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States are powerful actors in world politics, and we wish to hold them accountable - especially when they violate the rights of their people. By benefitting from Immanuel Kant's philosophy, this book explores the requirements to and consequences of holding states as responsible agents in a morally imperfect world.

The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution.

A path-breaking study of India's Science Fiction, which investigates how mythology, ideology and technology shape contemporary SF.

This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine conformity expressed through a limited -and limiting - set of gendered practices.

A study of the thirty-five libraries built by Andrew Carnegie in Wales as an illustration of his world-wide commitment to the public library movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. These libraries and their social, cultural and architectural significance have never been studied before.

Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.

Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing pressing questions of national identity and subjecthood, and emphasising the ethical value of listening to unsettling or distressing voices.

Through a comparative analysis of twelve literary case studies, this book investigates societal discourses relating to citizenship, class, gender and ethnicity within the structures of the Scandinavian welfare state and French Republican universalism.

By comparing different screen adaptations of the story of Romulo Gallegos's notorious villainess, Dona Barbara Unleashed reveals how over the years subversively strong female characters have become increasingly accepted by society and welcomed by audiences.

This book brings together jurisprudential debates on international criminal law, international law scholarship on the limits of state sovereignty, and applied political philosophy concerning responsibility and accountability in the context of mass political crimes and state criminality. It offers a compelling view of legal reasoning concerning accountability regimes in the Global South.

This long-duree study contributes to a deep knowledge of the formation of ruling elites, nobility, political class and rich families in southern Europe (Spain) during the transition from the Ancien Regime to the nineteenth century's new liberal regimes.

This book takes British horror films of the 2000s as a case study to theorise transnational genre hybridity, which combines genres from different national cinemas.

Examines the question of how English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. This book draws on aspects of human geography to explore the rich contemporary poetics of Welsh space and place. It focuses on the poetry of writers who have come to prominence since the 1970s.

Theorising the Contemporary Zombie marks a new and exciting study into why zombies are popular today and what lessons can be learned from the undead.

Blumhouse Productions is the first academic book to examine one of the film industry's most successful producers of horror cinema. Individual chapters offer readers a deeper appreciation of how Blumhouse makes its films with an unusual, but successful, business model.

The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxieties, fears and concerns illustrated in the works of several post-World War II writers can be best understood through regional history and identity.

This book analyses the experience of the Mexican Republic in 1836-61 and provides an exemplary case study for newly independent states.

Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia redefines Iberian and curatorial Studies by situating curatorial practice at the centre of the configuration of modern, postcolonial societies in the Iberian context.

Theatre and the Macabre explores the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol, from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dances of death and dismembered bodies.

Women's Lives recalls and celebrates the work of Elizabeth Petroff, an eminent scholar of Medieval Women Mystics, by proposing that the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression. Their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them.

A one-volume history of Christianity in Wales, from its Roman origins to the present.

The Brexit debates confirmed how Wales's relationship to Europe has for too long been discussed exclusively, narrowly and suffocatingly in terms of its social, political and economic aspects. As a contrast, this volume sets out to explore the rich, inventive and exhilarating spectrum of pro-European sentiment evident from 1848 to 1980 in the writings of Welsh intellectuals and creative writers. It ranges from the era of O. M. Edwards, through the interwar period when both right wing (Saunders Lewis) and left wing (Cyril Cule) ideologies clashed, to the post-war age when major writers such as Emyr Humphreys and Raymond Williams became influential. This study clearly demonstrates that far from being insular and parochial, Welsh culture has long been hospitably internationalist. As the very title Eutopia concedes, there have of course been frequently utopian aspects to Wales's dreams of Europe. However, while some may choose to dismiss them as examples of mere wishful thinking, others may fruitfully appreciate their aspirational and inspirational aspects.

Mae'r gyfrol hon yn cynnig yr astudiaeth gyflawn gyntaf o lenyddiaeth plant yn y Gymraeg a'i harwyddocad cymdeithasol a diwylliannol.

Wynebwn heddiw argyfyngauhinsawdd, gwacter ystyr, ac ymchwydd asgell dde ddigyfaddawd. Dyma destun sy'n olrhain hanes deallusol radical Cymru yng nghwmni merch o'r enw Ceridwen, sy'n ein hannog fel darllenwyr i ailafael mewn etifeddiaeth ddeallusol Gymreig yn wyneb heriau'r dydd.

Stephen King and American Politics examines the complicated political character of King's fiction. From the 1960s to Donald Trump, these works force us question how America got into its current political crisis - and where it might go from here.

A comprehensive study of medieval Arthurian literature, comprising of literary explorations together with chapters on the political and social manifestations of the Arthurian legend and the influence of continental romance traditions.

Patrick Hayden presents an account of John Rawls's views regarding the nature of social justice among states and the international law and morality he considers necessary in order to secure universal human rights and political stability among individuals and states.

Norah Borges (1901-98) was the sister of the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She first began producing art in Switzerland, where her family was trapped during the First World War, and travelled to Spain before returning to her native Argentina with her new styles of painting. In the 1920s, her work was published on the covers of important cultural magazines, but she is now largely forgotten. In her works, Borges created a world full of almost angelic figures - describing it as a smaller, more perfect world - mostly a serene space dominated by women. This book explores how Borges created that space and developed her own unique style of painting, studying the connections she made with the leading artists and writers of her time.

This book examines Indian science fiction written not only in English but also in other Indian languages (Bangla, Hindi, Marathi etc.). It traces the history of the genre since 1835 and examines specific formal and thematic aspects to highlight how the genre functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures.

Living Off-grid in Wales examines the new policy context for off-grid rural development by contrasting the policy approach with the activist version of going off-grid.