Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Why theory?
Cultural critique in film and television
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Edward Tomarken's previous book, Filmspeak, was a study of literary theory in relation to contemporary mainstream films. Some of the abstruse ideas of early literary theorists (1950–70) had in fact permeated our thinking to such an extent that both films and theories enriched and shed light upon...
TV antiquity
Swords, sandals, blood and sand
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
TV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout television history. The first comprehensive overview of the ‘swords and sandals’ genre on the small screen, it argues that these shows offer a distinct perspective on the ancient world. The book traces the historic development...
Religious Franks
Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her academic career. The prominent and internationally renowned contributors offer fresh perspectives on various...
Same–sex desire in early modern England, 1550–1735
An anthology of literary texts and contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550–1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts. The anthology’s core texts...
John Donne's Performances
Sermons, poems, Letters and devotions
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Ever since their rediscovery in the 1920s, John Donne's writings have been praised for their energy, vigour and drama - yet so far, no attempt has been made to approach and define systematically these major characteristics of his work.
Drawing on J. L. Austin's speech act theory, Margret Fetzer's...
by Patsy Stoneman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This pioneering study, described as ‘a model of feminist criticism’ (The Year’s Work in English Studies) on first publication, revealed Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challenged the Victorian disjunction between public and private ethical values, who maintained a steady...
by Agnes Andeweg, Sue Zlosnik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family
Republican learning
John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696–1722
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad. It explores the connections between...
Peasants and historians
Debating the medieval English peasantry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.
by Heloise Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This text explores the pervasive influence of pacifism on Victorian feminism. Drawing on previously unused source material, it provides an account of Victorian women who campaigned for peace and the many feminists who incorporated pacifist ideas into their writing on women and women's work.
The feminine public sphere
Middle–class women and civic life in Scotland, c. 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship.
Understanding the imaginary war
Culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945–90
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands...
Annotated Chaucer bibliography
1997–2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010,...
Forms of faith
Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This bookexplores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the ‘religious turn’ that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it unites new historicist readings with an...