Doctor who – new dawn

Analysing Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who as a regendered, inclusive brand, this book features original interviews with cast/crew. It offers in-depth analysis of recent episodes and examines fans’ reactions to the era, exploring how the experience economy displaced Who’s public-se...

Spectral dickens

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens’ illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian Real, Bove’s work haunts the opposition between fictional character and...

Robert bresson

The secret life of romantic comedy

The secret life of romantic comedy offers a fresh approach to one of the most popular Hollywood genres in recent years and analyses the cultural impact of generic conventions in the construction of issues of intimacy and sexuality.

Religion and life cycles in early modern england

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550–1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experiences of biological, social and religious life stages, it suggests new ways of framing the multiple, overlapping life cycles that early m...

Colour

Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries.

Workers and politics in occupied austria, 1945–55

This book examines the way in which Austria escaped absorption into the Soviet Bloc after 1945 and the impact this had on its domestic politics.

Before gender

This ground-breaking book rewrites trans history, presenting the stories of thirty extraordinary trans people who lived between 1850 and 1950. Featuring kids, activists, workers and athletes, it reveals the reality of trans lives in an era before the concept of gender became an everyday term.

Comic spenser

Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory.

Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde

This collection offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium’s significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar era. It addresses institutional and contextual aspects of audio drama, as well as intermedial and material issues alongside ideo...

Thomas of woodstock

This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare’s Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama t...

Irish literature since 1990

This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative w...

Neither use nor ornament

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life and unravels the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficie...

Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century

A comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century.

Interpreting the labour party

Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement.

Empire, migration and identity in the british world

This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ‘new’ imperial and the ‘new’ migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnat...

The united states in the indo-pacific

This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump.

Rethinking settler colonialism

Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. In each of these countries these communities were displaced, marginalised and sometimes subj...

South asians and the shaping of britain, 1870–1950

The first anthology of primary material interdisciplinary study of the history of the South Asian presence in Britain over the period 1870-1950, it selects a wide range of official and non-official archival sources. and identifies four key areas of South Asian impact – minority rights, war, cultu...

That devil's trick

The first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of the subject

<i>the knight and the barrel</i> (<i>le chevalier au barisel</i>)

This is the first English translation of the canonical Old French text Le Chevalier au barisel. It includes the original text and a facing-page translation, as well as an extensive introduction and notes.

Politics and peace in northern ireland

Examines the Agreement and its implementation through the eyes of the four major parties – The Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Fein and the DUP – and considers the role of smaller parties in the region. Each interpreted the Agreement in different ways and continued to use the situation to p...

The staple of news

Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new £9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at £14.99). The complete canon of Be...

Ethical and legal debates in irish healthcare

This is an in-depth study of the contentious issues in Irish healthcare and deals with issues such as assisted suicide, abortion, adolescent treatment refusal, end of life care, retention of biological samples, involuntary admission to care and the regulation of stem cell research.

Knowledge resistance

Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon.

Iain sinclair

A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London

The boxmaker's revenge

This book is based on a story. Its main protagonists are a London clergyman, Stephen Denison, and a lay sectmaster and prophet, John Etherington. The dispute between the two men blew up in the mid-1620s, but its reverberations can be traced back to the 1590s and continued to 1640.Through Denison ...

Carbon colonialism

Carbon colonialism shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.

Visions and ruins

This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.

The evolving role of nation-building in us foreign policy

Weaving together International Relations theory and a rich history drawing mainly on declassified documents, interviews and other primary sources, this book contributes to theoretical discussions of nation-building while offering a critique of Realist and Critical Security School analyses of US p...

From partition to brexit

From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives.

Love and authority in the work of paula rego

Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego’s work by mobilising both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego’s oeuvre: The Policeman’s Daughter (1987), The Interrogator’s Garden (2000), and ...

Manliness in britain, 1760–1900

This book focuses on men’s bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about ...

Fight back

Fight back examines the different ways punk – as a youth/subculture – may provide space for political expression and action.

Foreign policy as public policy?

This book explores how ‘domestic’ public policy approaches and concepts can enrich the study of foreign policy. It has chapters by leading experts on arguably the most important approaches in public policy.

Chris marker

Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political upheavals and historic events, as well as unearth...

Contemporary olson

Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.

Deco dandy

This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure of the dandy, the books claims an essential role and place of the male body and masculinity in the history of Art Deco.

Public issue television

Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. By tracing the history of the high-profile series World in Action across four decades it charts the interwoven processes of media practice and social change in a manner unri...

The intellectual culture of the english country house, 1500–1700

A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England.

Two tiers or two speeds?

The sudden transformation of the Cold War security order in 1989 altered the structure of the European state system, and necessitates the striking of a new balance between the economic, political and military requirements of security. This volume focuses on the most important institutions of Euro...

Rethinking equality

Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Rethinking Equality provides a clear, critical and very up-to-date account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories.

Stories from small museums

This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience ...

European labour movements in crisis

Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. The book’s hypothesis has key implications for debates about labour movements and the EU and its engaging style will captivate scholars, students and poli...

Women, the arts and globalization

This book brings transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women’s art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world; shows the movement of women globally rarely matches dominant models of global exchange; traces their eccentric exp...

The reality of film

In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of rea...

Terry gilliam

This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinema’s most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliam’s work over nearly four ...

Globalgothic

This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable from the broader global context in which it circulates. Globalgothic expands the horizons of the genre in diverse new and exciting ways.

From virtue to venality

Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995

Taking place

This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inherited.

The labour party and the world, volume 2

This is the second book in a unique two-volume study that traces the evolution of the Labour Party’s foreign policy throughout the 20th century to the present date.

