Pat Barker has established herself as one of the leading British political and historical novelists of the generation growing up in the wake of the Second World War. This book provides students with a
Pat Barker has established herself as one of the leading British political and historical novelists of the generation growing up in the wake of the Second World War. This book provides students with a
Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of--and apologist for--
Visual culture--art, advertising, architecture, cinema, television, cartography, video, the internet and images of science--has shaped American national identity more than any other country. Covering
Visual culture - art, advertising, architecture, cinema, television, cartography, video, the internet, and images of science - has shaped American national identity more than that of any other country
British Writing of the Second World War is the first study to provide a detailed critical and historical survey of British literary culture in wartime. Concerned as much with war as with writing, it e
The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognis
The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognis
A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, A Clockwork Orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. Anthony Burgess take
In fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by English and US writers. These inclu
The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and film Covering the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam W
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