Reading and politics in early modern England

Reading and politics in early modern EnglandThis book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early modern society.

Each chapter pairs a poet with a theorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida

the works of Spenser

areas remain where there is a poverty of understanding

and where authors worked out their faith in painstaking and sometimes painful ways

and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked

Alejandro Amenábar makes a serious and socially aware ‘middlebrow’ cinema designed for global audiences

It has been written by leading British historians

Thomas Middleton

Television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society

‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ examines the impact Lithuania’s EU membership has had upon the country’s ageing small-scale farmers

Sir Edward Herbert and the actor Nathan Field

Pictures of the Floating World finds inspiration from both Japanese and Chinese poetry