Gothic Invasions investigates the prevalent concern with invasion and war in fin-de-siecle British popular fiction, identifies the role of imperial expansion in generating fears of invasion, and explo
An edited collection of thirteen chapters, Posthuman Gothic explores the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and media under discussion&m
Wolves are familiar figures in the Gothic imagination, creatures of pure animality that, when combined with the human in the form of the werewolf, offer powerful opportunities to explore complic
New Space Opera is a recent subgenre within science fiction that displays a canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalization. This book offers close readings of the evo
While everyone is familiar with the legend of Robin Hood, few can speak as knowledgably about other British outlaws and their traditions. Uncovering a popular history that dates back to Anglo-Saxon ti
Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831 provides a comprehensive literary and historical basis for understanding the servant characters and servant narratives that shaped the early Gothic mode. Engaging cl
This volume provides an authoritative new survey of the Arthurian literature and traditions preserved in the Celtic languages: Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. Covering material fro
This book explores the connection between reading and healing. It analyses how the mental and emotional impact of reading was expanded in the Middle Ages into a therapeutic tool for improving the heal
Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wal
Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power explores constructions of Anglo-Saxon kingship and concepts of royal power from c.600 to 1016. The focus is the development of the ‘rex gratia Dei’, the concep
Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has histori
Peter James has spent his career strengthening and restoring historically significant structures all around the world, from Windsor Castle to the parliament buildings in Canada. In Saving the Pyramids
This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film, thea
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women's science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain's greatest scientist.
In this book, John Kraniauskas uses close examinations of a number of modern and contemporary Latin American and North American novels and films to highlight the relationship between such texts and th
Though he was one of the most commercially successful Spanish painters of the seventeenth century, Vincente Carducho emphasized piety and devotion to a higher power in his work and his writing.On Art
Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man has been one of the most widely debated books since the end of the Cold War. In this book, Howard Williams, David Sullivan and E. Gwynn Matthews
`Focusing on one of the most widespread and intriguing of saints' cults, this collection of essays brings together a range of languages and disciplines to explore the complex implications of Ursula's
This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic for over thirty years. Punter addresses developments in
Although it has long been acknowledged that early Irish literature contains both pre-Christian and Christian elements, there’s been no sustained study of the challenges involved in understanding the i
The Breton language and culture has been in long and gradual decline since Brittany’s incorporation into France in 1532—notwithstanding Brittany’s successful reassertion of its linguistic and politica
Two hundred years after its initial publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein remains one of the most masterful examples of Gothic literature. In Mary Shelley, Angela Wright reappraises the signi
Perched on a hill overlooking the River Trothy in Monmouthshire, Troy House was built in the late seventeenth century as a wedding present for Charles Somerset by his father, Henry Somerset, first Duk
Maria Zambrano (1904–91) was one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century, known for her attempt to use poetic reason to overcome the limitations of Enlightenment-based rationali
The Llyn Cerrig Bach assemblage is one of the most important collections of La Tène metalwork discovered in the British Isles. It came to light during construction in 1942 at RAF Valley in north-west
This work provides the general reader with an introduction to the emergence of Galicia, from pre-history to the present. It also alerts the reader to some of the controversies and debates linked to th
Tolkien once wrote: 'I love Wales - and especially the Welsh language'. This book explores how that love influenced Tolkien's ideas about language, many aspects of his creative writing, and his sense
While Hegel’s political philosophy has been attacked on the left by republican democrats and on the right by feudalist reactionaries, his apologists see him as a liberal reformer, a moderate who theor
This authoritative survey provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the Welsh education system from its earliest times to the present day, and examines the way in which changes in educatio
This study provides a wholly new perspective on Welsh politics in the troubled decades leading up to the Civil War. This is the first study for over half a century to examine politics in Wales during
