Author: James HoggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Private memoirs and confessions of a fanatic. Some remarkable passages in the life of an Edinburgh baillie. Julia MʻKenzie
Author: James HoggPrivate memoirs and confessions of a fanatic. Some remarkable passages in the life of an Edinburgh baillie. Julia MʻKenzie
Author: James HoggCrime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture
Author: Claire ValierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134461054
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Valier elaborates new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment. In doing so, the book discusses: · Teletechnologies, punishment and new collectivities · The cultural politics of victims rights · Discourses on foreigners, crime and diaspora · Terror, the death penalty and the spectacle of violence. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture makes a timely and important contribution to debate on the possibilities of justice in the media age.
The Ku Klux Klan and Freemasonry in 1920s America
Author: Miguel HernandezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429883625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Second Ku Klux Klan’s success in the 1920s remains one of the order’s most enduring mysteries. Emerging first as a brotherhood dedicated to paying tribute to the original Southern organization of the Reconstruction period, the Second Invisible Empire developed into a mass movement with millions of members that influenced politics and culture throughout the early 1920s. This study explores the nature of fraternities, especially the overlap between the Klan and Freemasonry. Drawing on many previously untouched archival resources, it presents a detailed and nuanced analysis of the development and later decline of the Klan and the complex nature of its relationship with the traditions of American fraternalism.
The Earls of Cromartie. Their Kindred, Country, and Correspondence
Author: William FraserPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385495350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film
Author: Michael WeldonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312131494
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The bible of B-movies is back--and better than ever! From Abby to Zontar, this book covers more than 9,000 amazing movies--from the turn of the century right up to today's Golden Age of Video--all described with Michael Weldon's dry wit. More than 450 rare and wonderful illustrations round out thie treasure trove of cinematic lore--an essential reference for every bad film fan.
The Ampleforth Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benedictine movement (Anglican Communion)
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Peter Carey
Author: Mary Ellen SnodgrassPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455721
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang, and His Illegal Self, is one of Australia's most critically acclaimed novelists. Deeply concerned with South Pacific culture, especially the lives of its most downtrodden citizens, Carey uses popular art as a tool for raising the consciousness of readers. This book provides an introduction to the author's life, as well as a guided overview of his body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Carey canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events, and themes. Additional features include a listing of headwords, a Carey history, 44 reading and writing topics, and bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. A comprehensive index is included.
Britain for Learners of English
Author: James O'DriscollPublisher:
ISBN: 9780194306478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
Author: Esther SchorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826735
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.