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Film Regulation in a Cultural Context
  • Daniel Sacco
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    09 April 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2023
  • This book examines a sampling of cinematic works that provoked censorious impulses throughout the shift away from formal film censorship in the late modern West. The public controversies surrounding 'Fat Girl', 'Irreìversible', 'Ken Park', 'The Brown Bunny', 'Wolf Creek', and 'Welcome to New York', each highlight significant stages in this cultural shift, which necessitated policy revision within the institutions of formal film censorship in Britain, Canada, and Australia. Parallels and distinctions are drawn between governmental film regulation policies in these countries and social control mechanisms at work within a wider network of institutions, including news media, film festivals, and advocacy groups. The study examines the means by, and ends to, which the social control of film content persists in the 'post-censorship' media landscape of Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States, and how concepts of film 'classification' manifest in commercial market contexts, journalistic criticism, and practices of distribution and advertising.

Poems of Allan Ramsay
  • Volumes II and III
  • Allan Ramsay
  • Edited by Rhona Brown
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    18 March 2025
    Print publication:
    29 May 2023
  • Allan Ramsay was central to all aspects of Scottish literary culture in the eighteenth century, working simultaneously in editing, playwriting, theatre management, song collecting and bookselling, as well as founding and directing Britain's first circulating library. It was, however, his own original work as a poet which had a transformative influence on the way in which Scottish literature would develop in the ensuing decades and, indeed, centuries. Emerging as a published author in the early 1710s, Ramsay built a remarkably prominent profile as a poet of the Scots language whose work appealed to a diverse range of readers, allowing him to produce prestigious subscribers' editions of his poems in 1721 and 1728 and to continue as a poet until his death in 1758. This definitive and ground-breaking edition of Ramsay's poems reflects the fifty-year career of an influential cultural and literary innovator, which will open new avenues for research.

Homemaking in the Russian-speaking Diaspora
  • Material Culture, Language and Identity
  • Edited by Maria Yelenevskaya, Ekaterina Protassova
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 May 2023
  • Bringing together scholars specialising in Russian studies, linguistic and cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics, this collection examines the discursive practices in which migrants' homes are framed, negotiated and constructed to reveal the complexity and ambivalence of home as a concept and as a phenomenon of social life.

    By examining migrants' stories about moving home, the book explores the stages of linguistic and cultural adaptation. It demonstrates that immigrants' homes are semiotic storehouses revealing their owners' past and present as well as aspirations for the future. It presents the first multifaceted investigation of the interdependence of materiality and emotions and materiality and language use by Russian-speaking immigrants.

Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World
  • Social Networks and Identities
  • Edited by S. Karly Kehoe, Chris Dalglish, Annie Tindley
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 July 2023
  • This is a book about the social in Highland entanglements with Empire - the networks, relationships and identities that made it possible for Highland Scots to access the Empire and its benefits. It explores - from a range of perspectives - the impact that these Scots had, as sojourners and settlers, on the different places they encountered. It is also a book about the present-day legacies of their engagements with Empire, and of the ongoing process of forging social and cultural identities with Highland roots.

    The volume presents rigorous and insightful new research from both well-established and early career scholars, accompanied by commentary on the research and the issues it raises from a range of academic and non-academic voices. The book represents a significant contribution our understanding of the role of Highland Scots, influenced significantly by their culture and language, in creating the Empire and its legacies. It advances knowledge of just how diverse the impacts of Highland Scots were on forging landscapes and lifescapes across the Atlantic, and how their exposure to the colonial world influenced and reshaped their Diasporic identities. While the British Empire was a collaboration of diverse interests, this book will shed light on one important interest: the Highland one.

Grey on Grey
  • At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art
  • Edited by Kamini Vellodi, Aron Vinegar
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2023
  • Taking off from Hegel's invocation of philosophy as a painting of 'grey on grey', this collection of essays explores the rich scope of possibilities implicated by the colour and concept of grey. Crossing art history, visual studies, philosophy, anthropology and literary studies, contributions attest to the repetitious insistence of grey on grey in rethinking the ontology of artworks and images; concepts of time, technique and medium; and how its immanent logic of self-differing summons forth deadlocks and blind spots, both past and present.

Remediating the 1820s
  • Edited by Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2022
  • The 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time of transition bridging two major periods of cultural production. This volume contends that the innovations, fears and experiments of the 1820s are both of considerable interest in themselves and vital for comprehending how Victorian and Romantic culture wrote and visioned one another into being. Remediating the 1820s explores the decade's own sense of itself as a period of expansion in terms of the projection of British power and knowledge, but also its tremendous uncertainty about where this left traditional identities and moral values. In doing so, the collection articulates how specific novelties, transformations and anxieties of the time remediated and remade culture and society in manners that continue powerfully to resonate.

New Perspectives on English Word Stress
  • Edited by Eiji Yamada, Anne Przewozny, Jean-Michel Fournier, Nicolas Ballier
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    04 July 2023
  • New Perspectives on English Word Stress explores the mechanism of word stress assignment in contemporary English from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. Comprising nine chapters, these approaches include a historical overview of the study of stress; the relationship between historic changes in stress and meaning; the relationship between spelling and stress; syllable weight and stress; the theoretical treatment of exceptions; stress mechanisms in Australian English; and stress in Singapore English. The book presents new data and provides the reader with access to various approaches to English word stress in phonology.

Key Concepts in Victorian Studies
  • William Hughes
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 March 2023
  • Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a comprehensive and accessible resource for students of the long nineteenth century. The volume is divided into a number of cross-referenced sections which address the preoccupations and historical events of this crucial period in recent history and culture. Central to the book's function as a durable reference work is an extensive A-Z glossary which clarifies Victorian terminology and explains key historical and political events. This is supplemented with a chronology listing significant domestic, imperial and international events from 1837 to 1901; a tabulation of British Prime Ministers in office during Queen Victoria's reign; a succinct but detailed survey of the most important acts of Parliament in the period; an explanation of pre-decimal British coinage; and a useful chart which converts imperial measurement into their metric equivalents. This book is an essential reference for scholars of Victorian literature and history from undergraduate to postgraduate level.

The Umayyad Empire
  • Andrew Marsham
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    28 February 2024
  • The Umayyad Empire (644-750 CE) was the first Islamic empire and one of the largest empires of ancient and medieval times, extending over 5,000 miles between the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Indian Ocean in the East. This book traces the empire's origins to the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Steppe in the centuries before Islam. It explores the dynamics that shaped this formative era for the history of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The century of Umayyad rule witnessed war with the Eastern Roman Empire, against whom the Umayyads defined their claims to rule as God's deputies on Earth. This was the period in which the Qur'an was compiled, monuments such as the Dome of the Rock were built, and new Islamic and Arab identities developed.

A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees
  • A Century of Oriental Scholarship
  • Edited by Charles Melville
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    13 March 2023
  • The Gibb Memorial Trust, founded at the start of the twentieth century, comprised among its trustees some of the most celebrated and prominent orientalists of their day. Together, they sponsored and supported research on editing and translating Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts on a range of subjects, from history, literature, geography and poetry to Sufism and the Islamic sciences. This volume covers the development of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies over the last 120 years or so, as seen through the biographies of the leading scholars of the period.It opens with a short history of the Trust, before presenting a series of short biographical and often personal appreciations of these eminent Middle Eastern scholars of the past, written by existing trustees. In providing a history of this important institution, the book shines a light on the history and development of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Britain more broadly.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Edited by Jonathan Cranfield
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 March 2023
  • This exciting volume is the first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Includes the only current textual apparatus collated from different iterations of the stories along with a detailed introduction and an essay on the text based on contemporary scholarship.

The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East in the Twenty-First Century
  • Edited by Samer S. Shehata
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2023
  • The volume examines the causes and consequences of regional turbulence in the Middle East following the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Arab uprisings. The Middle East has experienced unprecedented levels of instability and violence during this period including regime breakdown, heightened rivalry and competition, civil and proxy wars, cross border military intervention, refugee flows, and the emergence of violent non-state actors. Following a theoretical chapter analysing the drivers of regional turbulence, leading Middle East scholars investigate the impact of turbulence on the politics of different states and actors in the region. Nine case studies analyse the foreign policies and regional role of the United States and Israel, Iran and Turkey's policies toward the Syrian crisis, and the impact of regional turbulence and intervention on Yemen, Egypt, and relations among Arab Gulf states. The two final chapters examine two new Islamist actors that emerged in the Middle East during this period: Sunni militant groups in Iraq and Syria and the new Salafi political parties and their foreign policy orientations.

Vampires in Silent Cinema
  • Gary D. Rhodes
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • Despite the enormous cultural impact of 'Nosferatu' (1922) on modern entertainment, from cartoon parodies and collectible toys, the history of vampires in silent cinema is largely unknown.

    Vampires in Silent Cinema covers the subject from 1896-1931, reclaiming a large array of forgotten films while adding meaningfully to horror studies through the examination of thousands of primary sources.

Traces of the Prophets
  • Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
  • Adam Bursi
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    15 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • Contributing to scholarship studying Islam alongside other late antique religions, Traces of the Prophets highlights how early Muslims deployed sacred objects and spaces to inscribe and dispute Islam's continuities with, and differences from, Judaism and Christianity. The book argues that prophets' relics ritually and rhetorically shaped Muslim identities in the first centuries of Islam.

    Traces of the Prophets rewrites the history of holy bodies and sacred spaces in the emergence of Islam. Rather than focusing on theological controversies among early Muslims, this book is grounded in the material objects and places that Muslims touched and 'thought with' in defining Islamic practice and belief. While often marginalized in modern scholarship, sacred relics and spaces stood at the disputed boundaries of emergent Islamic identities. Objects and spaces like Abraham's footprints in Mecca and Muhammad's tomb in Medina provided sites of shared Islamic ritual, as well as tools for differentiating Muslims from non-Muslims.

The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre
  • Edited by Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton, Claire Warden
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    14 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2023
  • Instead of treating modernism principally as a thing of the past, this volume highlights modernism as an impulse that can be carried forward to the present, re-embodied and re-encountered in theatrical performance. It demonstrates how modernist impulses spark contemporary theatre in electric and dynamic ways, continuing the modernist imperative to 'make it new' and to engage meaningfully with the complicated situation of living in the contemporary world. Through a diverse set of contributions from scholars and theatre practitioners, this book examines the legacy of modernism on the world stage in acts of remembrance, restaging, transmission and slippage. It investigates both well-known and less familiar aspects of modernist theatre history, engaging topics such as the revival of the first Black American musical, feminist and disability-led reinterpretations of canonical modernist plays, the use of modernist-inspired performance practice in contemporary university arts education and the continually contested meaning and importance of the avant-garde.

ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks
  • Edited by R. Barton Palmer, Homer B. Pettey
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    14 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 February 2023
  • ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America's most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the 'literary' aspects of his career, including his work as a screenwriter and adaptor of such modern classics as 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 'Lord Jim', and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press
  • Volumes 1-3
  • Edited by Martin Conboy, David Finkelstein, Adrian Bingham, Nicholas Brownlees
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    28 February 2023
  • A definitive account of newspaper and periodical press history across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales covering 1650 to the present day.

    At various points over the last 400 years, key political, economic and social processes, have worked to hinder or promote the expansion and dissemination of information across Britain and Ireland via newspapers and periodicals. In a contemporary era characterized by debate on the limits of devolution and the potential of independence we need to assess the roles played by newspapers and periodicals in enabling national and regional identities to emerge, cohere and diversify over time. How can we best identify the most significant of these processes? What were the critical flashpoints in their development? How have they marked the place of the press in civic society? What are the consequences in considering these within the general history of the British and Irish press? This three-volume prestige project addresses these matters, offering a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland between 1650 to the present day and addressing questions related to four key research interests: general social/ political history; newspaper and periodical history; cultural history; and technological history.

Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk
  • The Text and Introduction, Notes, and Editorial Material
  • John Gibson Lockhart
  • Edited by P. D. Garside, Gillian Hughes
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2023
  • In Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of an elderly Welsh physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow and Edinburgh in terms of German nationalist and Romantic criticism. Focusing on the networks of the law, the church, the universities, fine art, antiquarianism, literature, theatre, and periodical culture he provided a series of brilliant, sometimes serious and sometimes satirical, portraits of the most notable characters of the day and the institutions they represented, and his text is accompanied by a series of portrait engravings and of vignettes of significant moments in his tour. This edition presents the first complete text of this widely-allusive work published since 1819, together with the substantial notes that a modern reader requires to understand it fully. The editorial apparatus also comprises a detailed index and an essay on the contemporary illustrations.

A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions
  • Arabic-English Translation
  • El Mustapha Lahlali, Tajul Islam
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • Are you at your wits' end trying to master the Arabic language? With thousands of entries, this dictionary will help you to rattle off idioms and expressions in no time. The ability to use and understand idioms and expressions often marks the difference between a language-learning beginner and a natural-sounding language user. This dictionary translates over 8,000 Arabic idioms and expressions into English, covering a wide range of situations and registers. It helps intermediate and advanced learners of Arabic working in fields including translation, academia and business to hone their skills, and is equally useful to native Arabic speakers involved in translating and interpreting from Arabic to English.

Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
  • Edited by Bernard O'Kane, A. C. S. Peacock, Mark Muehlhaeusler
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2023
  • This volume offers an overview of the state of the field, and shows the importance of Islamic inscriptions for disciplines such as art history, history and literature. The chapters range from surveys to detailed exploration of individual topics, providing an insight to some of the most recent cutting-edge work on Islamic inscriptions. It focuses on the period from the rise of Islam to the fifteenth century, ranging across the Islamic world from the Maghreb to India and Central Asia, and inscriptions in Arabic, Persian and Turkish.

    The five sections of the book draw together some of the principal themes: 'Royal Power' investigates the role of sultanic patronage in epigraphy, and the use of inscriptions for projecting royal power. 'Piety' examines the relationship between epigraphy and religious practice. 'Epigraphic Style and Function' explores the relationship between the use of specific epigraphic styles and scripts and the function of a monument. 'Inscribed Objects' moves from monumental inscriptions to those on objects such as ceramics and pen-cases. The final section considers the interplay between inscriptions and historical sources as well as the utility of inscriptions as historical sources.

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