Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Regulating sexuality
Women in twentieth-century Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a groundbreaking examination of the attempts to regulate female sexuality in twentieth-century Northern Ireland, which opens up new and exciting areas of a previously neglected history. A wide-ranging study, it explores the sexual experiences of women in the context of the distinctive religious,...
The British Labour Party and twentieth-century Ireland
The cause of Ireland, the cause of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Labour Party was broadly supportive of Irish home rule. However, from the end of the First World War, Labour anticipated a place in government, and as a modern, maturing party in British politics, it developed a more calculated set of responses...
by James Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explains devolution today in terms of the evolution of past structures of government in the component parts of the United Kingdom. Available in paperback for the first time, it highlights the importance of the English dimension and the role that England’s territorial politics played in...
A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party
Democratic socialism and sectarianism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. Formed in 1924 and disbanded in 1987, the...
Spenser and Virgil
The pastoral poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets.
Reconstructing modernity
Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of characters who shaped these processes. It challenges...
Spilling the beans
Eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770–1830
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women’s consumption and production are manifest in novelists’ and novels’ accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.
Music and the sociological gaze
Art worlds and cultural production
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
At a time when the ‘social’ analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.
Cult british TV comedy
From Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book is the first sustained critical analysis of Cult British TV comedy from 1990 to the present day. The book examines ‘post-alternative’ comedy as both ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ TV, aimed mostly at niche audiences and often possessing a subcultural aura. It includes case studies of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and the sitcom writer Graham Linehan.
by Dominic Head
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction.
McEwan’s...
by Dave Rolinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The first full-length critical study of Alan Clarke, one of Britain's greatest auteur directors which examines the full range of Clarke's work, and goes beyond the violent image garnered from work like 'Scum' and 'The Firm'.
No Other Way to Tell It
Docudrama on Film and Television (second edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Students of Television, Film, Media and Theatre studies
Beyond representation
Television drama and the politics and aesthetics of identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of ‘progress’/’progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film. With fifteen original essays by leading scholars of Spanish film, the book casts light on the manifold meanings, methods and influences of Spanish screen performance, from the silent era to...