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In Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making, we reflect on what it means to govern ethically in a pandemic. We explore what it means to be in a situation in which rational or epistemic framings of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on data and scientific ways of knowing the world, rub up against the way people experienced the pandemic, as an unexpected, and often harmful, event in their own lives. The book brings together fi...

For fifty years Anne Lake Prescott has been a central force in the study of Anglo-French literary relations in the early modern period and her work anticipates recent scholarship on history, religion, and gender. This selection of her essays combines a tight focus on textual and historical particularities with an expansive sense of context--what she calls the "cultural forcefield surrounding and sustaining the poem". The essays connect differe...

This book examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems, and Beowulf in an effort to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of fictional recycled artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection. The resistance of horns, swords, pillars, sculptures, and hoards to submersion in these texts is essential and productive. The appeal of such spolia lies in their partially preserved Otherness, which enables them to gesture towards...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-94) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory. It combines examination of Lepage's theatre-making techniques with discussion of his work's effects on audiences, calling on Lepage's own statements as well as existing scholarsh...

This is the first edition of The Family of Love to be attributed to London playwright and impresario, Lording Barry (1580-1629). Performed by the short lived Children of the King's Revels, this ribald Jacobean comedy indulges coterie playgoers' curiosity about religious separatism in the wake of King James I's damning attack on Familists early in his reign. The Family of Love satirises the religious fellowship of the title but with an undercur...

Exile, loss of homeland through compulsion or choice, has confronted women from prehistory to the present day. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas analyses the important yet largely untold stories of women exiles of diverse status, origin, and political and religious outlook between 1492 and 1790. They include Jewish women expelled from Spain, Indigenous women enslaved and taken to Spain, British indentured women crossing th...

Who constructs, controls, and preserves the Official Record is key to documenting and understanding events. However, because of the potential of the Official Record to contain evidence of controversial policies and malfeasance, its construction, control and preservation in the arena of national security is inherently contested. This book interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight and the Official Record in...

This timely and accessible book unfolds a holistic theory of degrowth transformations. Such transformations involve changes in various dimensions of social being: changes in how humans interact with nature, non-humans, and one another, changes in social structures and changes in how we are as human beings. The book suggests that for degrowth transformations to occur, actions in civil society, business and the state are necessary on the local, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, arts and creative practitioners and cultural and community organisations produced work that addressed issues such as the challenges of isolation or created spaces that can enable recovery or renewal. In this collection, authors reflect on how individuals and communities coped, adapting and using creativity in ways that were sometimes everyday and sometimes extraordinary. A spotlight is placed on the rich diversity...

Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts shares important insights into the effects of the pandemic on live performance in the UK. It features eight projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council between 2020 and 2022 to undertake research that would address the problems caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The researchers share what they discovered from working with practitioners and companies in the live perfor...

Off white uncovers the hidden history of race and whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe (including Russia/the Soviet Union). It traces the ideological work of whiteness back to the region's constitutive roots in nation-state building and global colonialism. The collection uncovers the work of race and racism through discourses and practices that have rendered them transparent and natural. It does so in studies of the international system of ...

Medieval afterlives presents ten new essays which examine the ways traditions of early drama were transformed over time, as well as the inherent capability of the traditions themselves to transform space, audience, time, and belief. The collection, which includes an afterword by Theresa Coletti, is unique in its focus on the dramaturgical and cultural traditions that shaped and were shaped by early English drama until the closing of the theatr...

European psychiatry underwent numerous transformations in the second half of the twentieth century. A variety of practices were experienced and routinised, contributing to reshape the boundaries of the mental health field. Case studies from across Europe allow one to appreciate how new 'ways of doing' contributed to transform the field, beyond the watchwords of deinstitutionalisation, the introduction of neuroleptics, centrality of patients an...

Land and labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters' Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve the problems of surplus labour by changing workers into farmers on land acquired on the Wisconsin frontier. The brainchild of a Welsh-born trade unionist and editor, William Evans, the Potters' Emigration Society was the most widely discussed project of its kind in the era of mass migration. This boo...

This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first half of the nineteenth century from the perspective of the new and burgeoning field of the history of emotions. By studying the affective leadership of radical leaders, and the use as well as abuse of feelings for political causes, this book aims to change the way in which we look not only at the leaders in question and the movements that grew up around them, but at the affective ...

Out of his mind is a study of the consequences of a diagnosis of insanity for men, their families, their friends, and the culture at large. Studying the madman allows for an exploration of the cultural expectations of male behaviour, how men responded to those norms in their lived experiences, and what defined the bare minimums of acceptable male behaviour. Men's authority in society was rooted in control over dependents within their household...

Reflecting on research carried out in a range of disciplines and contexts, this book offers a critical starting point for discussions on how to research the far right ethically, a topic that raises a number of urgent issues. Rejecting the idea of neutrality in research, the collection makes it explicit that this research is always political. Lived experience and reflexivity are key to this book, whether it is the many years spent grappling wit...

Revolutionary Bodies analyses how a revolutionary imagination is realised in several Irish literary works of homoerotic passion. Homoerotic depictions of male bodies in writing by Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan and John Broderick merged with debates about aesthetics, religion, socialism, and Irish anti-colonialism. More recently, a 'post-Stonewall' politicised gay identity was given fictional expression in the work of Irish novelists - Colm Tóibín...

Bestsellers and masterpieces investigates the strange fact that many of the texts we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of European and Middle Eastern medieval writing were, in fact, not popular - or even read at all - in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are taught and studied with far less frequency. The most dramatic demonstration of this dispari...

Murky waters challenges the refined image of British spa towns in the eighteenth century by uncovering darker and more ambivalent representations. Reconsidering mineral waters in their material and metaphorical aspects, it disassociates them from the ideas of cleanliness, transparency and well-being, while investigating their powerful effects on bodies, societies and culture. The book looks beyond the success story of Bath to take in the wider...