Practising shame

Practising shamePracticing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

Ming–Dynasty-inspired objects

is known for its progressive culture

As a city London underwent exceptional changes - its population soared from around 50

This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world

and in Malaysia

The first book-length study of one of Britain's most successful young writers

and original works for television

Lynbrook and changed the life of Miss Sophie Delorme’s niece

this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service of its complex allegories

and served to problematise how the state functions

economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular or class-based rebellions in driving social change

with reference to a range of television programming