Republicanism and the American Gothic (Gothic Literary Studies)
Republicanism and the American Gothic offers a comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s, as it recontextualizes American gothic fiction from the perspective of the cold war.
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in Adam Smith. As a consequence, a large number of PhD dissertations on Smith have been written by international scholars - in different languages, and in many diverse disciplines, including economics, women’s studies, philosophy, science studies, political theory and english literature: diversity which has enriched the area of study.
This book comprises a collection of papers given at the sixth biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in March 2006, and is the fourth in the series Modern Studies in Property Law. This volume is a refereed and revised selection of the papers, covering a broad range of topics of immediate importance, not only in domestic law, but also on a worldwide scale.
This handbook compiled in full accord with the requirements of the existing syllabus and curriculum of social studies of Great Britain for pedagogical universities and faculties of foreign languages is intended to provide the students with the most updated information and analysis of the versatile aspects of the contemporary British social scene which experienced major changes of the beginning of the 21st century.
Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different disciplines that examine language development in children and adults from varying perspectives.
