Books published by Manchester University Press

Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement. -- .

An analysis of all Jean Renoir's sound films, including those he made in Hollywood. Giving an account of critical debates concerning Renoir, and focusing on areas such as gender, nation and ethnicity, the book asks us to rethink our understanding of Renoir's political commitment.

This text provides an introduction to the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes and styles and evolving genres. This growth is traced through analysis of the most successful and best known feature films from the gothic to the camp.

This complete study of Bertrand Blier's work to date, traces his career from the early 1960s until the present, outlining the forms, themes and style which dominate in his work, and challenging the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself.

This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. -- .

Agnes Varda, one of the major French film-makers of the last 40 years, is here celebrated by Alison Smith, by examining both the early films and the later successes, such as "Sans toit ni loi" (1985), "Jane B. par Agnes V." (1987) and "Jacquot de Nantes" (1991).

Surveying and assessing competing critical approaches to chaucer's work, this text emphasizes a need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day.

In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself. -- .

This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult asa major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. In it, theauthor demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans andindigenous hunters. -- .

This work explores the sexual attitudes and activities of those who ran the British Empire. The study explains the pervasive importance of sexuality in the Victorian Empire, both for individuals and as a general dynamic in the working of the system.

An analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control, The text focuses on a period which represented a critical transitional phase in the history of the Raj.

This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how feminist historians can play a central role in creating new histories of British imperialism. -- .

This new collection of translations represents the first attempt to offer a representative sample of Wyclif's Latin works in translation in a single volume. -- .

This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi. -- .

An exhaustive update of the 2010 classic that analyzes more countries, revamping the theoretical classification of lobbying regulatory environments and the states found therein. Two key innovations in this edition include: new insights on measuring transparency and accountability of the laws and an easy guide to make or amend a law. -- .

An adventurous and wide-ranging survey of Gothic media, this book investigates everything from oil paintings to album cover art, magic lanterns to video games. -- .

A timely reissue of a classic text in international law, featuring a new introduction from Professor Marcelo G. Kohen of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. -- .

An extensively researched account of the history of the cave man character in modern popular culture, tracing its roots back to Victorian Britain -- .

In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War -- .

This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the 'dawn of the railway age' to the outbreak of the First World War. -- .

Looks at how the Anglican Church coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century -- .

An intriguing overview of Gothic literature -- .

This text looks at the identity of English women religious through the lenses of gender, class and ethnicity, offering an insight into women's religious belief and practice in the nineteenth century in light of the subsequent transformation of English society -- .

Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. -- .

At the end of the Second World War, some 12 million German refugees and expellees fled or were expelled from their homelands in Eastern and Central Europe into what remained of the former Reich. This book examines their economic, social and political integration in Germany from 1945 up to the present day. -- .

This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late nineteenth-century and considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, the position of newly-established Muslim communities in that country, and Orientalist representations of the harem. -- .

The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm's life world - from railway modelling to Britain's huge preserved railway industry. -- .

Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women's material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries. -- .