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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 overview

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

Around the kingdom prisons are jammed to ability, and in severe instances, 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 practicable variety of offenders to trace and supervise. And with approximately 1000000 humans in criminal and penitentiary, and and a part million on probation, it's transparent we're experiencing a problem in our penal method.

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

This research specializes in Louis MacNeice's artistic and significant engagement with different Irish poets in the course of his lifetime. It attracts on wide archival examine to discover the formerly unrecognized volume 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 influence of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was once exceptional in either political and mental phrases. the consequences of famine-related mortality and emigration have been devastating, within the box of literature at the least in different components. during this incisive new learn, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it within the paintings of latest writers and their successors, all the way down to 1919.