Female Performers in British and American Fiction 9783110561043, 9783110558425

Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture 9781496815569, 9781496815576, 9781496815583, 9781496815590, 9781496815606

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves,

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Female Highlife Performers in Ghana : Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy 9781498564670, 9781498564663

This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic

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Contemporary British Fiction 9780748630370

This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts

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The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Instruments, Performers and Repertoire 9780754661436, 9781315085593

Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferat

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The grotesque in contemporary British fiction 9781526112040

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The grotesque in contemporary British fiction 9781526112057

This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illum

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Race Riots: Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction 9780773560130

From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging

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Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question 9781474405652

The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema Film stars are often see

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Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914 9781474470117

The first comprehensive account of female beauty in nineteenth-century British print culture Draws on an extensive and d

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British Fiction Today 9781472542274, 9781441128676

British Fiction Today provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 an

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