New Releases by Stephen Gill

In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet''s creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet''s later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth''s long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria''s Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth''s life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth''s poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.

In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth''s biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways in which the poet attempted as an artist to maintain continuities through all the stages of his life and shows how revisitings of various kinds are at the heart of his creativity.

This challenging work develops a radical theory of the new world order to argue that as the globalisation of power intensifies, so too do globalised forms of resistance.

UK photographer Stephen Gill has again used his surroundings as the inspiration for this beautiful and evocative series. "Hackney Flowers" evolved from Gill''s longstanding interest in Hackney, East London. For this volume, Gill collected flowers, seeds, berries and objects from Hackney, then pressed them in his studio and rephotographed them alongside his own photographs and other found ephemera, thus building up multi-layered images built from the area. Some of the base photographs were also buried in Hackney Wick, allowing the subsequent decay to imprint upon the images, stressing this collaboration with place. A parallel series also runs within this finely produced book, showing members of the Hackney public with floral details on their persons. This is a warm, poetic and visually exciting book containing images that leave an overwhelming sense of color, emotion and rhythm extracted from a single borough of London.

Since 1996 Stephen Gill has been making serial,studies of mundane British scenes and objects -,including cash points, lost people, the back of,advertising billboards and people travelling on,the London to Southend train. His visual approach,is unique, combining conceptual rigour with,enormous sympathy for his human subjects, and has,already been widely appreciated in Granta and the,New York Times Magazine, among others. His first,book confirms his status as a key young vision in,contemporary photography. With an introductory,essay by humorist and TV filmmaker Jon Ronson.

Wordsworth and the Victorians tells the story of the flowering of Wordsworth''s reputation and influence. As well as showing how poets and novelists such as Matthew Arnold and George Eliot transmitted the Wordsworthian spirit, Stephen Gill uses a mass of anecdotal and biographical material - the personal testimony of critics, scholars, publishers, and ordinary readers - to illustrate just what Wordsworth''s poetry meant to his Victorian readers.

Dr Stephen Gill examines the extent and nature of Americas as a hegemonic state.

Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth''s life, and discusses the various states in which it survives.

"As an introductory text, The Global Political Economy has much to offer. It presents theoretical material clearly and concisely, offers an up-to-date review of the academic literature, and reviews a wide range of issues current in policy circles."--Thomas Ilgen, Pitzer College, Perspective.