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A survey of the social and economic conditions and events that gave Liverpool a reputation for being the most crime-ridden place in the country in ...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Jemma BorgNumber of pages: 70Collection: Pavilion PoetryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 118 x 189...

'Have you looked / have you looked deeply?' ask these poems, rooted in the human body and its movement through an interconnected living world. Bloo...

The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key...

Frank, conversational and suffused with a dry humour, this book is a record of poet and novelist Lieke Marsman's diagnosis, events and thoughts of ...

This is a unique and fascinating autobiography which tells the story of twentieth-century Germany and its black population through the eyes of a me...

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) is a film of extraordinary technical achievement and intense emotional impact, garnering acclaim from both critics and audie...

In July 1981 a series of street disturbances that took place in the Liverpool 8 area of the city put Liverpool at the forefront of events that also...

In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife. Can you tell me the name of a black scientist?A black ex...

Pawel Pawlikowski's Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and ...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of British seafarers of African descent from the Tudor period to the present day.

Essays in Romanticism, a peer-reviewed journal edited by Alan Vardy, is the official journal of the International Conference on Romanticism, succee...

This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings.Publisher: Liverpool University...

He argues that for all its contradictoriness Byron's poetic mind develops organically, and that the scintillating technique of the late works grow ...

"This volume emerged from an international conference, "The Jewish Diaspora of the Caribbean, " convened in Kingston, Jamaica, from 12 to 14 Januar...

This study casts back over Achebe's writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Edi...

This book studies Penelope Fitzgerald's writing and the compositional method behind it.

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald's double role as writer and academic.

In the violent maelstrom of early 1970s Belfast many young members of the loyalist youth gangs known as 'Tartans' joined the fledgling paramilitary...

Rome's first emperor, Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, has probably had the most lasting effect on history of all rulers of the classica...

Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human.Publisher: Liverpo...

William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disa...

Arguably, excess is at the heart of Dawn of the Dead, integral to its meaning: not only in its scenes of gore, its in-your-face social satire and i...

Red Letters is the story of Liverpool FC's first title-winning season in thirty years, game by game, in real time, with hopes and expectations test...

Brings together curators, artists and historians to rethink sexual politics as realised in exhibits, offering an alternative narrative of feminism'...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Colin FlemingNumber of pages: 120Collection: Devil's AdvocatesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 133...

The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplish...

The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D.

Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete o...

This book argues that contemporary Haitian literature historicizes the political and environmental problems raised by the 2010 earthquake by buildi...

Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water andclimaxes on a raging river. The director's love of fear cinema, his Catholicism an...

With new exclusive input from writer, director and star Alice Lowe, the text also looks at the production's inception and development, assesses its...

This is the second part of a two-volume textbook offering the basis for a single semester undergraduate-level university course on environmental po...

Examines public exhibitions of human anatomy from their first appearance in the early 1700s to the present day, and how these exhibitions taught th...

This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key thinkers (inc. Henri Lefebv...

This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. Conceived as companion to the highly-regarded, best-selling 4...

Justus Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) is one of the most important and interesting of sixteenth century Humanist texts.

This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - in multiple ways - in literary histor...

This book provides all that is needed to study Plato's Atlantis story: Greek text, commentary, vocabulary of Greek terms, new translation and full ...

In this volume, poet John Kinsella presents a selection of Paul Muldoon's most linguistically innovative and overtly `experimental' poems. Kinsella...

Over 160 distinguished poets representing a diversity of class, race, gender, and generation offer fascinating perspectives on stately exteriors an...

This book synthesises research on violence for researchers and policy makers to inform future practice. Those who are interested in human conflict ...

Cicero's great polemic against Antony, a literary masterpiece, is here made available with full translation and notes. The introduction to this edi...

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, bel...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): John GodwinNumber of pages: 182Collection: Aris & Phillips Classical TextsPublication date: 1987Dim...

Book V of Herodotus' Histories begins the run-up to the Persian Wars of 490-479 B.C. with Persia's conquest of coastal Thrace after the Scythian ex...

Amorous Aesthetics traces the development of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, through its adoption and...

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" in the cultural imagina...

This book examines the scale and scope of the largely forgotten role played for the Admiralty by 3000 armed fishing vessels, 39, 000 fishermen and ...

Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of t...

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literac...

In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but also within the history ...

This study sheds light on a major and until now little studied Liverpool writer, Edward Rushton (1782-1814), whose politics and poetics were imbued...

The essays in this volume address a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann's most significant works, examining them through the lens of "transgressi...

Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Byron and the man who published his ...

This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826.

DescriptionFor the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have ...

The first detailed analysis of the legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in independent Ireland. Providing statistical analysis of the extent of ...

The Girl from Andros was the Roman comic playwright Terence's first play and shows him as already a master dramatist. It contains much plotting and...

Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at...

An important collection which explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary...

The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood ...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Regina GalassoIllustration(s): 9 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 216Collection: Cont...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Charlotte (Cardiff School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University) HammondIllustration(s): 11 Illus...

This first annotated edition of William Gilbert's enigmatic poem, The Hurricane: a Theosophical and Western Eclogue, with extended interpretative c...

This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide an overview of the First World Festival of Negro Arts, held in Dakar in 1966, and of its mult...

This volume presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or exc...

By translating the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim hist...

Euripides' Medea is a compelling study of love turned to hatred and a rejected woman's burning desire for revenge. This edition presents the Greek ...

DescriptionThis volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the bes...