Cultural Studies

At least 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. Representing Epilepsy, the latest volume in LUPs acclaimed Representations series, seeks to und...

In the current era of globalisation, big-C Culture loses analytical purchase. However, research, as well as intercultural training and education, c...

This volume explores various facets of the relationship between the fantastic and the fin de siècle. The essays included here examine how the fin d...

In the early twentieth century many housewives had no choice but to make every penny count. Stringent meal-planning, thrifty shopping and careful c...

The beating heart of Dublin laid bare in over 100 remarkable stories and photographs. A little over two years ago, Peter Varga began a photo proj...

Inspiration for the award-winning film How Does It Feel to be a Problem? (2021)Embrace Leadership to Combat All Forms of PrejudiceIs there a nigger...

Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an...

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 **A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in...

Sasha Sagan's parents - the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer, Ann Druyan - taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are f...

Give Methods a Chance offers a unique multimedia introduction to research methods. This volume, which builds on podcast interviews available at The...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achieveme...

Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed.Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir writte...

Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the priv...

SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy ...

Lizards stimulate the human imagination, despite generally being small, soundless and hidden from sight in burrows, treetops or crevices. They can ...

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire celebrated its centenary year in 2017. In the past one hundred years, the order has gone from a way ...

Woodpeckers are among the most remarkable birds in the avian world, having evolved a unique anatomy that enables them to peck and bore into solid t...

Step aside Hygge. Lagom is the new Scandi lifestyle trend taking the world by storm. This delightfully illustrated book gives you the lowdown on th...

Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for inc...

Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for inc...

Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. This is a challenging e...

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.Though...

A thought-provoking and much-needed look at how modern masculinity is harming and holding back menand all of societyand what we can do to promote a...

What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken la...

Since the mid-twentieth century, religious movements identifying themselves as Paganism, shamanism, native faiths and others have experimented with...

The definitive and first major text on personas in contemporary culture Modern social media and communication technologies have reshaped our identi...

Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroug...

Explore eight hundred years of lust, love, and loss. The author takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual l...