This collection examines two recent phenomena: the return of realist tendencies and practices in world cinema and television, and the 'rehabilitation' of realism in... Læs mere
Drawing on recent developments within the sociology of family life, this book examines family connection and solidarity within different stepfamily networks, focusing on relationships from... Læs mere
Presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner, this exploration of a topic that has been veiled by taboo, the psychology of excretion, surveys an assortment of... Læs mere
The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are... Læs mere
In the aftermath of the revolutions in theory and criticism of the last several decades, this book offers a re-reading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel by exploring the relation of the writer to the reader.
For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in... Læs mere
Marjo Kaartinen has brought the world of monks, friars, and nuns freshly alive in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Religious Life and... Læs mere
Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity. Armstrong shows how the tenets and... Læs mere
This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the... Læs mere
Rangsimaporn argues that Russia aspires to become a great power and tries to achieve this through utilizing... Læs mere