A volume of essays which constitutes a major overview of the Victorian intellectual enterprise.

Celebrating Burns's bicentenary, this work reflects upon and analyzes the achievements of Scotland's famous poet. It looks at topics ranging from "Burns and God

An examination of the construction of contestation over human remains from a sociological perspective, this work advances an emerging area of academic research,

Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation o

The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based