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\"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.\" —T. S. Eliot, \"Tradition and the Individual Talent\", 1921 Bloomsbury Influences is an interdisciplinary essay collection developed from papers given at Bath Spa University’s Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference. The volume explores the ways that 20th and 21st century art, drama, fiction and philosophy have been influenced and insp.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für \"Künstlerische Beziehungen zwischen England und Deutschland in der viktorianischen Epoche / Art in Britain and Germany in the Age of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert\" verfügbar.

Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain's liberal reforms, the Ionian State's economic deterioration anticipated the \"neocolonial\" condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.

In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt--by the French in 1798 and by the British in 1882--in a rich comparative analysis of acts, fictions, and theories that translated the European into the Egyptian, the Arab, or the Muslim.

Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about \"their foreign roots\". The Royals – as they say – are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an \"imagined community\", invented by journalists and historians? The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors – among others John Röhl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history – open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.