An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010 -- .
Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations between craftspeople, inventors, engineers and educators. -- .
Draws on a wide range of cultural materials in order to challenge Eurocentric readings of decolonisation.
The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa -- .
What does the ‘Beat’ in ‘Beatles’ really mean? Why did Bob Dylan want to visit Jack Kerouac’s grave with Allen Ginsberg? How does reading Gary Snyder help us understand the lyrics of Jim Morrison? This book provides the answers. -- .
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Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's... Læs mere
Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major... Læs mere
This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power. -- .
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Sets a case study of deaf people’s leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood,... Læs mere
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