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AUTUMN CATALOGUE 2023

NEW BOOKS JULY–DECEMBER WITH SPRING 2023 FRONTLIST

Welcome to our Autumn 2023 Catalogue

This catalogue includes everything University of Exeter Press will publish in the second half of 2023, along with all titles from the first half of the year. Up-to-date information for all our books, including cover images and sample pages, can be found at www.exeterpress. co.uk.

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Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience

From the Black Decade to the Hirak

LATEFA NARRIMAN GUEMAR

• An important contribution to the study of Algerian postcolonial history.

• A new intervention in the study of women’s experience of conflict and flight on the wider international stage.

• Challenges the official narratives that deny the mass exodus of highly skilled Algerian women in the 1990s and 2000s.

This book uses the narratives of women who fled Algeria in the 1990s—known as the ‘Black Decade’—to offer a more intimate understanding of the violence women face in times of conflict. It details their struggle for independence, and for freedom from the violence directed against them as women, as well as revealing the obstacles they encounter when seeking gender-appropriate international protection. Chapters also investigate these women’s life experiences beyond Algeria, and the professional and cultural networks they form. Such networks play an important role in enabling the female diaspora to maintain relationships with Algeria and to engage in political discussion concerning the recent revolutionary Hirak movement, which emerged in 2019.

Latefa Narriman Guemar has been publishing on the Algerian diaspora and Algeria’s socio-political context since 2012, drawing on her own experiences as well of those of others. The result of rich empirical data gathered through months of fieldwork with women survivors of the 1990s conflict in Algeria, this book employs innovative research methods to investigate female experience of conflict, flight and living in exile. It challenges official narratives which deny the mass exodus of highly skilled Algerian women in recent years, and provides an important contribution to the study of Algerian postcolonial history. It also offers new ways of approaching healing processes for female victims of persecution and terrorism.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Latefa Narriman Guemar is an activist academic. She received her PhD from the University of East London and has expertise in the fields of gender and migration, as well as innovative methodologies that capture the migratory experience. She also has experience of supporting refugee integration in the UK, and was involved in designing the Youth Futures Algeria programme.

PUBLICATION DATE 22 August 2023

PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press

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Introducing Roman Declamation

A New Cultural and Anthropological Perspective

MARIO LENTANO, WILLIAM SHORT

The only concise yet comprehensive introduction to Latin declamation.

Indispensable insight into a central element of Roman culture. An author who is among the leading experts on this topic internationally.

Introducing Roman Declamation provides an overview of school declamation, that is, the themes on which students of the Roman rhetorical schools cut their teeth and proved their talent. Beginning in the late Republican period and throughout the entire imperial age, the rhetorical schools were an obligatory step in the curriculum of elite education.

Despite its huge importance and the sizeability of the preserved material, almost 300 themes, declamation has only in recent times received the scholarly attention it deserves, as the victim of a prejudice that was already widespread in antiquity, owing to the chasm between school themes and the real world. But in fact declamation provides a privileged lens through which to investigate the culture of the imperial age, the evoluation of law, family and social relations, the relationship with literature and with contemporaneous politics. With an up-to-date bibliography, the book explores these and other aspects of Roman declamation, highlighting both long-standing conclusions of research, and points that remain debated by scholars or that still remain to be investigated.

The book is particularly intended for undergraduates who wish to become familiar with this important aspect of Latin literature, as well as for scholars of the ancient world and of Roman history, and for specialists in Roman rhetoric, to whom it presents the state of the art.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Mario Lentano teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Siena (Italy). His research interests include comedy, declamation, the myths of Rome’s origins and family relations, especially the father-son relationship.

William Short lectures in Classics at the University of Exeter. His research centres on metaphor in Latin language and literature, and draws on theories and methods of cognitive linguistics and cultural anthropology.

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A Cultural History of School Uniform

KATE STEPHENSON

The first ever academic study on the history of school uniform. Covers 500 years of British school uniforms.

Accessible writing for a wide audience.

What’s a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through the Victorian public schools to the present day.

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SCHOOL UNIFORM

The history of school uniforms in Britain is inextricable from its history of gender, class and identity, as this book ably demonstrates. The wide-reaching study fills a significant gap in scholarship by exploring the ways educational institutions dressed young people, and how developments in uniforms embodied and envisaged ideas about their personhood.

