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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the ‘coming-of-age’ novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood.
Sets Hoggs' contributions for this 19th century periodical in full cultural context, with detailed annotation and a convenient and complete editorial apparatus.
This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the ‘dead’ in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology.
The early part of the period covered by this volume marked the centrality of the book as a vehicle of communication. The later part of the period witnesses the book’s decline as a mass medium, although it retains a high cultural value in contemporary society.
A series of studies on small national (or sub-national) cinemas
This book identifies and interprets the longstanding, transatlantic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South.
Charts the evolution of Scotland from a medieval and feudal to a modern, professional polity, and the transformation of its church and religious life from catholic to protestant.
An introduction to the European Union (the EU) which makes its institutions and processes more readily intelligible.
This new guide to the English renaissance’s most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.
An accessible student guide to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe.
This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues.