This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland.... Læs mere
An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. -- .
This volume brings together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the European Union. -- .
Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and... Læs mere
"This volume grew out of two sessions at the Annual Conference for the College Art Assocation in Los Angeles in 2012"--P. xiii.
This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national... Læs mere
Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. -- .
An essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology. The full-length introduction offers a historical and critical analysis of the pastoral tradition and the circulation of texts. -- .
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. -- .
The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space. -- .
A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew... Læs mere
The books detects the struggle of Communism and anti-Communism as a key feature for the making of the political system in post-WWII democratic Italy, and presents it in its international context through a broad analysis of the main communication networks -- .