This scholarly biography explores the act of bearing witness through the politically charged, mural-scale art of Lebanese-Americanactivist and neo-expressionist ...

This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology's role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography ...

It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate ...

This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine ...

A history of the many different British Empires - the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945) ...

Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee ...

This book is a new translation of Henry Murger's influential Scènes de la vie de bohème , first published in French in 1851.

Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemporary American ...

Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary ...

In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive ...