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Double Agents
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements, and possibilities in the modern Western state. Through close readings of Marcel Proust?s novels, W. H. Auden?s poetry,... more...
Editor
Pan Macmillan UK 2002; US$ 15.18In February 2002 Max Hastings retired from his position as a 'Fleet Street' Editor. His is an enormously illustrious career which started in 1985, when he was offered the Editorship of a national institution?the Daily Telegraph?in a surprise move by its owners. This candid memoir tells the story of what happened to him, and to a great newspaper, over... more...
The Undefeated
Eland Publishing 2012; US$ 14.57George Paloczi-Horvath was born in 1908 into the feudal nobility of Hungary. Despite his privileged background, he came to realize that his family?s wealth was based on the exploitation of a brutalized peasantry. By the 1930s he was an active anti-Nazi; in 1941 he was forced to flee the country. Returning after the war as a dedicated communist, he... more...
The First Lady of Fleet Street
Biteback Publishing 2012; US$ 13.11In the late nineteenth century, at a time when women were still denied the vote, Rachel Beer defied convention to take the helm first of The Observer, and then the Sunday Times, becoming the first woman ever to edit a national newspaper. It was to be over eighty years before Fleet Street would see the like again. Barred from the London Clubs and the... more...
Three Hundred Years of Irish Periodicals
The Lilliput Press 1987; US$ 14.57An invaluable collection of Irish Periodicals edited by Barbara Hayley and Enda McKay more...
The Pleasure of Thinking
Gibson Square 2012; US$ 11.65What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes... more...
Producing Serious News for Citizen Children
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 149.95This ethnographic study examines the changing history, personnel and production regime of the BBCs popular childrens news program, Newsround. more...
Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 104.95Query examines the ways interwar writers use three European ritual forms-verse drama, bullfighting and Roman Catholic rite-to articulate ideas of European cultural identity. Although these ritual forms were frequently associated with the most conservative tendencies of the age, Query shows that each had a remarkable political flexibility in the hands... more...
Slow Print
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 60.00This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist, anarchist and other radicals of... more...
Alternative Journalism, Alternative Voices
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Bringing together new and classic work by Tony Harcup, this book considers the development of alternative journalism from the 1970s up until today. Bringing theory and practice together, Harcup builds an understanding of alternative media through the use of detailed case studies and surveys. Including opinions of journalists who have worked in... more...









