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This volume examines a selection of the most complex and important servant characters and servant narratives in early Gothic literature. It defines servant narratives as a Gothic `performance', and examines such servants' impact on literary, social and personal identity.

This is the first book to describe and analyse the anti-war movement in Wales, and provides an insight into the two main strands of opposition to the war on religious and political grounds. This work details the breadth of anti-war activity and, for the first time, reveals and analyses the 900 conscientious objectors identified in Wales.

Three brothers from Swansea who served in the First World War sent over a hundred letters to their family, providing a picture of what they thought and how their ideas evolved on a range of issues, dealing with such key concerns as identity and duty.

Shards of Light is a collection of previously unpublished poems by Emyr Humphreys. Now in his hundredth year, he has been described as Wales's foremost novelist of his generation. This newly discovered collection of poems has all the sharpness and incisiveness of thought as if they had been written today. Humphreys scrutinises life with a wry humour, coloured by the experience of his great longevity and grounded in Wales. With a sharpness of thought and a sparseness and frugality of expression - a hallmark of his work - the poems contain a profundity which challenges us to think more deeply about the nature of our being. They fearlessly ask difficult questions of ourselves as to the nature of being within the vastness of creation. The subjects are as varied as is man's experience, from the vastness of time, space and God's power, to musings on everyday life leading to old age. Ultimately the reader will find the experience entertaining yet deeply felt, satisfying and rewarding.

As well as offering an in-depth analysis of Brazilian film culture, this book engages with well-known international films and directors and sheds light on cinematic traditions that are less familiar to the non-specialist.

This is a book about reading and healing. It shows how literature that makes us feel sad, horrified, or fearful was understood to bring about health of the soul in the Middle Ages. Over five chapters, it considers a specific set of negative emotions and demosntrates precisely how words can evoke strong feelings.

Focusing on twenty-one key films, this book involves an inclusive and sensitive approach. It reveals an awareness of the heterogeneity of horror production with the discussion spanning the period of the invention of movies, the expansion from single-reelers to longer and continuous productions, and the advent of talkies.

It follows the unexpected passage of a group of radical Spanish-speakers in the isolated region of northern Australia during the first half of the twentieth-century, a period of rapidly expanding globalisation as well as the duration of the Spanish Civil War.

The first book-length study of the work of the bilingual Welsh poet and novelist Christopher Meredith, best-known for his depiction of post-industrial south-east Wales.

An organized women's suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid 1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928. This book presents a comprehensive investigation into the movement in Wales, which participated in the agitation throughout the whole of the period.

Crime Fiction in German is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to its vibrant growth in the new millennium.

This book analyses representations of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) in the literary output of French authors of Algerian origin, problematising the extent to which these literary `sites of memory' provide appropriate spaces of consensus for hitherto competing memories of the war.

This book analyses and describes the process of law-making for Wales from initial ideas for legislation, through their development into policies and legislative proposals, to final enactment and implementation.

This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known `spirit' entities of ancient Egypt, daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian `Otherworld', and the closely related spirits of the dead.

This monograph explores the development of the Anglo-Saxon `king by the grace of God', the concept of divinely bestowed kingship, and the subsequent ecclesiastical transformation of the ruler image (c.600 to 1016).

Crime history with a focus on the later nineteenth century in mid Wales - a part of Britain that is largely ignored by historians. The book looks at the impact of class and gender differences, the influence of an individual's personal history, and the workings of the courts and on the punishments they imposed.

This volume explores the world of the most important late-medieval ship yet discovered.

This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I's conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII's `act of Union', alongside comprehensive biographies of those who governed.

This book traces a link between Argentina's neoliberal crisis, race and national identity, through the analysis of how cultural products of the period challenged the dominant image of the nation as homogeneously white.

Gothic Invasions investigates the prevalent concern with invasion and war in fin-de-siecle British popular fiction, identifies the role of imperial expansion in generating fears of invasion, and explores how these fears were expressed transgenerically in narratives of invasion drawing strongly upon the conventions and themes of gothic writing.

The Mentor's Companion clearly explains what mentoring is, what its benefits and uses are, and provides the skills and techniques needed to set up a mentoring scheme and start to mentor.

This collection of essays assesses the value of a conception of Kantian political philosophy grounded in the Doctrine of Right, examining some of its central arguments from a twenty-first-century political perspective.

This collection of essays is the first attempt to examine the issue of prayer in Europe and colonial America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Chaucer's Gifts applies the theoretical approaches of economic anthropology to the Canterbury Tales, to show that in Chaucer's world the exchange of gifts is as prevalent as the purchase of commodities, and that social relations are as important as money and the market.

A history of religion in Wales between 1588, when the first complete Welsh Bible was published, and 1760. The book describes the development of Christian thought and how biblical religion evolved in response to social and political change.

This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation - notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance - the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.

Zafer Senocak (b.1961) is an important German literary voice from the large Turkish community in Germany. This study opens with previously unpublished material by Senocak, and includes a biographical essay and interview, as well as essays addressing all aspects of his work.

At a time when the proper role of the state is under constant review, its relationship to the private sphere is a matter of considerable public concern, this text places this debate in historical context.

This text looks at the Ben Bowen phenomenon as a product both of his view of himself as a great poet and a Wales that fed that assumption. It traces his escape from a miner's life in the Rhondda, his stay in South Africa, his talent for controversy and his growing awareness of his early death.

Does the market promote its own intrinsic and selfish values, or does it merely reflect the values of society? This collection offers reports from all areas of the business and policy sectors, providing a debate on the supposedly conflicting relationship between the market and spiritual values.