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Journalism and the Novel
Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this...
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The Poetry of Praise
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were...
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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914
London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalization of all ‘acts of...
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The Book of Memory
Mary Carruthers’s classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has...
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Henry James and Sexuality
In Henry James and Sexuality, Hugh Stevens argues for a new interpretation of James’s fiction. Stevens argues that James’s writing contains...
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Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society
In 1750 Bradford was a small market town of about 4000 inhabitants in the Yorkshire, West Riding. By 1850 it had become a major industrial city of...
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The Symposium
Plato’s Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading...
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The Theatre of García Lorca
The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women’s and gay studies, psychoanalysis,...
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Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
The uniformity of the eighteenth-century novel in today’s paperbacks and critical editions no longer conveys the early novel’s visual exuberance....
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Early Philosophical Shiism
The Ismailis, among whom are the followers of the Aga Khan, rose to prominence during the fourth Islamic/tenth Christian century. They developed a...
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Controlling Governments
How much influence do citizens have to control the government? What guides voters at election time? Why do governments survive? How do institutions...
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Fear of Security
Rarely has security been such a preoccupation of Australian politics, and rarely has it seemed so far from being achieved. This celebrated book...
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Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot
Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentienth-century literary theory. The school of...
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When Things Fell Apart
In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up...
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American Government
The essential story of American politics and government is the relationship between liberalism and democracy. American Government demonstrates that...
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Law and Literature
The emergence of an interdisciplinary study of law and literature is one of the most exciting theoretical developments taking place in North America...
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Controlling Governments
How much influence do citizens have to control the government? What guides voters at election time? Why do governments survive? How do institutions...
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Implementing EU Pollution Control
Through a detailed analysis this book examines the role of law in European Union integration processes through the implementation of the EU Directive...
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Literary Englands
In our time ‘Englishness’ has become a theme for speculation rather than dogma: twentieth-century writers have found it an elusive and ambiguous...
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The Cambridge Companion to Raphael
Raphael is a rare painter who was never out of fashion. This book addresses some of the interests of recent scholarship, which has changed the focus...
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Governing after Crisis
The constant threat of crises such as disasters, riots and terrorist attacks poses a frightening challenge to Western societies and governments....
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The Usable Past
How can we know the past? How can we speak of it in literary forms? Why should we want to? Concentrating on the past as both the subject of fiction...
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English Medieval Graffiti
Graffiti (’drawings or writings scratched on a wall or other surface’) are to be found incised on the walls and pillars of innumerable cathedrals...
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Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Paperback with CD-ROM
The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary defines the vocabulary students need to succeed in high school and beyond. Entries cover more than 2,000...
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