Publications
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Rereading Heterosexuality
(2012)
Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory
Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds ...
Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire
(2014-04-11)
Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour traditionally associated with Ottoman (or ‘Turkish’) prisons, Kent F. Schull argues that these places were sites of immense reform and ...
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
(2016-07-11)
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. ...
Dickens's London
(2012-05-23)
Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in ...
The Ethics of Armed Conflict
(2014-03-01)
Develops generalised just war principles that can be applied to all forms of armed conflict.
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction
(2013-12-01)
Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings’ of Irish gothic fiction, maps the ...
Foucault's Archaeology
(2012-11-28)
This book provides a new perspective on Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge by revealing the extent to which its approach to language was influenced by the mathematical sciences. Setting out this background to Foucault’s ...
Imperial Muslims
(2017-12-31)
A great deal has been written about the webs, nodes and networks created by Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Much of the focus has been on the political, legal or economic ...
Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
(2018-11-16)
As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made ...
Migrating Texts
(2019-04-30)
Explores translation in the context of the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman Mediterranean world.
Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, ...