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Argues that the Essais of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean dramaIn this revisionist study, Peter G. Platt provides a detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne-Shakespeare connection from the eighteenth century to the present day. Through sustained close readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives. While the change in monarchy, the revived interest in judicial rhetoric and the alterations in Shakespeare's acting company helped shape plays such as Measure for Measure, King Lear and The Tempest, this book contends that Shakespeare's reading of Montaigne is an under-recognised driving force in these later plays.Peter G. Platt is Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair of English at Barnard College.

Charts the transatlantic movements of Scottish literature in the Age of RevolutionThis book provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic, broken down into distinct writing modes such as memoirs, slave narratives and emigrant fiction, and contexts including pre- and post-Revolution America and French-Canadian cultural nationalism.Scots, who were at the vanguard of British colonial expansion in North America in the Romantic period, believed that their own nation had undergone an unprecedented transformation in only a short span of time. Scottish writers became preoccupied with collective memory, its powerful role in shaping group identity as well as its delicate fragility. McNeil reveals why we must add collective memory to the list of significant contributions Scots made to a culture of modernity.Kenneth McNeil is Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University.

The Franchise Era: Managing Media in the Digital EconomyEdited by James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim and Stephen MamberA collection of essays that examine the management strategies of franchises across multiple mediaAs Hollywood shifts towards the digital era, the role of the media franchise has become more prominent. This edited collection, from a range of international scholars, argues that the franchise is now an integral element of American media culture. As such, the collection explores the production, distribution and marketing of franchises as a historical form of media-making - analysing the complex industrial practice of managing franchises across interconnected online platforms.Examining how traditional media incumbents like studios and networks have responded to the rise of new entrants from the technology sector (such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google), the authors take a critical look at the way new and old industrial logics collide in an increasingly fragmented and consolidated mediascape.James Fleury is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA.Bryan Hikari Hartzheim is Assistant Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University, Japan.Stephen Mamber is a Research Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA.Cover image: The Avengers (2012) Directed by Joss Whedon © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/PhotofestCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1922-2Barcode

Critically assesses the legacy of Obama's presidency in Trump's AmericaBased on a dialogue between political scientists and historians from both France and the US, this anthology offers a critical assessment of Barack Obama's two-term presidency. Focusing primarily on domestic policy, the book explains why the widely anticipated moment of change did not fully materialize. The Obama presidency navigated partisan and institutional obstacles, but quickly lost its 2008 momentum: these developments illustrate the weakening of the institutional Presidency in a larger context of polarized politics. Many of the fault lines of American society were thus left largely unaddressed, paving the way for the Trump campaign in 2016. Featuring a range of experts on the American presidency, this book offers both European and American perspectives on both the successes and failures of Obama's tenure in the White House.François Vergniolle de Chantal is Professor of American Politics and Government at Paris Diderot University.

This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philosophy, across a range of media and across the theory/practice divide.

Explores Beckett's artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studiesThis book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an interest in 'abnormals' and 'degenerates'? How did he reconceive 'the human' in the wake of Hitler and Stalin? Drawing on Beckett's voluminous archive, as well as his primary texts, the authors use psychoanalysis, queer theory, disability theory and biopolitics to push Beckett studies beyond the normal.Seán Kennedy is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Scotland's Foreshore tells the story of the battle that took place during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century between the Crown and private proprietors over the ownership of the foreshore.

Thomas Reid was an intellectual polymath interested in all aspects of Enlightenment thought. Paul Wood reconstructs Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher and shows how he grappled with Sir Isaac Newton's scientific legacy.

Originally entitled Life at Twenty-Five, Stevenson's first collection of essays conducts conversations with the reader about the most satisfying ways to rebel against Victorian respectability in the areas of love, marriage, money and leisure.

The second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics offers an extended commentary on the important findings of new critical approaches to language and society in Arab-speaking countries.

A student's introduction to the sounds of English

From the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, Reading the Times offers fresh insight into modern narrative.