Manchester University Press: 1049 books
A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley
A Catholic response to The Faerie Queene
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A Fig for Fortune offers a deeply contestatory, richly imagined answer to sixteenth-century England’s...
The challenge of the sublime
From Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic art
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly...
Gothic Renaissance
A reassessment
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose dialogues, political pamphlets and Shakespeare's...
by Robert Duggan
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The grotesque in contemporary British fiction reveals the extent to which the grotesque endures as a dominant artistic mode in British fiction and presents a new way of understanding six authors who have been at the forefront of British literature over the past four decades.
Starting with a...
Making and unmaking in early modern English drama
Spectators, aesthetics and incompletion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Explores the significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly
Spenserian satire
A tradition of indirection
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire. Scholars of early modern English satire almost never discuss Spenser. However, these critical gaps stem from later developments in the canon rather than any insignificance in Spenser's...
Stage rights!
The Actresses’ Franchise League, activism and politics 1908–58
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of political and feminist networks in twentieth century theatre.
Wanting and having
Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more...
Odd women?
Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s–1930s
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s
by David Stirrup
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich’s writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to Erdrich’s...
Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy
Clarissa's caesuras
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy is a bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. It argues that this text needs to be rethought as a dangerous exploration of the ethics of tragedy, on the scale of the great arguments of post-Romantic tragic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The injunction, ‘Know thyself!’, resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The ‘self’ remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, indispensable and elusive; something we take for granted and yet remains difficult to pin down, describe or...
by Alannah Tomkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery.
Between earth and heaven
Liminality and the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences