Books from EUP
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Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement
By Karen PearlmanShirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement
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Muriel Spark's Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form
By James BaileyThis book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark's literary career.
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If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
By Andrew Taylor, Celeste-Marie BernierThe book also includes a Foreword by Robert S. Levine and an Afterword by Kim F. Hall. Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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American Smart Cinema
By Claire PerkinsAmerican Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects.Connecting the 'smart' ...
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Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964
By Susan Cannon Harris'Susan Cannon Harris's Gender and Modern Irish Drama firmly established her as one of the most innovative critical voices in contemporary Irish Studies, and this book wonderfully confirms her well-deserved reputation.
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'My' Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China
By Kiki Tianqi YuThis book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.
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Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation
By David ChurchIn this book, then, Church offers a crucial contribution to an understanding of this trend through his analysis of recent developments in its history.
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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction
By Hannah Lauren MurrayHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.
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Time and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine
By Catherine ClayThis book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920-1939) and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers. 'Time and Tide is an endlessly fascinating magazine.
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Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention
By Kristin Bluemel, Michael McCluskeyEssays in this collection make the case that the rural means more than just the often-studied countryside of southern England, a retreat from the consequences of modernity; rather, the rural emerges as a source for new versions of the ...
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Researching Historical Screen Audiences
By Martin Smith, Kate Egan, Jamie TerrillConsiders the challenges of historical audience research in the field of screen studies.
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Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7
By David Martin-JonesOffers a unique analysis of globally iconic and cult favourite television show, Columbo.
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Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914
By Graeme MortonWhere previous histories of this period have focused on industry, this book will take a closer look at the people that helped to innovate and forge Scottish national identity through technology and opportunity.
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Scots Commercial Law
By Ross G. AndersonScots Commercial Law brings together expertise from academia and practice. Part I puts the subject in context with chapters on Juristic Persons, General Principles of Contract and General Principles of Property.
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The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage
By Renata Kobetts MillerThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
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A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy
By James Williams, Jeffrey A. Bell, Henry Somers-HallThis volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus.
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Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements
By Omar AshourBullets to Ballots explores the different trajectories that the deradicalisation process can take - whether it occurs after a military victory, a military defeat, or a draw in an armed conflict between insurgent groups and incumbent ...
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A Philosophy of Practising: With Deleuze's Difference and Repetition
By Antonia PontWhether you practise already, are curious about embarking, or are a reader of Deleuze, this book - for makers, thinkers, lovers and activists - is a rigorous account of why practising is hard to say, why it works and why it matters.
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The Sorrowful Muslim's Guide
By Hussein Ahmad AminPublished as Dalīl al-Muslim al-ḥazīn ilā muqtada-l-sulūk fī'l-qarn al-ʿishrīn in 1983, this book remains a timely and important read today.
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Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements
By Omar AshourA result of a unique collaboration between leading scholars, high-level governmental practitioners and non-state organisational leaders, this volume offers a rich comparative analysis of de-radicalisation processes from around the world.