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Charlotte Dacres The Passions is a thrilling gothic novel of thwarted love turned to hate, and the destructive power of uncontrolled emotion. It offers a powerful portrait of female treachery, engaging with nineteenth-century religious controversies, and championing Enlightenment rationality over the emotionality of Romanticism.

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A collection of eight original articles by leading scholars, which throw new light on Geoffrey Chaucer's engagement with Italian literature and culture in the late fourteenth century.

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Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's formal and discursive preoccupation with time in his works, highlighting how interactions between the interior phenomenon of time-consciousness and the exterior pressures of time-passage and change complicate ethical scenarios and human experience.

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This book provides national governments and school-communities with a model way of working to push back against child poverty, showcasing Waless social democracy as different from the UK conservative neoliberal project that has wreaked havoc in its four different jurisdictions.

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This volume considers issues surrounding Christian women in the period of the Apostolic Fathers, 80-160CE, in a period before a canon of Scripture existed or orthodoxy and heresy were defined and when women were to be found in a variety of roles in the churches.

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The authors discussed in this series are the leading writers of the younger generation in Germany. The volumes offer introductions to contemporary German writers and critical assessments of their work.

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This volume contains an interview with Hein, a previously unpublished prose piece by him, a biography and critical articles which examine individuals texts.

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This is a comprehensive and fully-illustrated reference work detailing al Anglican churches built and restored in Glamorgan during the Victorian church-building and restoration boom of the 19th century. There are 255 entries.

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The contributors to this text provide a critical evaluation of some of the main ideas associated with civil society and, by drawing on original empirical research, will explore the mechanics of civil society across a number of areas.

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The contributors to this text provide a critical evaluation of some of the main ideas associated with civil society and, by drawing on original empirical research, will explore the mechanics of civil society across a number of areas.

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Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "boosters" to civilize the town's public spaces and its inhabitants and shows how this vision of Merthyr depended on the taming of popular culture.

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This volume examines some key issues in the social history of Wales in the Tudor period, and is written by a number of acknowledged experts on Tudor Wales. These fascinating studies will be indispensable to all students of Tudor History.

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This book argues for the value of applying methods deriving from cognitive sciences (such as neuroscience or psychology) to studies of medieval history, literature, art and culture, and suggests ways in which this comparative approach might be achieved.

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Emyr Humphreys, poet, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist, is one of the foremost literary figures in Wales. For over 40 years he has interpreted the world of Welsh-speaking Wales, sympathetically but without sentiment.

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Using an examination of theatrical and musical performance in a small Valleys town as a focus, this work puts forward an argued discussion of contemporary Welsh theatre in its cultural context.

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This volume provides a comprehensive overview setting community development work in south Wales in its historical context, as well as offering definitions of community development, the role of the practitioner, and values and issues in community development work.