An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of... Læs mere
This text explores the ways in which four British novelists used and transformed the theme of women's relation to sexual love in the 18th and 19th centuries. It analyzes the moment in cultural history when gender roles, sexuality and literature met to become a new ideology.
While the utterances on France of several other figures are also examined, the main focus is on Walter Bagehot, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold,... Læs mere
This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Many existing... Læs mere
This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading... Læs mere
What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social... Læs mere
The inauguration of the National Assembly of Wales creates a new opportunity to consider the economic agenda for Wales. Individual chapters cover foreign investment, transport, small businesses, earnings, the rural dimension and outline the policy perspective.
Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine.
Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism.
Following a brief history of Welsh education and a discussion of how contemporary cultural identity is... Læs mere
This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts for the global success of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s most popular play? Using maps,... Læs mere
Forgotten Lives explores the lives and work of Lenin's sisters, Anna, Ol'ga and Mariia, and the role they played in the... Læs mere