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The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present

`This is a wonderful survey of the British political novel. ' - modern assessment

Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System

Around the kingdom prisons are jammed to means, and in severe circumstances, barges and cellular houses are used to stem the overflow. Probation officials in a few towns have caseloads of two hundred and more--hardly a achievable variety of offenders to trace and supervise. And with approximately 1000000 humans in criminal and reformatory, and and a part million on probation, it really is transparent we're experiencing a hindrance in our penal process.

Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of His Time (Oxford English Monographs)

This research makes a speciality of Louis MacNeice's inventive and important engagement with different Irish poets in the course of his lifetime. It attracts on vast archival study to discover the formerly unrecognized quantity of the poet's touch with Irish literary mores and networks. Poetic dialogues with contemporaries together with F.

Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

The impression of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was once unprecedented in either political and mental phrases. the consequences of famine-related mortality and emigration have been devastating, within the box of literature not less than in different components. during this incisive new research, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it within the paintings of latest writers and their successors, right down to 1919.