 Soviet intelligence officer defectors for the period 1917 to 1954, representing a variety of specializations; the most comprehensive list of Soviet intelligence officer defectors compiled to date. Shows the evolution of Soviet threat perceptions and the development of the "e;main enemy"e; concept in the Soviet national security system. Shows fluctuations in the Soviet recruitment and vetting of personnel for sensitive national security positions, corresponding with fluctuations in the stability of the Soviet government. Compiles for the first time corroborative primary sources in English, Russian, French, German, Finnish, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state. This book identifies a group of those defectors from the Soviet elite - intelligence officers - and provides an aggregate analysis of their information to uncover Stalin's strategic priorities and concerns, thus to open a window into Stalin's impenetrable national security decision making. This book uses their information to define Soviet threat perceptions and national security anxieties during Stalin's time as Soviet leader.

Furthering the understanding of the legitimate authority in internationally-led peace-and state-building interventions This edited volume focuses on disentangling the interplay of local peacebuilding processes and international policy, via comparative theoretical and empirical work on the question of legitimacy and authority. Using a number of conflict-affected regions as case studies - including Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sudan - the book incorporates the expertise of a range of international scholars in order to understand the dynamics of local peacebuilding, the construction of legitimate authority, and its interplay with internationally led peace- and state-building interventions. The commissioned chapters advance our understanding of local legitimacy, sustainable international engagement, and the hybrid forms of authority they produce. Oliver Richmond is a Research Professor in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. He is also International Professor, College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea and a Visiting Professor at Dublin City University. Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, as well as Director of the Durham Security Institute.

Considering the morality of using big data in the political sphere This edited collection tackles subjects such as what is wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns and are echo chambers really a matter of genuine concern? Also examined are the impact of data collection on questions of trust in society and the problem of opacity: as decision-making becomes increasingly automated so it will become harder to hold decision-makers accountable. The contributors consider potential solutions to these challenges and discuss whether an ethical compass is available or even feasible in an ever more digitised and monitored world. The editors bring together original research on the philosophy of big data and democracy from leading international authors, along with recent examples and case references (including the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leveson Inquiry and the Edward Snowden leaks), and combine them in one authoritative volume at a time of great political turmoil. Kevin Macnish is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Twente; and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Jai Galliott is Director of The Values in Defence & Security Technology Group, the University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy; Non-Residential Fellow with the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and Visiting Fellow in The Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at the University of Oxford. Cover image: (c) Klaus Meinhardt / Ikon Images / akg-images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6352-2 Barcode

Explores the cultural and political significance of the election of President Trump Donald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide. Written by leading scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as professionals in the field of political journalism, this collection of essays offers a deeper understanding of Trump and the impact that his rise to power has had both domestically and worldwide. The first section provides varied perspectives on the realignments of political culture in the United States that signify a paradigm shift, a radical disruption of fundamental beliefs and values about the political process and national identity. The second section of the book focuses on US foreign policy and diplomacy, taking stock of how the Trump presidency has disturbed the international system and US primacy within it. The third section of the book addresses the dynamics and consequences of what has come to be called "post-truth" politics, where conviction surpasses facts and the norms of political communication have been profoundly disrupted. Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin.

In Enlightenment Edinburgh, Allan Ramsay (c. 1684-1758) was a foundationally important poet, dramatist, song collector, theatre owner, cultural leader in art and music, and innovative entrepreneur in many spheres from language to libraries. This series, the result of an international research project, presents Ramsay's complete works in a dependable scholarly edition for the first time, thereby illuminating a body of work crucial in its own right and essential to both the Scottish Enlightenment and the Vernacular Revival associated with Fergusson, Burns and others. Ramsay's pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd (1725; 1729) went through over a hundred editions, was performed many hundreds of times and inspired a wide range of visual representations and critiques. Although it is one of the most important printed texts in Scots literature, there has never been a scholarly edition which does justice to its complicated genesis and to the music of its many songs. This groundbreaking and definitive edition will be welcomed by scholars, teachers and practitioners of literature, drama and music, and opens up new avenues for research and performance. This scholarly edition includes: - Ramsay's text collated against all manuscripts and relevant printed editions - All known contemporary sources for the music, showing how the tunes circulated in Ramsay's own time - Extensive textual and musical introductions that situate the text within its various histories of composition, its political, historical, and literary contexts, and its reception. Steve Newman is an Associate Professor of English at Temple University. David McGuinness is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Glasgow.

A study of the production and circulation of literary manuscripts in Romantic-era BritainOffers a detailed examination of the practices of literary manuscript culture, particularly the production, circulation and preservation of manuscripts, based on extensive archival researchDemonstrates how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, in a nuanced study of the interactions between the two mediaExamines the changing cultural attitudes towards literary manuscripts, and how these changes affected practices and valuesSurveys the impact of digital media on our access to and understanding of historical manuscriptsThis book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by which handwritten documents were written, shared, altered and preserved, and explores the functions they served as instruments of expression and sociability. By demonstrating how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, this study illuminates the complex entanglements between the media of script and print.

Investigating variation and change in contemporary varieties of spoken English on the basis of authentic corpus data Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches. In doing so the book bridges traditionally separate fields such as experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Made up of 12 chapters, it explores a substantial range of linguistic phenomena. It covers auditory, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, second language pronunciation and perception, sociophonetics, cross-linguistic comparison of vowel reduction and methodological issues in the construction of phonological corpora. The book presents new data and analyses that demonstrate what phonologists, phoneticians and sociolinguists do with their corpora and show how various theoretical and experimental questions can be explored in light of authentic spoken data. Key Features - Examines spoken varieties of English in Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA - Examines English in comparison to French, Polish and Japanese - Draws on data from the PAC Lancashire, Boston, Manchester, Michigan and Dunedin corpora, the IDEA corpus and the Greater Poland Speech Corpus - Brings together an international range of contributors in various fields of phonological research from the UK, France, Poland, Norway and Japan - Includes over 100 tables and figures to clearly demonstrate key concepts, data and ideas Anne Przewozny is Lecturer in English Phonology at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. Sylvain Navarro is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Paris. Cécile Viollain is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Paris Nanterre University. Cover image: (c) beastfromeast/Getty Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6699-8 Barcode

Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.

The most extensive and up-to-date volume of essays on the Gothic mode in twentieth century culture.