Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics,... Læs mere
Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction -- .
This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women’s access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the... Læs mere
This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation... Læs mere
The book develops a sympathetic Marxist critique of Keynes. Keynes’s insights, particularly into unemployment, money and finance and the importance of state intervention gain greater critical purchase when re-worked on Marxist foundations and doing so also enriches Marxism. -- .
This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban... Læs mere
A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as ‘stateless’. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of... Læs mere
Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the... Læs mere
Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath. -- .
Both colonial and postcolonial historical approaches often sideline New Zealand as a peripheral player. This book redresses the balance, and evaluates its role as an imperial power – as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region. -- .
Transplantation is a boundary practice unsettling distinctions between self and other, life and death. This book identifies a... Læs mere
Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning’s rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response. -- .