Practising shame ART / Individual Artists / Monographs

Practising shame ART / Individual Artists / MonographsPracticing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences

the production of loyalty

Greece and Plato

This book applies an original theoretical framework to unpack the threat perceptions and strategic calculus driving the behaviour of the Gulf monarchies

Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays

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the book investigates how a cleaved ex-industrial community used arts methodologies as a strategy of re-making

It contextualises the consort’s place within the wider socio-political environment of the Stuart courts and provides a comprehensive understanding of her personal iconography

laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state

The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’

students of drama

This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people’s eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies