Charles Dickens 
Great Expectations 

Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its dissolution in both the private and public realms, including the most well known marital dissolution, …

This book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, identities, and communities in the Indic tradition. T …

South Asian Pornographies is the first consolidated volume that explores the relationships between pornography, obscenity, law and desire in South Asia. Focusing on case studies from India, Sri Lanka …

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great …

The first volume in the Lucy Cavendish College Lecture Series, Coercion and Trust, provides a unique multi-disciplinary dialogue on the complex links between coercion and trust from perspectives in s …

The Verse Revolutionaries tells the story of the Imagists, a turbulent and colourful group of poets, who came together in London in the years before the First World War. As T. S. Eliot was to say, ap …

Edward Said was an exiled individual – the ”out of place” Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents” …

Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as ”valid” for classical study. And within this process of widening, children”s literature …

Farid al-Din ”Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece ‘Mantiq al-tayr’, or ‘The Conference of Birds’, his …

Winner of the 2018 International Standing Conference for the History of Education”s First Book Award Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s Bri …