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Alternative cornwalls
This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, and re-inserts little-known textual versions of Cornwall alongside those that have predominated. All of the alternative versions of place discussed in this book complicate more ...
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The legionary bath house and basilica and forum at exeter
Excavations carried out in Exeter since 1971 resulted in the recovery of parts of the plan of a Neronian and early Flavian legionary fortress. This book describes the fortress and the excavations carried out in the Cathedral Close, and includes a gazetteer of Roman finds in Central Exeter.
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Reactions to social and economic change 1750-1939
The middle of the eighteenth century up to the Second World War was a period of dramatic and rapid social and economic change in Britain. This volume collects five papers.
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The maritime history of devon
Written in 1908 by Michael Oppenheim, for the Victorian History of Devonshire, this account has not been previously published as the volume for which it was intended was never completed. Based mainly on the national archives with which Oppenheim had an intimate acquaintance, this account emphasis...
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Le jodelet ou le maistre valet
Critical edition of the comedy dating from 1664.
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Countering the culture
This is a study of the nine prose fiction works of Christiane Rochefort written between 1958 and 1988. Despite establishment recognition and a popular mass-market following, Christiane Rochefort has hitherto received little critical attention. Her fiction forms an approachable learning tool for a...
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La soeur
La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. The introduction to this new edition assesses the originality of Rotrou’s adaptation. The notes are devoted above all to linguistic questions and to the many exotic allusions found in the text.
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Legitimate cinema
This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre.
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Beunans meriasek - the life of st meriasek
Beunans Meriasek—the Life of St Meriasek—is one of only two surviving early saints plays in Britain. Written in Cornish, about a Breton saint, and found in Welsh library, it offers unique insights in drama, language, and religious and cultural history. This new critical edition has a full introdu...
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Sick heroes
Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
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Cornwall's future mines
Containing numerous cross references to other texts and sources, this book aims to become a standard source of information on the mineral potentials in areas of Cornwall.
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The radical campaigns of john baxter langley
The work details the life and political career of John Baxter Langley, a once infamous but now largely forgotten Victorian reformer. Through a chronological narrative of his activities the work also provides an overview of many of the more significant political causes of the mid- to late nineteen...
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Nuclear north korea
North Korea developed nuclear weapons not for regime security but to attack and annex South Korea, as openly declared by Kim Jong-un. He believes the US cannot extend its nuclear umbrella to South Korea, as his ICBMs could destroy American cities. Accordingly, US should maintain deployment of nuc...
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The holocaust and hollywood studios
This book traces the complex relationship entangling American movie studios with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust throughout the 1930s and 1940s. It explains the encounter not just through isolated films or a few individuals, but by revealing how the path to genocide touched almost every aspe...
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After the ruins
After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War.
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Cornish studies volume 15
The fifteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Tv-philosophy
The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective.
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New arabian studies volume 3
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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Cornish studies volume 9
The ninth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Chinese court drama
The first ever anthology of English translations of Chinese court drama. Taking the reader inside the Forbidden City for a unique perspective on the life of the court, which was punctuated by these plays. At the same time, they give English readers a glimpse of a sophisticated performance tradition.
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British theatre and the red peril
British Theatre and the Red Peril examines how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge of collapse, the theatre played a significant part in communicating and manipulating political propaganda ...
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Of earth, for earth
Of Earth, For Earth is a 116-page full-colour, hardcover book, consisting of dialogue between artists, community representatives, industrialists and educators.
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Cornish studies volume 11
The eleventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Penal discipline, reformatory projects and the english prison commission, 1895-1939
In the early 1890s there was a prolonged criticism of conditions in English prisons and in 1895 new policies of relaxation of severity and commitment to individual reformation were recommended by the Gladstone Committee on prisons. This study examines the ideological foundations and the operation...
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Cornish studies volume 2
The second volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Bill douglas
This book uses new source material to reappraise the work of Bill Douglas – one of Britain’s most significant and singular filmmakers. Douglas’s poetic and moving films continue to inspire filmmakers today but his struggles within the film industry raise questions as to whether it is possible to...
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The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 1
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This first volume in Steve Nicholson’s important four-part analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 to 1968 is based on previously undocumented material in the Lor...
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Young and innocent?
This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a comprehensive survey of one of the most important periods of film history.
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Population and marketing
This volume brings together the proceedings of two seminars that took place at Dartington Hall in the early 1970s. The first half concerns population, and the second considers marketing.
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Cornish studies volume 16
The sixteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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A cultural history of school uniform
What’s a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through t...
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Los siete planetas
Although the 17th Century playwright Enríquez Gomez was well known for his comedies, Los Siete Planetas is a surprisingly orthodox play.
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Book of devotions/libro de devociones y oficios
The first edition of the devotionary composed by Constanza de Castilla. Comprising a variety of prayers and liturgical offices in Spanish and Latin, the book provides evidence of the beliefs, experience, and expression of religious women in Spain of the later Middle Ages.
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Mining in cornwall and devon
Mining in Cornwall and Devon is an economic history of mines, mineral ownership, and mine management in the South West of England. The work brings together material from a variety of hard-to-find sources on the thousands of mines that operated in Cornwall and Devon from the late 1790s to the pres...
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From the gulf to central asia
The demise of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of independent republics, have had profound implications for the regions on its periphery such as the Caucasus and Central Asia. This book explores the complex ways in which these republics have found both independence and a new regional identity ...
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Miniatures
Demonstrates that the ‘big picture’ in history is best seen through the study of individual and local stories. By collecting a diverse range of primary sources alongside critical commentaries from the researchers who use them, we demonstrate the appeal and potential of studying everyday life as a...
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Cornish studies volume 17
The seventeenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Chosen words
This collection of essays shows how dictionaries today have grown from the small beginnings of English lexicography in Shakespeare's time. Discussion is anchored in the practice of the past, but the author has been concerned throughout to show how the difficulties which beset the first compilers ...
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A chorus of raspberries
This is the first full-length study of one of the most popular, profitable and persistent genres in British cinema. It redraws the map of British film history by arguing that comedy was the most successful, and important, genre of the 1930s, and that the very qualities which ensured the comedy fi...
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Vaccination wars
This is the history of the grassroots anti-vaccination movement in nineteenth-century Cornwall. The book examines the lives of those who publicly opposed the procedure, the earliest phases of vaccine objection, the rise of middle class resistance and opposition societies, and the influence of pro...
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Modulation
This book redefines what an image is—not a fixed representation, but a field of variation. Tracing media from perspective to AI, it shows how images are shaped by continuous tuning and adjustment. A bold theory of the image as modulation across history and technology.
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Cornish studies volume 21
The ‘coming of age’ edition of this acclaimed paperback series discusses contemporary Cornish Studies, as well the Cornish language, medieval and early modern Cornwall, the Duchy of Cornwall, the establishment of the Cornish diocese, Cornish folklore, together with an overview of Cornish national...
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Imagining air
This book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments, and technologies. It seeks to represent the broad spectrum of air and the politics of invisibility that reflect the complex and often co...
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Introducing roman declamation
A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period.
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Mining in a medieval landscape
This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.
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The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 2
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This volume covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and focuses on theatre censorship during the period before, during and after the Second World War, focusing mainly on poli...
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Population and society in an east devon parish
This book is a vivid and refreshing consideration of everyday life in a town visited by plague, Civil War, religious radicalism and industrial changes.
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Roman finds from exeter
Exeter, fortress of the Second Augustan Legion and subsequently the capital of the civitas Dumnoniorum, played an important part in the history of Roman Britain. This comprehensive study of finds from Exeter throws new light on the economy of south-west England and its foreign trade in Roman times.
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The letters of sir walter ralegh
This edition will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, man...
