Books published by Liverpool University Press

Arguably, excess is at the heart of Dawn of the Dead, integral to its meaning: not only in its scenes of gore, its in-your-face social satire and its gaudy pop-kitsch style but in the production history of the film itself.

Imperial Panegyric from Diocletianto Honorius examines one of the most importantliteratures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigningemperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally.

This book bringstogether new research on loyalism in the 26 counties that would become theIrish Free State. It covers a range of topics and experiences, including theThird Home Rule crisis in 1912, the revolutionary period, partition,independence and Irish participation in the British armed and colonial serviceup to the declaration of the Republic in 1949. The essays gathered here examinewho southern Irish loyalists were, what loyalism meant to them, how theyexpressed their loyalism, their responses to Irish independence and theirexperiences afterwards. The collectionoffers fresh insights and new perspectives on the Irish Revolution and the earlyyears of southern independence, based on original archival research. Itaddresses issues of particular historiographical and political interest duringthe ongoing 'Decade of Centenaries', including revolutionary violence,sectarianism, political allegiance and identity and the Irish border, but, rather than ceasing its coverage in 1922 or 1923,this book - like the lives with which it is concerned - continues into the firstdecades of southern Irish independence. List of contributors: Frank Barry, Elaine Callinan, Jonathan Cherry, Seamus Cullen, Ian d'Alton, Sean Gannon, Katherine Magee, Alan McCarthy, Pat McCarthy, Daniel Purcell, Joseph Quinn, Brian M. Walker, Fionnuala Walsh, Donald Wood

Geomorphology is the study of the earths landforms and the processes that made the landscape look the way it does today. What we see when we look at a scenic view is the result of the interplay of the forces that shape the earths surface. These operate on many different timescales and involve geological as well as climatic forces. Adrian Harvey introduces the varying geomorphological forces and differing timescales which thus combine: from the global, which shape continents and mountain ranges; through the regional, producing hills and river basins; to the local, forming beaches, glaciers and slopes; to those micro scale forces which weather rock faces and produce sediment. Finally, he considers the effect that humans have had on the worlds topography. Introducing Geomorphology provides a structured and easily accessible introduction to the science of geomorphology for those with an adult curiosity about the landscape and for those contemplating a course of formal study in physical geography, geology or environmental studies. As with sister volumes, technical terms are kept to a minimum and a glossary is provided.

This book examines the scale and scope of the largely forgotten role played for the Admiralty by 3000 armed fishing vessels, 39,000 fishermen and many coastal communities during the Great War in the unrelenting struggle against mines and U-boats. It is a story largely forgotten in the recent centenary commemorations.

The first 2,500 million years of the geological history of Britain are stored in the gneisses of the Lewisian Complex of NW Scotland. Graham Park explores the long journey of discovery in which this history was gradually deciphered and the controversies and arguments in the scientific community over the past two centuries that arose in this period.

'An Alien Ideology' studies perceptions of Soviet influence in Ireland. It examines British fears of Dublin being used as a Russian espionage hub during the Northern Ireland Troubles and looks at the parliamentary role of the Workers' Party in advancing Soviet foreign policy objectives during the Thatcher/Reagan era.

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" in the cultural imagination. Taking as its point of departure The Quiet Man (1952), it provides a cultural history that charts the ways in which the Returned Yank indexes a set of recurring anxieties in Ireland from 1952 to the present.

The first major assessment of the British fascist and neo-fascist engagement with the Ulster question, from Rotha Lintorn-Orman's British Fascists in the 1920s and early 1930s, Oswald Mosley's BUF in the 1930s and neo-fascist Union Movement in the post-war period, through to the National Front and BNP during the Troubles.

Ireland's regional and provincial newspapers have played a largely unrecognised role in Irish history, this book charts their experiences in the dramatic and sometimes violent years leading up to independence. They were not immune from the conflict - they risked censorship, suppression, prolonged closure, and sometimes violent attack. This book tells their story for the first time.

Amorous Aesthetics traces the development of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, through its adoption and adaptation in eighteenth-century moral and natural philosophy, to its emergence as a Romantic tradition in the work of six major poets.

This book examines contemporary recollection of Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s and its connection to the country's current political, financial and cultural crises through fiction, film, and television.

Wendy Cope is one of Britain's most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted Hughes died, she was the BBC listeners' choice to succeed him as Poet Laureate.

Through studies of the literature of Antoine Francois Prevost, Claude Crebillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Francoise de Graffigny among others, Rutler demonstrates how the heteronormative bourgeois family's rise to dominance in late-eighteenth-century France had long been contested within the fictional worlds of many French authors.

Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water andclimaxes on a raging river. The director's love of fear cinema, his Catholicism and filmmaking techniques shift Cape Fear into terrifying psychological and psychosexual waters.

Apocalypse in Crisis discussesfictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the imagination ofapocalypse from the postwar British disaster novels, through novels of thecountercultural sixties, feminist interventions, and recent revisions andcritiques.

This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of images in interreligious encounters.

In this first comprehensive study of Paterson's poetry, Ben Wilkinson presents him as a modern-day metaphysical, whose work is characterised by guileful use of form, musicality, colloquial diction and playful wit, in pursuit of poetry as a moral and philosophical project.

From its long coastline, with cliffs and islands that bustle with breeding seabirds in the summer, to its open moorland that hold some of the most southerly Curlews and Black Grouse, Wales packs a lot of birds into a small area.

Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic.

The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save' working-class women from themselves.

William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever made, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities.

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about their future, in many different ways and contexts.

Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than "negative capability." Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about its meaning has taken shape over the last two centuries. Keats's Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives offers alternative ways to approach and understand Keats's seductive term.

A fascinating study that analyses Isaac Nelson's contribution to the history of antislavery, evangelical revivalism, Ulster Presbyterianism, and Irish Nationalism, while keeping in mind the wider British and transatlantic context in which he operated.

The essays in this volume address a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann's most significant works, examining them through the lens of "transgression." His writings, perhaps more than those of any other German Romantic, portrayed the "dark side" of existence, which the following essays investigate for an Anglophone audience.

This first annotated edition of William Gilbert's enigmatic poem, The Hurricane: a Theosophical and Western Eclogue, with extended interpretative chapters informed by Gilbert's magical and astrological writings, shows how its dark materials fed the imaginations of his friends Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey, in their formative years between 1795 and 1798.