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In early modern Spain, theater reached the height of its popularity during the same decades in which Spanish monarchs were striving to consolidate their power. Jodi Campbell uses the dramatic production of

Dennis Low's reevaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenthcentury's greatest champions of women's writing. Together with Wordsworth and Coleridge,

The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction seeks to address fundamental questions about the function, meaning and understanding of music in nineteenthcentury culture and society, as mediated through works of fiction. The

This volume attempts to reconstruct the theology, pastoral practice and ecclesiastical administration of Mary's Church in England, focusing on the Catholic renaissance which she ushered in. By addressing a number of intriguing

Robert Gordon gathers together his most important essays on the Old Testament and on the ancient versions, adding an introduction which gives background comment and reflections on each essay. The Old Testament

Challenging common beliefs that the European welfare states are already in or are heading towards crisis; this book calls for a proper understanding of the future role of the welfare state that

Genetic engineering is still considered morally wrong by a large proportion of the public. Yet many scientists are puzzled about the public concern over a technology that, in their view, promises great

Based on some of the most interesting research from the last ten years, this book discusses effective practice in work with persistent young offenders. It contrasts two major evaluations of projects for

Immigration and its consequences is a substantially contested subject with hugely differing viewpoints. This highly topical area of contestation is examined here with experts from Europe, the USA, Turkey and Israel examining

This book studies how doctors responded to, and helped shape deepseated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and farranging medical debate

Renowned Hopkins expert Joseph J. Feeney offers a fresh take on Gerard Manley Hopkins that begins the next phase in Hopkins studies. In both his poetry and prose Feeney discovers a distinctive

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in

Social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four key paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. The four paradigms are founded upon different assumptions about the nature of society

Identifying a pattern of social defiance, this book explores the radical nature of early modern English comedy and uses comedy as a means to observe changes in human behaviour common to the

Examining the historical, economic and political context for the current prohibition of particular drugs, this study investigates the problem of drug control and provides a systematic analysis of the development of the

"Caribbean Diaspora in the USA" presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism