Water and fire

Water and fireThe story of Noahs Flood is one of the Bibles most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf.

this book asks what COVID-19 can teach us about the ‘art of living’

Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s

The author assesses the strains within the ‘Special Relationship’ between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence

and breath-taking scholarship

This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history

Contributors explore the role of race and sexuality

Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions and he has supported this view in an introduction and by a bibliographical and critical study of the play

Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England

insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan

no beginners' books nor any systematised combination of ethnic fictions such as this - only edited collections on each area

Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities

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