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An exploration of Silvina Ocampo's revolutionary reimagining of motherhood and childhood. Silvina Ocampo's works are currently enjoying unprecedented attention from scholars, writers, journalists, translators, and film directors. This book explores the reason for the growing interest in her work and connects it to her transgressive representations of motherhood and childhood. The unique vantage point of this book, the mother and child dyad, wi...

A genre-bending look into the tropes of Gothic literature. In print for the first time since 1796, The Foresters by Elizabeth Gunning offers an entertaining romp through the many tropes of Gothic literature. She employs these devices to create a compelling story combining the wildest elements of fiction with her own personal history and experiences within eighteenth-century society, producing both a social document and an entertaining read.

An updated edition of Otfried Höffe's revolutionary study of Kant's philosophy. Published in English for the first time, Kant's Critique of Practical Reason is an abridged and updated edition of Otfried Höffe's groundbreaking work which was originally published in German. In the book, the author systematically introduces one of the most important areas of Kant's philosophy and relates its basic ideas to the debates of today. The first part int...

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Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society. Written by police officers and researchers working collaboratively, it covers key topics including neighbourhood policing, major crime investigation and violence prevention, gender and policing, police technologies, and leadership.

An in-depth study of the impact of gender in modern Welsh society. This edited collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history. Beginning with sex work in the eighteenth century and concluding with women's late twentieth-century antinuclear activism, the contributors examine how gender has been constructed, represented, performed, and experienced by men and women at different times and places through...

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Directly explores the queer narratives present throughout Russell T Davies' extensive work in television and how he broke down barriers to show the truth and joy of queer identities. The television writing of Russell T Davies defies easy categorization, ranging from children's programs, Shakespeare, historical drama, and comedy, to the landmark series that have made him a household name: Queer As Folk, Doctor Who, and It's a Sin. Gay Aliens an...

The often-overlooked history of the German-Jewish refugee children of Gwrych Castle. In 1939, several German Jewish refugee children, traveling on the Kindertransport, found themselves in Abergele, North Wales. Would this be their temporary new home? Gwrych Castle, where a Hachshara was being set up, was a residential "training center" aimed at preparing the Jewish children for life on a kibbutz in Israel, where they hoped to be reunited with ...

A lavishly illustrated historical analysis of Britain's nineteenth-century labour movement, built around a collection of the things and images that its members made and used. Suitable for academic and lay readers alike.

Charlotte Dacre's The Passions is a thrilling gothic novel of thwarted love turned to hate, and the destructive power of uncontrolled emotion. It offers a powerful portrait of female treachery, engaging with nineteenth-century religious controversies, and championing Enlightenment rationality over the emotionality of Romanticism.

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Financial Gothic offers three main critical perspectives: that finance can and should be understood as a gothic phenomenon, that contemporary American finance is a product the slave trade, and that American gothic monsters symbolise both the financial market and enslavement.

A collection of essays that explore how humans understood their relationship with the environment in the Middle Ages. Using written and visual evidence from c.1150-1500 CE--including medical, literary, and scientific works--the essays in this collection address the relationship between the human and the "natural" at a time when new worlds, new texts, and new religious experiences reshaped the individual and collective relationship with the cos...

A hundred modern Spanish, Catalan and Galician sonnets, with lively translations into English sonnets and critical commentaries. A general introduction to the genre is followed by summaries of the historical and literary backgrounds and of the problems facing the translator of sonnets.

This book takes a journey around the world to demonstrate how plants influence people's lives. From mealtimes to belief systems, from addictions to medical support, plants are instrumental in organising what people do, and what it means to be human.

The first study of the pioneer of open-air museums in Britain, putting his work as scholar and curator into the international context of the twentieth century. Extensive synopsis and translations from Welsh makes Peate's work accessible to an entirely new audience.

This volume demonstrates how contemporary American horror by women writers (and those whose output has been identified as women's fiction) is not limited to sparkling vampires, but is in fact a pulsating field bursting with genre-defying works spanning the last three decades.

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This book compares how two underdog peoples shaped their modern national identities. Welsh Nonconformists, fighting for religious equality and social justice, established the Welsh radical tradition. Slovenes modernised their language and challenged the dominance of German in Slovene-speaking areas of the Habsburg Empire, which collapsed in 1918.