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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization),...
The Disarmament of Hatred
Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Documenting an audacious Franco-German movement for moral disarmament, instigated in 1921 by war veteran and French Catholic politician Marc Sangnier, in this transnational study Gearóid Barry examines the European resonance of Sangnier's Peace Congresses and their political and religious ecumenism within France in the era of two World Wars.
British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos
The Career of Jack Garnett, 1902-19
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Recreating the diplomatic career of Jack Garnett, from 1902-1919, John Fisher reveals a fascinating individual as well as contextualizing his story with regard to British policy in the countries to which he was posted in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, during a period of rapid change in international politics and in Britain's world role.
Eighteenth-Century British Premiers
Walpole to the Younger Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Following his earlier surveys of 19th and 20th Century British Prime Ministers, Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 18th Century predecessors, including such major figures as Robert Walpole, the Elder Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord North and the Younger Pitt.
by A. Winch
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's body image through 'the girlfriend gaze'.
by Melinda Zook
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the survival of the Protestant religion both at home and abroad.
by L. Underwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain their religious identity.
Visions of Britain, 1730-1830
Anglo-Scottish Writing and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction.
Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
The Mothers of the Mystery Genre
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery.
Transgressive Fiction
The New Satiric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture
Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.
Emily Dickinson
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century.
Konrad Morgen
The Conscience of a Nazi Judge
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a moral biography of Georg Konrad Morgen, who prosecuted crimes committed by members of the SS in Nazi concentration camps and eventually came face-to-face with the system of industrialized murder at Auschwitz. His wartime papers and postwar testimonies yield a study in moral complexity.
Hitler - Films from Germany
History, Cinema and Politics since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination.