Hammill provides a literary, linguistic and cultural route from the Romantics, via the emergence of the Dandy and then of Modernism, to that most sophisticated of figures, Noel Coward, and on to the meaning of sophistication in the twenty-first century.
Kingston wrestles with the enduring legacy of colonial rags and riches, episodes of political strife and turf rivalry. This guide charts a course through the city's offerings, from the division between uptown modernity and downtown's swashbuckling past, to local legends and popular culture.
Focuses on power to shape a history of Cultural Studies. An analysis of the nature and purpose of Cultural Studies, this book assesses the development of the discipline from the work of Michel Foucault in post-war France and the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1970s to the expansion of the field in the United States.