Leila Sarah Taylor's Books

Darkly

Black History and America's Gothic Soul

By: Leila Taylor

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Darkly

Black History and America's Gothic Soul

By: Leila Taylor

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is

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Watkins Media Limited

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1912248557

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9781912248551

Monstrous Fantasies

England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500

By: Leila K. Norako

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Monstrous Fantasies

England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500

By: Leila K. Norako

Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, and what these texts reveal about the cultural anxieties of late medieval England. Leila K. Norako highlights the impact that the Ottoman victory and subsequent massacre of Christian prisoners at the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 had on intensifying the popularity of what she calls recovery romance. These two episodes inspired a sense of urgency over the fate of the Holy Land and of Latin Christendom itself, resulting in the proliferation of romances in which crusading English kings like Richard I and anachronistic legends like King Arthur not only reconquered Jerusalem but committed genocidal violence against the Muslims. These romances, which—as Norako argues—also influenced Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, conjure fantasies of an ascendant global Christendom by rehearsing acts of conquest and cultural annihilation that were impossible to realize in the late Middle Ages. Emphasizing the tension in these texts between nostalgia and anticipation that fuels their narrative momentum, Monstrous Fantasies also explores how the cultural desires for European and Christian hegemony that recovery romances versified were revived in the wake of the so-called wars on terror in the twenty-first century in such films as Kingdom of Heaven and American Sniper.

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Cornell University Press

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1501776339

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9781501776335

Disorderly Sisters

Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-century British Literature

By: Leila Silvana May

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Disorderly Sisters

Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-century British Literature

By: Leila Silvana May

Historians and literary critics have long understood the crucial significance of the family to the nineteenth-century middle-class sensibility, but almost all critical analyses to date have concentrated on the "vertical" pole of the familial axis - the parent-child relationship - and very little on the "horizontal" pole - the sibling bond. This book looks beyond these analyses to show that at the core of nineteenth-century domestic ideology is the figure of the sister."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754597

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9780838754597

The Theatre of Anxiety

Border Crossings in 21st-Century British Theatre

By: Leila Michelle Vaziri

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The Theatre of Anxiety

Border Crossings in 21st-Century British Theatre

By: Leila Michelle Vaziri

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. Anxiety is a phenomenon that is not just reflected everywhere around us but is also increasingly manifesting itself in contemporary drama: particularly in the last five to ten years many new British dramas and theatre productions have given a stage to anxiety. Given this central role of anxiety, the aim of this study is to outline the interplay of theatre and anxiety on both a thematic and aesthetic level. It argues that a strand of contemporary theatre that combines topics of social, ecological, technological and pandemic importance with investigations into the philosophical and aesthetic implications of anxiety has come to prominence in recent years: the theatre of anxiety. This is traced across exemplary readings of a number of contemporary British plays by playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Zinnie Harris, Alistair McDowall and others. They show that contemporary drama and performance both aesthetically and thematically reflect and comment on global crises and catastrophes through the lens of anxiety as a feeling that 'colours' the perception of and reaction to these social and political conditions.

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312

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111555089

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9783111555089

Feminist Media History

Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere

By: M. DiCenzo,Leila Ryan,Lucy Delap

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Feminist Media History

Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere

By: M. DiCenzo,Leila Ryan,Lucy Delap

Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaign and situates them in the context of current debates about the public sphere, social movements, and media history.

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Springer

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0230299075

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9780230299078

The Foreign Policy of Hamas

Ideology, Decision Making and Political Supremacy

By: Leila Seurat

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The Foreign Policy of Hamas

Ideology, Decision Making and Political Supremacy

By: Leila Seurat

Despite the boycott Hamas was subjected to since its victory in the 2006 parliamentary elections, it has become a significant player on the international stage. It boasts a territory identifiable by its borders, internationally recognized cease-fire lines and effective authority over a population. This book, a study in international relations, shows how Hamas willingly mobilizes Palestinian internal issues to establish its legitimacy on a global scale, and at the same time, uses its relations with non-Palestinian players to compete against its political rivals on the Palestinian national stage. Leila Seurat reveals that Hamas's foreign and internal policy are strongly intertwined and centred mainly on Hamas's quest for recognition. The book then is a comprehensive diplomatic history of Palestine, focused on the political orientations of Hamas towards both Israel and other countries. Its coverage spans the movement's victory in 2006 up until more recent momentous events, including, Hamas' response to Trump's 'deal of the century' and Israel's announcement of the annexation of the Jordan Valley, as well as the proclamation of normalization accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and the impact of Covid19. The book is based on Leila Seurat's extensive fieldwork and interviews with Hamas's leading officials across the West Bank, Gaza, Damascus, Geneva and Beirut in addition to recent video-conferences planned by various NGOs and attended by West Bank, Gaza and Diaspora Palestinians.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838607471

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9781838607470

Early Christian-Muslim Debate on the Unity of God

Three Christian Scholars and Their Engagement with Islamic Thought (9th Century C.E.)

By: Sara Leila Husseini

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Early Christian-Muslim Debate on the Unity of God

Three Christian Scholars and Their Engagement with Islamic Thought (9th Century C.E.)

By: Sara Leila Husseini

Early Christian-Muslim Debate on the Unity of God examines the writings of three of the earliest known Christian theologians to write comprehensive theological works in Arabic. Theodore Abū Qurra, Abū Rā’iṭa and ‘Ammār al-Baṣrī provide valuable insight into early Christian-Muslim debate shortly after the rise of the Islamic empire. Through close examination of their writings on the doctrine of the Trinity, Sara Husseini demonstrates the creativity of these theologians, who make use of language, style and argumentation characteristic of Islamic theological thought (kalām), in order to help articulate their long-established religious truths. Husseini offers close analysis of the authors individually and comparatively, exploring their engagement with Islamic theology and their role in this fascinating period.

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254

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BRILL

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9004279695

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9789004279698

Forces of Nature

The Women who Changed Science

By: Anna Reser,Leila McNeill

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Forces of Nature

The Women who Changed Science

By: Anna Reser,Leila McNeill

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In this thoroughly researched, authoritative work, you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture – showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Included in the book are the stories of: Hypatia of Alexandria, one of the earliest recorded female mathematicians Maria Cunitz who corrected errors in Kepler’s work Emmy Noether who discovered fundamental laws of physics Vera Rubin one of the most influential astronomers of the twentieth century Jocelyn Bell Burnell who helped discover pulsars

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Frances Lincoln

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0711248974

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9780711248977

Measuring Minds

Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing

By: Leila Zenderland

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Measuring Minds

Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing

By: Leila Zenderland

This book explores intelligence testing in the US through the career of Henry Herbert Goddard.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521003636

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9780521003636

Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags

By: Leila Easa,Jennifer Stager

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Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags

By: Leila Easa,Jennifer Stager

Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. While their concept of public feminism emerges from a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager locate its foundations in history, journeying through broad swatches of time looking for connections between the centuries through art and literature and culture. Each chapter focuses on what public feminists do in the world: Public feminists gain control over an archive that otherwise contains or excludes them; they recover their own stories and subjective experiences, sometimes for activist use; they examine images and language that construct women in patriarchal texts; they situate the individual within a collective and the collective within an individual; they confront the limitations of such situating due to the containment of patriarchy and reclaim new systems of power in response; and they resurface a deep history for the alternative strategies of memorializing they employ. In navigating these practices, the authors also attend to the material conditions of writing histories as well as those shaping and enabling public feminist acts and protests more broadly.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793648115

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9781793648112

Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa

15,000 Years of Crises, Setbacks, and Adaptation

By: William R. Thompson,Leila Zakhirova

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Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa

15,000 Years of Crises, Setbacks, and Adaptation

By: William R. Thompson,Leila Zakhirova

Environmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region. The book delves into a broad set of historical literature from the past 15,000 years that neglected to consider environmental factors to their full effect. Beyond the broad historic analysis, the chapters derive conclusions for today’s debate on whether climate change leads to more social conflict and violence. Introducing a theoretical framework focused on adaptive cycling, this book probes and refines the role of climate in ancient and modern political-economic systems in the MENA region. It also underscores just how bad the 21st-century environment may become thanks to global warming. While the MENA region may not survive the latest onslaught of deteriorating climate, there is also some interest in how a region that once led the world in introducing all sorts of innovations thousands of years ago has evolved into a contemporary setting characterized by traditional conservatism, poverty, and incessant strife. Emphasizing regional dynamics, the book's central question deals with the role of climate change in the rise and decline of the MENA region. The book will be a key resource to students and readers interested in global warming, including academics and policymakers.

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Routledge

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1000403009

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9781000403008

Book's by Leila Sarah Taylor

Darkly

Darkly

Monstrous Fantasies

Monstrous Fantasies

Disorderly Sisters

Disorderly Sisters

The Theatre of Anxiety

The Theatre of Anxiety

Feminist Media History

Feminist Media History

The Foreign Policy of Hamas

The Foreign Policy of Hamas

Early Christian-Muslim Debate on the Unity of God

Early Christian-Muslim Debate on the Unity of God

Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature

Measuring Minds

Measuring Minds

Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa

Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa

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