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This is a major re-evaluation of the role and cultural significance of Gothic horror. It offers analysis of literary, film, art and popular cultural texts and critical explanations of key terms (horror, uncanny etc.) to interrogate the contemporary and historical significance of monsters, vampires and ghosts in technological and consumer culture.

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Students and Lecturers in British film, television and cultural history. -- .

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Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context -- .

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This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy. -- .

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This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy. -- .

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Available in paperback for the first time, this book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture. -- .

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The first full-length monograph to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers -- .

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The first full-length monograph to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers -- .

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This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. -- .

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This 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 nineteenth.

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Students and lecturers in English and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature -- .

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This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocriticism and related fields. -- .

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This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocriticism and related fields. -- .

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This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, and it seeks out - in a series of contextualising experiments - contexts which are text-specific, or author-specific, or literary rather than historical, putting forward a distinction between 'deep' and 'broad' contexts. -- .

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By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as well as introductory and explanatory material.

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By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as well as introductory and explanatory material.

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This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (13371453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena, while also arguing for a transnational approach that moves beyond the Anglo-French core.

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Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives -- .

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Shows the changing relationship of family to state, and the way in which pressure from below influenced the approach of the courts.

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This book is about how former combatants live politics as they come home from war. Building on life histories from three very different wars, this book demonstrates how veteran identities, networks, war experiences and coming home experiences together make up a life of politics for former combatants. -- .

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An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on the ground through residents voices and narratives.

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For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else's home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners' inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses England's domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants.

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Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. -- .

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Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. -- .