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Honecker’s Children
During the final decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), young citizens found themselves at the heart of a rigorous program of socialist patriotic education, yet following the fall of…
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Ian McEwan
In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is…
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Jew of Malta
Thorough annotation and commentary. Emphasis on the political, historical and religious allusions in the play. Presented in a clear and lucid form. General editor’s preface Preface Abbreviations Introduction:…
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Ordering Africa
African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa…
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Philip Roth
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction,…
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Poetaster
Set in Ancient Rome, “Poetaster” offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus’ wise rule with an English polity…
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Priestley’s England
This is the first full-length academic study of J. B. Priestley — novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer. From his scathing analysis of…
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Representations of British motoring
Representations of British motoring provides important new insights into the established discourses of British motoring. Based on the patterns of representation that have mediated between the trade, owners and society,…
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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicized fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range…
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Shakespeare for the wiser sort
William Shakespeare’s plays are riddled with passages, scenes and sudden plot twists which baffle and confound the most devoted playgoer and the most attentive commentator. Why, for example, didn’t Hamlet…
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State of Play
Robin Nelson’s State of Play updates and develops the arguments of his influential TV drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analysis of the aesethetics and compositional principles…
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The Ancient Greeks at War
Drawing on a wealth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological material, this wide-ranging synthesis looks at the practicalities of Greek warfare and its wider social ramifications. Alongside discussions of the nature…
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