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Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals)
British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles...
by Christopher Chant
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Codenames were a vital feature of World War II, serving as mental shorthand for those in the know, and obscuring the issues for those who were not. Codenames were used from the highest level, in the planning of grand strategic moves affecting the conduct of the whole war, to the lowest command divisions,...
Ugetsu Monogatari or Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Routledge Revivals)
A Complete English Version of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese collection of Tales of the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Ugetsu Monogatari, or Tales of Moonlight and Rain numbers among the best-loved Japanese classics. These nine illustrated tales of the supernatural from eighteenth-century Osaka combine popular appeal with a high literary standard. The author expressed his complex views on human life and society in...
by Annette Kuhn
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other institutions, practices and discourses — for...
Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United...
Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995)
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 1995, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia is the first single-volume reference work on the history and culture of medieval France. It covers the political, intellectual, literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth to the late fifteenth century. The shorter entries...
Seleukos Nikator (Routledge Revivals)
Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, one of his commanders, Seleukos Nikator, rose over a period of forty years from being a landless refugee to the most successful of the Successor kings. This biography, first published in 1990, makes use of both historical and archaeological sources...
by Max Beer
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
First published in 1924, Max Beer's work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. He considers in detail the heretical social movement and the story is brought up to the period of the peasants' wars and the social struggles in the towns, which form the prelude...
Routledge Revivals: The Shakespearean Metaphor (1990)
Studies in Language and Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1978, this book represents a study of the ways in which Shakespeare exploits the possibilities of metaphor. In a series of studies ranging from the early to the mature Shakespeare, the author concentrates on metaphor as a controlling structure — the extent to which a certain metaphoric...
Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals)
Responses to Reality in Western Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First...
Just A Phrase I'm Going Through
My Life in Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage … not the answers you’d expect to the question ‘what happens when you become a linguist?’
But now, reflecting on a long and hugely successful career at the forefront of the field of English Language and Linguistics, David Crystal answers...
Richard Wright's Native Son
A Routledge Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.
This guide to...
by Mark Seltzer
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power...
Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)
Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic,...