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Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. The volume contains new research on a range of biographical, analytical and cultural topics, and reflects the breadth of ongoing Beethoven scholarship in Manchester.

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This is the first comprehensive study of Manchester Cathedral. Founded in 1421 by charter of Henry V, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, as it then was, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance. In this highly-illustrated book, a team of experts reconstructs its past, offering reflections on architecture, music and more.

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Publishing to mark the University of Manchester's bicentenary, this book is packed with compelling stories about the great scholars and scientists who have shaped the institution and helped to advance numerous fields of knowledge.

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Using 60 different words that speak of the city, from bees to sewers, Manchester: something rich and strange offers a new way of thinking about this iconic post-industrial city. Twenty-three writers from diverse backgrounds offer their take on the everyday things that inform how we experience Manchester, recognising that were all active in the making and unmaking of the citys spaces.

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Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known local figures from music and sports.

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Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known local figures from music and sports.

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This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. -- .

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This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. -- .

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This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general. -- .

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First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director. -- .

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Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications. -- .

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This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women's political activism. -- .

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Turns the critical spotlight on the London suburbs by showing how the expanding city created new literary locations, genres and themes between 1880 and 1925.

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Long takes advantage of the fifteenth centurys intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate practice and devotional literacy as a maternal one.

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction.

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This groundbreaking study sheds light on both violence within marriage and the modern marital experience in Ireland. -- .

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This is the first major study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an emerging, innovative American novelist and a key figure in contemporary literature. It situates his three novels to date in their literary and cultural context, in the process demonstrating why he is such an important and ground-breaking writer. -- .

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This book 'puts markets in their place', knocking them off the pedestal as the self-organising marvel of capitalist economies. It debates a wide variety of markets, markets for food as well as for capital, for domestic service and for scientific knowledge, markets that succeed and markets that fail. -- .

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Situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism -- .

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St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. In this first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism, Kate McLoughlin makes the connection between Gellhorn's intrepid progress through the war zone and her textual construction of the woman war reporter. -- .

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This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. -- .

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This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. -- .