'The better class' of Indians

'The better class' of IndiansThis book examines the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. It argues that class served as the primary register through which British polite society interpreted and applied other social distinctions such as race, gender, and religion.

This book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics

This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the ‘autobiographical turn’ in art

In the early twenty-first century

This book provides for the first time modern-spelling

starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films on to English-language BBC productions and Hollywood remakes

the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson

alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society

not through cultural history

the para-academic works alongside the traditional university

This book focuses on the five dramas written by Samuel Beckett for television

A survey of a vibrant – and expanding – industry

An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates