The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of th
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The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves,
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This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic
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This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts
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This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illum
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Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferat
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From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging
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The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema Film stars are often see
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Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidati
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British Fiction Today provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 an
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