Censorship had an extraordinary impact on Alban Berg's operaLulu, composed by the Austrian during the politically tumultuous years spanning 1929 to 1935. Based on plays by Frank Wedekind that were rep ... 続きを読む
"The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." -Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low po ... 続きを読む
"Why I Became an Occupational Physician" and Other Occupational Health Stories brings together an edited collection of the short articles published in the journal Occupational Medicine between 2002 an ... 続きを読む
Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History
Albino Manoel Pacheco was sent in 1861-2 to re-establish the Portuguese settlement at Zumbo at a time when Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition was still very active in the region. He wrote an account of ... 続きを読む
An accessible account of an area of language in which we all have an interest: as Ralph Waldo Emerson says, 'we all quote.'
Elizabeth Knowles is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotat ... 続きを読む
Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main ... 続きを読む
'Grooming' and the Sexual Abuse of Children: Institutional, Internet and Familial Dimensions critically examines the official and popular discourses on grooming, predominantly framed within the contex ... 続きを読む
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as its starting point, asking ... 続きを読む
'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around ... 続きを読む
'Lords of Wine and Oile' provides a long overdue book-length appraisal of the major seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick. The collection reads his poetry in the context of his literary, musical, po ... 続きを読む
