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  • The Penguin Book of First World War Stories

    From Arthur Machen to Julian Barnes

    Edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus, Barbara Korte ...
    An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Travel in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1900

    Media Logic and Cultural Work

    by Barbara Korte ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. By the 1860s, travel articles had become a staple of the periodicals market and reached readers who might never have travelled far themselves or bought a travel book. This monograph demonstrates that the ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Heroes in Contemporary British Culture

    Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change

    by Barbara Korte, Nicole Falkenhayner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama.Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom, Spooks, Luther and Merlin, the book explores the aesthetic strategies of heroisation in television drama ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • A new naval history

    by Katherine Parker, Elaine Chalus, Evan Wilson, Barbara Korte, Cicely Robinson, Cindy McCreery, Ellie Miles, Mary A. Conley, Jonathan Rayner, Daniel Spence, Emma Hanna, Ulrike Zimmerman, Max Jones, Jan Rüger ...
    Series series Cultural History of Modern War
    A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through the prism of naval affairs – issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story

    Edited by Barbara Korte, Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking. This collection of critical essays focuses on the ways in which the contemporary British short story mirrors, questions and engages with border issues in national and individual ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800

    Case Studies

    Edited by Barbara Korte, Stefanie Lethbridge ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and higher-class framework - the studies include explorations of female versions of the heroic, and they consider working-class and ethnic ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Travel, Writing and the Media

    Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Barbara Korte, Anna Karina Sennefelder ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge. Digitisation has had a profound impact on the practice and mediation of travel, but this volume aims to show that travel and its representation have always been enlaced with media.With contributions ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Kulturbegegnung und Kulturkonflikt im (post-)kolonialen Kriminalroman

    Edited by Michaela Holdenried, Barbara Korte, Carlotta von Maltzan ...
    Series Book 128 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik - Reihe A
    Kriminalliteratur bietet seit längerem ein Forum für die Behandlung schon ‚klassischer‘ postkolonialer Themen. So lassen sich die ProtagonistInnen vielfach als hybride Subjekte beschreiben, und die Suche nach ‚historischer Wahrheit‘ bedarf einer anderen Substruktion als der einfachen Antithetik von Gut und Böse. Darüber hinaus sind die im Verschwinden begriffenen ehemals klar getrennten kolonialen ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture

    Edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Nicole Falkenhayner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and ... Read more

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    by Paul Ham ...
    In this searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World War, Paul Ham argues that European leaders did not ‘sleepwalk’ into war, but that they fully accepted and understood the consequences of the decisions they were making.In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient ... Read more

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  • The Blade Itself

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