Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Treading the bawds
Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, ‘Treading the bawds’ analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres...
The 'perpetual fair'
Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous...
Politics, performance and popular culture
Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.
Violent Victorians
Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders.
Windows for the world
Nineteenth-century stained glass and the international exhibitions, 1851–1900
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Windows for the worldexplores the display and reception of nineteenth-century British stained glass in a secular exhibition context. International in scope, the book focuses on the global development of stained glass in this period as showcased at, and influenced by, these exhibitions. It recognises...
by Esref Aksu
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance.
Egypt
British colony, imperial capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said’s classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said’s analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial and colonial narratives,...
Beckett's Dantes
Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative...
Writing otherwise
Experiments in cultural criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Writing otherwise is a collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. Leading figures in their field, such as Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce, Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, all risk new ways...
The evolving role of national parliaments in the European Union
Ireland as a case study
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union and asks how and why this came about. It takes Ireland as a case study, examining the relationship between Ireland’s parliament (the Oireachtas) and the European Union. It also focuses sharply on parliament’s...
The British New Wave
A certain tendency?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films.
by Stephen Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the 'must see' series in the 1990s and 2000s such as This Life and The Cops, Garnett...
Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages
Nest of Deheubarth
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
An account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on Nest of Deheubarth
In the club
Associational life in colonial South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia’s colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores...