Prizing Scottish Literature Philip Withington

Prizing Scottish Literature Philip WithingtonThis history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.

Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer provokes a larger conversation about the relationship between cult properties and fandom

and focusing on hitherto neglected areas such as gender

This collection presents a critical and historicising investigation of contemporary debates on affect

Media and Campaign Language’ is an original

Dual text on facing pages

merchandising and branding have become an ever bigger part of the fandom experience

Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War

This book analyses the roles that lay women and girls played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities

as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries like Billy Bragg

and responding to economic fluctuations and social change

This is the first book on the celebrated films of director Claire Denis ('Chocolat'

every year