Routledge Revivals
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Death and the Maiden (Routledge Revivals): Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology
1st Edition
By Ken Dowden
July 14, 2015
A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins – slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees, and punished in Hades. Death and the Maiden, first published in 1989, contextualises this mythology in terms of geography, history and culture, and ...
Edward Carpenter (Routledge Revivals): In Appreciation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gilbert Beith
July 14, 2015
Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation, first published in 1931, presents a collection of tributes to and reminiscences about the renowned socialist poet, pioneering gay rights activist, environmentalist and political thinker. Embroiled in controversy with prominent figures of all political persuasions ...
Elizabethan Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Neil Rhodes
July 14, 2015
The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century culture, and shows the part it played in the ...
Jaufre (Routledge Revivals): An Occitan Arthurian Romance
1st Edition
By Ross G. Arthur
July 14, 2015
This translation, first published in 1992, presents one of the most memorable poems of the ‘romance’ genre of medieval literature, largely because it contains a number of surprises and falsified expectations. Jaufre, the hero, arrives at the court of King Arthur with a total and naïve faith in the...
Mothers and Other Clowns (Routledge Revivals): The Stories of Alice Munro
1st Edition
By Magdalene Redekop
July 14, 2015
First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothers parade across the pages of Munro’s fiction, playing practical jokes, ...
Muslim-Christian Encounters (Routledge Revivals): Perceptions and Misperceptions
1st Edition
By William Montgomery Watt
July 14, 2015
First published in 1991, this title explores the myths and misperceptions that have underpinned Muslim-Christian relations throughout history, and which endure to the current day. William Montgomery Watt describes how the myths originated and developed, and argues that both Muslims and Christians ...
Pluriverse (Routledge Revivals): An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism
1st Edition
By Benjamin Paul Blood
July 14, 2015
Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened, that he had undergone a mystical ...
Populists and Patricians (Routledge Revivals): Essays in Modern German History
1st Edition
By L. T. Hobhouse
July 14, 2015
First published in 1987, this collection of essays, from one of the leading historians in the field, is concerned with the central debates about German history from Bismarck to Hitler. David Blackbourn questions many previously held assumptions, whether about the natural conservatism of the German ...
Property Rights (Routledge Revivals): Philosophic Foundations
1st Edition
By Lawrence C. Becker
July 14, 2015
Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership. In particular, the ...
Reciprocity (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Lawrence C. Becker
July 14, 2015
The tendency to reciprocate – to return good for good and evil for evil – is a potent force in human life, and the concept of reciprocity is closely connected to fundamental notions of ‘justice’, ‘obligation’ or ‘duty’, ‘gratitude’ and ‘equality’. In Reciprocity, first published in 1986, Lawrence ...
Temporary Equilibrium and Long-Run Equilibrium (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Willem H. Buiter
July 14, 2015
This title, first published in 1979, presents the Ph.D. thesis of the world-renowned economist and financial expert, Willem Buiter. In Part I, three alternative specifications of temporary equilibria in asset markets, including their implications for macroeconomic models, are discussed; Part II ...
The Browning Cyclopaedia (Routledge Revivals): A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning
1st Edition
By Edward Berdoe
July 14, 2015
Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the obscurity of his language, the complexity of his thought, and his poetic style. The Browning Cyclopaedia, first published in 1891, presents an exposition of the prominent ideas of each ...