Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade. This volume focuses on literary theory. It offers students and readers introduction to the field.

A study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante.

A work about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. This book also debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism. It discusses the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing.

An autobiography of Ewan MacColl that presents an account of the life of the singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and broadcaster, beginning with the story of a working class Manchester childhood, which had a profound influence on his songwriting, inspiring, for example, Dirty Old Town (1949).

Questioning the orthodox interpretation of evolution rather than revolution in the administration of the State, this book throws light on civil service organization in British-ruled Ireland.

Shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women's consumption and production are manifest in novelists' and novels' accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food. This book is suitable for students of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, women's studies and material culture.

Provides a comprehensive evaluation of Britain's food laws from the 1860s to the 1930s and the first analysis of the Victorian anti-adulteration legislation for over 25 years. This book brings important historical perspectives to the contemporary debate about food safety. It is suitable for specialists in the fields of business history.

Presents a 'Flaneur's eye view' of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafes and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. This book provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in 'le vieux Paris'.

Hermannus Schottennius Hessus' (c 1503-1546) Confabulationes tironum litterariorum of 1525, a collection of Latin dialogues designed to help schoolboys master Classical Latin conversation, was written in admiring imitation of the colloquies of Erasmus. This title presents the Latin text, and a full English translation.

Examines the ways in which the colloquies relate to their Cologne background, to the major contemporary colloquy collections (particularly Erasmus' Colloquia and Mosellanus' Paedologia ), and to the humanist renewal of Classical Latin.

Focuses on the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. This book shows how European policymaking changes, how a temporal logic has developed and the effect of this on EU institutions. It is suitable for post-graduates, academics and researchers in European politics and governance.

It is recognised that EU development cooperation policy has failed to meet its stated aims. This book asks the obvious and important question: if the policy doesn't work, why bother with it? It also considers contributing factors within the EU such as the enlargement of its membership and the resulting shifts in priorities.

Takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. This book shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the process and outcome of international negotiations.

Takes the work of literary critic Harold Bloom and discovers what it is like to read 'with', 'against' and 'beyond' his ideas. This work contains essays that examine Bloom's debts to high Romanticism, his quarrels with feminism, his resistance to historicism, the tensions with the 'Yale School' and his work on Shakespeare and genius.

Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers an analysis of an important and multifaceted phenomenon.

Examines the dynamics of race and masculinity to provide fresh historical insight into the First World War. This book also examines, in detail, the experiences of Jamaicans who served in the British West Indies Regiment and other British regiments.

Challenging standard economic models, this book shows how farmers tend to use cognitive shortcuts and how professional pride frequently trumps profit considerations when farmers make decisions about fertilizers and other types of decisions. It contains a comprehensive and comparative review of rational and bounded rationality models of behaviour.

Reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to 'cherish' and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. This book examines the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, and the role of the state in caring for its most vulnerable citizens.

During the Algerian War of decolonisation, French counter-insurgency specialists set out to 'emancipate' Muslim women from the veil, seclusion and perceived male oppression. The claimed French liberation was contradicted by the violence inflicted on women through rape and torture. This book explores the roots of this contradiction.

'Post modernism' became the buzzword of contemporary society in the 1990s. This book offers step-by-step introductions to post modernism across a wide range of subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about post modernism have emerged from basic philosophical post modernism cultural ideas.