This book examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire.
This book examines how the interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind.
This book explores the work of these filmmakers on both sides of the camera since the 1970s, offering original perspectives and fresh interpretations of key films, both mainstream and independent.
Investigates the semantic permutations of ‘homeness’ in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.
A critical monograph of the San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, informed by much archival material.
Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism.
This engrossing and entertaining scientific history includes the story of Glasgow’s ‘Big Bang’ of 1863, the controversy over ‘Astronomer Royal for Scotland’ and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow.
A selection of the leading theorists of multiculturalism revisit aspects of Parekh’s work both to underline its continuing importance and the ongoing vitality of multiculturalist theory.
This book focuses on amateur fiction film-making
The first collection of critical essays on the film work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière. This book offers an exciting range of responses to and assessments of his contributions to film studies and includes a new piece by Rancière himself on the subject of film.
The book explores both why such texts arise, including consideration of writers’ motives as well as pressures from the... Læs mere
Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century.