Rethinking Therapeutic Reading

Rethinking Therapeutic ReadingThrough a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, Rethinking Therapeutic Reading reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.

Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939

The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet

The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy’s philanthropic support for

and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children

agricultural and consumer revolutions

Drawing on extensive archival research in India

justify and naturalise state borders

which allows the reader to reflect on two interrelated dimensions of violence

domination and exploitation for making a living in globalised precarity

gay love to Japan – can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world

the construction sector is one of the biggest industries in the world

Examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS