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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2007Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere
by Scott McCracken, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2012Public relations and the making of modern Britain
by Scott Anthony, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2009The American civil rights movement
by Robert Green, Harry Bennett, Harold Cheatham, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 1998Pulp
Reading popular fiction
by Scott McCracken
Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with detailed readings of Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Colin Dexter, William Gibson, Stephen King, Iain Banks, Terry McMillan and Walter Mosley. Scott Mc Cracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital function: it provides us with the means to construct a workable sense of self in the face of the disorientating pressures of modernity. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2007Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry
by Sara Lodge, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2013Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere
by Scott McCracken
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The ArtsApril 2006Benjamin's Arcades
An unGuided tour
by Peter Buse, Bertrand Taithe, Ken Hirschkop, Roger Cooter, Scott McCracken, Carolyn Steedman, Bertrand Taithe
The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin's Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most important humanistic texts of the twentieth century. Benjamin's Arcades is composed of 16 entries and a specially designed 'convoluted' index. Some of the entries confront Benjamin with a different reading of his own historical sources (Blanqui, Marx, Giedion), others look intensively at key themes, obsessions, and images (the gambler, commodity fetishism, the Angel of History, magic). Throughout there is discussion of the relationship of Benjamin's work to current and past debate on topics such as modernity, Judaism, fascism, and psychoanalysis. Benjamin's Arcades opens up Benjamin's texts to a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and will be an essential text for those seeking to better understand this extraordinary work. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2008The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912–1938
by Martin Maguire, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2013Irish women in medicine, c.1880s–1920s
by Laura Kelly, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2007Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830
by Samantha George, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2015Montaigne and Shakespeare
by Robert Ellrodt, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2015The paradox of body, building and motion in seventeenth-century England
by Kimberley Skelton, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Rebecca Mortimer
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Biography & True StoriesAugust 2012The most remarkable woman in England
by John Wood, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2013Empire and history writing in Britain c.1750–2012
by Joanna de Groot, Geoffrey Cubitt, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France
by Rachel Hammersley, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy, Rebecca Mortimer
