Beginning Realism

Beginning RealismRealism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as too slippery to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary Theory alike, plainly setting out what realism is, the issues surrounding it, and its role in other major literary modes such as modernism and postmodernism.

culture and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic canon

Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain

including Le souvenir d'un avenir andLa Jetee

reflecting the changing social climate of the nation

in the context of early twentieth-century mass media

development and establishment through to its position as the city’s leading team sport

The progressive internationalization of work in this area has meant that the domains of concern and ways of dealing with them has also multiplied

living standards and public policy

'Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938' provides ground-breaking research into the relationship between linguistic theory and politics during the first two decades of the USSR

as well as on radical models of time and history

research and education

the attempt to improve the security of the regime