The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a... Læs mere
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This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural... Læs mere
This pathbreaking collection of original essays surveys an important but neglected topic: anonymous publication in England for the... Læs mere
The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess explores the influence well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the U.S. and in England in the years 1870-1920.
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This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism.
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Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.
Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Queer Lyrics considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.
This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D.
Shakespeare in mass media - particularly film, video, and television - is arguably the hottest, fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies.