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View book details for New Blood
Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror
The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution …
View book details for Charlotte Dacre: The Passions
A Novel in Four Parts (1811)
Countess Appollonia Zulmer beautiful, rich, and popular can have any man she wants, at least until she meets Count Wiemar. Interested only in submissive, uneducated and unworldly women, Wiemar rejects Appollonia in favour of Julia, a simple woman whose primary …
View book details for Monstrous Textualities
Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance
Monstrous textuality emerges when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein reflect the monstrous in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance. It allows writers to meta-narratively reflect their own poetics and textual production, and reclaim authority over their work under circumstances …
View book details for Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland
From the Medieval to the Modern
This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times. As Ireland has one of the oldest literatures in Europe, and also one of the most comprehensively recorded folklore …
What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and possibly even the phrase swan song. This book explores the emergence of each of these ideas, starting …
Jane Williams (Ysgafell) was a writer with a long and varied list of publications: poetry, fiction, a riposte to the 1847 Blue Books, the autobiography of Betsi Cadwaladr, a history of Wales, a biography of the historian and patriot Carnhuanawc, …
A History of Money looks at how money as we know it developed through time. Starting with the barter system, the basic function of exchanging goods evolved into a monetary system based on coins made up of precious metals and, …
View book details for Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction
Angels, Amazons, and Women
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of womens SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War. Tracing the tradition of womens SF back to the 1600s, the author demonstrates how women …
View book details for Folk Horror
New Global Pathways
While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the …
Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. This title describes poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition. It shows why inequalities associated …
View book details for Capitalism and its Discontents
Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture
Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.
This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known spirit entities of ancient Egypt daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian Otherworld and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all …
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Atomic Physicist
This book presents the life and work of Professor Evan James Williams, described as one of Waless most eminent scientists. Williams played a prominent part in the early twentieth-century revolution in physics with the emergence of quantum science, and was …
The Social Life of the Early Modern Protestant Clergy provides unexpected new insights on the lives of the early modern English and Swedish clergy through case studies and broader surveys. Rosamund Oates demonstrates how the first generations of clergy wives …
View book details for Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century
Society, Economy and Environment
This book explores the changing relations between people, place and environment in rural Wales in the twenty first century and provides new understandings of rural geography and rural sociology.
View book details for Embodying Identity
Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature
Since the time of Freud, some of the most radical innovators within critical theory have stressed the importance of the body and its representation to the constitution of subjectivity. This book explores some of the theoretical debates surrounding the body, …
Welsh Periodicals in English celebrates the contribution of English-language periodicals to the careers of Welsh writers (from Lewis Morris to Owen Sheers) and to the practice of their editors (from Charles Wilkins (1882) to Emily Trahair (2012)). These periodicals have …
View book details for Energy, the Great Driver
Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change
Drawing on research and concepts from fields as varied as physics, biology, anthropology, behavioural psychology and economics, this volume proposes that two unifying threads can be identified running through the 4-billion-year history of life on this planet. The first is …
View book details for Crimes Against Humanity
The Limits of Universal Jurisdiction in the Global South
This volume considers how, based on the examination of cases pertaining to transitional justice settings that resort to local interpretations of crimes against humanity jurisprudence, fragmentation of international law and circumscribed applications of universal jurisdiction are necessary aspects of the …
View book details for Remaking Brazil
Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Focusing on the idea of the nation as an 'imagined community', the author discuss the various ways in which …
View book details for The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
This pioneering book explores Emyr Humphreys s fiction from a range of contemporary critical perspectives and stresses its relevance to the 21st century. Through stimulating readings which highlight subjects such as gender identity, contested masculinities, problematic father and daughter relationships, …
Welsh Planning Law and Practice provides a comprehensive guide to the sources and structure of Welsh planning law and a route through its complexity. This is not a comparative study, but rather deals with legislation and policy affecting land in …
View book details for Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law
A Critical Legal Argument
In recent years, there has been an explosion of writing on the topic of human dignity across a plethora of different academic disciplines. Despite this explosion of interest, there is one group critical legal scholars that has devoted little if …
View book details for Gothic Remains
Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 17641897
The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and …
This is the first book-length treatment of the turncoat John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales in 1648. The volume charts Poyers rise from a humble glover in Pembroke to become …
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