Did the Stuart queens create their own courts, and can these courts shed new light on women's poetry, drama and performance? Unearthing the neglected... Læs mere
The essays collected here range widely over Hardy's career as both a novelist and a lyric poet.
Material culture, the substance of much archaeological research, has only recently been studied as evidence of gender relations. Case studies,... Læs mere
Lambda literary award finalist, Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature.
This new book asks a key question- what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances... Læs mere
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parr?sia) in ancient... Læs mere
These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way... Læs mere
In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.
Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry... Læs mere
Nelson provides a historical overview of the theoretical and ideological evolution of the modern state, from pre-state and pre-modern state... Læs mere
The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq.
The intricate diplomacy that led to the peace agreement in Bosnia, known as the Dayton Accords, is here revealed in unprecedented detail.... Læs mere