Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
British Literature and Classical Music
Cultural Contexts 1870-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely...
by Dr Toby Manning
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization,...
by Dr. Jocelyn Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and...
The Age of Glass
A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era.
The Age of Glass explores the cultural and technological ascension...
Möbian Nights
Reading Literature and Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
"I died at Auschwitz,†? French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, "and nobody knows it.†? Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness develops a new understanding of literary reading: that in the wake of disasters like the Holocaust, death remains a premise of our experience rather...
The Literature of Reconstruction
Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Winner of the 2016 ESSE Junior Scholar Book Award in Literatures in the English Language
The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary...
Getting the Picture
The Visual Culture of the News
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of...
Public Images
Celebrity, Photojournalism, and the Making of the Tabloid Press
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photojournalism, this book explores the origin of the unauthorised celebrity photograph in the early 20th century, tracing its rise in the 1900s through to the...
by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema...
The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime
Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second...
by Turkka Keinonen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
How do we design for users? How might users best participate in the design process? How can we evaluate the user's experience of designed products and services? These fundamental questions are addressed in Designers, Users, and Justice, through a series of dialogues between a design scholar and a...
Sloppy Craft
Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts brings together leading international artists and critics to explore the possibilities and limitations of the idea of 'sloppy craft' – craft that is messy or unfinished looking in its execution or appearance, or both. The contributors address 'sloppiness'...
Love Objects
Emotion, Design and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
How are love and emotion embodied in material form?
Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility,...
Steel
A Design, Cultural and Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level – in terms of both what it has been...