This is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical analysis of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. This volume is the first examination of the ways in which diverse types of confinement interse…
"Captivating Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed…
"Set in seventeenth-century India, The Missionary focuses on the relationship between Hilarion, a Portuguese missionary to India, and Luxima, an Indian prophetess. Both are aristocratic, devoted to their religions, bound by vows of chastity, and begin the novel biased against ot…
"Ireland as a nation has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates national identity with the land. From the Irish Revival's idealization of Irish peasants close to the land to the long history of disputes over ownership and rule of the land, notions of the land …