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Minerals of Britain and Ireland - A.g. Tindle - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Minerals of Britain and Ireland - A.g. Tindle - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Minerals of Britain and Ireland is a completely comprehensive treatment of the minerals found in Britain, Ireland and the surrounding islands. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 550 colour and black & white images, the book provides exhaustive coverage of the remarkably wide range of minerals found in this part of the world. By far the longest part of the book is the alphabetical listing of all the minerals described from Britain and Ireland. This includes species, varieties, synonyms, discredited minerals and fraudulent descriptions. The status of each mineral is clearly represented by distinctive formatting. All type localities are also described. The treatment is enriched with biographical information on all those individuals who have had minerals named after them; it describes all temajor mineral collections in national and local museums and university deprtments;and it summarizes the geological conditions in the major orefields that produced so many of the minerals.

DKK 1129.00
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The Plays of Maura Laverty - - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Plays of Maura Laverty - - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Published here for the first time, MauraLaverty’s plays Liffey Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent are rooted in 1950s Dublin, its territories and enclaves. Teeming with the lives of the poor, the ambitious, the trapped and thestruggling, the plays are moving, funny and vividly alive. They capture thecapital in a state of transformation – reaching for modernisation while stillenmired in stagnant class divisions, poor housing and narrow social values. Keyto all three plays are questions of home, the lives of women and girls, and theimpact of conservative government policies and church attitudes. Already a public figure in Irish life, and aninfluencer before her time through her fiction, cookery books and broadcasting,Laverty’s plays met with huge success when staged in 1951 and 1952 by HiltonEdwards of the Gate Theatre Company at Dublin’s Gaiety and Gate Theatres and ontour. Laverty’s trilogy is a significant and long-awaited part of thetwentieth-century Irish theatrical canon. This volume presents the Trilogy, including apreface by Christopher Fitz-Simon, who knew and worked with Laverty. Theeditors’ introduction contextualises Laverty’s work and considers thetheatrical values of the plays.

DKK 316.00
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Charlotte Smith's Liberal Feminism - Anne Chandler - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Charlotte Smith's Liberal Feminism - Anne Chandler - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book re-assesses the feminist politics of Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) by prioritizing the editorial content of her fiction over the Romantic lyricism of her poetry. It describes Smith’s application of ‘patriot’-Whig discourse to the controversies of the Revolutionary era. Two constants emerge in Smith’s novelistic canon: a reform agenda endorsing partisan opposition and a social contract; and a feminist agenda foregrounding intellectual freedom. These liberal stances provide a counterpoint to a research tradition that has viewed the ups and downs of Smith’s ‘radicalism’ as need-driven responses to Revolutionary events and domestic hardships. The policy discussions embedded in Smith’s novels show that her theory of reform rested as much on ideals of British constitutionalism and enlightened fraternalism as on her own experiences of patriarchal oppression. Earnest young men seeking jobs, and helping women along the way, were central to her vision of cultural renovation. Her depictions of male sociability connect with her clear emulation of such forebears as Fielding and Smollett, whose comedic methods add nuance to her polemics. Smith the novelist was more interested in the entertainment value of ‘low’ humour than biographical readings have suggested. Overall, then, this book raises Smith’s stature as a contributor both to the Burke-Wollstonecraft-Paine debates of the 1790s and to the liberal feminism of the early nineteenth century, by emphasizing the variety of her prose sources.

DKK 1189.00
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The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volumes 1 & 2 - - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volumes 1 & 2 - - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women’s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance. Volume One covers plays by Irish women playwrights written between 1716 to 1992, and seeks to address and redress the historic absence of Irish female playwrights in theatre histories. Highlighting the work of nine women playwrights from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as thirteen of the twentieth century’s key writers, the chapters in this volume explore such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women’s strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture. Volume Two contains chapters focused on plays by sixteen Irish women playwrights produced between 1992 and 2016, highlighting the explosion of new work by contemporary writers. The plays in this volume explore women’s experiences at the intersections of class, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity, pushing at the boundaries of how we define not only Irish theatre, but Irish identity more broadly. CONTRIBUTORS: Conrad Brunström, David Clare, Thomas Conway, Marguérite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Shirley-Anne Godfrey, Úna Kealy, Sonja Lawrenson, Cathy Leeney, Marc Mac Lochlainn, Kate McCarthy, Fiona McDonagh, Deirdre McFeely, Megan W. Minogue, Ciara Moloney, Justine Nakase, Patricia O'Beirne, Kevin O'Connor, Ciara O'Dowd, Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Anna Pilz, Emilie Pine, Ruud van den Beuken, Feargal Whelan, Nelson Barre, Mary Burke, Shonagh Hill, Mária Kurdi, José Lanters, Dorothy Morrissey, Brian Ó Conchubhair, Brenda O'Connell, Shane O'Neill, Graham Price, Siobhán Purcell, Carole Quigley, Sarah Jane Scaife, Melissa Sihra, Clare Wallace

DKK 533.00
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