Essays, Feuilleton, Literary Criticism

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, India stood on the brink of an exciting new era. Yet only a decade later, a series of corruption scandals and acts of violence against women had tarnishe …

These essays explore the many ways theater and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, a …

The patriarch Tarasios holds a key position in the ending of the first period of Iconoclasm in Byzantium, with the seventh Oecumenical Council at Nicaea in 787. His Life forms an equally key source f …

Many scholars have been calling for a new edition of Sir John Harington”s Epigrams. Gerard Kilroy, using the three manuscripts arranged and revised by the author, offers the first complete text in p …

This volume contains the work of the only two Renaissance Englishwomen known to have published collections (as opposed to compilations) of their Latin poetry. Elizabeth Jane Weston lived in Prague as …

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The write …

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL”S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers – a guide to what …

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which …

An important volume that discusses dementia by those who are directly affected by the condition – parents, grandchildren, children, partner, care workers, nurses, doctors and specialists in the field …

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women”s studies courses and the women”s movement. Feminist Review is produced by a London-based …