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By: Jessica L. Malay

ISBN: 9780719091872
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Anne Clifford, in her Great Books of Records, places herself within the dynamic 600 year history of the Clifford family. This book is unique, including a wide variety of records that provide an unbroken view into life on the Clifford estates in England. -- .


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By: Mark Allen

ISBN: 9780719096099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010 -- .


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By: Tom Ryall

ISBN: 9780719064531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A study of Anthony Asquith, which sets his work in the context of the history of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, and examines the artistic and cultural influences within which his films can be understood. -- .


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By: Christopher W Thurley

ISBN: 9781526174147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess's interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess's entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess's life and work.


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By: Alan Roughley

ISBN: 9780719078866
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A valuable collection of essays that look at Anthony Burgess's relationship with Modernism and postmodernity -- .


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By: Tracey Hill

ISBN: 9780719063831
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers. -- .


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By: Richard Werbner

ISBN: 9781526138002
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. -- .


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By: Caroline Bassett

ISBN: 9780719083785
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The computerization of culture appears relentless and unstoppable. In response Anti-Computing deals in dissent. Engaging with critical theory and media archaeology, working with rich and varied materials, it explores key moments when computer technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused.


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By: Saffron East

ISBN: 9781526171115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national and transnational forces, and illustrate the legacies and trajectories of these histories in the present.


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By: Remi Joseph-Salisbury

ISBN: 9781526157959
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book focuses on anti-racist scholar-activism in the margins of universities in the United Kingdom. The book raises questions about the future of Higher Education in the UK, and shines a spotlight on those academics who are working within, and often against, their institutions.


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By: Remi Joseph-Salisbury

ISBN: 9781526157966
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book focuses on anti-racist scholar-activism in the margins of universities in the United Kingdom. The book raises questions about the future of Higher Education in the UK, and shines a spotlight on those academics who are working within, and often against, their institutions.


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By: Lee Jarvis

ISBN: 9781526133816
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how different publics make sense of and evaluate anti-terrorism powers within the UK, and the implications of this for citizenship and security. -- .


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By: Elad Carmel

ISBN: 9781526168825
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers a new study of Hobbess reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others.


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By: Robert Fine

ISBN: 9781526104953
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue from repressive, antisemitic associations. -- .


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By: Robert Fine

ISBN: 9781526104977
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A highly original conceptual study of the opposing faces of universalism, its stimulation for Jewish emancipation and the struggle for its rescue from repressive, antisemitic associations. -- .


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By: W Gair

ISBN: 9780719071973
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary. -- .


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By: W Gair

ISBN: 9780719057038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edition seeks to evaluate the play not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company within a specific theatre. A scholarly introduction explores the originality in Marston's dramatic techniques.


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By: Carol Chillington Rutter

ISBN: 9781526132499
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th July 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy Comedy Farce Rutter shows it's all three. -- .


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By: Simha Goldin

ISBN: 9780719095771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The various aspects of the way the Jews regarded themselves is analysed -- .


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By: Carolyne Larrington

ISBN: 9781526176134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts. It shows how contemporary audiences learned to understand emotion in themselves and others, through empathetic response, the development of fictionality and the emergence of interiority.


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By: Eyal Poleg

ISBN: 9781784993740
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. -- .


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By: Eyal Poleg

ISBN: 9780719089541
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. -- .


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By: Meir Hatina

ISBN: 9781526142917
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The provides in-depth analysis of Arab liberalism, which, although lacking public appeal and a compelling political underpinning, still sustained viability over time and remained a constant part of the Arab landscape. -- .


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By: Laurent Bonnefoy

ISBN: 9781526127457
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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