Publications
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
(2017-03-31)
Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to ...
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
(2025)
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via ...
The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties
(2018)
Asks how representatives of Political Islam are conducting themselves in the field of international politics
Includes a Preface by Olivier Roy
The first up-to-date, detailed analysis of how Islamist forces in the ...
The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History
(2023)
The first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesProvides the first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
Russia's New Authoritarianism
(2020)
Studies the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin
Asks what kind of political system ‘Putinism’ denotes
Engages with the scholarly and policy debate on the growth of illiberal ...
Diverse Slaveries
(2025)
Classical Athenian slavery is often discussed as a single phenomenon and Athens’ enslaved as a unitary group. Yet the single legal status that the enslaved shared often obscures the very different characteristics of slavery ...
Islamists and the Global Order
(2024)
This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to the commonly held belief that Islamists uniformly reject the Western-dominated world order. In the wake of George W. Bush's declaration of a "global war on terror" in ...
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
(2018-11-07)
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome
This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, ...
Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
(2023)
In the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily ...
Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
(2023)
In the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily ...
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
(2023)
This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic ...
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
(2018)
Modernism in mathematics – this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions’ from and about the heyday of mathematical ...
Digital Resistance in the Middle East
(2017)
This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.
Digital Resistance in the Middle East
(2017)
This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism
(2017-01-31)
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental ...
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
(2018)
Modernism in mathematics – this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions’ from and about the heyday of mathematical ...
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
(2023)
This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic ...
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism
(2017-01-31)
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental ...
South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
(2011-11-30)
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.
The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and ...
South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
(2011-11-30)
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.
The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and ...