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This is a history of life in ancient Rome from the third to the seventh centuries AD

James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well, and after Scott's death in 1832 he wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship.

A guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing. It offers a thorough introduction to the theory and practice of creative-critical writing. It includes five new essays from leading practitioners, each offering a take on creative-critical writing today.

In this ground-breaking study, Jonathan Wild investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period, long overlooked by critics, is revealed as a vibrant cultural era whose writers were determined to break away from the stifling influence of preceding Victorianism.

"Through an unfolding historical, philosophical and literary narrative that includes Locke, Molyneux and Berkeley in Britain, and Diderot, Voltaire and Buffon in France, this book explores how the Molyneux Question and its aftermath has influenced attitudes towards blindness by the sighted, and sensory substitution technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day."

Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies

This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.

The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of crisis. This book describes and integrates the contrasting histories of different parts of the empire and assesses the impacts of administrative, political and religious change.

Scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.

John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. This volume gives you a technocultural focus on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studies.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's ambitious and challenging epic, 'Aurora Leigh' is illuminated for twenty-first century readers by Michele C. Martinez's Reading Guide. A clear commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks, offer a genuinely new appreciation of this great poem.

Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. Newly available in paperback.

This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism.

An student's introduction to the first centuries in the history of the English language.

This book will help you to understand Badiou's central concepts, the philosophical relation between Badiou and Plato and will rethink the importance of Badiou's 'Platonic' claim that 'the only education is an education by truths'.

This book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena.

By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on Impossible Puzzle?Films looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind.

Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom highlights the complex redefinitions of local and global, traditional and modern, and East and West, that Chow's image has undergone, exploring the nature of Chinese and transnational stardom, the East Asian film industry, and Asian male stardom beyond martial arts and action cinema.

Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krsti? outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios populares or chawls of our `planet of slums'.

This book explores a range of popular film genres throughout American history and uncovers the ways that sound is related to the depiction of gender in each.

A clear overview of the Islamic asset management market place

This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson, Ellen Galford, A.L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds, witches, doubles and ghosts.

This historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain starts in the Middle Ages and bringing the story right up to the present day.

This book, newly available in paperback, relates Wittgenstein's philosophy to a range of problems and trends in contemporary political theory.

The first biography of Katherine Mansfield for a quarter of a century and the first to take advantage of the complete transcriptions of the diaries and letters of both Katherine Mansfield and her editor husband John Middleton Murry.

Offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact.

Analyses the relations between nobility, crown and state, first in Scotland and then in the first courts of the unified kingdoms.

This is a study of popular Indian cinema in the age of globalisation, new media, and metropolitan Hindu fundamentalism, focusing on the period between 1991 and 2004.