Presents a study of eight leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys. This work provides an examination of the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism within the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood. It is for schol…
IntroductionMythologies of ModernityWoman of the CrowdThe New Woman and the Wandering JewOn the Margins of the CityThe Cosmopolitan and the Rag-pickerWandering the London WastelandRe-envisioning the Urban Walker.
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). This literature sh…
Situates the glam rock phenomenon historically and examines it as a set of performance strategies. This book explores the ways in which glam rock, while celebrating the showmanship of 1950s rock and roll, began to undermine rock's adherence to the ideology of authenticity in the…
Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was the time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book considers all the known plays of this period, includ…
