Examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical
A new vision of the good life as collective transformation against the fragmentation of contemporary life.
Assembled digitally from worldwide collections, this Arcade of 36 colourful tile panels exposes for the first time religious themes as well as more traditional themes for architectural decoration, and adds a new work to the canon of seventeenth-century Persian art.
Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope.
A contemporary collection of scholarly essays exploring the vibrant intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studies
Studies the capacity of Shakespeare’s plays to touch and think about touch
Studies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature
Investigates whether a popular magazine can promote social mobility by joking about clubs
How does Robert Louis Stevenson’s engagement with Pacific Islands cultures demonstrate processes of inculturation and the transformation of global Christianity?
The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison’s life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by Mitchison.
Reconsiders the 1820s, an unjustly neglected, highly self-conscious decade defined by massive and anxiety-inducing cultural transformations
Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem