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Cold War Stories
British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book is the first comprehensive study of mainstream British dystopian fiction and the Cold War. Drawing on over 200 novels and collections of short stories, the monograph explores the ways in which dystopian texts charted the lived experiences of the period, offering an extended analysis of...
Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals)
Postmodern British Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. Exploring the concept of literary postmodernism, and the strategies and philosophies to which it...
by Michael Thurston, Nigel Alderman
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.
by Deirdre Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This distinctive new volume of drama by black British playwrights exemplifies how experiments with form, subject-matter and genre can serve to centralise the experiences of black people in local, national and international contexts of culture, politics and performance. Each play is critically introduced,...
Victorian Environments
Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term ‘environment’ the work aims to draw together new approaches to Victorian texts and cultures that conceptualise and...
by Rae Greiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of thinking along with them. By abstracting emotions,...
Small Wars
Their Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
This is the original manual for “small wars,” now known variously as guerrilla warfare, asymmetric combat, and low-intensity conflict. It was first published in 1896 as an analysis and how-to guide for the British Army as it fought to expand the boundaries of the British Empire. Its...
Blood and Mistletoe
The History of the Druids in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton’s captivating book is the...
Dangerous Intimacies
Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Refuting commonly held beliefs within women’s and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, Dangerous Intimacies challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century. Lisa L. Moore argues that literary representations...
The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1
Travellers and Tourists
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.
British Images of Germany
Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagined to be a fraught relationship, illuminating the sense of kinship Britons felt for Germany even in times of diplomatic tension.
From Little London to Little Bengal
Religion, Print, and Modernity in Early British India, 1793–1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
From Little London to Little Bengal traces the traffic in culture between Britain and India during the Romantic period. To some, Calcutta appeared to be a "Little London," while in London itself an Indianized community of returned expatriates was emerging as "Little Bengal." Circling...
by C. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain's history as an imperial nation. Rereading canonical war writers Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, alongside war writing by Enid Bagnold, E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Roly Grimshaw and others, the book makes clear that the Great War was more than a European war.