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Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing ChurchPreaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons. William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to...
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Confiscating the Common Good: Small Towns and Religious Politics in the French RevolutionComprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution's religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy. It details two revolutionary dynamics that damaged the civic life of small towns: social polarisation and the...
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Surrealist Sabotage and the War on WorkIn Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of...
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Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French RevolutionThis book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants' Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the...
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The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular ImaginationThe dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth...
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Anglophobia in Fascist ItalyThis book is freely available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Anglophobia in Fascist Italy traces the origins and development of anti-British sentiment in Fascist Italy, as Britain turned from being an ally in the First...
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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of ReformVictorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of fact and, specifically for women,...
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British Romanticism and DenmarkBritish Romanticism and Denmark shows how the articulation in British Romantic-period writing of the idea of a 'Northern' cultural identity - shared by Britain and Denmark and rooted in the Classical Scandinavian past - played an important role in the emergence and development of...
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Belfast Punk and the Troubles: An Oral HistoryThis book is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. Analysing a small number of oral narratives in a granular and detailed way, it places these stories about punk in the wider context of growing up...
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Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture WarsUtilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women's sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this...
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Kate AtkinsonThis timely in-depth study of award-winning Kate Atkinson's work provides a welcome comprehensive overview of the novels, play and short stories. It explores the major themes and aesthetic concerns in her fiction. Combining close analysis and literary contextualisation, it situates her multi-faceted work in...
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Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish WritingRevolutionary Bodies analyses how a revolutionary imagination is realised in several Irish literary works of homoerotic passion.Homoerotic depictions of male bodies in writing by Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan and John Broderick merged with debates about aesthetics, religion, socialism, and Irish anti-colonialism. More recently, a...
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Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects they brought back with them to realise their social, intellectual and political ambitions in the arenas...
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Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and MediaPublished in 1719, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel--who in 1731 penned his own island narrative--coined the term "Robinsonade" to...
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Deirdre Madden: New critical perspectivesAuthor: Anne FogartyPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 5.60h x 8.60w x 0.80dISBN: 9781526118929
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Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945-1979This book reappraises Scottish politics in the decades after 1945, augmenting existing accounts of this period by foregrounding the importance of ideology and language. Founded upon original archival research, the book recovers the central role played within modern Scottish politics by an individualist, anti-bureaucratic...
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Mozart and the Wolf Gang: By Anthony BurgessWritten in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of...
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Spenser's Ethics: Empire, Mutability, and Moral Philosophy in Early ModernitySpenser's ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophy's profound transformation in the early modern era, and the English colonisation of Ireland in the turbulent 1580's and 90's. It revises a...
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Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British NovelIn this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device--the surrogate family--as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women's changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly...
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The Puerto Rican Problem in Postwar New York City: Migrant Incorporation from the U.S. Colonial PeripheryThe "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the "Puerto Rican problem" campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that...
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