Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, by A. Streete

The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875

Illustrations were a tremendous portion of a few of the such a lot broadly learn variations of Shakespeare's performs, from the frontispieces to Nicholas Rowe's 1709 version to the a number of pictures put in the textual content of Victorian versions. via symbols the illustrations have explored language and personality; by means of allusion to prior work they've got provided severe readings; and by way of gesture, environment and dress they've got redesigned the performs in the visible vocabulary in their personal instances.

Literature in the Public Service: Sublime Bureaucracy

How can one make country administrative platforms fascinating, include an summary public ethos and provides heroism to homogeneity? The self-discipline of literature and paperwork dismisses Weber's 'neurocrat'. Milton, Trollope and Hare are case experiences on imposing the 'what if' visions literature explored in the course of a interval of significant switch in public provider

Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity

Irish instances sketches another perception of ancient time. It argues that methods of residing which are recalcitrant to capitalist common sense, and for this reason distinct for destruction, aren't backward remainders of superseded traditions, yet are themselves diversifications of older formations that answered to previous waves of modernization.

Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837

Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural move, 1750–1837 examines the methods of cultural move among Britain and Germany throughout the own Union, the interval from 1714 to 1837 while the kings of britain have been at the same time Electors of Hanover. whereas students have often involved in the political and diplomatic implications of the non-public Union, Alessa Johns bargains a brand new point of view by way of tracing sociocultural repercussions and investigating how, within the interval of the yank and French Revolutions, Britain and Germany generated distinctive discourses of liberty even supposing they have been nonrevolutionary international locations.