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Screen plays
Screen plays is a ground-breaking volume thatchronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.
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Heresy and inquisition in france, 1200–1300
Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources.
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Renaissance themes
These essays in honour of Arun Kumar Das Gupta present a view of English literature and drama in a context of humane literary studies with a critical ambience harking back to the Renaissance. Ranging from an investigation into the modes and registers in Renaissance philosophic discourse, to compa...
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Marcel carné
This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general.
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Experimental british television
The first academic study to focus on experimental British television. Uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes and places the aesthetics of experimentation within historical contexts. The book also examines the importance of the changing technologies on ...
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Cormac mccarthy
Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global ec...
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The business of birth control
This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state b...
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Security in a greater europe
This book examines the security agendas of the European Union, the UK, France, Germany and Russia in connection with three defining events in international security - the crisis in Kosovo of 1999, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq crisis of 2003 - in order to assess the potential for all...
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Holland house and portugal, 1793–1840
‘Holland House and Portugal’, a study in political and diplomatic history, focusses on the relations between Lord Holland and Portugal from 1793 to 1840. The book traces the evolution of Holland’s views on Portugal from the time of his first visit to Spain to his later contribution to the establi...
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Governing the dead
Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics.
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History, heritage, and colonialism
Explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin.
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Art and knowledge after 1900
This book explores the relationship between art and various disciplines of knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
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Extending ecocriticism
Takes ecocriticism into new areas that include collaboration across the environmental humanities and into the cultural studies of the human response to the environment.
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The gothic novel in ireland, c. 1760–1829
A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland.
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Making sense of the bayeux tapestry
This volume brings together many aspects of the Tapestry: the practical skills involved in making the embroidery, aspects of its iconography, its first documented association with Bayeux in an inventory of 1476, its later copying and reproduction in different media and its role as a model for the...
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The elementary structuring of patriarchy
Through life histories of Indigenous women, the volume bridges classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically-informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution ...
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Culture is bad for you
The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the...
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David and bathsheba
Martin’s new critical edition of George Peele’s David and Bathsheba opens up this explosive drama about the turbulent and bloody Davidic period of Ancient Israel’s history to student and scholar alike with its modernized text, full scholarly apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and commentary n...
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Great satan's rage
This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativi...
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Why pamper life's complexities?
In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades.
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The classic novel
This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s.
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Love and revolution
Love and Revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists – discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary...
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Abandoning historical conflict?
This is the definitive book on why those who ‘fought the war’ in Northern Ireland opted for peace. Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA and loyalist prisoners, this volume shows how the interplay of military fortunes, politics and societal changes contributed to the shift from war to pe...
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Immigration and european integration
This revised and updated edition explores the dynamic of EU migration and asylum policy, clearly an issue that remains very topical.
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Gender and colonial space
This is an analysis of the complex relationship between social relations and spatial relations. It sets out a new direction for postcolonial theory, and draws on analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate its new more materialist approach.
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Migrations
Explores Ireland’s complex relationship with migration
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Global marxism
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the le...
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Republican passions
Republican passions provides an innovative perspective on the founding of the French Third Republic. Based on the archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, it demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the republican movement during the Second E...
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Ignorance
This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged en...
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The great labour unrest
This book analyses the battle for ideological and actual control of the Durham Miners’ Association between Liberals, socialists and syndicalists in the tumultuous period prior to the First World War.
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Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings
Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) faced challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and in its neighbours. This book recounts the experiences of the MSF teams working in the field.
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Telling tales about men
Explores some of the ways in which conscientious objectors to compulsory military service were viewed and treated in England during the First World War. In doing so it considers these men’s experiences, their beliefs, perceptions and actions.
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Hartly house, calcutta
This novel represents a key document in the literary representation of India and the imperial debate, profoundly challenging pre-existent discourses of colonialism.
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A sacred city
Through an examination of the rite and practice of consecrating (dedication) churches in eleventh-century Italy, A Sacred City examines how ritual was employed to foster the Gregorian reform and how sacred space shaped identity, generated conflict, and provoked a debate over symbolic meaning and ...
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Antonio's revenge
Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as being set on a number of drama courses.. The a...
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Disability and the victorians
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments a...
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Unlimited action
Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what ef...
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Antisemitism and the left
A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue from repressive, antisemitic associations.
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Civil war london
London’s mobilisation proved crucial to parliament’s success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army...
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God's only daughter
The first full-length study to be devoted to Una, the beleaguered but ultimately triumphant heroine of Book One of The Faerie Queene
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Medicine, patients and the law
This fully revised and update edition provides an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy.
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Moving through modernity
'Moving through modernity' offers the first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of a critical literary geography, and in stimulating new readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how space and geography were also centra...
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Sport in the black atlantic
An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora.
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The peeps
A book of photographs, interviews and commentary, recording the origins, recent past and current regeneration of the Ancoats area of Manchester
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The face of medicine
Sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery.
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La parisienne in cinema
The first book-length work on the Parisienne, this study combines scholarship in the fields of art history, literature and fashion to enrich our understanding of this intriguing cinematic figure, simultaneously offering new perspectives on film.
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Theophile gautier, conteur fantastique et merveilleux
Between 1831 and 1866, Théophile Gautier published two dozen tales which can be designated contes fantastiques or contes merveilleux. These works are examined in chronological sequence, in French, in order to follow the development of Gautier as a writer of fantastic stories. The analysis concent...
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Time and world politics
This book offers the first authoratitive guide to, and critical evaluation of, assumptions about time in theories of world politics. It develops a new way of making sense of the 'present' times of world politics.
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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Gabriel García Márquez has been described as the greatest writer in Spanish since Cervantes, and El coronel no tiene quien le escriba is considered to be one of his best works. This reflective and atmospheric novel is set in a small Colombian town where the frustrated and stubborn Colonel, a vete...
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The pastor in print
The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursued print authorship. With careful attention to audience, content, genre, and timing of publications, pastor-authors sought to complement parish work and achieve diverse religious...
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Passionate politics
In May 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world’s largest election. This book brings together a stellar team of economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain why Indians voted the way they did.
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Constructing cybersecurity
This book provides a critique of dominant cybersecurity knowledge that draws upon original constructivist analysis of the expert discourse within the internet security industry. The book argues that this expertise helps explain the probematic common sense that sees cybersecurity conflated with na...
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The european debt crisis
In this first English translation, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece
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Enacting the bible in medieval and early modern drama
The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Ca...
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The politics of attack
This book asks the reader to consider the theories of bomb-throwing, window-smashing, graffiti-scrawling arsonists, and through an examination of movement communiqués, embrace the critique offered by the clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting for total liberation against the omnipresent forces of...
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New mobilities in europe
This book examines Polish migration to Ireland in the context of ‘new mobilities in Europe’. It includes detailed accounts of the working lives of a group of mainly skilled Polish migrants in Dublin, and traces their careers and aspirations as Ireland moved from ‘boom to bust’.
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The 'perpetual fair'
This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings
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James baldwin review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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A companion to pastoral poetry of the english renaissance
An essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology. The full-length introduction offers a historical and critical analysis of the pastoral tradition and the circulation of texts.
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Devolution and the scottish conservatives
A unique ethnographic study of Party political activism exploring how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election
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Christmas in nineteenth-century england
The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Britain’s korean war
This book investigates the UK’s experience as a junior partner in the only Cold war conflict where some of the main protagonists confronted each other on the battlefield. The author assesses the strains within the ‘Special Relationship’ between London and Washington and offers a new perspective o...
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The neurologists
Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists
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The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare
A critical reflection on the role of terrorism in major armed conflicts occurring during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty first century. Case studies include Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
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Hispanic and lusophone women filmmakers
An edited collection that focuses on women filmmakers over the last eight years, from Portugal, Spain and Latin America. Theoretically astute, critically cutting edge, with contributors that range across the globe, this will be a benchmark volume of film criticism
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Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century iran
Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts.
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Othello
Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello, with its issues of racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. Traces Othello's acting tradition as it has affected the roles of Othello, Desdemona and Iago - demonstrating the emphasis placed on different chara...
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Imagining the popular in contemporary french culture
French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History.Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics
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Catholics and the ‘protestant nation’
This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading ‘Catholic historians’ and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography
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Jack rosenthal
This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the highly regarded BAFTA-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for such plays as The Knowledge, The Chain, Spend, Spend, Spend and Bar Mitzvah Boy, as well as the pil...
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The law of international organisations
Substantially updated for its third edition, this book provides a concise account of the principles and norms of international law applicable to inter-governmental organisations, with a focus on the UN and its associated bodies.
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British and irish diasporas
This book offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain, and explores how the examples and experiences of the constituent nations and peoples of those islands compare.
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Manchester
Using 60 different words that speak of the city, from bees to sewers, Manchester: something rich and strange offers a new way of thinking about this iconic post-industrial city. Twenty-three writers from diverse backgrounds offer their take on the everyday things that inform how we experience Man...
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Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century rome
Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome sheds new light on the relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in eighteenth-century Rome. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished documents and previously unexamine...
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Charles dickens and georgina hogarth
Tells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens' relationship with his sister-in-law, his 'best and truest friend' Georgina Hogarth, who came to live with the Dickenses aged fifteen, and continued to live with Charles after they divorced.
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Crowds and popular politics in early modern england
This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period
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The colonisation of time
The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component of colonisation. It brings together two complex subjects – time and colonialism – in an engaging, non-theoretical and accessible style.
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Saudi arabia and the united arab emirates
A timely examination of how Saudi Arabia and the UAE punch above their weight in international affairs.
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The wood engravers' self-portrait
The first major study of Dalziel Brothers, a Victorian image-making firm that made a phenomenal contribution to mass visual culture.
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Affective intimacies
This cutting-edge edited collection provides a novel terrain for rethinking intimacies through the lens of affect theories.
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English nationalism, brexit and the anglosphere
This book analyses the elite project behind Brexit, and considers its framework within the political traditions of English nationalism. Far from being ‘Little Englanders’, Brexiteers sought to lessen the rupture of leaving the European Union by suggesting a return to alliances with true friends a...
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Towards a just europe
This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe.
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How to save politics in a post-truth era
This book argues that the relationship between methodology and politics is now more important than ever – that politics, if it is anything, is about engaging with people’s interpretations and narratives of the world in which they find themselves.
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Crimes against humanity
This is an accessible and informative guide to the evolution of the concept of crimes against humanity- a hugely influential concept which has had a marked impact on modern international politics, law and ethics.
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Regulating lobbying
An exhaustive update of the 2010 classic that analyzes more countries, revamping the theoretical classification of lobbying regulatory environments and the states found therein. Two key innovations in this edition include: new insights on measuring transparency and accountability of the laws and ...
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The 'do-it-yourself' artwork
Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you – the viewer - are ...
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‘insubordinate irish‘
This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland’s collective imagination.
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Architects of the resurrection
Seeking the creation of a one-party totalitarian state, Ailtirí na hAiséirghe was Ireland's leading fascist movement during the Second World War. Architects of the Resurrection reconstructs the hidden history of this pro-Axis organisation, and its ambitious plans to make Ireland the leading light...
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Finding shakespeare's new place
Unique report on the major archaeological dig at Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home and the implications for the Shakespearian biography.
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Pandemic culture
Based on the findings of a 15-month study led by the Centre for Cultural Value, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on the UK’s cultural sector. Based on a mixed-methods analysis, it highlights implications for the sector’s future direction and for research in the...
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Eu foreign and security policy in bosnia
This book represents the first ever comprehensive study of the EU’s foreign and security policy in Bosnia. It also sheds new light on the role that intergovernmental, bureaucratic and local political contestation have played in the formulation and implementation of a European foreign and security...
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Authorship and authority
King James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance as patron and author. This book explores the full range of these extensive writings, which include poetry, scriptural exegeses and political treatises, in the contexts of their production...
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Mourning becomes...
Mourning Becomes… challenges many supposed ‘facts’ about the concentration camps established by the British military during the South African War 1899-1902.
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