Oxford University Press

Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period....

Exploring Desert and Mountain SpiritualityIn the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference.     Interweaving a...

The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel investigates the shaping influence of writings by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other former US slaves on British fiction in the years between the Abolition Act and the Emancipation Proclamation....

This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor        and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that        have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous,        the stories meditate on art and artists and the human experience. Includes...

Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of art. Artistic disgust can be funny, profound, sorrowful, or gross. This book examines numerous examples of disgust as it is aroused by art and offers a set of explanations for its aesthetic appeal....

The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to build the Modern ComputerThe mathematical genius Alan Turing, well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer. This text contains first hand accounts by Turing and by the pioneers of computing who worked with him...