Penny Dreadfuls Laini Burton

Penny Dreadfuls Laini BurtonThis study participates in the ongoing scholarly effort to re appraise the penny dreadful phenomenon as a cornerstone of literary history and of popular culture, both within the nineteenth century and the development of Victorian popular fiction and beyond its specific context. The growing presence of these cheap entertaining Victorian texts in contemporary popular culture through television series, musicals and literature signals that it is high time

The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism

especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation

After his first experiments in Wharton’s anti-Walpole journal he developed his satiric powers in the Miscellany by creating not only his own feisty counterpart to Pope’s coquette Belinda but even partnering with Sarah Chapone’s subversive Delia

social liberalism versus social authoritarianism

The result of extensive original archival research

this book argues

political discourse

technology and consciousness

reflective essays

Working towards the Führer is a remarkable collection of essays by some of the most prominent historians writing on the history of the Third Reich

The collections of narratives depict working daily life as well as offering a moral and theological insight into medieval life overall

It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life