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William morris and john ruskin
Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the contrasts between Ruskin’s (1819-1900) Tory pat...
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Mental health ontologies
This book tackles fragmentation in mental health discourse and in particular the relationship between academic discourse in different disciplinary silos and public discourse in the media. It argues that fragmentation in public discourse does harm, and that an approach is needed that is able to in...
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The folklore of devon
Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.
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François mauriac: psycholectures/psychoreadings
François Mauriac is one of France's most read and consistently studied modern writers. Most of the essays in this collection are written from a psychobiographical or psychocritical viewpoint, drawing on the work of Freud, Marthe Robert, Klein, Lacan and Mauron.
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Exeter's university
Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the history of the institution and its community. Includes interviews with leading university figures, contributions from former students, and a postscript look...
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Theatre and politics in post-conflict northern ireland
This history of recent theatre in northern Ireland examines the major developments in mainstream, applied, and community theatre in relation to the politics of the post-conflict period. From the Good Friday Agreement to the post-Brexit period, it tracks the ways in which theatre has been used to ...
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World war two simulated
This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games. It argues that a particular dynamic emerges in such ‘simgames’, especially when curious players begin to look beyond gameplay for how to understand the past.
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Les marguerites
This is the first critical edition of Les Marguerites, poèmes héroïque, a volume originally published in Bordeaux in 1676. Written in alexandrines, divided into five cantos (chants), Les Marguerities offers a fascinating example of playful contemporary poetic taste where epic heroism is transform...
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Picturing cornwall
This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popula...
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West britons
West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents, and a list of some 300 C...
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Eating disorders in public discourse
Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health.
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Symbolism, decadence and the fin de siècle
This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914.
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An american in victorian cambridge
A richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.
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Gulf women’s lives
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how Gulf women construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist in public and private spaces, and how voice and agen...
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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 international arms trade
This volume considers the coevolving nature of the arms trade and defence–industrial processes and the resulting complexity of the international arms-transfer system. It situates arms transfers in a defence–industrial landscape where arms production is increasingly transnational, involving states...
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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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Cornish studies volume 1
The first 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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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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Mariamne
A critical edition of Alexandre Hardy's Mariamne, a tragedy drawing on the story of the wife of Herod the Great. First published in 1989 by University of Exeter Press, it is part of the Textes Litteraires series.
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Teaching religion (new updated edition)
TEACHING RELIGION is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with the 1944 Butler Act and ends with the DFE Circular of 1994 which was issued to take further the RE provision in the 1988 Education Reform Act.
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West country maritime and social history: some essays
In the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the maritime and social histories of the South-West of England were inextricably linked. The chapters in this volume cover important topics
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Going to the movies
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South ...
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Streetology
Streetology overturns traditional studies on working-class neighbourhoods. Based on ethnographic research guided by the author's experience as an activist, the book offers a new approach to street culture that highlights its political aspirations. It analyses phenomena such as riots, political pa...
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Ontographies
Traditional models of representation are in crisis, unable to account for the flat, participatory, and event-driven nature of contemporary media-driven existence. This book proposes a radical shift, moving beyond this crisis by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspec...
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Beverlei
An eighteenth-century "bourgeois tragedy", written in an English style. This is an important text, which provides an appreciation of the spirit of the era, and demonstrates the bridging of comic and tragic theatre styles.
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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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Contes américains
These three tales, unpublished for over a century (and in one case for nearly two centuries), are a fictional exploration of Otherness and the intercultural set in the New World, either among native Americans (Abenakis, Iroquois) or runaway slaves in Jamaica befriended by Quakers.
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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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New arabian studies volume 6
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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Acting greek tragedy
With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics of physical interaction between performers and of the dramaturgical construction of scenes.
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Holocaust theology
This book provides a panoramic survey of the responses of over one hundred leading Jewish and Christian Holocaust thinkers. Beginning with the religious challenge of the Holocaust, the collection explores a range of thinking which seek to reconcile God's ways with the existence of evil.
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Theatres of the troubles
The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.
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In comes i
‘In Comes I’ explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local ...
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Dancing in utopia
In 1925 Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst bought the Dartington Hall Estate, planning for a community where arts and education would underpin a fulfilling life. There was an emphasis on the art of dance, with artists from Europe, America and Asia gracing its studios and gardens. This is the story of u...
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The south-west and the sea
This volume collects the papers given at a seminar concerning the maritime history of the South-West of England, which took place at Dartington Hall in October 1967
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A.l. rowse and cornwall
This gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall.
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The name of the poet
An examination of the use of names and the art of naming in the works of Stéphane Mallarmé. Maintaining an independent critical, and self-critical, approach, the author elaborates a 'theory of the name' from within the Mallarmean text, rather than through the application of an external theory.
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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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Caesarism in the 21st century
The profound turbulence in global politics is the result of digital information technologies changing the structure and makeup of world order. As these changes unfold, authoritarian leaders have taken advantage of the lack of legitimacy in global governance and exploited electronic media capabili...
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Exeter in roman times
In its final form, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) was a fine walled city nearly 100 acres in extent and entered by four gates. Streets were fronted by shops and houses built of stone or half-timbered. In the centre were public buildings, the Forum and the Baths. This booklet tries to explain how...
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Cinema on the front line
Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of cinema during World War I. Utilizing extensive archival records and soldier testimony, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural value and...
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The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 4
Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize – 2016 New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This volume covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in ...
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Mediterranean urban culture, 1400-1700
The book, after an Introduction, is divided into three sections: neighbours and neighbourhoods; religion, ethnicity and minority groups; culture, politics and society. The coherence of the collection sets up resonances and comparisons which confirm a considerable unity in the concept of Mediterra...
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Communication across cultures
A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters.
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William morris
This well illustrated book celebrates every aspect of the wide-ranging achievements of William Morris - writer, designer, cultural critic, revolutionary socialist - with particular emphasis on their relevance to our own times. The book makes available up-to-date Morris scholarship in accessible f...
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Making moonta
An investigation of the popular tradition of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’: how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this identity into the twenty-first century. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity.
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Les merveilles de la terre d'outremer
A critical editon of Jean de Vignay's 14th-century Les Merveilles de la Terre d'Outremer, a translation of the travelogue of Odoric, a Franciscan monk from northeastern Italy who spent much of the early 14th century traveling throughout Asia.
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Miners, mariners & masons
This book is the first sustained and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and their families, and how it affected the development of communities and local economies.
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Negotiating justice
Between February 1990 when the South African president F.W. De Klerk, released Nelson Mandela from prison and legalised the ANC, and April 1994 when the first democratic elections were held, South Africa experienced revolutionary changes.
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 5
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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Cornish studies volume 6
The sixth 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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London’s grand guignol and the theatre of horror
A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy.
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Phalante
This play by a young Toulouse lawyer-poet, was published posthumously in 1611 and has since been largely neglected. It is reprinted here for the first time, accompanied by an introductory study, explanatory notes and a glossary.
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Identity politics past and present
Using a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, collective memory and commemoration, this book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 199...
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The theatre of drottningholm - then and now
This book provides a vivid picture of the Drottningholm Court Theatre: the architecture, the many different activities which took place here during the Gustavian era, and the use made of the theatre since its rediscovery to explore the nature of Baroque performance.
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Picture perfect
The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape.
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The appreciation of film
This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on ‘...
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Sacrament an alter/the sacrament of the altar
This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens to the Tudor historian—and the general reader—a new window onto a crucial example of the reception of John Foxe, and gives fascinating insights into a possible alliance between Church Papism and recusancy in Tudor Cornwall.
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New arabian studies volume 2
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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John mcgrath - plays for england
This is an edition of nine of McGrath's plays for the English 7:84 theatre company. It covers McGrath's work for the company spanning four decades, from the 1960s through to the 1990s. The book has a substantial contextualising introduction and commentary on the plays by Nadine Holdsworth, one of...
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The human embryo
In this volume some of the world's authorities on embryology trace the tradition of enquiry over two and a half thousand years. The answers given in related cultures reflected the purposes to be served at different times, in medical practice, penitential discipline, canon law, common law, human f...
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Bewnans ke / the life of st kea
In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the origin...
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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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Unity and variety
A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise of Nonconformity and the Victorian era, down to the present day and encompassing all the main Christian de...
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The great art of light and shadow
Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth.
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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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The gift of a child
This book is an easy to read book which gives clear and non-technical information about childlessness caused by male infertility, and about how this childlessness can be resolved by the use of donor insemination (DI). The book is written in a question and answer form and covers the issues raised ...
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The history of cornish tradition
Examines the rich tradition of the West Country, providing a definitive historical analysis of how the region’s legends, language, and customs have transformed over the last four centuries. Traces the evolution of Cornwall’s most famous stories, from Ann Jefferies and her fairies to the birth of ...
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Spatial woundings
Minerals and metals underpin our everyday existence, yet the extraction process—ripping them from the earth—fuels toxic geopolitical relationships, colonization, and conflict. This book confronts this devastation, focusing on spatial wounding—the violence inflicted on landscapes, people, and atmo...
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La hollande malade
The book is a critical edition of La Hollande Malade, a comedy in one act by Raymond Poisson. La Hollande Malade, written in 1673, is a satirical and allegorical comedy.
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Style and the development of malory’s morte darthur
This book provides a stylistic analysis of Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur using innovative tools and a unique combination of current linguistic methods to understand how texts were constructed, transmitted, classified, and read at a watershed moment when the linguistic and literary context of Engl...
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Les mains jointes et autres poèmes (1905-1923)
Les Mains Jointes (1909) was the collection of poetry that launched the long career of Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac (1885-1970). This critical edition provides the first ever overview of the volume’s complex textual history (spanning four decades).
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Madness and literature
This book engages with literature’s multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theor...
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L'eugene
Eugène, is a comedy satirizing the clergy, one of three plays by Étienne Jodelle, a French 16th-century dramatist and poet. Text, introduction and notes are all in French.
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Green screen
This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'green...
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Dynamis
Rohou interprets Dynamis as an orthodox tragi-comedy that reflects both the political concerns of the late 1640s and the developments in dramaturgy which had taken place over the previous decade or so. Rohou is most helpful in pointing out, in footnotes and a brief glossary, differences between D...
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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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Cornish studies volume 13
The thirteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish emigration, Cornish literature, the novelist Virginia Woolf, the poet Jack Clemo, Cornish mining history, Cornish folklore, the medieval Cornish-language miracle plays, and William Scawen: the seventeenth-centur...
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Victory over the sun
The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this ‘anti-opera’ and other ...
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Les tromperies
Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France and died in Troyes. Little is known about him, but he has left behind him adaptations into French of nine Italian plays which make him one of the most prolific writers of comedy in the sixteenth century. Les Tromperies formed part of the second col...
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Ramparts of empire
William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston’s extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ramparts of Empire is a detailed and engaging study of his life and works.
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Tuckers hall exeter
Gilds and Companies of Craftsmen were a great feature of late medieval and early modern urban life. At Exeter, Fullers (Tuckers) and Shearmen numbered nearly five hundred freemen during the reign of Queen Anne. Much reduced in size and changed, the Company still survives today and its Hall is amo...
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Joint construction of narratives in the psychoanalytic setting
In psychotherapy, the client’s narratives serve as a starting point. Therapeutic work involves the reconstruction of such narratives, with both client and therapist taking an active role: the therapist helping to transform various aspects of the stories by asking questions, offering interpretatio...
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The city on the hill
In 1955 the former University College of the South West was granted a royal charter and became the University of Exeter. This is the history of an institution that is also a community, a focus of teaching and research set within a particular environment but also part of the wider world. 130 col. ...
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Reading latin epitaphs
This compact book reproduces fifty-two memorials in Latin taken from churches situated largely in the West Country. Each memorial is accompanied by a translation and by notes on the grammar. The book is aimed at all who would like to be able to read Latin epitaphs in churches, and whose knowledg...
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Venceslas
A tragi-comedy first performed in Paris in 1648.
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Critical essays on british south asian theatre
This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time.
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Cornish studies volume 20
The twentieth 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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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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Devon women in public and professional life, 1900–1950
This book is one of the first to study the role of women in public and professional life from a regional point of view. It breaks new ground in considerations of gender in the early twentieth century and the history of Devon in the modern period.
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 2
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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Finding birt acres
Birt Acres was the first commercial filmmaker in Britain and Germany but has been ill-served by film history. Of mysterious origins, this book tells his full story for the first time: tracing his American beginnings, his fame in the field of British photography, his embrace of the moving image an...
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