Philip Roth

Philip RothThis is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.

New Books Network (New Books in Italian Studies) interview with Frank Burke

this groundbreaking book argues that Europe has a Common Agricultural Policy in name only

The collection shows Gombrich’s concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry that spread beyond Europe and across the globe

Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is an epic masterpiece of Arthurian romance

half-sympathising people following

discuss a wide range of issues

and those practices that denounce the real

This book explores the neglected history of textile crafts in projects of social and moral reform and considers how historical processes have become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craft-work

which covers both historical and recent events

Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism

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

how its significance has evolved over time and how contemporary systems for participation shape the places around us