Cholera and Nation

Cholera and NationHow cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation. Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political reform in Britain set the terms by which the social body would be defined. In part by historical accident, epidemic disease and especially cholera became

the metropole's colonial other and the perceived source of the disease

resulting in such films as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

With the increasing use of digital photography in a research environment

which had been passed down from his mother

He problematizes the paradigm shift within critical theory from the "philosophy of the subject" to the communicative action theory championed by Jürgen Habermas by opposing Habermas's reconstruction of critical theory to that of Theodor W

Peter Lasko

The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema

differences in benefits across different groups

he is less well known for his engagement with the teachings of Jewish tradition and the Hasidic heritage that informs that engagement

This book provides the frame of design

the tensions around direct action

This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture