Routledge Revivals
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The Psychology of Tragic Drama
1st Edition
By Patrick Roberts
November 01, 2024
First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas. In his introduction, the author explains and defends the application of ...
The Rise of Party in England: The Rockingham Whigs 1760–82
1st Edition
By Frank O'Gormann
November 01, 2024
The Rise of Party in England (1975) examines the English political party as an essential entity to the meaningful interpretation of political history. Parties are not separate from events but arise out of them, acquiring their definition from the attitudes and prejudices, the principles and the ...
The Rise of the Pelhams
1st Edition
By John B. Owen
November 01, 2024
The Rise of the Pelhams (1957) looks at the important period between the fall of Walpole and the appointment of Henry Pelham as First Lord of the Treasury, and the ensuing Pelhamite administration – its establishment, peak and fall and its aftermath. Particular attention is paid to the rank and ...
The Role of the Pupil
1st Edition
By Barbara Calvert
November 01, 2024
Although the role of the teacher has been extensively explored, the role of the pupil has received very little attention in the sociology of education. This authoritative study, The Role of the Pupil (first published in 1975), is about what it means to be a school pupil, exposed to the ...
The Set-Up: An Anatomy of the English Theatre Today
1st Edition
By Ronald Hayman
November 01, 2024
Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and motives flow through it. On the one hand there are the organisations: the big national companies, the ...
The Sex Role System: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Chetwynd, Oonagh Hartnett
November 01, 2024
First published in 1978, The Sex Role System traces the phenomenon of sex role stereotyping through many different disciplines and areas of study, showing how presuppositions about sex role expectations can colour our perceptions and radically affect both the theories and the practices underlying ...
The Social Value of Art: A Psychological and Linguistic Approach to an Understanding of Art Activity
1st Edition
By F.R. O'Neill
November 01, 2024
The Social Value of Art (1939) is a thorough examination of art activity, using the knowledge of the workings of the mind and of the attractions of pleasure. It helps us understand the arts through an analysis which goes to the root of our ways of thinking and feeling....
The Solitary Warrior: New Letters by Ruskin
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Howard Whitehouse, John Ruskin
November 01, 2024
The Solitary Warrior (1929) contains a large number of letters by Ruskin, none of which has been previously published. They are of special importance and interest: many belong to the middle period of his life and show the influences which produced ‘Fors Clavigera’. They are full of vivid pictures ...
The Son of a Star
1st Edition
By Poul Borchsenius
November 01, 2024
Originally published in 1960, and the first of three volumes on the history of the Jews during the dispersal, this book covers briefly the period from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 down to Hadrian’s suppression of Simeon’s insurrection in 135. It sketches the political ...
The Stationers' Company: A History, 1403–1959
1st Edition
By Cyprian Blagden
November 01, 2024
The Stationers’ Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers’ Company over five hundred and fifty years. At some periods of its life it was of importance only to its own members, while at others it played parts of consequence in the history of the ...
The Struggle for the Pacific
1st Edition
By Gregory Bienstock
November 01, 2024
The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers – European, the US, Japan and China – attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere. It traces the rise and fall of the many countries and the strategies they undertook....
The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality
1st Edition
By John Hart, Diane Richardson
November 01, 2024
First published in 1981 and now with a new preface by the renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks, The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality discusses the way people who are homosexuals see themselves and are seen by others. It provides a conceptual framework to account for the development and maintenance of...