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John Mills and British Cinema: Masculinity, Identity and Nation

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This book asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity and, by exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, the book…

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John Mills and British Cinema: Masculinity, Identity and Nation

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This book asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity and, by exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, the book…

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Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and ‘Peace’: Volume 5

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Offers a reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers’ immersion in and resistance to…

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Women’s Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power, Resistance

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This book examines the relationship between war and gender through the analysis of literary texts.

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Twentieth-century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body

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Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre. Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of…

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British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar

The writing of this period offers fresh insight into cultural reconstruction and the difficulty of writing about cataclysmic events. Through a historical approach that re-instates forgotten writers and re-evaluates well-known…

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Prosthetic Agency

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This book addresses the legacy of World War II on male identity and reinvention. It considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to…

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Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and ‘Peace’: Volume 5

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This new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire…

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Twentieth Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body

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Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is a critical study of this ever-popular genre. It covers writers ranging from Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler to Dick Francis to Sara Paretsky. The book investigates…

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War-Torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II

This book is the outcome of a successful workshop held in Leeds in September 2003 and explores the effects of World War II on the representation of gender in post-war…

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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is…

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The Salisbury Plain Poems of William Wordsworth

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Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology of the Northwestern Plains

A book that clarifies the emerging picture of Northwestern Plains prehistory and early history as told by human bones in skeletal and burial records that span thousands of years and…

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The Skater’s Manual, a Complete Guide to the Art of Skating; With Rules for Plain and Fancy Skating; Hints to Beginners; Sketches of the Skating Clubs and Ice-ponds of New-York, Brooklyn and Jersey City; Rules and Regulations of the Central Park…

Edward L Gill

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The Skater’s Manual, a Complete Guide to the Art of Skating; With Rules for Plain and Fancy Skating; Hints to Beginners; Sketches of the Skating Clubs and Ice-ponds of New-York, Brooklyn and Jersey City; Rules and Regulations of the Central Park…

Edward L Gill

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Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn

Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity…

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Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn

Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity…

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Nora M. Barrett (Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Professions, Rutgers School of Health Related Professions, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, USA),Kenneth J. Gill (Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Professions, Rutgers School of Health Related Professions, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, USA),Carlos W. Pratt (Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Professions, Rutgers School of Health Related Professions, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, uSA),Melissa M. Roberts (Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Professions, Rutgers School of Health Related Professions, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, USA)

Discusses interventions to help individuals with mental illness improve the quality of their life, achieve goals, and increase opportunities for community integration so they can lead full and productive lives…

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