Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336104
- ISBN
- 9781349336104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
paperback. Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349323951
- ISBN
- 9781349323951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen. Series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Num Pages: 156 pages, 20 figures. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 156
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022189
- ISBN
- 9781137022189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.79
€ 68.79
Paperback. Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance facilitates a range of intimacies that offer new feminist models in the age of globalization. Num Pages: 246 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349475872
- ISBN
- 9781349475872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
Paperback. This book explores the use of the Biblical text of the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBJD; HRCM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349403264
- ISBN
- 9781349403264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems andconsiders the two poets'relations with western literature and tradition. This bookshows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets." Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333844
- ISBN
- 9781349333844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Xenophon I. Historia Graeca Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1922
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198145523
- ISBN
- 9780198145523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Paperback. The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational. Editor(s): Grover, M.; Brown, E. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349334520
- ISBN
- 9781349334520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. This translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 342 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DNF; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HPD; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104319
- ISBN
- 9780231104319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.78
€ 42.99
€ 30.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HRAB; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349527595
- ISBN
- 9781349527595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349239887
- ISBN
- 9781349239887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.05
€ 195.05
Paperback. After its succes de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures." Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536689
- ISBN
- 9781349536689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.57
€ 66.57
Paperback. Series: Contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349198160
- ISBN
- 9781349198160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.83
€ 49.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333367087
- ISBN
- 9780333367087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
Paperback. By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts. Editor(s): Murphy, E. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480364
- ISBN
- 9781349480364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
paperback. Editor(s): Burns, E. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403961877
- ISBN
- 9781403961877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.27
€ 139.27
Paperback. Editor(s): Avery, E. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRCM; HRJ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 2. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403978042
- ISBN
- 9781403978042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardback. Editor(s): Avery, E. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRCM; HRJ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977991
- ISBN
- 9781403977991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.44
€ 67.44
Paperback. This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage. Editor(s): Avery, E. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRCM; HRJ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349538027
- ISBN
- 9781349538027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture. Editor(s): Herrmann, Elisabeth; Smith-Prei, Carrie; Taberner, Stuart. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139252
- ISBN
- 9781571139252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.68
€ 114.68
Paperback. Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 211 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010971
- ISBN
- 9781847010971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.63
€ 26.99
€ 26.63
Paperback. Contributors analyse the theories behind children's literature, its functions and cultural significance, and suggest the new directions this literature is taking in terms of its craft, themes and intentions. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011329
- ISBN
- 9781847011329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99
€ 36.99
Paperback. Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action. Num Pages: 238 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349433551
- ISBN
- 9781349433551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 47.48
€ 52.51
€ 47.48
Paperback. This book explores widespread influence of Blake on twentieth-century writers from Yeats and Joyce to Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349521043
- ISBN
- 9781349521043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.85
€ 65.85