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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 state prisons are jammed to potential, and in severe instances, barges and cellular houses are used to stem the overflow. Probation officials in a few towns have caseloads of 2 hundred and more--hardly a practicable variety of offenders to trace and supervise. And with approximately a million humans in felony and penal complex, and and a part million on probation, it truly is transparent we're experiencing a difficulty in our penal procedure.

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

This research specializes in Louis MacNeice's inventive and important engagement with different Irish poets in the course of his lifetime. It attracts on huge 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 effect of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was once extraordinary in either political and mental phrases. the consequences of famine-related mortality and emigration have been devastating, within the box of literature at the very least in different components. during this incisive new learn, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it within the paintings of up to date writers and their successors, right down to 1919.