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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2024Women and madness in the early Romantic novel
Injured minds, ruined lives
by Deborah Weiss
Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. This book argues that these early Romantic-period novelists revised medical and popular sentimental models for female madness that made inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body responsible for women's mental afflictions. The book explores how the more radical authors-Wollstonecraft, Fenwick and Hays-blamed men and patriarchal structures of control for their characters' hysteria and melancholia, while the more mainstream writers-Edgeworth and Opie-located causality in less gendered and less victimized accounts. Taken as a whole, the book makes a powerful case for focusing on women's mental health in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literary criticism.
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The ArtsMarch 2001Contemporary Korean cinema
Culture, identity and politics
by Hyangjin Lee, Mary Norris
The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and South Korea. Covers the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45) and the development of North and South Korean cinema up to the 1990s. Introduces the works of Korea's major directors, and analyses the Korean film industry in terms of film production, distribution and reception. Based on this historical analysis, the study investigates ideological constructs in seventeen films, eight from North Korea and nine from South Korea. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJune 2024Round our way
Sam Hanna's visual legacy
by Heather Nicholson
Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.
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March 2022Aretha Franklin
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Amy Blackwell, Svenja Becker
Aretha Franklin wuchs in einer Familie von Musikern auf. Ihre Mutter spielte Klavier und sang, der Vater, ein Prediger, leitete den Gospelchor seiner Kirche, in dem Aretha und ihre vier Geschwister schon als Kinder sangen. Bald wurde sie von einer Plattenfirma entdeckt. Ob Gospel, Jazz, Pop oder Soul: mit ihren Liedern, die vom Alltag der Menschen, vom Kampf um Gerechtigkeit handeln, bewegte sie Menschen auf der ganzen Welt. Ihr größter Hit heißt »Respect«, das Lieblingslied von Barack Obama wurde zur Hymne der afroamerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2013Region, religion and patronage
Lancastrian Shakespeare
by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Richard Wilson, Mary Norris
Explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England as a site for regional drama, introducing the reader to the non-metropolitan theatre spaces which formed a vital part of early modern dramatic activity. Uses the possibility that Shakespeare began his theatrical career to provide a range of new contexts for reading his plays. Examines the contexts in which the apprentice dramatist would have worked, providing new insight into regional performance, touring theatre & the patronage of the Earls of Derby. Examines the experiences of Catholic families and the way in which Lancashire's status as a Catholic stronghold led to conflict with central government's attempts to create a united state.. All this feeds into innovative readings of individual plays such as Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. ;
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Children's & YAMarch 2022Das Bücherschloss - Eine uralte Prophezeiung (Band 3)
by Barbara Rose
The Enchanted Book Castle – An Ancient Prophecy Becky Librum moves to an old dilapidated castle with her father and her chipmunk Lotti. There she discovers a secret children's library with her new friend Hugo and his dog Watson. Becky is chosen alone to save the books before they turn to dust forever.What happens in Volume 3:Becky and Hugo have found the enchanted key to the magical world. But before they can begin their journey there, the magical creatures from the library prepare the children for their adventure. Genoveva shows Becky how the map of the magical world hidden in the Book of Books reveals itself to her. In addition, an ancient prophecy appears in Glimmeria's crystal ball, but what do all these letters mean? That can only be found out in the magical world. Becky reads herself, Hugo and her animals into the infinitely large book world, which turns out to be full of the wonderful, the wondrous and lots of the fantastic. Becky sneaks into the evil queen's castle and finds out what the ancient prophecy is all about: The queen isn't evil at all, just terribly lonely, since no one seems to care about her and her story. Becky and her friends read their way back to Rosenbolt Castle and take the queen with them. In the children's library, Becky writes the queen her very own story, which is just waiting to be read and experienced by children.
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October 2021Das Bücherschloss - Der verzauberte Schlüssel (Band 2)
by Barbara Rose
Enchanted Book Castle – The Enchanted Key (Vol. 2) Becky Librum moves to an old dilapidated castle with her father and her chipmunk Lotti. There she discovers a secret children's library with her new friend Hugo and his dog Watson. Becky is chosen alone to save the books before they turn to dust forever.What happens in Volume 2:Finally, Becky and Hugo found the book of books. This special edition can send them into the book world where Glimmeria and the Buxies are still waiting to be rescued. And it is becoming very urgent! But the queen has closed the gates to the magical world. Will Becky and Hugo be able to find the enchanted key in time?
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024Manchester minds
A university history of ideas
by Stuart Jones
A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history. The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England's civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas. This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who's who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox.
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September 2020Alan Turing
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Ashling Lindsay, Svenja Becker
Von klein auf waren Alans beste Freunde ein Junge namens Christopher und die Zahlen. Als Christopher starb, war die Mathematik Alans Trost. Er entwickelte Schachprogramme und schaffte es, komplizierte Codes zu knacken, die niemand zuvor entschlüsselt hatte. Seine Beiträge machten später die Erfindung des Computers möglich. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Malerin, Sänger oder Architektin, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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Children's & YAFebruary 2021Das Bücherschloss - Das Geheimnis der magischen Bibliothek (Band 1)
by Barbara Rose
Enchanted Book Castle - The Secret of the Magic Library (Vol. 1)In a far-away castle, there is a huge library, full of magical and enchanted children's stories. From the floor all the way up to the celling! These books have desperately been waiting for a child to save them. Is Becky, who moves into this castle together with her father, the one of all kids to rescue the dusted stories? 9½-year-old Becky can´t believe this is going to happen: this castle simply is amazing. Because the best of it is that it has a huge library! A library of forgotten books. However, why should she be interested in reading? But soon, she discovers that the library is occupied... by magical creatures hidden in the books. These stories seem to be alive!And this secret shall never be released to grown-ups. Luckily, Hugo and his dog Watson are around, Becky makes friends with them. Together with chipmunk Lotti, they decided to save these books.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024A book of monsters
Promethean horror in modern literature and culture
by David Ashford
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.
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September 2015Etta und Otto und Russell und James
Roman
by Hooper, Emma / Übersetzt von Grabinger, Michaela
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FictionMay 2019Mozart and the Wolf Gang
By Anthony Burgess
by Alan Shockley
Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of even Anthony Burgess's fiction in an attempt to understand Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments of a film script. As gracefully witty as it is daringly experimental, Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess's late, great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which nevertheless remains accessible, entertaining and yet refreshingly original to this day. This new critical edition with analysis from noted musicologist and a first-class literary critic Alan Shockley enables this work's significance within the fields of literary modernism, fictional biography, and fiction about music, to be assessed by a new generation of readers and scholars.
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Children's & YASeptember 2022Das Bücherschloss - Ein verhängnisvoller Pakt (Band 4)
by Barbara Rose
The Enchanted Book Castle – Fatal Pact (Vol. 4) Nasty creatures and a treacherous plan in the Enchanted Book Castle Becky Librum moves to an old dilapidated castle with a secret children's library, and she is chosen to save the books before they turn to dust forever. A magical series that entices young readers aged 8 and up by playing with popular themes of friendship, suspense, and plenty of humor. “The Enchanted Book Castle” not only has classic potential, it also is a tribute to imagination and reading. What happens in Volume 4:It's time for the Queen's departure now that her story has been written down. As a thank you, she wants to grant Becky, Hugo and Ben a wish. But then the image of Mo, the boy on the flying carpet, appears in Glimmeria's crystal ball. He has been captured in the book world by the mean Prince Alvar from the North Country and his nasty helpers! With Becky's help, Mo manages to read his way into the real world; however, the goblins, poison dwarves and the prince latch onto his heels and end up in the Castle as well! Becky and her friends have to transport the nasty creatures back into the magical world as quickly as possible.
