A gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore. In this ground-breaking boo...

Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern real...

This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nine...

Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to exam...

Following the critical scepticism surrounding the notion of the 'self' as a singular entity durin...

Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and t...

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned befo...

Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, mo...

Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of...

Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature an...

The 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in glob...

Italian graphic design offers a new perspective on the subject by exploring the emergence and art...

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of ...

This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of us...

The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical tu...

Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subjec...

Protestant missionary children were uniquely 'empire citizens' through their experiences of livin...

Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial a...

This book contends that Ireland's Magdalen laundries chiefly exist in the public mind at the leve...

Peacemaking in the Middle Ages explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirtee...

A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length ...

The matter of miracles offers a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of baroque relics, reliqu...