Law, Modernity, Postmodernity

This title was first published in 2003. This book examines the interrelationship between the unravelling of the post-war welfare state and legal change. By refe

Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public

Exploring legal treatises, court decisions, political illustrations, photographs, and modernist literature, this volume reveals that the ambiguous status of cor

Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's

A critique and defense of modern legal theory

Bringing together 17 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the f

Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpre

This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett's writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.