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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Politics, performance and popular culture This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is... RRP: $57.99 $56.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth Charles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his 'best and truest friend'. Georgina saw Dickens as much more than a friend. They lived together for twenty-eight years, during which time their relationship constantly changed. The sister of... RRP: $39.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Challenging nuclearism An analysis of how nuclear weapons states have been able to create a 'normalisation' of nuclear weapons by practising elements of 'nuclearism'. Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate 'normalisation' of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why... RRP: $160.00 $154.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Affective medievalism This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read using similar strategies, it argues that medieval... RRP: $45.99 $45.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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