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Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading
In the words of J. Brooks Boustan, the empathic reader is a participant-observer, who, as they read, is both subject to the disruptive and disturbing responses that characters and texts provoke, and aware of the role they are invited to play when responding to fiction. Calling upon the writings of Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Sarah Waters, Michael Cox and Jane Harris, this book examines the ethics of the text-reader relationship in neo-Victorian literature, focusing upon the role played by empathy in this engagement. Bringing together recent cultural and theoretical research on narrative temporality, empathy and affect, Muren Zhang presents neo-Victorian literature a...
Britain’s Changing Roadscapes
The book addresses long-standing geographical debates on place, place-attachment and kin/aesthetics as well as the unique spatial-temporal properties of ‘journeying’. Drawing upon the author’s road diaries and photographic archive dating back to the 1990s, the analysis centres on a route that runs from Scotland to Cornwall and which incorporates motorways, A-roads and unclassified country lanes. In addition to seeking to capture material evidence of change across a wide variety of road features and driving events - many of them transient, incidental and mundane - the book is also concerned with how change makes its presence known to the observer. This includes the question of how, and ...
Mobilities, Literature, Culture
This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision of a mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel, technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation, geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.
Drivetime
Engages literary texts in order to theorise the distinctive cognitive and affective experiences of drivingWhat sorts of things do we think about when we're driving - or being driven - in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from 'the motoring century' (1900-2000), paying particular attention to the way in which the practice of driving shapes and structures our thinking. While recent sociological and psychological research has helped explain how drivers are able to think about 'other things' while performing such a complex task, little attention has, as yet, been paid to the form these cognitive and affective journeys take...
The Indigenization of Christianity in China III
As the third volume of a three-volume set on the indigenization of Christianity in modern China, this book analyzes the endeavors of Christianity in adapting to the changing social environment between the late 1920s and the end of the twentieth century. Over the course of its growth in modern China, Christianity has faced many twists and turns in attempting to embed itself in Chinese society and indigenous culture. This three-volume set delineates the genesis and trajectory of Christianity’s indigenization in China over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting the actions of Chinese Christians and the relationship between the development of Christianity in China a...
Kinas ledare
»Hans Hägerdal har åtskilliga gånger visat att han är en av vårt lands allra främsta Kinakännare och han bekräftar det också eftertryckligt med den här boken. Förutom att besitta rejäla kunskaper i ämnet så har han en osvikligt god förmåga att föra dem vidare till läsekretsen.« Tidskriften Militär Historia När det kinesiska kejsardömet störtades för 100 år sedan inleddes det moderna Kinas historia. Men förhoppningar om en ljusnande framtid grusades snabbt, och i stället för modernisering följde inbördeskrig, invasioner och en rad auktoritära regimer. I Kinas ledare berättar historikern Hans Hägerdal om det stora landets förvandling från kejsardöme, via to...
Bibliography and Index of Geology
Includes monthly abstracts and annual index.
The Role of Geology in Urban Development
Programme and abstracts of LANDPLAN III, a symposium on the Role of Geology in Urban Development, held at the University of Hong Kong, 15-20 December, 1986.
