Empire Under the Microscope

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…

The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing

This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrati…

Corps et capital dans le roman français du XIXe siècle

Depuis Pierre Bourdieu, nous savons que le corps forme un capital culturel et social incorporé. Il est marchandise et moyen de production, signe d’appartenance à une classe sociale, un lieu où se négocient les relations de sexe, de genre et de pouvoir ou un prétexte à des exclusions sociales et au racisme. Le corps est objet de châtiments, de sanctions et de contrôle social, support d…

A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy

In a 1987 interview, José Saramago eloquently expressed what could be considered his political-philosophical manifesto: “Human beings should not content themselves with the role of mere observers. They bear a responsibility to the world; they must actively engage and intervene.” In 1998 the celebrated writer was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature. So Saramago did not only as a hu…

Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …

Pynchon and Philosophy

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach. Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the…

Educational Theory in the 21st Century

This open access book reviews the effects of the twenty-first century scientific-technological and social developments on the educational theory. The first part handles the subject, focusing on technology and educational philosophy. In the second part, the implications of new human and social conceptions towards the education paradigms are examined. In the chapters of the last part of the book,…

Japanese diplomacy and East Asian international politics, 1918-1931

Introduction: Japanese Diplomacy and Interwar East Asia's "Four Waves of International Change" -- The First Wave of International Change and Hara Diplomacy: September 1918 to November 1921 -- The Hara Government -- The Creation of the Washington System and the Second Wave of International Change: November 1921 to January 1924 -- The Takahashi, Katō Tomosaburō, and Yamamoto Governments -- Ne…

Untold stories of the Spanish Civil War

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Our earliest attempt at independence

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