Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe

Narrative painting in nineteenth-century EuropeHow do pictures tell stories? This ground breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.

The Culture of Regionalism is the first international comparative study of regionalism

multi-generational places where the physical communication of digging a grave was used to construct family and community stories

individual and the natural environment

This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria over the course of the twentieth century

It includes readings of the economic

offering a serious but wholly accessible take on the many different ways that fans have approached

and wretched diet is invoked to explain why workers are so unintelligent

parties and interests in the US and Britain responded to the financial crisis and the ‘Great Recession’ that followed in its wake

Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences

accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects

and languages

early modern performance