Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Jonathan Atkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Bringing together examples of the "aesthetic pacifism" practised during the Great War by members of the Bloomsbury Group, this text outlines the stories of the less well-known who shared the mind-set of the Bloomsbury Group when it came to facing the first "total war".
Cultural value in twenty-first-century England
The case of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Examines Shakespeare’s role in contemporary culture
by John Robert Keller
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This study considers the fundamental literary value and the underlying psychological meaning of Beckett's work. John Keller explores the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing, believing the texts embody a struggle to remain in contact with a primal sense of internal goodness.
Literature and sustainability
Concept, text and culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together twelve essays by leading and up-coming scholars on the theme of literature and sustainability. In today’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. Itinvestigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been...
Resisting history
Religious transcendence and the invention of the unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Resisting History examines the unexpected origins of our modern notion of the subconscious. Written in a fresh and entertaining style, this concise volume argues that this fundamental tenet of psychological thought derives from the attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to contain supernatural experience.
Howard Barker's art of theatre
Essays on his plays, poetry and production work
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This collection of essays provides international perspectives on the full range of Barker’s achievements, theatrical and otherwise
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Available in paperback for the first time, E. P. Thompson and English radicalism gathers together a selection of leading authors from a diverse range of disciplines to critically review not only this pivotal work, but the wide range of his career, including his experience as an adult educator, writer,...
Vanishing for the vote
Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements. Suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott this census.
Many did. Some wrote ‘Votes for Women’...
by Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement traces the reaction of Europe’s biggest and potentially most powerful country to the ethnic wars of the 1990s, the emergence of large-scale terrorism, and the new US emphasis on pre-emptive strikes.
The relic state
St Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510–1961), and for which...
by Geir Hønneland, Anne-Kristen Jorgensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This systematic study considers how international environmental agreements are transformed into political action in Russia, using three illuminating case studies on the implementation process in the fields of fisheries management, nuclear safety and air pollution control.
Iraqi women in Denmark
Ritual performance and belonging in everyday life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi‘a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen
Productive failure
Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical...