Relates to one of Wales' most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009. This book traces the growth and development of the institution.

Examines how Wilkie Collins' interest in medical matters developed through his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s.

Offers an introduction to British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.

Examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics based on the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Pierre-Felix Guattari (1930-1992). This title analyses the relationship between art and social-political life and considers in what ways the aesthetic and political connect to each other.

Features an account of Stuart Cable's life in music. This work explores his road to success as the drummer of the Stereophonics, from early rehearsals at a tiny community centre in an obscure Welsh mining village, to selling millions of records and playing stadiums worldwide as part of the famous Welsh rock trio.

Beginning from the nineteenth-century onwards, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity.

For centuries there had been fistfighters, and from the early days of industry it was apparent that the Welsh had a particular passion for boxing. This book traces that passion through the lives of champions, by recalling their great bouts and by showing how moments of triumph were celebrated by whole communities.

Addresses the gap for an analysis of Shakespeare's relation to the Gothic.

Addresses the gap for an analysis of Shakespeare's relation to the Gothic.

This text is concerned with the early medieval period of Cadbury Castle's history, from the 5th to the 11th century. Divided into three parts, the book describes the structures and artefacts uncovered and attempts to set the early medieval archaeology in wider historical contexts.

The need to attribute disputed utterance constantly arises, whether as a matter of legal urgency or the focus of scholarly debate. This work provides a guide to Andrew Q. Morton's cumulative sum technique for authorship attribution (Cusum or QSUM, as the analytic procedure is now known).

Deals with the linguistic repercussions of social and political change in Western Europe in a series of articles by specialists in each area that range from general surveys to detailed studies of one linguistic variety in a particular historical context.

Policing, crime, poverty, prison management - these are just some of the key issues facing society today. This book addresses such issues, raising questions that should be of interest not only to academic criminologists but also to all those involved in the criminal justice system.

A collection of essays written in honour of D. Ellis Evans, professor of Celtic and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The essays reflect his interest in early Celtic culture, the history of the Celtic languages and the early literatures of Wales and Ireland.

A comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s. It explores the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies.

Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

Brings together a collection of interdisciplinary research papers on the changing identity of women in Wales. Research findings are complemented by cameo voices - personal accounts by a variety of individual women living and working in Wales.