Manchester University Press: 1049 books
God's only daughter
Spenser's Una as the invisible Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine’s City of God – the invisible Church, whose membership is known only to God. Una’s story (its Tudor resonances notwithstanding) therefore...
by Elizabeth C. Tingle
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In a detailed examination of the municipal and ecclesiastical records of Nantes, Elizabeth Tingle explores the theory and practice of authority in the city during the French Wars of Religion.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided...
by Marja Warehime
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
One of the most gifted French directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Rebert Bresson. This is the first book-length study of his work in English.
by Matthew Kempshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Rhetoric and the writing of history provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe between c.400 and c.1500 and argues that its sophistication and complexity provides a much-needed perspective on more modern debates over the relationship between history and literary theory.
Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK
Constructing a queer haven
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum. Asylum discourses, with their many harrowing stories, have proved a powerful platform for discussion of the sexual rights of those...
Churchyard and cemetery
Tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book explores, for the first time, the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings of the Burial Acts and discloses the ways in which religious politics framed burial management....
Women, travel and identity
Journeys by rail and sea, 1870–1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a 'golden age' of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous with chic, splendour and luxury. Utilising...
Theorising Media
Power, form and subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points.
Stories of women
Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa to India.
by Paul Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
At the heart of the European integration process is the political economy debate over whether the EU should be a market-making project, or if it should combine this with integration in employment and social policy. What has been the impact of the 2004 and 2007 rounds of enlargement upon the political...
Women and museums 1850–1914
Modernity and the gendering of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of value,...
The autonomous life?
Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' community for over three years. During that time she resided as a squatter in four different houses, worked on two successful anti-gentrification campaigns,...
Immersion
Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation...