Explores Scottish and international Christian responses to social problems in urban-industrial societies since 1800 How did Christians perceive and respond to new social problems of distinctly modern societies as they developed in Scotland and other countries during the 19th century? Amid the complexities of industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding global trade networks and nascent democratic politics, what kinds of social policies and initi...
Studies the impact of science and technology on the painting of Gerhard Richter Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet reveals the artist's role in affirming the technol...
FRONT FLAP THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY GENERAL EDITOR: Alison Lumsden Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771 and had a remarkable literary career as a translator, editor, poet, novelist and dramatist. His work was read across the world and his literary and cultural legacies both at home and abroad are profound. Scott died at Abbotsford, his home in the Scottish Borders, in 1832. Scott's poetry dominated the early years o...
Surveys a turbulent chapter of Syrian history from multiple perspectives, recalibrating the underlying power dynamics of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries.
Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.
Through a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.
Tina Sikka explores many of the contradictions and tensions that make up the increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law and gender relations and new movements including #MeToo and #TimesUp. She looks in particular at contemporary understandings of justice, violence, consent, pleasure and desire.
Examines Gabriele D'Annunzio's work in relation to cultural exchange, highlighting the political dimensions of global decadence and modernism Gabriele D'Annunzio was an internationally renowned artist and one of the most prominent public figures in Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels and poetry stirred the enthusiasm of James Joyce and Henry James in the English-speaking world and his repute stretched far bey...
This book examines the salience of neo-traditionalism in Anglo-American Muslim communities, by tracing the scholarship and impact of the key public pedagogues (shaykhs) associated with this phenomenon - Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah.
