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An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experi...
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Beginning ethnic American literatures
Since the late 1960s, American literature has been revitalised by the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston. An introduction to the study of ethnic American fictions organised into four sections, each written by a specialist in the fields ...
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The 'desegregation' of English schools
This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segregated rather than integrated, leaving Asian children vulnerable to racial bullying.
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When politics meets bureaucracy
This book presents an ethnographic study of policy-making in two different Norwegian municipalities, where the author analyses the straregies and tactics employed by both local politicians and bureaucrats. Through an interdisicplinary approach, the book explores the relationship between the centr...
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U.S. economic history since 1945
A concise, accessible review of the principal economic developments and social changes in the US between 1945 and the present day.. Covers an era of US economic dominance and the challenge from overseas.. Links more 'historical' post-war developments to the rapid 'contemporary' changes of the 197...
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Rereading Chaucer and Spenser
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic autho...
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Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Criticism is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the celebrated philosophical work of Stanley Cavell and the discipline of literary criticism
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The last taboo
This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the ‘cultural’...
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Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands
Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands takes an all-island approach to map the diverse experiences of migrants in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Jonathan Lethem
Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature
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Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum
This volume offers a variety of fresh and exciting perspectives on Royalist politics, religion and culture during the Interregnum. Between them, these essays are an important milestone in the recovery of the Royalist experience of the 1650s.
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Manchester Beethoven studies
Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. The volume contains new research on a range of biographical, analytical and cultural topics, and reflects the breadth of ongoing Beethoven scholarship in Manchester.
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Trials of the self
Duellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly important around 1800, not only for elites,...
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The Anglo-Saxon landscape
The landscape of pre-Conquest England can often be reconstructed in minute detail. Yet this is one of the first attempts at such a project. Here the evidence is examined for the West Midlands – the counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, much of which formed the Anglo-Saxon ...
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Writing imperial histories
This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial...
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Black Tom
It was 'Black Tom' Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, who created and commanded Parliament's New Model Army during the English Civil War. This is his first biography by a modern academic.
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Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820–1939
A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth.
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The interpreters
This book analyses British attitudes on southeastern Europe in the period between 1870-1930.
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Women poets of the English Civil War
Featuring modernised spelling and detailed explanatory notes, this anthology of Civil War-era women poets is perfect for students of English literature and early modern studies.
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Frantz Fanon, postcolonialism and the ethics of difference
This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanon’s work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomeno...
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Worlds of social dancing
A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars.
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Higher education in a globalising world
The book provides an overview of Higher Education discourses in Europe and beyond, devoting attention to alternative subaltern discourses that can provide the germs for a higher education which could come into fruition in the future.
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Made in France
This book explores the forces that structure life in France from the cradle to the grave. These rules, norms and power relations are the result of work conducted by a wide range of politicians, administrators, business people and activists. Some have changed recently, but most have resisted the c...
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‘Chords of freedom’
Chords of Freedom offers valuable new insights into the ways in which Britons have been taught to remember transatlantic slavery, and how our views of figures like William Wilberforce have been revised to meet the changing demands of the ‘present’.
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Murder Capital
Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London.
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Building a peace economy?
Critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence
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Disciplined agency
This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance.
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Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written.
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The invisible painting
In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon or a goddess but, first and foremost, an artist.
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The state as master
A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century.
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The Northern Ireland peace process
A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europe’s longest running modern conflict.
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Shakespeare's tutor
Shakespeare’s tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd’s dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare’s drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeare’s dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionis...
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Sweden and ecological governance
This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the ‘Sustainable Sweden’ progr...
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My Voice: Henry Monath
Henry's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Henry Monath was born in Kraków, and his mother arranged escape to England for Henry and his sister. He experienced the war in Manchest...
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Antony and Cleopatra
This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Come...
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Bourgeois consumption
Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people’s eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ...
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Siblinghood and social relations in Georgian England
This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and pr...
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Spenserian satire
A detailed study of Spenser's poetic legacy, focusing on his reputation as a satirist and his influence on satirical poetry written by his contemporaries.
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The absurdity of bureaucracy
The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them...
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The military-humanitarian complex in Afghanistan
Violent conflict brings together two seemingly disparate groups: humanitarians and soldiers. This mixes and convolutes agendas, blurring lines that are often perceived to be sacrosanct. Delving deeply into the history and reasons of why these two groups work in close proximity, this study provid...
