Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
by Peter Childs
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy.
It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations...
The hurt(ful) body
Performing and beholding pain, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume’s two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining ‘hurt’ from...
Science, politics and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland
The Reverend William Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Based on newly unearthed source material, this book follows the career of clergyman William Richardsona and assesses his impact on politics, science and agriculture nationally and internationally.
In Time's eye
Essays on Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Challenging received opinion and breaking new ground in Kipling scholarship, these essays on Kipling’s attitudes to the First World War, to the culture of Edwardian England, to homosexuality and to Jewishness, bring historical, literary critical and postcolonial approaches to this perennially controversial...
Cinemas and cinemagoing in wartime Britain, 1939–45
The utility dream palace
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and cinemagoing in Britain between 1939 and 1945, and explores the impact that the war had on the places...
Leisure cultures in urban Europe, c.1700–1870
A transnational perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe during the transition from the early modern to the modern period. Bringing together research on a wide variety of activities – from the theatre and art exhibitions to spas, seaside resorts and games – it develops...
Discovering Gilgamesh
Geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian ‘slush pile’, George Smith, a self-taught expert in ancient languages, happened upon a Babylonian version of Noah’s Flood. His research suggested this ‘Deluge...
Flagships of imperialism
The P&O Company and the Politics of Empire from its origins to 1867
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Flagships of Imperialism is the first scholarly monograph on the history of the P&O shipping company, and the first history of P&O to pay due attention to the context of nineteenth century imperial politics which so significantly shaped the company’s development. Based chiefly on unpublished material...
by Josef W. Konvitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A...
Apostasy and Jewish identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe
Are you still my brother?'
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play...
Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
The career and writings of Peter Heylyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first full-length study of one of the most prolific and controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century. Newly available in paperback, it provides a detailed analysis of the ways in which Laudian and royalist polemical literature was created, tracing continuities and changes...
English Benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century
Living spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns'...
Creating character
Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of...
The playboy and James Bond
007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This is the first book to focus on James Bond’s relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, it considers how ideas of gender and consumption were manipulated to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy...