Oxford University Press

Exiled Royalties is a literary-biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and   Billy Budd, Sailor. The ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "e;Melville's work,"e; as Charles...

Memory, Sublimation, and DesireRavel the Decadent offers a bold new perspective on the music of Maurice Ravel by locating its aesthetic origins in the French Decadence and demonstrating this influence across the length of his oeuvre. The notions of memory, sublimation, and desire are invoked to delineate the Decadent profile of this music....

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Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban SpacesKinesthetic City uses choreography as subject and method to explore how movement through particular spaces at precise moments can illuminate the communities in those places and times. It examines the simultaneous persistence and mobility of the idea of Chineseness as it travels across a transnational...

Paperback edition of cloth edition originally published in September 2003. Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading - more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prision terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent...

The tradition of the public inquiry has become a pivotal part of public life, and a major instrument of accountability in the United Kingdom. There have been over 30 significant public inquiries in the decade (including the BSE, Shipman, Hutton, Bloody Sunday and Billy Wright Inquiries). This book is written and edited by practitioners who have...