Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the 'angel in the house'. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity duri...

Ideological heterogeneity in mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands.

In many European countries mass theatre was a widespread expression of

'community art' which became increasingly popular shortly before the First

World War. From Max Reinhardt's lavish open-air spectacles to socialist

workers' Laienspiel (lay theatre), theatre visionaries focused on ever larger

groups for entertainment as well as political agitation.

Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples from

the...

Key French-language theoretical texts on comics translated into English for the first time

'The French Comics Theory Reader' presents a collection of key theoretical

texts on comics, spanning a period from the 1960s to the 2010s, written

in French and never before translated into English. The publication brings

a distinctive set of authors together uniting theoretical scholars, artists,

journalists, and comics critics. Readers will gain access to important debates

that have taken place among ...