This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management. It challenges the stereotypical opposition between 'creatives' and 'suits' and draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden. It draws on the practical experience of individuals working in the creative industries and looks at the place of creative organisations and creative business management in a new creative economy, based on ideas, images and information.

Emeritus Professor David Thomas and Warwick English and Theatre Studies graduate Jo Taylor have prepared this edition of Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Professor Thomas supervised Jo’s final year dissertation on Strindberg and was so impressed that he asked Methuen if they would permit her to contribute to the Miss Julie volume which he was already contracted to prepare for them. Having read her work they readily agreed to the proposal.

Contemporary academic life poses a number of challenges to new entrants in the humanities and social sciences, who are expected to balance the demands of research, teaching and management. Managing Your Academic Career draws on interviews with a cross-section of young academics entering the profession today to identify the predominant issues and concerns as they begin to juggle the various components of the job.

Illuminating Eco covers the range of British scholarship on the prolific literary and theoretical work of Umberto Eco.

With essays by scholars such as Michael Caesar and David Robey, the volume provides an overview of current research being carried out by a new generation of academics. In addition it provides an opportunity to view the interaction between Eco's fiction and his theoretical texts and suggests future avenues of research.

Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender argues that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender. Offering a thorough and comprehensive reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, Labbe demonstrates that Smith is both more canny about the attractions of gender than has previously been recognised, and more experimental in her deployments of gendered subjectivities.