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What do we gain from watching a familiar play for the nth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre managers, who, to deliver varied programmes, relied on a repertoire of 'stock' entertainments performed in alternation with the latest plays. Repertory theatre was not new to the Romantic period, but it took on additional purchase at a time when the playhouse was not simply a site for entertainment but a government-controlled cultural institution and business subject to sometimes extreme financial, political, and ideological pressures.Through an innovative selection of case studies drawn from deep archival research, Stock Pieces juxtaposes canonical with otherwise forgotten entertainments; unites the period's professional and amateur dramatic cultures; and spans British metropolitan, provincial and imperial geographies. The picture that emerges is fresh and compelling. It is not Shakespeare who takes centre stage here, but the near contemporaries whose repertoire status he came to undermine, and the adaptors of his work (from pantomime arrangers to enslaved performers in Jamaica) who transformed its aesthetic and cultural values; while it is the revival and reenactment of the horrific, violent spectres of the slave trade and slavery that recur again and again. Stock Pieces gives powerful testimony of how the Romantic-period dramatic repertoire could be mobilised to signify social and political practices that operated outside the theatrical institution, crossed national borders, and dared to effect real change.

At the end of 'Ode to a Nightingale', Keats's speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: 'Was it a vision, or a waking dream?' This book is concerned with such 'enchanted' imaginings and the intimations of transcendence they convey, along with the suspicions they reflexively engender and the uncertainties with which they invite us to dwell.The book argues that it is necessary to think anew about the Romantics' 'imaginative metaphysics' on account of recent theoretical developments -- to do with such things as affect theory, eco-theology, new materialism and the re-enchantment of the West -- but also due to a lingering allergy to ideas of transcendence, which can be traced back to the 'demystifying' materialist approaches to Romanticism that dominated post-1960s criticism.It is further suggested that under the gaze of these critical approaches, Romantic literature has been consciously cut off from the life of the reader and its affective, epiphanic and utopian dimensions have been neglected. What The Enchanted Moment proposes instead is a 'post-secular' approach that seeks to preserve the ontological hospitality of Romantic literature, whilst also endorsing a more participatory engagement with the text, in which the act of reading is allowed to become an existentially relevant exploration of the possible, which can transfigure our vision and open up new ways of being in the world.Although in one sense the study is a work of 'meta-criticism', which seeks to recover excluded possibilities and facets of Romanticism that have been discredited by some of its most influential critics, its contentions are illustrated and their cogency explored by way of provocatively new close readings of works by Barbauld, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Radcliffe, P.B. Shelley, Wollstonecraft and Wordsworth.

Books I-II of Julius Caesar's The Gallic War narrate the campaigns of Caesar's first two years in Gaul (58-57 BCE). These first years saw great success for Caesar. He repelled the Helvetii, who were attempting to migrate through Roman territory; he defeated the German tribes who had crossed the Rhine under the leadership of the arrogant Ariovistus, who had designs on conquering all of Gaul in his own name; and he suppressed an uprising among the Belgic tribes. Caesar portrays these victories as hard-fought against fierce enemies; through reported speeches and dispatches he demonstrates Ariovistus' bold ambition, and he narrates his near-defeat at the Sabis River in vivid detail. Nevertheless, by the end his second year in the province, Caesar claimed that all of Gaul had been pacified, and he was awarded a fifteen-day thanksgiving by the senate.This English translation faithfully represents the clarity and precision of Caesar's Latin while also conveying the drama of Caesar's narrative in a voice that modern readers will find lively and accessible. A substantial introduction orients the reader to the historical and literary context of The Gallic War as well as to the complicated political and authorial career of Julius Caesar. The commentary covers topics of historical, literary, and linguistic interest, providing support to readers of both the English and Latin texts.

The Stanley Kubrick Archive is a collection held at the University of the Arts London that contains material related to the life and work of Stanley Kubrick. But even though the archive has been branded as being about one man - Kubrick - its contents are much more diverse. There are records and objects about the wider industrial, cultural, and social history of film production in the latter half of the twentieth century; records and objects about the histories of fashion, stationery, photography, communication and media technologies, and urban development; historical resources pertaining to events such as the Holocaust, the life of Napoleon, and the American Civil War; and ephemera that has no immediately obvious research use.Media historian James Fenwick argues that the Stanley Kubrick Archive has been misunderstood as being solely about Kubrick and that it has much greater interdisciplinary potential. Fenwick opens up the discussion of the meaning and purpose of the Stanley Kubrick Archive by considering its material realities via a critical survey and archaeological analysis of its contents. By undertaking such an analysis, Fenwick moves beyond the mythic status of the archive being Kubrick's archive and instead foregrounds the wider cultural value and significance of the collection and uses the archive to excavate histories, stories, and ideas beyond a focus on Stanley Kubrick, proving that the Stanley Kubrick Archive doesn't just have to be about Stanley.

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s and Second World War. Haggard was born in Guatemala City in 1911, the son of a British colonial officer - who was a nephew of H. Rider Haggard - and his French-Canadian wife. He died in mysterious circumstances in 1943 while serving with British Army Intelligence in the Middle East.Ross Davies's biography retraces Stephen Haggard's brief yet vivid and crowded life and work. From a colonial childhood and education in England, the Haggard story moves on to prewar theatre studies in Munich, stardom on the London and New York stages and from there to service with the Army, the BBC, the Special Operations Executive and its rival Political Warfare Executive. Davies shows that Haggard felt verse to be his vital outlet, artistic and emotional, although he did not seek publication until the outbreak of Hitler's war. Wartime poems such "The Tear" and "Lotus" struck a chord with the many other young men and women who had to set aside civilian life, and Haggard's widow Morna collected the verse for publication with his memoir I'll Go to Bed at Noon (1944). In this book, Davies traces a fascinating life story that has been largely lost from view and makes a convincing case for Haggard's important contribution to the interwar literary and cultural scene.

The century between c. 650 and 750 was one of major religious, social and political transformations in northwest Europe. In the Frankish kingdom, clerics from Ireland and Britain played an important role in these processes. One of the most prominent figures to emerge from this period was Willibrord - a Northumbrian educated in Ireland who became the first bishop of Utrecht and founded the monastery of Echternach in modern Luxembourg. Through his involvement in the Christianisation of Frisia, his cooperation with the eastern Frankish elite, including the ancestors of Charlemagne, and his connection with the pope, Willibrord was at the centre of the developments which led to the formation of a new ecclesiastical and political landscape between the North Sea and Thuringia on the eve of the Carolingian period. This book, which represents the first extensive study of the topic in English, extends its analysis of Willibrord's career beyond the mission to Frisia and examines the political dimension of his activity within Merovingian Francia and its border regions. By offering a fresh look the main sources for Willibrord's life, the book explores how Insular clerics shaped their Frankish environment through the creation of networks between Ireland, Britain and the continent and their ability to take on a variety of different roles within Merovingian society.

Community relations policy has been an almost permanent feature in Northern Ireland since 1969, yet it has rarely been considered as an object of study. This book provides historical depth to its analysis, by documenting the various manifestations of the notion of community relations in public policy during the Troubles period. Drawing on a variety of written and oral primary and secondary sources, it offers a unique, rich perspective on the meaning and intent behind community relations policy at certain critical junctures. In addition, by examining this period through the lens of one policy, the book sheds light on important questions such as who intervened in policy-making during the conflict, who sought to influence the process and, eventually, who took the decisions. It also considers the varied roles played by community workers.This meticulous analysis reveals previously unknown aspects of the evolution of community relations policy and presents a compelling micro-history of policy-making and governance during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music and Cinema is a compilation of essays that breaks new ground in the exploration of recent and contemporary cultural expressions emerging from Francophone Oceania. This books explores Francophone Oceania today: a region rich in literary, artistic, and cultural productions, which nonetheless remains a marginalised space within Francophone Studies and disconnected from the mostly Anglophone cultural networks currently deployed in the South Pacific.Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music and Cinema establishes an état présent of recent and contemporary Francophone Oceanian literature, visual arts, music and cinema. It measures the local and global diffusion of Francophone Oceanian culture today and examines its key thematic and critical approaches, including ecocritical perspectives on art, literature, and cinema, while proposing new directions for research in the region.Oceania Today opens a much-needed critical conversation between scholarly disciplines, between French-speaking and English-speaking academics, and between university researchers, museum professionals, and artistic voices. Our book contains hitherto unpublished contributions by Mā'ohi Nui/French Polynesian writer Chantal T. Spitz and by New Caledonian writer Nicolas Kurtovitch (in English translations by Jean Anderson).Our book aims to draw interdisciplinary bridges among literature, cinema, music and the visual arts, and to account for the various cross-fertilisations currently happening in the region. Ultimately, what emerges from our volume is a multifaceted reflexion on the contemporary existence of Francophone Oceania, showcasing the diversity of views, artforms, critical perspectives and artistic voices that are gathered across its islands and the sea that surrounds them.

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.The Visual Worlds of Life Writing brings into conversation the two most popular genres in long-eighteenth-century England: portraits and biographies. As key instruments of social formation when Britain was "forging the nation" (Linda Colley), they were wielded alike by Whigs and Tories, the aristocracy and the commercial middle-classes, high-class artists and grub-street writers. They were most persuasive, however, when used jointly: portrait prints, ideally accompanied by 'Brief Lives', sold by the thousands. National histories were re-issued to include pictures. Portraitists were required to stage their sitters as though taken from real-life situations.Embedded into such interplay between texts and images was an aesthetic claim: doing biography was a multimedia enterprise. Far from being just words on a page, eighteenth-century life writing came with frontispiece portraits, illustrations, or elaborate title pages. Biographers directed their readers to existing portraits of their subjects to enhance the reading experience. Portraits made of calligraphic writing blurred the boundaries between text and image.As a thorough reassessment of visual culture's role in producing biographies, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the rhetorics of portraiture and life writing, an historical account of their sister arts tradition, and an inquiry into the social function of profiling people.

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Since the 1950s, film production in Ireland has evolved into a mature industry creating high-profile film, television drama, documentary and animation for both the domestic and international markets. This book traces that evolution through a history of the screen production industries on the island of Ireland. More specifically, the book is concerned with the people who work in these industries - how they have shaped the work they do and the conditions under which that work is carried out. The book therefore highlights the vital contribution of film and television workers to screen policy and labour relations in Ireland, north and south.The book presents a local history that explicates the development of the screen industries in Ireland and their relationship to the global Hollywood production system. While the emphasis is on film and television workers, the book acknowledges the essential producer contribution to building the industry as it exists today. However it also emphasises producer obligations towards the screen workers they employ. The result is a local history of Irish screen production told mainly from a labour perspective, using previously unused records from the trade union archives and other labour history sources.

Through an examination of fourth to sixth century sermons, letters, laws, and treatises in Latin-speaking communities, the difficulties of late antique clerics in moving ascetically influenced sexual ideals into wider practice become evident.

Roni Weinstein's sociological reading of the kabbalistic ideas of the early modern period suggests that they gained acceptance because they met the needs of contemporary Jewish society. Although these ideas were presented as continuing a tradition, their goal was reformation: few aspects of Jewish life were not changed in consequence. This broadly based and innovative study challenges accepted ideas on the origins of Jewish modernity, and also shows how Counter-Reformation Catholicism affected these developments.

Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices of eastern Europe. This wide-ranging survey of sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, and many other languages fills a gap in the study of folk medicine in eastern Europe while also shedding light on little-known aspects of Ashkenazi culture and on cross-cultural contacts between Jews and their neighbours.

The Journal of Beatles Studies is the first journal to establish The Beatles as an object of academic research, and will publish original, rigorously researched essays, notes, as well as book and media reviews. The journal aims are;

During the Enlightenment, people from the middling sort organised themselves into 56 patriotic societies in Denmark, Norway, and the German duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

This book argues that one of the most striking aspects of Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction is his concern with literary apprenticeship. Engaging with a sub-set of his novels concerned with the composition of a narrative account, this book reads Robinson's fiction as addressing problems bound to narrative, examining its structures, limits, possibilities, and value.

This beautifully illustrated book shines new light on this most famous of ancient monuments, and is the first in-depth study of archaeology and astronomy at Stonehenge for both researchers and the public alike. A very important contribution to the field, it is a book that should be widely read.

Theodore Syncellus's sermons provide contemporary evidence for devotion to the Virgin Mary in Constantinople in the 620s, first the veneration of her miraculous Robe at her church in Blachernae, and second the central role she was believed to have played in saving the city in the Avar siege of 626.

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror aims to examine why we repeatedly return to certain popular horror films. Authors from a range of backgrounds invite readers to consider their own relationships between past horrors -- both on film and through trauma -- and present lives.

This work attempts a re-reading of Peckinpah's films by applying recent scholarship on the Gothic to understand better one distinctive approach he used in his critique of American institutions. It extends beyond the Western (with which he is commonly identified) to focus on his other work, in the light of recent work on the Gothic.

This translation of the sermons of the Patriarch Germanos II (1223-40) draws attention to an unfairly neglected source for a critical period when the survival of Byzantium was in the balance. They support the patriarch's enduring importance as an architect of the Byzantine recovery from the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204.

This critical study engages with the films of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, from his first feature Pusher (1996) up to and including Copenhagen Cowboy (2023).The book focuses on Refn's treatment of genre, gender and glamour and rejects simplistic readings of his work as 'macho' or misogynistic arguing instead that his films provide complex and layered representations of masculinity.

This absorbing study chronicles the remarkable movement for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Examining the contribution of workers, activists, unionists, journalists, and scholars from the 1980s to COVID-19. it offers an original perspective on the spatial politics and everyday experiences of cross-class feminist and transnational social movement organizing.