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The exeter companion to fairies, nereids, trolls and other social supernatural beings
For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel world of the ‘social supernatural’. The social supernatural realm mirrored and interacted with our own, causing disasters and providing fertility. Bringing together eighteen experts, this book explores how diverse cultures across Europe envisioned t...
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Materiality of air
Exploring air, airborne phenomena and elemental representation, this book dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outline clear solutions to these challenges.
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Cornish studies volume 5
The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics, the Cornish economy, Cornish genetics, constructions of language and race in contemporary Cornwall, Cornish rugby, and education in Cornwall.
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Meetings with mallarmé
In Meetings with Mallarmé, top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of Mallarmé's influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory.
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'ensaladas villanescas' from the 'romancero nuevo'
A collection of poems in the 'ensaladas' tradition, a Renaissance style of rustic and pastoral lyricism.
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Michel strogoff
This is the first critical edition of a Verne play; the book also contains many of his unpublished letters. His theatrical work (40 plays and synopses) was, until now, almost unknown, even though Michel Strogoff was among the greatest successes of the late-19th century theatre.
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Arthurian sites in the west
A completely new, revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintagel, the great hill-fort of Cadbury in south Somerset, the ruined abbey at Glastonbury and Castle ...
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Reading the cinematograph
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
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Narratives and spaces
This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is a significant contribution to American cultural history, and like David Nye's previous book...
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Grand-guignol
Since The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at a major e...
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The folklore of cornwall
Piskies, mermaids, giants, and a revenant bridegroom: the stuff of legend. In the hands of skilled storytellers – the famed droll tellers of Cornwall – the result was magical. Considered in the context of narratives throughout Northern Europe, enchantment can be understood as well as enjoyed in t...
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Privateering and colonization in the reign of elizabeth i
Privateering, ship design, English society, the lost colonists, the drawing of John White, and the adoption of Sir Walter Raleigh as an American folk hero are among the topics covered in this volume. Illustrated.
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Italian cityscapes
This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which ...
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Living words
In this unique and entertaining collection of articles, a noted scholar and compiler of key works of reference reflects on the nature of language, the art of lexicography and the breath-taking developments in communication, the media and information technology in the late twentieth century.
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Hollywood, westerns and the 1930s
For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s.
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La mort des enfans d'herodes
The play La Mort des Enfans d’Herode was first performed in Paris in 1639. This book is a critical edition, with introduction, notes and bibliography, and the original text of the play, all in French.
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The new history of the italian south
This collection brings together the work of a new generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a 'Southern problem' viewed through a Northern prism.
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Hoxton hall
Hoxton Hall is an early Victorian music hall built in 1863, one of only a handful surviving in Britain. This book offers a history of the Hall and its role in the social life of a deprived but resilient area of London, bringing together social and religious history with the history of architectur...
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John betjeman and cornwall
Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a ‘foreigner’. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of ‘Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Ang...
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Charles urban
Based on original research from Charles Urban’s own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. A historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema. Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book A...
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 4
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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L’ art de régner
L’Art de Régner is a tragi-comedy by Gillet de La Tessonerie, first published in 1645. It is unusual in that structurally each of its five acts is a separate playlet. The sub-title, Le Sage Gouverneur, refers to the role of a royal tutor, probably meant to be the duc de Bassompierre, to whom the ...
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The lost jungle
Why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention? Here, the author presents a thorough analysis based on detailed historical research, focusing on the period between 1930 and 1946, when Universal stopped their production. 30 b&w illus.
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Water in the city
The book provides a richly illustrated history of Exeter's famous underground passages—and of the city's sophisticated system of public water supply during the medieval and early modern periods. The aqueduct tunnels are a vivid testament to the skill of the medieval craftsmen who built them, and...
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Silent features
Silent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse stylistic, generic and structural characteristics, and the national, historical and industrial contexts from which they emerged. Of the 17 films discussed, 15 are still...
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New arabian studies volume 4
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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The café of mirrors
This is the first translation into English of this Italian novel and the Introduction by Luisa Quartermaine includes background on the book.
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Mon coeur pleure d'autrefois
Grégoire Le Roy was at school with Maeterlinck and Van Leberghe, and grew up in the same atmosphere of intellectual ferment. His first published collection pre-dates Maeterlinck’s Serres chaudes. This is the first edition since their original publication of the three collections of poems by a sig...
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The big show
The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War’s significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of...
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Child and adolescent migration, mental health, and language
This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations.
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The great east window of exeter cathedral
Exeter glazing, and particularly the Great East Window, is of major importance. For the first time, this study establishes the correct dating, provenance and authorship of all the Great East Window's figure panels and most of its heraldic glass, and substantially rewrites the general history of t...
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Le philinte de molière
Le Philinte de Molière was first published in 1791 and is here produced with variants from the manuscript held in the Bibliothèque nationale and with a selection of contemporary reviews of the first performance in 1790.
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Chuck, appearance and reality
How can we know the minds of others? How can we make our own mind known? This book explores the philosophical problem of other minds as it shapes Chuck, a TV spy comedy, a show about keeping—and sharing—secrets.
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The geology of devon
Devon shows perhaps one of the most varied displays of geology in the British Isles. The Geology of Devon covers the geological development of the county and adjacent areas from Devonian times to the present day. This is a reprint of the original edition of The Geology of Devon, first published i...
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Fairy encounters in medieval england
Strange tales from many medieval genres prove that experience, not fiction, underlay fairy beliefs. Supernatural beings took on similar forms whether they were supposed to be ghosts or goblins, saints or demons. First-person oral testimony is backed up by place-names which show how wells, pools a...
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The screen censorship companion
This companion gives an exhaustive overview of how screen censorship touches our lives, from historical studies to today’s intrusions into how screen content is controlled, made available, or taken away. The cases studies range from the forbidden over politically ‘subversive’ materials, to plain ...
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The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 3
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This volume covers the 1950s, focusing on plays we know, plays we have forgotten, and plays which were silenced for ever, demonstrating the extent to which censorship shap...
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Penitencia de amor (burgos, 1514)
An early sixteenth century Spanish romance.
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Western military expatriates in the armed forces of the uae
The book argues that Western military expatriates, who have supported the Emirati military forces over more than 50 years, have played a crucial yet bounded role in elevating the UAE’s military capabilities to the point today where it is recognised as the pre-eminent Arab military force.
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School house in the wind
Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in 1891 to her retirement from teaching in 1948.
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Translating apollinaire
Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project.
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Histoire de calejava
An eighteenth-century work considered historically significant as it depicts ‘for the first time, a religious system which is unequivocally deistic.’ This is a volume in the Exeter French Texts series. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.
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Le triomphe des cinq passions
Gillet de La Tessonerie’s tragi-comedy is an unusual example in French seventeenth-century theatre of a ‘play within a play’. The play has not been reprinted since 1645 and is an important example of diversity in early French classical theatre.
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The west country as a literary invention
Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship betwee...
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Cornish studies volume 10
The tenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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The new germany
The New Germany provides a picture of contemporary Germany from a variety of perspectives, establishing relationships between recent political events and society and cultural life.
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Tactical and strategic insights from the russo-ukrainian war
This edited collection reviews the key developments in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war with a view to determining salient developments in modern warfare that must be assessed by Western defence officials and planners. The volume provides an early treatment of the most relevant developments that h...
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Translating baudelaire
This book is the record of an apprenticeship in translating Baudelaire, and in translating poetry more generally. Re-assessing the translator's task and art, Clive Scott explores various theoretical approaches as he goes in search of his own style of translation.
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Film, cinema, genre
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies. It includes selections of his influential writing on genre, together with other critical work encompassing film analysis, representation, cinema history, technology, and the fi...
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Marketing modernity
In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern le...
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