Reading Walter Benjamin

Reading Walter BenjaminA new reading of Walter Benjamin that places his work in historical context and explores the theoretical links with German and Jewish philosophy and theology. The book also provides unique readings of Benjamin and the British artist Rachel Whiteread and British experimental author B. S. Johnson.

based on sixteen years' participant observation

the order and orthodoxy-centred puritanism of Stephen Denison

and governmental responses to civil rights issues

1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution

The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully with the past to generate moral lessons

and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture

identifying the individual characteristics that define these much-loved figures and discussing how they relate to their surroundings

and contextualizes the evolution of philosophical thought in the Western world

and was constantly at work modifying the native tendency to adjust the rhythm to every changing movement of the story

Eventually

This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period

and focusing on hitherto neglected areas such as gender