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With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. The...

Screenwriters have been central figures in French cinema since the conversion to sound, from early French-language talkies for the domestic market ...

Reducere. Attracted by Springville's rich forests and abundant streams, New Englanders settled the area in the early 1800s. Not long after, industries abound...

DescriptionFor 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? Wi...

Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Fe...

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almod var. It shows how Almod var's films draw...

Reducere. Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well kn...

DescriptionThis is an edition of Christopher Marlowe's play Dr Faustus as it was printed in its revised and augmented form in 1616. It follows the ...

DescriptionTen Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinpin...

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Reducere. Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir's troubled past, this ...

This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts women with multiple disadvantages at its heart. It moves feminism be...

Reducere. The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor ...

DescriptionThis collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables expl...

Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonst...

This man and music asks two central questions: what can literature contribute to the art of composition, and how can music influence the writer? An...

DescriptionThis is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada. Travelling between the international centres of the movement, from Zuric...

Description The Anglo-Saxons possessed a complex, ever-changing theory of the fall of the angels. This is the first comprehensive study of how earl...

DescriptionThis edited collection of new essays focuses on Bess of Hardwick, one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was ...

Much has been written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, especially how it came into being and the Rainhill Trials, but very little has been...

As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black ...

Delving into a hitherto unexplored aspect of Irish art history, Painting Dublin, 1886-1949 examines the depiction of Dublin by artists from the lat...

DescriptionThis book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'. Focusing on the p...

Reducere. MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a brillia...

DescriptionThis study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450-1640: the keepi...

DescriptionThis book is a study of post-millennial solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between...

This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. I...

This is the first complete edition and English translation of John Hall's Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook composed in Latin ar...

Reducere. Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, o...

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

Into the Woods mounts an informed defence of climate science by offering a detailed investigation of the making of a paleoclimate reconstruction. F...

DescriptionIn the 1930s, a series of crises transformed the relationship between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory. ...

DescriptionParables occupy a prominent place in Middle English literature, appearing in dream visions and story collections, lives of Christ and de...

DescriptionThe art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. Though much sch...

Reducere. The volume is the first comprehensive overview of multiple theoretical perspectives on UN peace operations, with two main uses. First, it provides ...

DescriptionWith the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from L...

Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is ...

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At a time when British Politics seems increasingly fractured, with intra-party tensions cutting across both the Conservative Party and the Labour P...

DescriptionThis book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally re...

Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely ove...

DescriptionThis study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of ...

DescriptionThis book explores the mutinies in the French infantry and navy in 1919. This revolt stretched from France's intervention against the So...

What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and...

The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some fives years ago, on my way to spend a day at Hea...

Reducere. Backed by Brazil's wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took of...

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good b...

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DescriptionRepresentation, recognition and respect in world politics addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognit...

DescriptionAnthony Burgess draws upon an autobiographical episode to create Beard's Roman Women, the story of a man haunted by his first wife, pres...

Description This collection seeks to offer new and important insights into medicine in early modern Ireland. It situates Irish medicine in relation...

DescriptionDeindustrialising communities have called upon street theatre companies to re-animate public space and commemorate industrial heritage. ...

The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a...

The Gothic is haunted by the ghost of William Blake. Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake's affinity with the genre, often invoking hi...

DescriptionRereading Chaucer and Spenser is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to provide new critical...

DescriptionThis book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. B...

DescriptionThis study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early moder...

DescriptionTattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, tel...

Description Of all the scandals to emerge from the financial crisis of 2007-08, the rigging of interbank interest rates by traders at Barclays, RBS...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialis...

Reducere. Across Eastern Germany, where political allegiances are shifting to the right, the wolf is increasingly seen as a trespasser and threat to the loca...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more...

This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice on the contribution of international organisations and n...

Reducere. John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggl...

DescriptionThis volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of 'scholarly personae', it exp...

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

What we call a part of the world - Asia, Europe, the Middle East - seems innocuous. But the name of a region is totemic: a mental map that guides t...

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broke...

Reducere. A strong sense of unity and tradition frames a fascinating history of Manchester, New Hampshire's Franco-American community. Author Robert B. Perre...