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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
What does it mean to be Irish? Are the predicates Catholic and Irish so inextricably linked that it is impossible to have one and not the other? Does the process of secularization in modern times mean that Catholicism is no longer a touchstone of what it means to be Irish? Indeed was such a paradigm...
From Republic to Restoration
Legacies and Departures
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book brings together a number of distinguished historians, literary and cultural scholars to explore the continuum of the English Republic and the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. Examining the continuities between periods frequently regarded as discrete, the volume not only challenges...
This England
Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This England is a celebration of 'Englishness' in the sixteenth century, and examines the growing conviction of 'Englishness' through the rapidly developing English language; the reinforcement of cultural nationalism as a result of the Protestant Reformation; the national and international situation...
Poetry for historians
Or, W. H. Auden and history
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth-century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The...
by Gareth Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued...
Victorians and the Virgin Mary
Religion and Gender in England 1830 - 1885
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing...
Karl Polanyi
The Hungarian Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This is the first work to offer a collection of Polanyi's texts never before published in English. The book presents articles, papers, lectures, speeches, notes, and draft manuscripts, mostly written between 1907 and 1923, with the exception of a few later texts. Organised thematically around religion,...
Sinister histories
Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary...
by Eileen Fauset
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing. In this critically engaged study Eileen Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant...
by Peter Morey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The award-winning novelist Rohinton Mistry is recognised as one of the most important contemporary writers of postcolonial literature. This study - the first of its kind - will provide scholars and students with an insight into the key features of Mistry's work. Peter Morey suggests how the author's...
by Laura Varnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the...
Aspects of knowledge
Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews traditional categories of periodisation and discipline, establishing connections and cross-sections between...
The Levellers
Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious tolerance and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received...
Brazil in the World
The International Relations of a South American Giant
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Brazil has suddenly become a country of interest to the West, playing a critical role in global economic talks at the G20 and WTO, brokering North-South relations through its new international economic geography, and stepping into regional and global security questions through its activities in Haiti,...