Publications
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
(2012-07-23)
Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily ‘blights’, as were cross eyes, lameness ...
The American Short Story Cycle
(2017-11-30)
The American Short Story Cycle shows the roots of modernism and postmodernism winds through the short story cycle.
Reviewers ranging from the The New York Times to Amazon do not know what to call books like Jennifer Egan’s ...
Border Crossing
(2016-03-31)
Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the ‘border crossing’ from one temporal or spatial territory into another, this book examines the way ...
The New Russian Nationalism
(2016-03-01)
Assessing the transformation of Russian nationalist discourse in the 21st century Russian nationalism, previously dominated by ‘imperial’ tendencies – pride in a large, strong and multi-ethnic state able to project its ...
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters
(2013)
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. ...