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La troade
This is the first edition since 1641 of a play whose importance lies partly in its links with Racine’s Andromaque but more particularly in its dramaturgical, psychological and thematic originality in adapting its traditional classical material for the seventeenth-century stage.
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Modulation
This book redefines what an image is—not a fixed representation, but a field of variation. Tracing media from perspective to AI, it shows how images are shaped by continuous tuning and adjustment. A bold theory of the image as modulation across history and technology.
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The history of honiton lace industry
Honiton lace is one of the world's great laces and this book for the first time tells the full story of the industry that produces it, from its beginnings in the sixteenth century to its demise in the twentieth. Over 100 photographs illustrate the history of design in Honiton lace as well as the ...
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Camus
This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky's thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus's own thinking.
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From deliverance to destruction
This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents.
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Cecil hepworth and the rise of the british film industry 1899-1911
This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899-1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film makers, Cecil Hepworth.
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Cornish studies volume 21
The ‘coming of age’ edition of this acclaimed paperback series discusses contemporary Cornish Studies, as well the Cornish language, medieval and early modern Cornwall, the Duchy of Cornwall, the establishment of the Cornish diocese, Cornish folklore, together with an overview of Cornish national...
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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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Paediatrics in the reichsuniversität straßburg
Examines the experience of paediatric patients, and the staff who determined their treatment, in the Reichsuniversitat Strasbourg, a Nazi-run hospital in occupied France from 1941 to 1944.
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Grand-guignolesque
Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface.
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Imagining air
This book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments, and technologies. It seeks to represent the broad spectrum of air and the politics of invisibility that reflect the complex and often co...
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British south asian theatres
Drawing on archive material and a series of personal interviews, this exciting new book reverses the neglect of this vital element in the history of contemporary theatre – the vibrant presence of South Asians in theatre in Britain.
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Vida de segundo
The Vita Secundi is a Greek text of the second century AD. The substantial introduction to the edition deals with the motives for the work’s translation into Spanish, tracks the extent of its diffusion in Spain, and analyses in detail the textual history of the Spanish version.
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Cornish studies volume 14
The fourteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish mining history, the Cornish and Breton languages compared, the history and revival of Cornish, the poet Charles Causley, and twentieth–century Anglo-Cornish poetry written by women.
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Spiritual development in the state school
This volume traces the roots and growth of school worship and spiritual development from Victorian times and earlier through the 1960s and beyond in order to see how we have reached the present situation.
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Introducing roman declamation
A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period.
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Letters from the carlist war (1874-1876)
Sir Vincent Kennett-Barrington was involved in providing humanitarian assistance to both sides in the Franco-Prussian War, after the armistice in eastern France, during the Carlist War in Spain, and other conflicts. A collection of letters home and to the National Aid Society from the front in Sp...
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Mustapha et zéangir
An historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright.
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The voice of a giant
The Voice of a Giant looks at seven masterpieces of Russian nineteenth-century prose fiction. Each chapter concentrates primarily on a detailed analysis of one of these works but reference is also made to historical background, the seven author’s general attitudes and the distinguishing character...
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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 4
The fourth 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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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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Multimedia histories
Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and ear...
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Translating rimbaud's illuminations
Translating Rimbaud’s Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of literary translation by showing that such translation is itself a form of experimental creative writing.
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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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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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Short french fiction
This volume provides new insights into some of the best examples of this form of writing in the twentieth century and also includes a chapter which explores ways in which the genre is evolving as the century draws to a close.
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Population and society in an east devon parish
This book is a vivid and refreshing consideration of everyday life in a town visited by plague, Civil War, religious radicalism and industrial changes.
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Global interests in the arab gulf
This book sets out to examine why the world regards the Gulf as important. Chapters either treat the way in which individual countries view their vital interest in the Gulf, or deal with specific themes such as the question of militarization and the international arms-trade.
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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 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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Les perles ou les larmes de la saincte magdeleine
Critical edition, edited by Robert T. Corum, of the early seventeenth-century religions poem by César de Nostredame (1553-1629).
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Not on any map
The collection draws on the work of scholars and creative producers from all over the world who explore the idea of the nation in a variety of postcolonial contexts.
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Roman finds from exeter
Exeter, fortress of the Second Augustan Legion and subsequently the capital of the civitas Dumnoniorum, played an important part in the history of Roman Britain. This comprehensive study of finds from Exeter throws new light on the economy of south-west England and its foreign trade in Roman times.
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Topographical writers in south-west england
A collection of original essays by distinguished historians on the works of topographical writers who described and recorded the landscape of South-West England in the period c. 1540-1900.
