A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these p
Philip Payton’s classic history of Cornwall, first published in 1996, is now brought into the twenty-first century in this revised and updated edition from University of Exeter Press.Cornwall: A Histo
Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form. Goi
London’s Grand Guignol—a macabre theatre of naturalistic horror—was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. Taking its cue from Le Théâtre du
Translating Rimbaud’s Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of
The latest volume of Cornish Studies includes articles on the possible existence of a Medieval Cornish Bible; the rebellion and Civil War during Cornwall’s early modern period; the Cornish Army; Corni
British South Asian theater has been one of the most significant features of diasporic artistic activity throughout the world in the last thirty years, yet its remarkable achievements have been lar
Parallel to the Great War ran the Big Show in Britain, and eventually their two paths crossed. Here Hammond (English/film, U. of Southampton) shows how the situation resulted not in Hollywood's domina
Better Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an insight into its fundamental issues and problems. It describes in detail the major changes that have occurred in the production of EFL
This collection of essays provides a major reassessment of those literary figures from the later Enlightenment to the beginnings of Modernism who are most studied on French and German courses in Brit
Reading the Cinematograph pairs eight short stories about the cinema—including works by such notables as Rudyard Kipling and Sax Rohmer—with eight new essays from leading film and literary scholars li
Reading the Cinematograph pairs eight short stories about the cinema with eight new essays from leading film and literacy scholars. C Notes on Contributors including Tom Gunning and Andrew Higson rev
Cornwall’s representation on screen has been dominated by the romantic coastal edge, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s maritime ad
This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The book shows
West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book explo
