Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlby's Attachment Theory. Attachment Theory arises from the guiding principles of realism and the veratist's devotion to long-term, direct observation of subject matter. Additio...

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature, this study seeks to integrate the language of empirical science and the physical realities of place, while also investigating non-human agency and that which exists beyond the material realm. Murphy considers how writers in the early ...

Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice into ecocriticism,’ a few more articles or conference sessions won’t suffice. There must be ‘a fundamental rethinking and reworking of the field as a whole’” (Buell 113). While discussions about natur...

This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. The collection focuses on woman writers and the ecologies of war; early eco-feminisms and circum-Atlantic revolutions; abolitionists, the Haitian Revolution, and the Caribbean World; French dispossession and female farmers. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interes...

This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. The collection features creative examples from women that consider various conjunctions that reach across multiple disciplines, and focuses on topics such as social justice and ecocentric philosophies; environmental fiction, poetry and drama; ecopolitics; environmental history; landscape painting; the psyc...

La correspondance écrite ou l’écriture de lettres joue un rôle central dans l’histoire littéraire canadienne-française, offrant une compréhension unique des œuvres et de leurs contextes.L’activité des épistolières et épistoliers majeurs est au cœur de cette réflexion, mettant en lumière ceux et celles qui ont façonné leur écriture à travers la lettre, qu’il s’agisse d’échanges intimes ou publics. Leur singularité réside dans l’originalité de leurs propos, de leur style, ainsi que d...

This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. The collection focuses on feminine eco-cognition; gendered power relations in nature; environmental egalitarianism & liberation; feminist epistemic eco-modalities; and ways that women in the nineteenth century sought to de-enforce gendered hierarchies in natural settings. Accompanied by extensive editorial...

This clear and timely book presents the first sustained and structured analysis of globalization in the East Asian context, exploring the strategies used by East Asian countries to cope with the forces of globalization. Eschewing both neoliberal “hyperglobalization” chants and neorealist “globaloney” castigation, the authors integrate a broad conceptual framework with region- and country-specific case studies.Specifically, the book poses and addresses three major questions about Ea...

This volume features a variety of primary sources by nineteenth-century women from around the globe, whose work focuses on the varied interconnections between gender and the environment. The collection considers the role women writers and artists in the long-nineteenth century that have played in the areas of natural history, and examines such topics as nineteenth-century female botanists; garden bowers and the entrapped woman; human-animal interactions (HAI); anthropocene feminism; evolut...

THE POWER OF LOVE is an award-winning chronicle of the soul's quest. Dr. Fran Grace, a professor of religion, narrates her life journey and describes her personal encounters with some of the century's most memorable spiritual figures. Reviewers say it "is a masterpiece," "splendid and moving narrative," "reveals love in its many facets," "feeds the heart and soul," "awakens the mind." At age 15, the author had a mystical experience that nearly shattered her. She joined a fundamentalist sec...

A comprehensive collection provides guidance and deep insight from a variety of experts in this emerging fieldThe rapidly developing field of interreligious studies fosters scholarship engaging two or more religious traditions at a time. Inherently multidisciplinary, the field brings the academic consideration of religions into conversation with the humanities and social sciences, employing relational, intersectional, experiential, and dialogical methodologies as it examines the in...

This is the essential resource and job-hunting guide for all those interested in international careers in the US government, multinational corporations, banks, consulting companies, international and nongovernmental organizations, the media, think tanks, universities, and more. Careers in International Affairs, now in its ninth edition, provides up-to-date insights about the range of possibilities in the global workplace and tips on how to get these jobs—along with profiles of hundreds of ...