Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realismconnects the Victorian fascination
with" virtual travel" with the rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first …

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a
developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ …

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do
they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one …

Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have
seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions …

Relationship, connection, and engagement have emerged as key values in recent studies of
human–animal relations. In this article, I call for a reexamination of the productive aspects of …

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for
citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed …

Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border
between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and …

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free
definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to …

The post-apocalyptic novel is preoccupied with how we occupy our time. What is there to do
after the end of the world? How does one keep busy? These concerns, which shape much …

How did literature shape nineteenth-century science? Erasmus Darwin and his grandson,
Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth-and nineteenth …