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Between totem and taboo
Between Totem and Taboo picks its way through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes. It is the first book to explore the literary representation by authors black and white, male and female, of interracial relations between France and her former territories in West Africa through the spe...
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Theatre censorship in contemporary europe
With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.
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The secular city
Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume illustrate the elaboration of that vision, both in the planning and depiction of actual cities and in the speculation on social justice to which Voltaire ...
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The letters of sir walter ralegh
This edition will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, man...
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Approaches to the american musical
Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form, going beyond the common assertion that musicals are simply escapist.
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Letters from the pyrenees
In 1659, Luis de Haro met with Cardinal Jules Mazarin to conclude a peace treaty that would end over twenty years of war. The hitherto unpublished letters sent by Haro to Philip IV offer an account of the negotiations that diverges from Mazarin’s reports. This edition offers a mix of the original...
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Faction and faith
In this book, Anne Duffin draws upon new source material, combining national documents and local family collections with an analysis of churchwardens' accounts, borough records and over 350 wills. She challenges the view that Cornwall was naturally royalist and presents a picture of a politically...
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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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The exeter companion to fairies, nereids, trolls and other social supernatural beings
For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel world of the ‘social supernatural’. The social supernatural realm mirrored and interacted with our own, causing disasters and providing fertility. Bringing together eighteen experts, this book explores how diverse cultures across Europe envisioned t...
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Petit glossaire pour servir a l'intelligence des auteurs decadents et symbolistes
This glossary is the only work of its kind produced by Decadent and Symbolist writers themselves, and is full of ‘definitions’ as mystifying as the words they claim to define. It offers a scholarly and a humorous examination of linguistic innovation.
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Global tv series and the political imagination
This book examines how contemporary TV series reflect and address social issues, power dynamics, and ideological perspectives in different cultural and political contexts. By analysing examples from around the world, the volume explores the transformative power of TV series in the age of digital ...
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Materiality of air
Exploring air, airborne phenomena and elemental representation, this book dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outline clear solutions to these challenges.
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Army, empire and film
Leading military historians analyse the changing depiction of the British army and its role in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial conflict in the cinema of empire from the silent era through classic imperial adventures to contemporary post-imperial cinematic critiques in Afrikaner, ...
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A new life of dante
This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialis...
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New arabian studies volume 5
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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Vida rimada de fernan gonzalez
Critical edition of poems, in Spanish, edited by Mercedes Vaquero.
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Maps and history in south-west england
This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. It is...
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Cornish mines
This is the seventh volume in a series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining district in the country during this period, and this book shows the industry at its peak and through the first yea...
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Cornish studies volume 5
The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics, the Cornish economy, Cornish genetics, constructions of language and race in contemporary Cornwall, Cornish rugby, and education in Cornwall.
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Cornish studies volume 19
The nineteenth 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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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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Our multispecies futures
An urgent call for a paradigm-shift away from human exceptionalism, addressing interconnected global crises of climate change, species extinction and cultural conflict. Proposes the Cybercene as a framework to study how digital technologies accelerate control over all life, while revealing pragma...
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Decoding the movies
This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field, it uses a series of case studies to demonstrate how an appreciation of these movies is enhanced by examining th...
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La quête du blé
Rémy Cazals provides a critical edition of this little-known text accompanied by a biography of its author, who became inflamed by the passions of the Revolution, and who was guillotined in 1794.
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Meetings with mallarmé
In Meetings with Mallarmé, top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of Mallarmé's influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory.
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Toussaint louverture
This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence.
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Rythmes pittoresques
The poems in this book, first published in 1890, present not only a poet searching for a voice, but also a female poet searching for a voice while breaking down rules of both versification and gender-determined source of expression. They went straight to the heart of the male-dominated poetry of ...
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Le mariage force
The principal aim of this edition is to provide a reliable version of the text of Le Mariage forcé which can be used by students and scholars of 17th-century theatre. The book includes all the texts which existed in Molière’s lifetime.
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Histoire de louis anniaba
Based on fact, Historie de Louis Anniaba was first published in 1740 but has never before been reprinted. The story allows a degree of narrative and geographical fantasy, but the legal context of the period, in this volume brought into play for the first time, throws into relief the author’s free...
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Landscape and townscape in the south west
This book examines recent views on the emerging settlement patterns of early medieval Britain and their relation to land use, drawing on both archaeological and documentary sources.
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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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Partisan politics
Linked to new research on 18th-century middle orders, this book looks deep into small-town society. It finds these to be places difficult to govern, split by economic structure and divided by religion. Each was forced to seek consensus and realignment. This work presents a radical new approach to...
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Theatres of war
Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to the 'Committed' theatre that flourished in modern France from 1944 to the mid-1950s. During this crucial decade, authors responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of tense controversial plays to a distinctive gen...
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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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Alternative empires
This is the first book to study representations of the non-Western world in European modernist cinema. In offering new perspectives on the history of Soviet montage cinema and on the British documentary movement, it connects with the growing body of work analysing manifestations of orientalism, E...
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The exeter companion to changeling lore
The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore is the first multi-author study of changelings and the first to centre on West Eurasia and the Mediterranean. Challenging orthodoxy, it shows that changelings are largely restricted to this area and that our changeling records are older than has been apprec...
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Soledades
This edition of Antonio Machado’s work offers a complete revision of the interpretations advanced by critics on the first version of Soledades (1903). Based on Machado’s original edition it will be the only reliable text on the market of this work, the very embodiment of Spanish modernism.
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Locating the shakers
The Shakers were a celibate, mystical and communitarian sect which flourished in the United States from the 1770s to the end of the nineteenth century. Their cultural influence far exceeded their statistical presence in American society.
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'ensaladas villanescas' from the 'romancero nuevo'
A collection of poems in the 'ensaladas' tradition, a Renaissance style of rustic and pastoral lyricism.
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Drame a toulon
This play dramatises a French sailor’s protest in 1948-49 against the brutality of the French military conduct of the Indochina war. Henri Martin was imprisoned for five years for distributing pamphlets. The struggle to get him released became the ‘Henri Martin Affair’, and this play was a vital ...
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From mimesis to interculturalism
From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day.
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The boggart sourcebook
This volume provides the three corpora on which the associated monograph The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect is based. Offering detailed insights into a ground-breaking research method, it will be of particular interest to folklorists, historians and dialect scholars.
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Theatre workshop
Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the el...
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Michel strogoff
This is the first critical edition of a Verne play; the book also contains many of his unpublished letters. His theatrical work (40 plays and synopses) was, until now, almost unknown, even though Michel Strogoff was among the greatest successes of the late-19th century theatre.
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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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Poésies complètes
A collection of the poetry of Jean de La Péruse, a mid-sixteenth century French poet.
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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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The boggart
The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Using long-forgotten sources as well as social media surveys and personal interviews, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the boggart is wrong.
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Elles
Elles is the first bilingual anthology of its kind. It introduces English-speaking readers to some of the best French poetry written by women over the last twenty years. Martin Sorrell has chosen work from seventeen distinctive and diverse poets, and provided lively facing-page verse translations...
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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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Jean calas
Critical edition, edited by Malcolm Cook, of 5-act tragedy by Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764-1811), first performed in 1791.
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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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Arthurian sites in the west
A completely new, revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintagel, the great hill-fort of Cadbury in south Somerset, the ruined abbey at Glastonbury and Castle ...
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D.h. lawrence and cornwall
This book examines D.H. Lawrence’s attempts to establish a utopian community in Cornwall during WWI. Lawrence was drawn to the idea of a ‘Celtic Cornwall’ beyond England’s reach and thus remote from the war. But it caught up with Cornwall and Lawrence, resulting in disillusion and eventual expuls...
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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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New directions in celtic studies
The primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings t...
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Student life in nineteenth-century cambridge
This book tells the story of John Wright, a talented but poor student at Cambridge who was deprived of success and impelled to make a living as hack writer in London, where he was often imprisoned for debt. His memoir, along with the in-depth commentary and detailed scholarly notes presented here...
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Poems to lisi
Poems to Lisi is presented here as an undergraduate student text with parallel-text English verse translations. This edition is a successor to the same editor’s original text in Exeter Hispanic Texts, which only contained the Spanish text of the poems (published in 1988).
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Reading the cinematograph
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
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Confession de fe christiana
On 21st January 1561 Casiodoro de Reina, the head of the Spanish Protestant community in London, presented the French Consistory of the Strangers' Churches with a confession of faith, the Confession de Fe Christiana. His purpose was to have the Spanish Church accepted beside the other foreign Chu...
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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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Television with stanley cavell in mind
The first book devoted exclusively to how Stanley Cavell’s thoughts about film apply to television. In a dozen chapters, a number of acknowledged critics and philosophers articulate how Cavell’s remarks on the moral perfectionism of cinema apply even more to the twenty-first century television se...
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Cornwall in the age of rebellion, 1490–1690
This book brings together a number of specialist scholarly articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, and presents them in revised form as a history of Cornwall in the early modern period, focusing especially on issues of language, identity and rebellion in the period 1490–1690.
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The exeter english-russian dictionary of cultural terms
The Exeter English-Russian Dictionary of Cultural Terms is a unique work of reference whose aim is to provide English speakers who possess at least some knowledge of Russian with the Russian equivalents of foreign and cultural terms in widespread use.
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