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Mary I
England's Catholic Queen
A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen, her European connections, her ambitions and intentions, and the religious violence that stained her short reign The lifestory of Mary I—daughter of Henry VIII...
Futures of Surrealism
Myth, Science Fiction, and Fantastic Art in France, 1936–1969
Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the...
Cursed Legacy
The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann
Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann’s comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known...
The Birth of Christian History
Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts
The first comprehensive account to explore the beginnings of early Christian history writing, tracing its origin to the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts When the Gospel writings were first produced, Christian...
Selected Poems
The first bilingual volume of poems by leading Irish twentieth-century poet Seán Ó RíordáinIn the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Seán Ó Ríordáin, among...
Imagining Childhood
The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a...
Capital Affairs
London and the Making of the Permissive Society
An arresting history of sex and politics in London during the 1950s and ’60s that charts the course of modern British society and the birth of the so-called permissive society A series of spectacular...
Growing Up in England
The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914
This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises...
The Bedroom
An Intimate History
An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this...
Late Stalinism
The Aesthetics of Politics
How the last years of Stalin’s rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of...