Given this dual process, this volume will be of value both to everyone interested in contemporary art--particularly fiction, drama and film--and also to readers whose aim it is to promote a better appreciation of canonical British ...

Annotation - A fascinating account of Britain's mythic traditions.

"Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and obscurity to see his pictures hung in London's Tate Gallery.

Written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, it tells the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the early years of the Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC to Caligula's assassination in AD ...

By recapturing the nineteenth-century worlds of the super- and sub-human, and recontextualizing a forgotton obsession - this text enables twentieth-century readers to recover a legacy too precious to be lost.

This work includes the complete authoritative text with biographical & historical contexts, critical history and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives.

Thus the collection offers a stimulatingly broad number of new viewpoints on a matter of great topical relevance: national identity and the politicization of its myths.

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper.