World stages, local audiences examines the relationship between audience and event, placed-based spectatorship and global politics.Dickinson argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that c
The streetscape--the closely observed, faithfully rendered view of the city’s streets, squares, canals, buildings and people--was a new artistic genre of the early modern era, a period in which the ci
The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on mast
This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the 'democratic project' which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international rela
Women in the 1770s had few rights, especially if married: they could not vote, make a contract, sue or be sued in their own names. They were barred from higher education and their earnings or incomes
Thiss is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account for half the volu
