This is the first book-length study to critically examine the work of Ken Burns, the innovative producer-director as a television auteur, a pivotal... Læs mere
This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in... Læs mere
Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe.
How can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection... Læs mere
Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these... Læs mere
This study innovatively explores how Malory's Morte D'Arthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions which the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental.
Written during and immediately after the 1914-18 War, Lawrence's major fictions - notably The Rainbow and Women in Love - trace the growth and contemplate the state of industrial England in the twentieth century.
This book provides the reader with an explanation of the market forces driving increased competition in the legal profession that has raised the overall... Læs mere
Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud Gonne and the French politician and journalist Lucien Millevoye, attracted many admirers - among them distinguished authors such as W.
This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness and cultural responses to it, and how madness may inspire creativity.
The introduction and the contributions of fifteen leading senior scholars from England, Scotland, France, the Netherlands and Germany provide cutting edge research on the changing relationship between monarchy and society in medieval and early modern Europe.
Migration in the New Europe: East-West Revisited responds to demand for a study on migration and policy developments in the light of European Union enlargement.