This book examines the careers of three performers whose professional lives spanned the period from the late eighteenth to…

Television and its Viewers reviews 'cultivation' research, which investigates the relationship between exposure to…

Money is a social convention, but with what social consequences? Rodney Bruce Hall offers an original analysis of central…

In these essays the author explores the ways in which an understanding of Shakespeare's work can enrich other areas of…

Administrator, journalist, historian, man of letters, Justus Möser is renowned as one of Germany's finest prose stylists and…

This study combines the approaches of a political scientist and a sociologist to examine the distance between theory and…

• Rok vydání 2005

What does literature know? This 2005 study offers a lively new look at this very ancient question and calls a large range of…

Michael Shanks's challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of Greek city states in the first millennium BC…

• Rok vydání 1988

This book offers a fresh understanding of the role of aesthetics in Wordsworth's major poetry and prose. Professor Kelley's…

This book uses economic performance to evaluate democracy in the United States. This revised edition gives a more…

This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic…

This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the…

In the US House of Representatives, members seek to win repeated re-election whereas politicians in Brazil see the national…

This volume explores the role paratexts (e.g. indices, prefaces, inter-titles, end-statements) play in our reading and…

This volume explores the later works of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis through the theme of…

This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and…

Professor Dunsire and Professor Hood examines the period between 1976 and 1985 when the British government, under Margaret…

The central claim of anarchism is that government must be replaced by a stateless society of strongly independent persons…

• Rok vydání 1995

This 1995 book is Pierre Macherey's first on literature and theory since A Theory of Literary Production. It offers both a…

The relationship between language and other aspects of conceptual development is one of the central issues in child language…

This 1992 study demonstrates how fruitful the relationship between the social sciences and biblical studies can be if…

Negretto addresses the phenomenon of constitution writing in Latin America, providing the first comprehensive explanation of…

This collection of papers, selected from those given at the Anglo-Japanese Conference held in London in 1979, focuses on…

Much of what is written about civil society in China focuses on state repression. However, this victim-centered narrative…

Despite the many books written about him, Stevens remains a difficult poet, whose notorious injunction - 'Poetry must resist…

This is a two-volume anthology of criticism of art and literature from approximately 1840 to 1910. The central purpose of…

This is a study of Florentine criminal justice under the first three Medici grand dukes. It is important for the amount of…

This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas'…

This book explores the rich historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz in the first…

Mr Berkeley was in touch with some of the best living authorities on the subject of the Risorgimento. From various sources,…

The essays contribute not only to a richer understanding of the relationships in the past between population and economy,…

This book examines the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion in everyday experience and…

This book is about the interdisciplinary activities of Goethe's mid-life (1790-1810) when he researched optics, colour…

Kudrun is a German epic poem thought to have been composed within the decade 1230-40, and is thus contemporaneous with other…

Originally published in 1979, this volume was the first to attempt to apply the principles of social linguistics within a…

Originally published in 1980, this is a study of the 'romanticism' of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Their concern with…

This book examines the role of war and the development of the smaller German territories in the seventeenth and eighteenth…

This is the first comprehensive study of how different ethical traditions deal with the central moral problems of…

Ideas of living death - from undying love to supernatural survival - are remarkably prevalent in medieval literature. This…

This book focuses on the role of miscommunication in the financial crises of developing nations. By examining the…

This book examines patterns of political mobilization among groups in Mexico whose livelihoods have been threatened by trade…

This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ…

This book provides the first complete guide to the present state of biblical studies. Intended for students and non…

Exploring practices in the family, school, university, the workplace and in letters, this book reveals patterns in the…

A survey of the major viewpoints in social psychology concerning peoples's self-awareness, explanations of their actions,…

Originally published in 1980, Dr McShane's discerning analysis of the theoretical issues involved takes account of the…

In the last decades of the seventeenth century the Swedish king Charles XI launched a remarkable bid to stabilize and secure…

Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in social protests in China since the early 1990s. Challenging the conventional wisdom…