Creating character

Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction

How media and conflicts make migrants

Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” – in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society.

Niccolo machiavelli's the prince

The Prince embodies a series of vital issues, including power and morality, history and human nature, language and meaning, gender and government. It is these issues which the essays in this volume debate and explore from a variety of perspectives, from the original responses through to feminist ...

Discourses on lgbt asylum in the uk

This book looks at the specificities of the exclusion of LGBT refugees, to show how the cultural politics of queer migration help us rethink emancipatory sexual politics.

Doubting sex

This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.

In and out of bloomsbury

Illuminates Virginia Woolf and several contemporary writers and artists through new research and discoveries.

The new pornographies

Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend.

A history of the new zealand fiction feature film

A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, fo...

The auto/biographical

This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.

Crafting crime fiction

Whether you are writing a police procedural or a psychological thriller, a contemporary or historically set novel, this book will help you identify the right beginning, middle and end of your crime novel. It will help you recognise your talent and realise your ambition in practical and realistic ...

Monastic experience in twelfth-century germany

This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life against the backdrop of contemporary interactions with bishops and lay patrons, the process of monastic reform, and the local and supra-regional disru...

The war on the uyghurs

This is the first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes. Revealing how China has used the US-led War on Terror as cover for its brutal suppression of the Uyghur people, it provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of a cultural genocide, while allowing the voices ...

Workers and revolution in serbia

Analyses the role of workers both in Tito’s Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Miloševic in October 2000

Sinister histories

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.

Out of his mind

In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anx...

Death, life, and religious change in scottish towns c. 1350–1560

This book examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation: what the living did to influence the dead and vice versa; considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Pr...

Penguin books and political change

This book employs the history of Penguin Books to offer a new account of Britain’s post-war politics.

Literature and politics in the english reformation

This is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510–80 the book unravels the political, poetic and religious themes of the era.

The reign of richard ii

A source reader covering the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II’s reign. Includes well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records with clear and lively commentary and notes to enable readers to make the fullest use of each document.

Crisis and change in european union foreign policy

This book provides wanting to study episodes of EU foreign policy change with a single analytical framework that serves to investigate and explain the way in which the EU adapts its foreign policy in the wake of crisis. It provides readers with a toolbox to explain, measure and conceptualise the ...

Soldered states: nation-building in germany and vietnam

The book examines the power of nationalism to solder nation-states back together rather than break them apart. In this innovative, cross-continental comparison of nation-building in Germany and Vietnam, the focus is on their shared experience of division, communism and regional integration.

Sex, politics and empire

Thie books investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and draws conclusions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. It will be of particular interest to academics and students in Geography, History, ...

Interior decorating in nineteenth-century france

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape.

The irish parliamentary party at westminster, 1900–18

Explains how the leadership of the IPP operated, taking the concepts of oligarchy and collegiate governance and applying them to the Home Rule case more comprehensively than ever before

The philip larkin i knew

The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author's close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull.

Cinesonica

Cinesonica: sounding film and video explores previously neglected and under-theorised aspects of film and video sound, drawing on detailed case study analyses of Hollywood cinema, art cinema, animated cartoons, and avant-garde film and video.

Entertaining television

An energetic look at BBC Television in 1950s, illustrating how it was at the forefront of popular programming, including the first Reality TV programmes, quiz and game shows, even 'problem' talk shows.

Reassessing 1970s britain

This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.

Gunslinging justice

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States.

Chinese religion in contemporary singapore, malaysia and taiwan

Embracing an ontological approach to religious phenomena, this study traces the origins and development of Chinese Hell deity worship now prevalent in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. Written for academics and the interested public, it challenges assumptions vis-à-vis the diversity of present-day ...

Worker protests in post-communist romania and ukraine

Studies why and how successful forms of workers’ interest representation could emerge in a hostile, post-communist context

François ozon

This is the first study of the films of François Ozon, and places the precocious French auteur in a lucid critical framework, highlighting Ozon's importance for a thoroughly postmodern film-going generation.

The changing rules on the use of force in international law

A systematic study on the legal regulation of the use of military force, both by international organisations and states, at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The black death

This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.

The stomach for fighting

Extensively researched from a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the men’s own accounts of lived experience.

Henry neville and english republican culture in the seventeenth century

Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century is the first full-length study of the republican Henry Neville as country gentleman, politician, political thinker, rebel and libeller. It traces the development of Neville’s political thought from the English Civil Wars to t...

Connecting sounds

An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures.

Inside accounts, volume ii

Focusing on the peace process, these two volumes includes seventeen interviews from high-ranking civil servants and political leaders in the Irish Government and takes the reader inside the negotiating room to experience the efforts, tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998

Volpone

This edition contains in distilled form the insight and learning found in the fuller Revels critical editions, but with less of the learning apparatus that is appropriate to a critical edition. Compact and up to date introduction and commentary. The price and format are designed to be competitive...

Towns in medieval england

Assembles a diverse range of texts to encourage and facilitate the study of medieval towns – a fresh incentive following the collapse of the city-based Roman Empire, shaped by the cultural and commercial currents of the time.

Surrealist women's writing

Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, ot...

Cheap street

From around 1850, London’s street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London’s lively informal economy, and provid...

Medieval literary voices

Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text – the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text – and ho...

Howard jacobson

This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction.

The personalisation of politics in the uk

What does it mean to say that politics is personalised? Providing an analysis of the 'personalisation' of modern British politics, this book challenges current theories and bridges the political science and media studies approaches to the subject.

Now that's what i call a history of the 1980s

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

Confiscating the common good

Challenging the subject’s current interpretation, this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolution’s religious politics within five small towns.