Struggling Giant

Struggling GiantThis book offers a thematic discussion of the key issues surrounding the rise of China and what that will mean to people outside China in the years ahead.

Focusing on the vast corpus of films that have left their marks on generations of spectators

combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area

The first comprehensive English-language account and critical reading of the legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan

aimed mostly at niche audiences and often possessing a subcultural aura

Long before a politician opens his mouth to speak in public

Beginning Realism gives detailed coverage of the nineteenth-century realist novel through its focus on novels by Gaskell

interdisciplinary analysis

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character

Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years

National Science Foundation

These plays tackle such issues as the nature of the feminine

the history of portraiture or anyone interested in images of monarchy and the history of France