This volume of ten essays by classicists, art historians and archaeologists engages with the intellectual challenge that is making sense of Greek art.Chronologically, the essays cover the so-called Ar
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
This volume—the latest in the acclaimed Cornish Studies series—addresses issues of sustainability and the china clay region of mid-Cornwall, with articles on landscape, literature, archaeology, politi
In Weimar Germany and under the Third Reich, views on class, war, masculinity, and social deviance were shaped by debates about—but not with—the survivors of the World War I. This volume
The emergence of Ireland’s grassroots popular theatre is inexorably linked to the struggles of the working-class Republicans and Loyalists of Derry and Belfast—with performances unfolding in and aroun
For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today’s univer
A completely new revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintage
Volume 2 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political system, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrina
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
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
Volume 1 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 Au
In 1913, the year in which the Romanovs celebrated their tercentenary, the premieres of two revolutionary theatrical events brought Russian artists to the forefront of the European avant-garde. With i
How do you understand a society that didn't write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. This book presents us with
One of Chaucer's first protTgTs, Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426) contributed with his Series to the genre of the framed narrative. The Series forms a central part of this collection, but editor Ellis (Eng
Rotha's theorizing makes a significant contribution to the development of early film theory; it encapsulates the broad shifts in theoretical discourse from a concentration on film form shared with the
Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter, this book tells the history of the institution and its community. The author draws on a
Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter, this book tells the history of the institution and its community. The author draws on a
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht’s theory an
European folklore studies have long neglected Cornwall’s historic legends. Yet Cornwall is the land of King Arthur, Jack the Giant Killer, and the tragic lovers Tristan and Iseult, and its folkt
These Studies in Eighteenth-Century French Literature presented to Robert Niklaus were written by former students and colleagues and by his friends, to mark his retirement in 1975. The articles all r
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
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
This volume is the fourth and final part of Steve Nicholson’s analysis of British theater censorship based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence A
This book brings together a wide range of critical voices - practitioners and researchers active in the field over thirty years in Britain, Europe and the USA - to offer significant insights into Brit
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) has become a figure emblematic of his age—as well as one continually reassessed in our own time by generations of scholars, historians, and critics. This
From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts and their pro
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) has become a figure emblematic of his age—as well as one continually reassessed in our own time by generations of scholars, historians, and critics. This
This book takes a fresh look at the controversy surrounding the publication of the Book of Sports and the cultural battle over the tension between Sunday observance and traditional revelry in pre civi
The debate over whether to translate the Bible into English—which erupted during the late 1300s and lasted well into the 1500s—is one of the most significant in English cultural, litera
Quintessentially English, Sir John Betjeman was an outsider in England and doubly so in his adopted home of Cornwall, where, as he was the first to admit, he was a foreigner. Nonetheless, as this book
In John Betjeman and Cornwall, Philip Payton provides a lively new account of the life of one of Britain's most beloved poets, offering new insights into his work and his defining lifelong relationsh
Performing Greek Drama in Oxford is an absorbing celebration of the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford and beyondThis fascinating book is full of surprises. It explores the remarkable
Richard Rolle (d. 1349)—Yorkshire hermit, religious writer, visionary, and mystical wanderer—was widely recognized in the later English Middle Ages as a major spiritual author. Though still an enigma
Through a fresh analysis of the relationship between the British film industry and such culture industries as radio, music recording, publishing, and early television, Lawrence Napper reevaluates the
In this innovative study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember reveals a rich and diversifying landscape of popular entertainments in the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Marketing
The research of archaeologist and scholar Heinrich Härke has highly influenced contemporary theories of mortuary archaeology and our interpretations of historical burial practices. This volume b
Mining in a Medieval Landscape explores the history and archaeology of the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in Devon’s Tamar Valley and examines their significance for mining history a
