Old Is Gold

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.Author: Peter DavidsonPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9781526169341About the AuthorPeter Davidson is Senior Research Fellow in...

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Bront?'s The Tenant of...

This collection of historical and contemporary writing by women argues that, in addition to gender, identity markers such as race, class, religion, citizenship, sexuality, and marital status have influenced women's lives in the United States for more than 200 years. Voices of American Women's...

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences' judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.Author: Patricia WarehPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9781526149855About the AuthorPatricia...

A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South.For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the legacy of Marxism...

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures.Author: Ben HaworthPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...

Political history and history of ideas, art history, theories of nations and nationalism, Classical Reception studies, modern Greek history and modern Scottish history come together in this collection of essays by experts in all these fields. The starting point for the volume is the...

Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative platform for imagining a host of Irish pasts,...

Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary...

We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history. As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve precision in war began...

How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.Author: Nina LübbrenPublisher:...

Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena...

This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough understanding of...

A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy. The Irish revolutionaries' attempts to create a Gaelic, postcolonial state involved...

The position of India's princely states is a relatively under-studied aspect of the British withdrawal from India and the early years of Indian and Pakistani independence. Far from playing second fiddle to events in the British Indian provinces, the princely states played an integral...

This book provides a rich survey of the early-modern 'secret state', intelligence gathering espionage, and the work of spies in the British late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth-centuries.Author: Alan MarshallPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 01/10/2023Pages: 280Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69dISBN: 9781526118899About the AuthorAlan...

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women's engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between...

This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of Irish Protestant writers,...

Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval...

Republican passions provides an innovative perspective on the founding of the French Third Republic. Based on the archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, it demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the republican movement during the Second Empire...