Rule Britannia? Britain and Britishness 1707–1901
Author/editor: Peter Lindfield, Christie Margrave
Year published: 2015
The concept of Britishness – and its constituent facets – has, over the past decade, come increasingly to the fore. In particular, this can be seen in the politically and socially engaging debates surrounding the Scottish Referendum in 2014. It is an idea – manifested both physically and…
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature
Author/editor: Leslie Barnes
Year published: 2014
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting…
Art and Time
Author/editor: Derek Allan
Year published: 2013
A well-known feature of great works of art is their power to “live on” long after the moment of their creation – to remain vital and alive long after the culture in which they were born has passed into history. This power to transcend time is common to works as various as the plays of Shakespeare…
Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
Author/editor: Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys, Shino Konishi
Year published: 2013
The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of…
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law: The Legacy of Modernism
Author/editor: Desmond Manderson
Year published: 2012
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf…
Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn
Author/editor: Iain McCalman, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2010
Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about…
Art and the Human Adventure: André Malraux’s Theory of Art
Author/editor: Derek Allan
Year published: 2009
André Malraux was a major figure in French intellectual life in the twentieth century. A key component of his thought is his theory of art which presents a series of fundamental challenges to traditional explanations of the nature and purpose of art developed by post-Enlightenment aesthetics. For…
Feargus O'Connor: A Political Life
Author/editor: Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2008
A survey of Feargus O'Connor's career written for a general and academic audience. At the height of his popularity as a leader of the Chartists' campaign for democratic reform in Britain, O'Connor enjoyed the support of millions of working people, but his role in the history of British radical…
Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution
Author/editor: Raelene Frances
Year published: 2007
From gun-toting Pansy Arlington, whose Palace of Pleasure provided years of dangerous excitement to colonial men on the Western Australian goldfields, to Puang Thong Simaplee, a young woman from Thailand arrested in a Surry Hills brothel only to die in Villawood Detention Centre before she could…
Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform
Author/editor: Michael T. Davis, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2007
In 1988 Iain McCalman's seminal work, Radical Underworld, unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings of Chartism, to reveal an urban underworld of prophets, infidels, pornographers and rogue preachers where…