Providing the first analysis of screen and stage adaptations of Peace’s writings, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author, this comprehensive overview of the canon of contemporary British writer David Peace is a must-read for students, critics and fans alike.

With the pressing work of decolonising our reading lists gaining traction in UK higher educational contexts, Decolonising the Conrad Canon shows how those author-Gods most associated with the colonial literary canon can also be retooled through decolonial, queer, feminist readings.

This book explores the impossible dilemma facing Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: How could they redefine their culture, and the ‘humanity’ they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed?

The term carries dual connotations relating to the emergence of diseases and to innovative narrative forms responding to them. Chambers brings together a compelling range of authors, from Phaswane Mpe to Hari Kunzru, to illuminate how literature has responded to past and present pandemics from twenty-first century perspectives.

Drawing on a planter’s manuscript, shipping records, missionary accounts and seventeenth-century scraps of paper, Dibia’s World will appeal to specialists as well as general readers interested in the early Atlantic world, Creole societies, slavery and African-American history.

Denis Diderot’s works are regarded as milestones in theater history. This book is the first study that contextualizes his acting theory, as presented in the Paradoxe sur le comédien, in eighteenth-century material culture, centering on four humanoid objects: the automaton, the statue, the jumping jack, and the mannequin.

Dido’s Tragedy is a literary commentary, highly original in both form and content, on the Latin text of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 4, which concerns the love affair between Dido and Aeneas and its tragic denouement.

Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women engages with the notion of disruption in women’s cultural production in French from a wide range of perspectives, spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and incorporating a variety of Francophone contexts.

This book examines the emergence of documentary theatre in Ireland during the 2010s, linking this to a combination of political crises and societal changes in an increasingly experimental and adaptable Irish theatre landscape.

The Council of Nicaea in 325 was a momentous event in the history of both the Christian Church and the Later Roman empire. Summoned by the Christian emperor Constantine, Nicaea came to be remembered as the first ecumenical council which composed the original Nicene Creed still used in modified form in most Christian churches today.