Screening the Paris suburbs

From the silent era to the 1990s

Edited by Philippe Met and Derek Schilling

Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs they found ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-4359-4

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Transnational connections in early modern theatre

Edited by M. A. Katritzky and Pavel Drábek

This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. Its twelve essays compose a complex image of ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-3917-7

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British rural landscapes on film

Edited by Paul Newland

This volume offers insights into how rural areas of Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era through both world wars and on into the twenty-first century. It is the first book ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-1986-5

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Forms of faith

Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England

Edited by Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann

This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-4354-9

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Shakespeare's cinema of love

A study in genre and influence

By R. S. White

This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-4362-4

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The challenge of the sublime

From Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic art

By Hélène Ibata

This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-1741-0

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John Hall, Master of Physicke

A casebook from Shakespeare's Stratford

By Greg Wells and Paul Edmondson

This is the first complete edition and English translation of John Hall's Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook composed in Latin around 1634-5. John Hall (1575-1635) was ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-3453-0

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James Baldwin Review

Volume 5

Edited by Douglas Field, Justin Joyce and Dwight McBride

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-4319-8

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Engine of modernity

The omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris

By Masha Belenky

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-3859-0

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£80.00

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Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France

Edited by Glenn D. Burger and Rory G. Critten

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the ... More

ISBN: 978-1-5261-4421-8

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