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Since the turn of the century, New Left Review has published a
score of editorials on contemporary world politics, each departing
from conventional positions. This collection brings together a
selection of NLR's interventions in these years of US unipolarity
and late-capitalist boom and bust, the War on Terror and the rise
of China, the asymmetrical recovery from the financial crisis and
the fraught politics of the energy transition. Bookended by surveys
reviewing the broader political-intellectual conjuncture in which
the journal is publishing, they examine both the ideas and the
on-the-ground operations of liberal-internationalist rule, from the
Middle East peace process to the new cold war, analysing the
character of the EU and the record of Obama, the meaning of Donald
Trump and the explanation for Brexit - as well as tracking
counter-movements from street to ballot box, the Arab Spring to
Corbyn, Sanders and Podemos.
This book examines how contemporary women novelists have
successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of
post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium,
there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the
world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this
trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive.
Contemporary women's work in this genre avoids conservatism, a
nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what
has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic
fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways
in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically
implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope
for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an
imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter,
the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and
history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book
covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of
nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.
Riven by world wars and cold wars, atrocities and genocides, the
twentieth-century was also one of sexual, cultural and ideological
revolutions, each inscribed across the fictions it produced. This
fascinating new volume re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a
form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the
public sphere. Discussing ten groundbreaking texts against the
challenges of their milieux, it considers twentieth century fiction
as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between license
and licentiousness, erudition and sedition.
This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture
from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women's
writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range
and intensity of women writers' engagement with post-war
transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the
gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the
reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the
Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen
essays range across 'literary', 'middlebrow' and 'popular' genres,
including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children's
literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and
journalism. They examine issues including realism and
experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of
'second-wave' feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass
migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment
of women's writing at a time of radical social change and rapid
cultural expansion.
Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has
received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons
for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her
long published writing career crossing both national and
ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores
the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions
her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing
crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more
controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi
and "space fiction," and her crossing of ideological borders such
as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial
into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a
number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical
approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and
abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing,
eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial
re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.
"Functional Clothing Design" is a book about how and why clothing
works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at
the human body, the environment and clothing and to explore the
relationships between them by looking at the ways clothing achieves
goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety,
improving a worker's efficiency on the job or increasing body
function. Watkins and Dunne present technical material using clear,
simple language that can be readily understood by beginning design
students with no science or engineering background. Building on the
groundbreaking text by Watkins, "Clothing: The Portable
Environment," this text covers a full range of factors involved in
designing functional clothing: protection from thermal, impact and
other environmental hazards; enhancing movement and visibility and
increasing body function with smart clothing; designing clothing
for people with handicaps and designing protective clothing for
groups such as the military, who face multiple hazards. "Functional
Clothing Design" focuses on the full range of activities needed to
develop functional clothing--from analysis of user needs to
choosing appropriate materials to design and design evaluation. The
text includes case studies throughout as well as new content on
smart textiles and all the latest developments in wearable
technology. Designers and others seeking clothing solutions to
problems in many fields will find a common language linking a
number of disciplines through which they can explore both problems
and solutions.
Queen Victoria supposedly said "We are not amused". Read "Old
Groaners", and you will find some of the conundrums, or riddles,
that amused the Victorians. Why do some persons believe the moon to
be made of green cheese? Because of the milky whey that surrounds
it. Which is the way to make your trousers last? To make your coat
and waistcoat first. Why is a guinea in the distance not worth a
penny? Because it's only a far-thing Why do little birds in a nest
agree? Because if they did not, they would fall out. Why is a dead
doctor like a dead duck? Because he has stopped quacking. What is
worse than "raining cats and dogs"? Hailing omnibuses.
A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings
from books and magazines published in the early to mid nineteenth
century. You will come across such delights as the artificial duck
that ate, drank and quacked; the tax on bachelors; early attempts
at ballooning; the clever cat; horse-racing by machinery; leeches;
powdering the hair; early steam carriages. And of course the baboon
playing chess with an Emperor. And much, much more. If you enjoy
loitering amongst literary and historic trivia, then you will love
this book.
"Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" was and is hugely
popular. First published in 1861, nearly two million copies were
sold by 1868. "Know Your Onions or Mrs Beeton's Hinterland"
contains recipes and household hints from books and magazines
published from about 1820 to the 1860s; books and magazines that
may have influenced Mrs Beeton. Some of the recipes and household
hints are from Samuel Beeton's "Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine"
and may well have been contributed by Mrs Beeton herself. "Know
Your Onions or Mrs Beeton's Hinterland" is a treasure trove
jam-packed with old recipes and household hints, mostly from the
early to mid nineteenth century. In this book you will come across
such delights as: how to cook and prepare a boar's head (not for
the squeamish ); how to pacify a cross baby; how to restore rancid
butter by using animal charcoal; a cure for baldness; and much,
much more. If you enjoy cookery books, then you will love this
book.
This is an edited collection offering up-to-date critical coverage
of a wide range of Lessing's work. Despite winning the Nobel Prize
for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little
critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has
spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career
crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay
collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of
Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various
social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national
borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her
crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and 'space fiction', and her
crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the
Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world.
This timely collection also considers a number of the most
interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's
writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to
"The Fifth Child" and "The Grass is Singing", eco-criticism in
Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of
landscape in her African Stories.
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