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This absorbing study chronicles the remarkable movement for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Examining the contribution of workers, activists, unionists, journalists, and scholars from the 1980s to COVID-19. it offers an original perspective on the spatial politics and everyday experiences of cross-class feminist and transnational social movement organizing.

This study of how early modern Spanish literature constitutes a cultural 'Golden Age' addresses the evolving uses of a literary canon that is now regarded as national cultural patrimony. It approaches these uses of the Spanish Golden Age as a diachronic problem whose analysis can address some of the most persistent questions in the field of Hispanism.

Counter-Cartographies proposes new methods of cultural and literary analysis that read against the mapped spectacle of a hyper-planned and developed (post)colonial city. To excavate, wayfind, circumvent, and confabulate in Singapore enables us to understand the contours and pressures of authoritarian governance and to reveal the insidious aspects of biopolitical power and ecological control.

Providing the first analysis of screen and stage adaptations of Peace's writings, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author, this comprehensive overview of the canon of contemporary British writer David Peace is a must-read for students, critics and fans alike.

Radical individuals, like anarchists and socialists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were quite active when it came to crossing borders, creating radical networks, especially across the Atlantic Ocean. The creation, the functioning, and the impact of these networks will be analysed in detail in the present book.

The first critical, comprehensive history of a revolutionary park "ahead of anywhere" at that time and a pioneer in the development of urban public parks in general. The Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners envisaged it as an integral element within a wider town planning framework. They recognised the positive impact it could make in alleviating public health problems, while fostering social cohesion. In reality, it was not until the turn of the century that it could be regarded as a People's Park.

Through essays on Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Rebecca West, T.S. Eliot, and E.M. Forster, The Work of the Living contends that modernism's artist-critics elevate criticism to a public mode of art and expression through their craft, rhetorical strategies, techniques, figurative language, and even their chosen circulations for their critical nonfiction.

This collection of ten chapters and three interviews focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and to exist as a visible and successful hub of French-language -- and ever more multilingual -- cinema in North America.

Hustlers in the Ivory Tower explores how French modernist writers, including MallarmÃ(c), Apollinaire, and Proust, used newspapers and magazines as a forum for literary experimentation. The book shows how these interactions with the press yielded nuanced, self-conscious portrayals of the tensions between journalism and literature in modernist poetry and prose fiction.

Through readings of work by Joshua Cohen, Nicola Barker, Neal Stephenson and Grasshopper Manufacture, Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction offers the first analysis of the representation of computational algorithms and their cultural consequences in twenty-first-century fiction, defining an emerging tradition of fiction attempting to redefine the novel's relevance within digital culture.

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the best-selling poets of the nineteenth century -- a poet influential on Keats, Shelley and Browning who was excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. It will be of interest to scholars of Romantic and Victorian poetry, labouring-class writing, and publishing history.

The Romans invented 'satire' as a separate genre and used it both for personal invective and as a literary and philosophical mode of expression. In the hands of their greatest writers mockery and critique of society becomes an artform which later ages have imitated but not equalled.

This is the first comprehensive study of an industry that helped to create the global economy. Managing tramp ships was a high-risk potentially high-reward business. Using original documents, this book transports readers into the turbulent world of those who operated the precursors of today's bulk carriers.

This edition of Callimachus' select larger fragments and epigrams offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic art. By also discussing important but lesser-known pieces, it sheds light on Callimachus' varied activity. Finally, it offers an up-to-date introduction to his life, career, and aesthetics.

Based on a series of case studies following a wide-ranging introduction, this book examines the history of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias during a period in which they developed dramatically, rising numerically from a trickle to a flood even as they came to cover many varieties of knowledge.

This volume focuses on the role played by working people and their initiatives in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole and in the colonies. Exploiting rare primary sources and adopting a transnational approach, our collection makes an original contribution to both labour history and imperial studies.

Keeping the Ancient Way provides a wealth of up-to-date scholarship and close readings across the spectrum of the poetry and prose of a major seventeenth-century writer. Its ten chapters open up topics that are central to the understanding and appreciation of a poet whose life was turned upside down by civil war and religious persecution.

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater period. With many appearing for the first time in English, the anthology includes discussions of the performance and historical, cultural, and social context for the plays, making the collection valuable for both classroom and stage.

This volume represents the first to examine the influences, intersections, and developments of understandings of death and the afterlife between poetic, religious, and philosophical traditions in ancient Greece in one resource. The papers in it demonstrate the full richness, complexity, and flexibility of these ideas in the ancient Greek world, illuminating the free exchange of ideas concerning eschatological matters.

Britain experienced continual crises from the 1970s to Brexit in 2016. This innovative and comprehensive study pays special attention to three combined crises: the development of neo-liberal globalisation from the 1970s; the financial crash and its systemic effects from 2007 to 2009; and the "present crisis" beginning in 2010.

This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners.

This two-volume edited collection covers three hundred years of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Volume One looks at the period from 1716 to 1992, exploring such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture.

The first women's football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material uncovering the lived reality of women footballers beyond the clichÃ(c)-ridden mass media discourse. It brings the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers? views into dialogue with institutional and media perspectives.

While being the first known standalone chronicle of England in Dutch, it shows a remarkable sophistication and adeptness in negotiating English and Dutch sources, as well as Dutch and English interests, and presents a determinedly Lancastrian view of English history to its Dutch audience.