Hilary Davidson, The University of Sydney

A fascinating social history of the school uniform which sheds light on many facets of British history from the seventeenth century to the present.

Jon Lawrence, Professor of Modern British History, University of Exeter

What a refreshing and fascinating narrative, charting its way through the under-researched territory of school uniforms from the earliest examples in 16thc charity schools to the modern day phenomena. Uniform is often the earliest memory of codified dress that we carry and it is a timely and absorbing exploration of this neglected topic.

Dr Kate Strasdin, Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Fashion and Textiles Institute, Falmouth University

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1948

A Critical and Creative Prequel to Orwell's 1984

BRIAN MAY

• A new departure in writing about Orwell and his work: part critical essay, part creative novella.

• Tackles some of the contradictions and implications in Orwell's final work, 1984.

• A jumping off point for discussion of broader topics, such as dystopian fiction and fan fiction.

This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as inspiration, together with his famous final novel, 1984 (published 1949), and treating them as contiguous texts, Brian May explores the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's message and asks what Orwell would have written next.

But 1948 is more than a work of literary criticism: rather, it balances critical discussion with creative intervention, being one-half literary-critical commentary, and one-half fictional departure – a novella titled “From the Archives of Oceania,” which quotes, parodies and pastiches Orwell's Diaries, offering a possible prequel.

1948 will appeal to all readers and critics of Orwell, but also to students of dystopian fiction, "revisionary" fiction and "reception study," which highlights the audience’s contribution to an artwork's meaning.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of English at Northern Illinois University just west of Chicago, Brian May is the author of two previous books, Extravagant Postcolonialism: Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958-1988 (2014) and The Modernist as Pragmatist: E.M. Forster and the Fate of Liberalism (1996)

PUBLICATION DATE

31 October 2023

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Imagining Air

Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility

TATIANA KONRAD

Unique in the way it tackles air through both pandemics and anthropogenic pollution.

The authors emphasise the environmental nature of the COVID-19 pandemic through air.

This book engages with multiple meanings of air, and their crucial contribution to the environmental and health humanities.

Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and pandemics.

The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these representations and the constructed meanings of air can help us understand the complex nature of air as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution and broader environmental degradation.

Chapter authors: Siobhan Carroll, Jeff Diamanti, Corey Dzenko, Clare Hickman, Tatiana Konrad, Jayne Lewis, Chantelle Mitchell, Christian Riegel, Arthur Rose, Gordon M. Sayre, Savannah Schaufler.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of 'Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World' and the editor of the Environment, Health, and Well-being book series at Michigan State University Press.

PUBLICATION DATE

14 November 2023

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University of Exeter Press

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Alternative Cornwalls

Literature and the Invention of Place

GEMMA GOODMAN

A fresh look at literary embodiments of Cornwall. Identifies alternative lost or hidden literary versions of Cornwall, and their relationship to the dominant, touristfriendly conception of Cornwall.

Positions Cornish literature as a body of work in its own right and as part of a wider context of British literature and literary studies.

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. It identifies alternative literary ‘Cornwalls’ and seeks to understand these lost, hidden or subsumed versions and their relationship to the dominant, tourist-friendly ways in which Cornwall has been culturally produced, which often focus on Celtic, exotic or Arthurian, tropes.

Taking as its subject matter the work of both Cornish and visiting writers, literary scholar and Cornishwoman Gemma Goodman explores the fictional terrain beyond the creative landmarks that dominate the way in which Cornwall is fashioned and understood in the national imaginary, to establish a more detailed cultural geography of place. The book helps position Cornish literature as a body of work in its own right as well as within the wider context of British literature and literary studies.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Gemma Goodman holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Warwick. She returned home to Cornwall in 2016 and continues her research on the literature of Cornwall, alongside work as a researcher on academic projects and a project manager for cultural and heritage projects.

PUBLICATION DATE

21 November 2023

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Hbk | 9781804130636 | £80.00 | $112.00

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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe

Silence and Protest

ANNE ETIENNE, CHRIS MEGSON

• The book discusses censorship through the work of key European playwrights, directors, and theatre makers, as well as significant theatre (and opera) productions.

• It engages with urgent and topical debates on freedom of expression, multiculturalism, religious co-existence, cancel culture, populism, nationalism, and globalisation in contemporary Europe.

• The contributors are specialist experts from across Europe and include both leading academics and emerging scholars.

This edited collection is the first pan-European study of contemporary theatre censorship. An international range of scholars assess how new forms of censorship operate to silence artists and control performances; they explore how theatre artists respond to constraints placed upon their work across territories, and analyse how age-old political, religious, and moral taboos impact on theatrical creation and reception. Readers are invited to consider not only the varied mechanisms of censorship, including its more covert iterations, but also what is censored, when, how, and why, particularly in relation to the sensitive issues of religion, race, sexuality, and nationalism. By focusing on the work of key European theatre practitioners, as well as significant productions and performances, contributors reflect on the impact of censorship on artistic policies and cultural activity, and the forms of protest mobilized against it.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Anne Etienne lectures in Modern and Contemporary Drama in the School of English, University College Cork. Her publications explore theatre censorship, Arnold Wesker and contemporary Irish theatre. She co-edits the series Palgrave Studies in Cultural Censorship.

Chris Megson is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications focus on post-war and contemporary British playwriting, theatre censorship, and global theatres of the real. He co-edits the series Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations (LUP).

PUBLICATION DATE

31 December 2023

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Hbk | 9781804130513 | £85.00 | $120.00

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234 x 156 mm

PAGES 336pp

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World War Two Simulated

Digital Games and Reconfigurations of the Past

CURTIS D. CARBONELL

Isolates a particular dynamic within 'simgames', as players engage with real history.

Considers how imaginary and reimagined worlds can mis/inform understanding of the past.

Interdisciplinary approach foregrounds player experiences.

This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games, such as first-person shooters, flight and tank simulators, and grand strategy games. It argues that a particular dynamic emerges in these ‘simgames’, especially when curious players begin to look beyond gameplay for how to understand the past. This points them toward a wide range of ‘simtexts’—anything from game manuals or online resources such as YouTube, to published material in the popular sphere or even monographs by professional historians. This is important because major events like World War Two continue to feature in a wide range of game genres, and this engagement demonstrates how we are learning about the past outside of traditional mechanisms such as classrooms, teachers or textbooks.

Utilizing interdisciplinary methods, this volume foregrounds the experience that simgames provide to players, especially in how they reconfigure and reimagine history. Despite its visceral power and instructive potential, the simulated digital experience created by simgames curates World War Two and other global events of similar magnitude within constrained frames that ignore much of what actually happened in the past. This suggests that as computer games continue to increase in power and fidelity—as seen with the expanding scope of virtual reality—then the range of what can be simulated will grow too. This will raise concerns about what is morally acceptable to be simulated, and what should remain unplayable.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Curtis D. Carbonell is an associate professor of English at Khalifa University. He is interested in representations of technology and their effects on human beings in science fiction and fantasy studies, as well as in how analog-and-digital game studies are new fields that describe complex modes of cultural production. His previous book Dread Trident: Tabletop RolePlaying Games and the Modern Fantastic (2019) examines how tabletop roleplaying games offer an archive of fantasy and SF gametexts ripe for an investigation into the rise of realized worlds.

PUBLICATION DATE 27 June 2023

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Hbk | 9781804130605 | £80.00 | $112.00

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TV-Philosophy

How TV Series Change Our Thinking

SANDRA LAUGIER, DANIELA GINSBURG

The first book to approach television series and why they matter from a philosophical perspective.

Makes the case for TV series as true works of art and of thought, and shows why it is important to defend their philosophical significance.

Demonstrates how our relationship with TV series exemplifies a fundamentally democratic mode of philosophical thinking.

This is the first book to explore the hold of TV series on our lives from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Sandra Laugier argues that this vital and ubiquitous expression of popular culture throughout the world is transformative in its effects on the activity of philosophy in everyday life. Drawing on Stanley Cavell’s work on film and ordinary experience, Laugier contends that we are deeply affected by the formative role played by the TV series we watch, and by the ways they become interconnected with our daily lives.

The philosophical thinking embodied in series empowers individuals in their capacity to experience, understand and appropriate elements of the world, and to educate themselves. Through our relationships with TV series, we develop our own tastes and competences, which are constitutive of our distinct experience of life. ‘Series-philosophy’ is thus a democratizing force. It also offers us a new ethics, for morality can be found not in general rules and abstract principles but in the narrative texture of characters in everyday situations facing particular ethical problems, and with whom we form attachments that result in our moral education—in sometimes surprising ways.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has also held a number of visiting professorships, including those at Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total.

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TV-Philosophy in Action

The Ethics and Politics of TV Series

SANDRA

LAUGIER

Wide-ranging short writings on a variety of important TV series from the last 20 years.

Thematically arranged, to show how TV series tackle pressing philosophical issues concerned with democracy, security, gender roles, and ethical values.

Among the many shows covered are Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, The Handmaid's Tale, House of Cards, The Americans, Game of Thrones, The Crown, This Is Us, The Bureau, and For All Mankind.

TV-Philosophy in Action is inspired by philosopher and series-devotee Sandra Laugier’s monthly columns published in the French journal Libération. It is her contribution to the collective reflection on TV series produced by critics, theorists, and the vast mass of individual watchers who evaluate and discuss these programmes every day. The book brings together a selection of articles from Libération, as well as longer pieces, to demonstrate ‘TV-Philosophy in action’: Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to a range of particularly salient TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times. Arranged under a number of important themes—relating to politics, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about our world—the book shows how TV series provide a rich resource for thinking about our lives, and places them centre-stage as works of art, and of thought, in their own right.

PRAISE FOR TV-PHILOSOPHY IN ACTION

Laugier understands that television series do not merely reflect cultural, social, and political change but, like philosophy when it is “in action,” are powerful agents of change that play significant roles in forming, and reforming how we live and how we think.

William Rothman, from his foreword to TV-Philosophy in Action

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has also held a number of visiting professorships, including those at Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total.

PUBLICATION DATE 27 June 2023

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University of Exeter Press

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804130926 | £60.00 | $84.00

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226pp

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Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg

Children's Medicine at a Bastion of Nazi Ideology

AISLING SHALVEY

Presents the first in-depth account of previously unknown patient files from Nazi paediatric cases.

Eschews the usual top-down approach, making patient experience central to the analysis.

Reveals how sick children were affected by Nazi ideology.

Examines the experience of paediatric patients, and the staff who determined their treatment, in the Reichsuniversitat Strasbourg, a Nazi-run hospital in occupied France from 1941 to 1944.

PRAISE FOR PAEDIATRICS IN THE REICHSUNIVERSITÄT STRASSBURG

This fascinating and highly readable book draws its rich canvas of detail from previously never explored primary sources and is an essential addition to the current understanding of medicine during this time period.

Sabine Hildebrandt, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Based on a trove of recently-discovered and previously un-researched files, Aisling Shalvey has given us a compelling microstudy of how Nazi paediatrics functioned at the local and institutional levels. She depicts a fascinating intersection between health and ideology, wherein the regime’s criminality and harmful intent co-existed with otherwise mundane and regular healthcare. The results are essential reading for all students of health and welfare during the Second World War.

John Paul Newman, Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History, Maynooth University

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Aisling Shalvey completed her BA at Maynooth University, and her MA at Oxford Brookes University. Her PhD at the University of Strasbourg was on the topic of paediatrics under National Socialism as part of a commission on the history of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg. She currently works at the Leopoldina as a researcher on the project studying victims of brain research during National Socialism.

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Turkish Drama Serials

The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon

MIRIAM BERG

The first book to present comparative audience data on Turkish drama serials from three distinct parts of the world (Qatar, Chile, and Israel).

Explores the intertwined nature of Turkish foreign policy, economic, and trade relationships, and the successful reach and reception of its drama serials.

Reveals the importance of Turkish drama serials as a softpower tool for Turkey, and in the perception of Muslim culture and people more generally.

Examines the reach and reception of Turkish drama serials in the Middle East and Latin America, exploring what it is that makes Turkish television so successful as entertainment in places as diverse as Qatar, Chile and Israel.

PRAISE FOR TURKISH DRAMA SERIALS

Dr. Berg’s book is masterful in describing the ability of Turkish drama serials to foster a familiarity, interest, admiration, and affinity with Turkish culture and history. Anyone with an interest in Turkey’s growing influence in global affairs will find this to be a must-read that provides valuable context regarding how effectively soft diplomatic power can be exercised.

Stuart N. Brotman, Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media Enterprise and Leadership, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

A great introduction to understand the transnationalization of Turkish drama. Miriam Berg successfully explains how Turkish drama has become an international sensation with case studies from different parts of the world.

Pinar Aslan, Üsküdar University, Istanbul

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Miriam Berg is an assistant professor in the journalism and strategic communication program at Northwestern University Qatar. Her research focuses on the intertwined nature of geopolitics and media, along with the viewing habits and digital practices of refugee, migrant, and diasporic audiences.

PUBLICATION DATE

13 June 2023

PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press

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Hbk | 9781804130421 | £75.00 | $106.00

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The Folklore of Devon

MARK NORMAN

The first major collection of Devonshire folklore for nearly half a century, brought up to date with an examination of internet lore and modern tales.

Unlocks the vital collections of material held in the Devonshire Association archives and provides new analysis and broader comparison with folklore traditions.

Offers new insights into oft-quoted folklore tales of Devon.

Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.

PRAISE FOR THE FOLKLORE OF DEVON

Mark Norman is the perfect guide through the pixy-paths of Devon tradition. A teller of good tales with a good understanding of folklore both ancient and modern, he is a worthy successor to the greats – Anna Bray, Theo Brown and Baring-Gould.

Jeremy Harte, author of Explore Fairy Traditions and Cloven Country

A uniquely rich and entertaining exploration of Devon's rich folklore.

David Waldron, Senior Lecturer in History at Federation University Australia and author of Sign of the Witch

With The Folklore of Devon Mark Norman has filled an important gap in the bookshelf of British folklore studies.

Simon Young, author of The Boggart

An entertaining and comprehensive exploration of Devon folklore. Rich in source material, engagingly written, and with delightful illustrations, The Folklore of Devon is a pleasure to read.

Owen Davies, author of Grimoires and The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Mark Norman was recently appointed as the new Recorder of Folklore for the Devonshire Association, and is well known as a popular folklorist around the world thanks to his creation, The Folklore Podcast, which has enjoyed more than 1.5 million downloads. He is a council member of the Folklore Society and founding curator of The Folklore Library and Archive. The Folklore of Devon is Mark’s fourth book.

PUBLICATION DATE 06 June 2023

PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press

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Hbk | 9781804130360 | £45.00 | $64.00

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PAGES 236pp

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Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind

DAVID LAROCCA, SANDRA LAUGIER

The first philosophy book to take TV series seriously as philosophical works.

A crucial guide to the twenty-first century’s most dominant public artform—television—through the philosophical ideas of Stanley Cavell: one of America’s greatest thinkers on film and media.

A carefully selected line-up of the best critics working on film, television, and media articulate just how important Cavell’s work is for thinking about TV series.

In a dozen chapters, a number of acknowledged critics and philosophers articulate how Cavell’s remarks on the moral perfectionism of cinema apply even more to the twenty-first century television series.

PRAISE FOR TELEVISION WITH STANLEY CAVELL IN MIND

This landmark collection of essays is an invaluable exploration of Stanley Cavell’s contributions to the study of modern visual media, and a pioneering demonstration of the value of philosophical attention to television in the new era of long form, “prestige,” “cinematic television.”

Prof. Robert Pippin, author of Filmed Thought: Ci

inema as Reflective Form

By taking forward the genius of Cavell’s approach this volume charts one of the most exciting and important new directions in the study of TV. In so doing, it also transforms what it means to do philosophy in the present.

Andrew Brandel, Pennsylvania State University

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

David LaRocca studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard. He is the author or contributing editor of more than a dozen books, including a suite of volumes in film-philosophy.

Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total.

PUBLICATION DATE 30 May 2023

PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press

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Eating Disorders in Public Discourse

Exploring Media Representations and Lived Experiences

LAURA A. CARIOLA

Explores the intersection between public discourse and mental health through the important topic of eating disorders.

A timely dissection of how journalistic practice affects widely held social perspectives.

Promotes a better public understanding of eating disorders.

Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health.

PRAISE FOR EATING DISORDERS IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE

Eating Disorders in Public Discourse...is an important contribution to the issue of eating disorders that centers linguistic and qualitative approaches. This edited volume features excellent contributions from twenty five scholars, who address eating disorders in both traditional media and participatory media.

Robert K. Beshara, Assistant Professor and Chair of Arts & Human Sciences, Northern New Mexico College

I would consider this book required reading for anyone wishing to understand how mediated communication about disordered eating may achieve the goal of keeping an issue in the public’s consciousness, but compromise understanding and acceptance of real people living with eating disorders.

Kristen Harrison, PhD, Professor of Communication & Media, University of Michigan

It's about time that the deadliest and publicly vilified mental illness, eating disorders, will be captured in a comprehensive volume. I would consider this book essential reading, as it effectively captures the dynamic relationship between those affected, media, and society.

Daphna Yeshua-Katz, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, BenGurion University of the Negrev

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dr Laura A. Cariola is lecturer in Applied Psychology, in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, at the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh, with specialisms in both Applied Linguistics and Psychology. She is a chartered member of the British Psychological Society: Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology; and Division of Counselling Psychology.

PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804130094 | £75.00 | $106.00

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Language, Discourse and Mental Health

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Student Life in NineteenthCentury Cambridge

John Wright’s Alma Mater

CHRISTOPHER STRAY

The only edition of this first book-length student memoir to be published in Britain since its original appearance in 1827. Packed with fascinating and entertaining detail about college life.

Commentary and detailed notes offer numerous scholarly insights.

This book tells the story of John Wright, a talented but poor student at Cambridge who was deprived of success and impelled to make a living as hack writer in London, where he was often imprisoned for debt. His memoir, along with the in-depth commentary and detailed scholarly notes presented here, offers extraordinary reading.

PRAISE FOR STUDENT LIFE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CAMBRIDGE

Restored to health by Stray‘s perfect editing, this strangely helpful account of Cambridge two centuries ago by a sometime undergraduate scoundrel is a mélange of odd details, welcome fact, fiction, frenzy and color.

Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley

J.M.F. Wright’s picaresque account of his undergraduate days in early nineteenth-century Cambridge has been largely overlooked for nearly 200 years. Now, with an illuminating introduction and numerous informative annotations, Stray’s masterly edition breathes new life into this forgotten gem.

Professor Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia

Dr Stray is to be congratulated on the heroic work it has taken to make this text accessible in all its detail but also in all its rawness.

Dr. Gillian Sutherland, Newnham College, Cambridge

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Christopher Stray is a Cambridge Classics graduate. He taught in schools before undertaking research on the history of education, and has held visiting positions at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and Princeton. He has published widely on schools and universities, examinations and institutional slang.

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Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar

A critical edition with translation

D. H. FROST

The first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text. Comprehensive approach presents parallel transcription, edited version, translation and key sources.

In-depth commentary offers many insights into the reception of the material.

This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens to the Tudor historian—and the general reader—a new window onto a crucial example of the reception of John Foxe, and gives fascinating insights into a possible alliance between Church Papism and recusancy in Tudor Cornwall.

PRAISE FOR SACRAMENT AN ALTER/THE SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR

This first critical edition of the Cornish text Sacrament an Alter is a tour-deforce, clearly identifying the manuscript's context and theology, as well as greatly contributing to our knowledge of the Cornish language as spoken at the start of the last quarter of the 16th century.

Matthew Spriggs, Robyn Doohan Visiting Fellow in Celtic Studies, University of Sydney

This splendid scholarly edition provides major new insights into Cornish language, literature and history. The text is a very complex one, and Dr Frost has done it proud, taking great care to investigate thoroughly all aspects of its background. Only he could have treated so authoritatively all the areas which need to be covered for a full understanding of this text.

Oliver Padel, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge

This volume makes an excellent initial contribution to Exeter's major new series of academic editions of Cornish literature. This hitherto little-studied and misunderstood text, which marks the transition from Middle to Modern Cornish, benefits for the first time from a full scholarly edition, the culmination of over twenty years' study by Frost.

Andrew Hawke, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

D.H. Frost, recently retired, was the Principal of Holy Cross College and University Centre, Bury. He contributed to Philip Payton’s Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion 1490–1690, and Gerallt D. Nash’s Saving St Teilo’s. With Benjamin Bruch, he co-chairs the editorial board of the series 1,000 Years of Cornish.

PUBLICATION DATE 10 January 2023

PUBLISHER

University of Exeter Press

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PAGES 336pp

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