The Independent Theatre's production of Ghosts at the Royalty Theatre, London in 1891 precipitated one of the most famous theatrical quarrels in European theater history. Although many have commented
Description: This work has grown out of a previous study entitled Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question: A Victorian English Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859
Drawing on North American, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies, the volume proposed here addresses the construction of identity in relation to place(s), ethnicities and culture(s), and sets out to explore th
"This scholarly monograph investigates the representation of Jewish people, characters, places and customs within the periodical Belgravia: a London magazine inclusive of the years 1866-1876. The maga
No standard published history of the Baptist Bible Fellowship (BBF) currently exists which would makes this work an important contribution to modern American history, the history of racism in the Unit
“...There's no real point if there's no levity.” Such might be the epigraph not just to this collection, but indeed to the literary and academic career, if not the very life, of Walter Redfern. Charti
A full scale biography of Sir John Harington of Kelston, courtier,place-seeker,writer, inventor satirist and would-be Bishop of Dublin has long been needed and wished for by historians as various as N
This book adds a major culture-based study to the field of Irish history. It addresses a topic and touches on themes that continue to be relevant and debated in contemporary Ireland. It makes a major
Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr.Donovan contextualizes an important yet relatively neglected a
Description: This monograph based on original research and interpretation extends and enlightens our understanding of one of the seminal moments of 20th c British theatre—the rise of the verse drama
This is not a full biography, warns Rowland, because not enough is yet known publicly about the life of Mary Elizabeth Hawker, who enjoyed considerable fame under her pen name Lanoe Falconer. It is a
Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). Weiss
