Publications
The School has a large and thriving publishing programme, encompassing monographs, collected essays, conference proceedings, lectures, guides and handbooks, editions and research directories, and scholarly journals.
Using the School’s online publications catalogue, you can search for publications by institute, by keyword or by author or editor, or see a list of forthcoming publications.
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Reading in the Refectory: monastic practice in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth century
- Publisher
- School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
- Author(s)
- Teresa Webber
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In the 2010 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture, Dr Teresa Webber, inspired by a talk from the great palaeographer Leonard Boyle, discusses monastic practices of communal public reading at mealtimes.
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Presidents in the Movies: American History and Politics on Screen
- Publisher
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas
- Editor(s)
- Iwan Morgan Array
£55.00
Cinematic depictions of real U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush explore how Hollywood movies represent American history and politics on screen. Morgan and his contributors show how films …
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The Wallenstein Figure in German Literature and Historiography 1790-1920
- Publisher
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
- Author(s)
- Steffan Davies
£35.00
Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634), one of the most famous and controversial personalities of the Thirty Years War, gained heightened prominence in the nineteenth century through Schiller's monumental drama Wallenstein (1798-99). Schiller's …
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Writing and Muslim Identity: Representations of Islam in German and English Transcultural Literature, 1990–2006
- Publisher
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
- Author(s)
- Frauke Matthes
£25.00
Writing and Muslim Identity is a comparative study of Islam in contemporary German- and English-language literature. At a time when the non-Islamic world seems to be defining itself increasingly in contrast to the Islamic world, this literary …
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Technology's Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism
- Publisher
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
- Author(s)
- Michael Cowan
£25.00
Modernity, as has often been observed, was fundamentally concerned with questions of temporality. The period around 1900, in particular, witnessed numerous efforts to define, discipline or 'liberate' temporal experience. Within this broader framework of thinking about temporality, 'rhythm' …
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Word on the Street
- Publisher
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
- Editor(s)
- Elisha Foust, Sophie Fuggle Array
£25.00
As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always provided a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. It has also become the focus for critical theorists such as Walter Benjamin …
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The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos: Frenetic Catholicism in Crisis, Delirium and Revolution
- Publisher
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
- Author(s)
- Francesco Manzini
£25.00
This book examines a corpus of frenetic novels – by Balzac, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Zola, Huysmans, Bloy and Bernanos – that foreground the motif of fever within a recurring masterplot: a pious young woman, just …
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Freethinkers, Libertines and 'Schwärmer'. Heterodoxy in German Literature, 1750-1800
- Publisher
- Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
- Author(s)
- K.F. Hilliard
£25.00
Religion mattered in the eighteenth century and has not ceased to matter since. How German writers responded to the crisis of orthodox forms of belief in the period is a matter …
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Review of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group: On the side of the people?
- Publisher
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Author(s)
- Daisy Cooper, David Seddon, Tim Sheehy
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The execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government, triggered the establishment of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) on the eve of the 1995 Commonwealth Heads of …
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Throwing petrol on a fire: the human and environmental cost of tar sands production
- Publisher
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Author(s)
- Jennifer Huseman, Damien Short
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About the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau
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