This book is the first sustained and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and their families, and how it affected the development of communities and local economies.
A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for... Læs mere
A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for... Læs mere
Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects... Læs mere
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic, told here by one of the world's leading scholars of the... Læs mere
The work details the life and political career of John Baxter Langley, a once infamous but now largely forgotten Victorian reformer.... Læs mere
This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of... Læs mere
This book brings together a number of specialist scholarly articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, and presents them in revised form as a... Læs mere
An amusing tale of late twelfth-century social mobility, the romance tells of a bewildering series of adventures... Læs mere
Linked to new research on 18th-century middle orders, this book looks deep into small-town society. It finds these to be places... Læs mere
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies. It includes selections of his... Læs mere
From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day.