Great Little Britain Literary Agency
Great Little Britain is an independent literary agent representing a group of authors and fictional works ranging from crime to domestic suspense, chick lit to children's books.
View Rights PortalGreat Little Britain is an independent literary agent representing a group of authors and fictional works ranging from crime to domestic suspense, chick lit to children's books.
View Rights PortalFounded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Philosophy and International Law to name but a few. With offices in Leiden (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER), Singapore (SG) and Beijing (CN), Brill today publishes more than 300 journals and close to 1,400 new books and reference works each year, available in print and online. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV.
View Rights PortalMystische Erfahrungen sind, so sehr jene, die davon berichten oder dazu anregen wollen, nur im Status von Texten zu haben. Eine Hermeneutik der mystischen Rede muß daher beidem Rechnung tragen: der Erfahrung – intendiert oder rückerinnert im Text – und der sprachlichen Struktur des Textes. In systematischen und geschichtlichen Analysen versuchen Haas' Studien, Topisches und historisch Einmaliges in der abendländischen (speziell der rheinländisch-»deutschen« und spanischen), aber auch – vergleichend dazu – zen-buddhistischen Mystik zu ermitteln. »Mystik als Aussage« meint dabei den Vorgang, in dem diese »Texte mit verlorenem Sinn« auf ihre Bedeutung hin befragt werden.
This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women's studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.
Eine WG in Frankfurt am Main: Eva (Mode-Redakteurin, Kunsthistorikerin, »Prinzessin«), Genoveva (autodidaktische Sexualwissenschaftlerin, Forschungsschwerpunkte: Autogynophilie und Selfie Culture) und Venus (androgynes Model, Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Forschungsschwerpunkt: die Kolonien deutscher Vormärz-Auswanderer in Texas, insbesondere die Geschichte der nach Bettina von Arnim benannten libertären Kommune am Llano River). Sie schießen Modestrecken auf der Baustelle der EZB, werden Zeuge der polizeilichen Erstürmung des Instituts für Vergleichende Irrelevanz, gehen tanzen im »Robert Johnson« und suchen nach Zärtlichkeit jenseits einer von Freud, Foucault oder Butler als Gefängnis geschilderten Sexualität. Sie sind die Hauptfiguren in einem mal platonischen, mal erotischen Postgender-Liebesreigen, inszeniert von Thomas Meinecke, feministischer Autor, Anhänger weiblichen Schreibens und Schriftsteller-Darsteller im eigenen Roman. »Studieren wir also: die feinen Verästelungen, die sich zwischen Subkultur und Höhenkammartistik, kanonisierter Geschichte und historischer Kolportage ergeben.« Daniel Haas, FAZ
This unique collection of essays is the first book to explore the many relationships that developed between Wales and the British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. Written by leading specialists in the field, the essays explore economic, social, cultural, political, and religious interactions between Wales and the empire. The geographical coverage is very broad, with examinations of the contributions made by Wales to expansion in the Atlantic world, Caribbean, and South Asia. The book explores Welsh influences on the emergence of 'British' imperialism, as well as the impact that the empire had upon the development of Wales itself. The book will be of interest to academic historians, postgraduate students, and undergraduates. It will be indispensable to those interested in the history of Wales, Britain, and the empire, as well as those who wish to compare Welsh imperial experiences with those of the English, Irish, and Scots.
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.