The love of books

The love of booksThe love of books explores the bond between people and books in the UK. Using interviews and archive material it investigates the attachment to the practice of reading for pleasure and to books as objects. It focuses on the aesthetic, ethical, and existential impacts of the encounter with books.

Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history

and social Europe

and film costume

This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas

how and who

In the mid-50s

An intimate yet rigorous investigation of creativity in dance

It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to

imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles

The book traces the rise of Britain's amateur cine photography from its early pioneers

University of MichiganMedia and Values investigates the moral performance of the media

An explanation of Lancashire's unique social history since Elizabethan times is long overdue