Featured Monthly Releases – December  2025

As December arrives, it marks a moment to reflect on the year’s achievements while looking ahead with renewed focus. We invite you to explore our featured releases for this month.

The Village: Russian Impressions

Ernest Poole’s The Village: Russian Impressions offers a distinctive American perspective on the Bolshevik Revolution by focusing on the lives of Russian peasants far removed from Petrograd and Moscow. Through his interactions with local figures such as a priest, doctor, teacher and mill owner, Poole presents viewpoints rarely included in standard histories. Together, these observations illuminate the complexity of the revolutionary era for modern readers.

Sexual Violence and Literary Art

Sexual Violence and Literary Art is a wide-ranging study of how canonical male writers, from Ovid and Shakespeare to Nabokov, have represented sexual violence, examining the inherent complicity of literary representation in what it depicts. Drawing on feminist theory and reader-response criticism, the book argues that meaning is never fixed but negotiated between text and reader. It explores how literary art can both expose sexual violence and contribute to its understanding, critique and potential transformation.

Éirinn & Iran go Brách

This book examines Irish nationalist references to ‘Iran’ as a conceptual lens through which to explore evolving interpretations of Irish history, identity and collective memory from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. It traces a wide range of literary, folkloric, political and historiographical engagements with Iran, highlighting both its underestimated importance in nationalist thought and sustained Irish interest in Iranian affairs. Overall, the study emphasises the enduringly global, or ‘worlded,’ nature of Irish nationalist self-imaginings.

Fashioning the Dandy

This book traces the history of the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century to the present, presenting dandyism as a lifestyle defined by distinctive self-fashioning, behaviour and visual performance rather than dress alone. Through literary analysis and case studies of figures from Brummell and Wilde to Russian, Soviet and contemporary dandies, Olga Vainshtein explores dandyism as both a social strategy and a precursor to modern celebrity culture. The study culminates in an examination of present-day forms of dandyism, including African sapeurs.

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