Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Robert Southwell
Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586–95
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell’s poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book dismantles that idea by examining the poetry, word by word, discovering layers of new meanings, hidden emblems, and...
The changing spaces of television acting
From studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. By examining changing acting styles from distinct eras of television production – studio realism and location realism - it makes a unique contribution to both television and performance...
State of play
Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past.
Playing for time
Stories of lost children, ghosts and the endangered present in contemporary theatre
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions.
Tea and empire
James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country’s economy and shaping the world’s drinking habits, Taylor died in...
by Bruce Woodcock
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'.
Object matters
Condoms, adolescence and time
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Produces an original empirical analysis of the discourse of safer sex, condom use and consent
Love, Intimacy and Power
Marriage and patriarchy in Scotland, 1650–1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explores the marital relationships of the Scottish elites, 1650-1850, looking at how they negotiated love, intimacy and power in a patriarchal culture.
Living in sin
Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet...
Novelty fair
British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great Exhibition, daguerreotypes and ballads, satirical shilling books and government-backed design reform, blackface performers and middle-class paterfamilias....
Direct democracy
A comparative study of the theory and practice of government by the people
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Should citizens be allowed to propose legislation? Should they even be allowed to recall politicians if they do not live up to their expectations? These questions and many others form the subject of this timely book. In addition to presenting an up to date review of the empirical literature, Direct...
Cultivating political and public identity
Why plumage matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Public and political life can no longer be seen as simply the pursuit of material gain or even as the struggle for enough food and shelter by which to live. The interests people pursue are shaped by the identities they both inherit and cultivate. In generating identities, everything is important,...
by Ginger Frost
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book explores the legal and social consequences of growing up illegitimate in England and Wales. Unlike most other studies of illegitimacy, Frost's book concentrates on the late-Victorian period and the early twentieth century, and takes the child's point of view rather than that of the mother...
Recycling the disabled
Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial, and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance...