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The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches. 

This volume aims to explore the role of the (lived) body and embodiment in travel writing. As a first step in systematizing the topic, four thematic sections – “Mobility”, “Encounters”, “Incorporation”, and “Vulnerability” – feature chapters on travelogues from the early modern period to the present day.

Trading Women's Rights in Transitions is about how women’s rights are traded away by diplomatic actors directly in exchange for immediate political or other settlements, and indirectly in terms of being left off the international agenda with long-term consequences.

Girls, Youth Justice, and the Regulation of Sexualities shows historically and contemporarily the complexities in responding to girls’ sexualities (bodies, behavior, and identities) in the juvenile justice system.

Using an innovative methodological approach, Conditions of Accessexamines how novels circulate globally through the trade in publishing rights, introduces a model by which to trade these rights and assess threats, and using Australia as a case study, provides a new account of how one nation’s literature arrives onthe international stage.

The book explores and analyses the five dimensions of project management and explores how current trends can influence the efficiency of the design and construction process within a dynamic industry and changeable political and regulatory environment.

A fresh study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eighteenth-century France, nourished by archival research and by histories of innovation, community and knowledge transfer in the Enlightenment.

This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.

‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.

Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’s Surfacing, and Desai’s Clear Light of Day.

Thomas Tod Stoddart’s innovative gothic epic poem The Death-Wake (1831), now little known, may have been lost to history if not for the interventions of Edgar Allan Poe in 1842 and Andrew Lang in 1895. This critical edition reprints and contextualises Stoddart’s morbid and distinctive masterpiece, bringing to light an important but overlooked expression of the Scottish Gothic with transatlantic cultural implications.

This book recovers the ways in which nineteenth-century British writers—from well-known liberal thinkers to lesser-known feminists, socialists, and vegetarians—debated the implications of evolutionary becoming, anthropocentrism, scales of historical time, and humanity’s relationship to nature. These “subversive humanisms” challenge critical posthumanism’s puzzling, and often negative, reception of nineteenth-century thought.