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Death in England
Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 BC to Diana, Princess of Wales.. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and beliefs about death have undergone constant change: how, why and at what ages people died; plagues and violence; wills an...
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Beckett and media
This collection of essays stages a dialogue between leading Beckett scholars and media theorists and offers the first sustained critical enquiry into Beckett as a media artist and his intermedial work.
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African pasts
Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work o...
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Negotiating sovereignty and human rights
Shows how competing interpretations of sovereignty and human rights and the different visions of world order that they imply fed into the transatlantic debate over the ICC and transformed this debate into a conflict over the normative foundations of international society
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European Gothic
The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of trans...
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The politics of the British constitution
This work on the British constitution assesses the properties, dynamics and implications of political exchange. It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for constitutional change, how political agendas are formed, and reviews different political motivations.
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Troubles of the past?
This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed, re-constructed, commemorated and then h...
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You’re nicked
This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender.
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John Dewey
Arguing that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but as a philosopher of globalisation, this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism.
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Coming in
This book reconceptualises Europeanisation and studies how the EU Enlargement has shaped LGBT politics in Serbia. Questioning our ability to reduce LGBT liberation to rights and policies, the book moves beyond legal and institutional change to consider the political consequences the Europeanisati...
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Churchyard and cemetery
Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire
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The culture of toleration in diverse societies
Discusses the modern concept of toleration in diverse societies
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Ireland and the Great War
As the twentieth century drew to a close, people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience of the island as a whole. Brings together research whilst re-evaluating older assumptions about the immediate and continuing impact of th...
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Hélène Cixous
A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, from Inside (1969) to the present. He foregrounds Cixous's importance for 'English literature' as well as creative writing, autobiography, narrative theory, psychoanal...
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The Lady’s Trial
The first scholarly edition of a little-known play by a major Renaissance playwright, which interestingly reworks Othello.
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Playing for time
Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a...
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Monumental cares
Monumental cares links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address problems like the climate crisis, migration and authoritarian politics. Case studies range from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble an...
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Framing the moron
Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated.
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Addressing the other woman
This book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Internet-mediated participation beyond the nation state
This book addresses the growing gap between policy makers and (organised) citizens, and attempts by international organisations to implement a multi-stakeholder approach largely facilitated by the internet.
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A Ragged Schooling
With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the ...
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Migrant architects of the NHS
Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.
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Thomas Pynchon
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon
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The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu – has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes o...
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Independents in Irish party democracy
The aim of this book is to explain this anomaly, how and why independents can endure in a democracy that is one of the oldest surviving in Europe and has historically had one of the most stable party systems.
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Partners in suspense
A compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history.
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Disability in the Industrial Revolution
This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people’s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Bri...
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Capital and popular cinema
Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts, the immediate industrial-financial interests sustaining the films, and...
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Sounds of liberty
Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provid...
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Eradicating deafness?
How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of ...
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new t...
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The Gulf States and the Horn of Africa
This timely volume offers a critical analysis of the regional and international relations of the Horn of Africa and Red Sea, focussing on the role of states from the Persian Gulf in these developments.
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Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.
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A new imperative
Analyses co-operation between universities and regional authorities
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Understanding the mafia
An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia.
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Ingmar Bergman
This book combines new approaches to Bergman’s films and writings with more traditional analyses of widely acclaimed masterpieces like Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander. Most of the contributors are established Bergman specialists, and all of them provide challenging readings of th...
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Mega-events and social change
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.
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Debt as Power
Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The...
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Rethinking untouchability
This book explores the political thought of B.R. Ambedkar, one of the most important thinkers of modern India. Ambedkar’s ideas transformed untouchability, often considered a millenary religious issue, into a political problem by linking it to larger ideas in the twentieth century such as liberty...
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Contemporary Slavic horror across media
In the Western cultural production that puts individual or collective fear at its center, East/Central Europe has been portrayed as an othered space of horror – lawless, frightening zones where anything can happen. Incorporating articles on literature, film, visual arts, video games, music videos...
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Our common wealth
This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of public ownership in the United States, arguing that it is more widespread, popular, and efficient than is commonly understood.
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A defence of witchcraft belief
This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary b...
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Gothic Documents
How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which broke. Based on intensive research, it demonstr...
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Julio Medem
This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish...
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This is your hour
This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking ‘middle ways’ through what has been called the ‘age of extremes’, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewa...
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Twenty British films
This book examines twenty major British films from a seventy-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings.
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Theatre in crisis?
A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists ...
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A literature of restitution
Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell.
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