Daniel Defoe 
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‘Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?’ In pairing key ideas from the history of philosophy with examples from everyday life and culture, David Cunning produces a clear, in …

This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci”s work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate Holub argues that Gramsci was ahead of his time in offering a th …

This ambitious three-volume biography on Gissing examines both his life and writing both chronologically and in close detail. This final volume in Coustillas’s prodigious biography examines the turbu …

Jataka stories (stories about the previous births of the Buddha) are very popular in Theravada Buddhist countries, where they are found in both canonical texts and later compositions and collections, …

The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism”s Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field …

Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and ’material’ reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the renewed and expanding interest in early mode …

From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of int …

First published in 1940 and revised in 1965, this work by the distinguished Hardy Scholar, Carl J. Weber, traces Hardy’s literary career from High Brockhampton to the grave in Poet’s corner, Westmins …

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in …

What was ‘information’ in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent scho …