Bücher veröffentlicht von Manchester University Press

Edward Shils was a major intellectual and social thinker of the mid-twentieth century. This collection captures the major facets the thought of this complex and controversial figure. -- .

Curatopia explores how curating globally is being (re)conceptualised through engagement with indigenous people in the Pacific and collections and exhibitions in Euro-American institutions. -- .

Born the daughter of a country squire, Bess of Hardwick made four marriages which brought her wealth and status. She built and furnished houses and founded a dynasty which included a granddaughter, Arbella Stuart, who had a claim to the thrones of both England and Scotland. -- .

Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Bronte's first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts. -- .

A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe. -- .

An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. -- .

This volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medicine. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it seeks to answer some of Egyptology's biggest questions. -- .

A collection of essays on the legendary actress that uses archival sources in the US and UK to re-examine her attitude to acting and the public perception of her work. -- .

This is the npublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marion's story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of women's lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. -- .

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic authority, influence, and intertextuality. -- .

The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant perceptions of Angela Carter. These encompass food, fashion, art, poetry, music, performance and translation, which will be discussed in a number of historical, literary and cultural contexts. -- .

This collection of McCarthy criticism anthologizes several of the most prescient early responses to an author who disturbed many when he first emerged, as well as biographical sketches, examinations of his dramatic scripts and his early unpublished stories.

This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer's legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries of the McGahern debate. -- .

A compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history. -- .

Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art. -- .

This book examines the development of legal advice services in England, from their origins in 'Poor Man's Lawyer' voluntary work in the 1890s, through the growth of mutual schemes and newspaper advice bureaux, and to the challenges of meeting the needs of socially-excluded groups in the post-war period. -- .

The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley -- .

This volume looks at a range of texts and practices thataddress race and its relationship with television. It explores televisionpolicy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racialdiversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multiculturalEngland and more. -- .

Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volume's two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victim's presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden or 'pain' experienced by the watching audience. -- .

How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer. -- .

This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy 'theatrically', contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. -- .

This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy 'theatrically', contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. -- .

This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches, alongside challenging takes on Ormond and Cromwell. -- .

Offers insights into how rural areas in Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era, through both world wars, and on into the twenty-first century. -- .

This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to the present. It establishes that the chameleonic appearances of global Maoism deserve a more prominent place in the study of art history. -- .

This book charts key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish experience down to the Restoration and greatly improves understanding of that complex and troubled relationship. -- .

In this book urban gardening is critically discussed as socio-political action which addresses spatial justice as well as social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities. -- .

Throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London. -- .

Offers a sustained and systematic focus on the intersections of time and space in contexts of border crossing, considering the historical transformations of borders over time and the way 'border time' is shaped by and shapes the borders. -- .