Visions of empire

Visions of empireThis book offers a ground breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography.

political and historical thought of the period

the work argues that it is now appropriate for feminists to develop new ways of reading the divine in women’s writing

pastoral boom and film-making

The first major study in English for over forty years

The definitive text on procedures and practice in acquistions

composed of the same people

This is the first full-length monograph in English on one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers

written just after the publication of her second collection

this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries cleverly used the novel as a vehicle for ground-breaking discussions about consent

In the face of declining newspaper sales

How do the concept of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning

The book traces its historical and political origins and focuses on its economic consequences