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Empire Under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935

This book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth ...

Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes Case Studies for Theory and Practice

This book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication ...

Familial Feeling Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel

This book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, ...

Forms of List-Making : Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration

This book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights ...

Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of ...

Media Resistance

his book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media, both new and old. It explains why media resistance ...

Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch

This book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary ...

Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online : Vikings in the Digital Age

This book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives ...

New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology

This book presents up-to-date information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, ...

Performing Citizenship

This book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing ...

Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

This book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural ...

Pynchon and Philosophy : Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, ...

Reading Breath in Literature

This book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, ...

Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves

This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building ...

Semiotics : the basics / Daniel Chandler

Provides a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. Demystifying what ...

Semiotics : the basics / Daniel Chandler

Provides a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. Demystifying what ...

Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media

This book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged ...

The Academic Book of the Future

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this ...

The Autofictional : Approaches, Affordances, Forms

This book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. ...

The Narrative Subject Storytelling in the Age of the Internet

This book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media ...

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