John Miller is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London. His most recent books include After the Civil Wars (2000) and Cities Divided: Politics and Religion in English Provincial Towns, 1660–1722 (2007).
Télécharger le livre :  Animals in Detective Fiction

This book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed, with Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), then detective fiction’s very first culprit is an animal. Animals, moreover, consistently...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-12-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature

This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Literature and Meat Since 1900

This collection of essays centers on literary representations of meat-eating, bringing aesthetic questions into dialogue with more established research on the ethics and politics of meat. From the decline of traditional animal husbandry to the emergence of intensive...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Judi Dench

The first full biography of Britain's leading actress of her time.Whether it is her sunny temperament, her gift of laughter, her wide-ranging abilities, or all three, Judi Dench is without doubt a star. Shortlisted for a 1998 Oscar for her performance as Queen Victoria...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-05-23

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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of the English Civil Wars

Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history. His aim is to help readers avoid getting lost in a maze of detail and...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-02-07
Collection : Brief Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Cities Divided

The religious and political history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. This was the period when party conflict - exacerbated by religious enmities - became a normal part of English life....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-03-29

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