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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets. Editor(s): Blair, Kirstie; Gorji, Mina. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137030320
ISBN
9781137030320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Hardcover. This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn. Editor(s): Schaffner, Anna Katharina; Weller, Shane. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137030290
ISBN
9781137030290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

Hardcover. Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Enns, Anthony; Trower, Shelley. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137027245
ISBN
9781137027245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.00

Hardcover. New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study from the Renaissance to the 21st century, it will become required reading for teachers and students of the novel and its history. Editor(s): Parrinder, Patrick; Nash, Andrew; Wilson, Nicola. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137026972
ISBN
9781137026972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Hardcover. Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory. Editor(s): Theile, Verena; Tredennick, Linda. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137010483
ISBN
9781137010483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.44

Hardcover. This book examines Blake's work in the context of discourses of nation and empire, of the construction of a public sphere, and restores the longevity to his artistic career by placing emphasis on his work in the 1820s. Relevant contexts include technology, sentimentalism, Ireland and Catholic Emancipation, missionary prospectuses and body politics. Editor(s): Worrall, David; Clark, Steve. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333993149
ISBN
9780333993149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Hardcover. Editor(s): Sheen, Erica; Hutson, Lorna. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 250 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333983997
ISBN
9780333983997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Hardcover. Drawing its impetus from the conviction that death is a central yet curiously understudied preoccupation for Edmund Spenser and John Milton, this is a collection of essays on the topic of death in these two monumental representatives of the early modern canon. Editor(s): Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane; Cheney, Patrick; Schoenfeldt, Michael. Num Pages: 227 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333983980
ISBN
9780333983980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Hardcover. These essays explore the expansion of publishing from 1750 to 1850 which reflected the growth of literacy and the diversification of the reading public. Experimentation with new genres, methods of advertising, marketing and dissemination, and forms of critical reception are also examined. Editor(s): Franklin, Caroline; Clery, E. J.; Garside, Peter. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 507.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333964552
ISBN
9780333964552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.90

Hardcover. Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading. Editor(s): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333964170
ISBN
9780333964170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardcover. The bicentenary of the foundation of the "Edinburgh Review" has provided the foremost scholars in the field with the opportunity of re-examining the pervasisve significance of the most important literary review of the Romantic period. Editor(s): Demata, Massimiliano; Wu, Duncan. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333963494
ISBN
9780333963494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the strange and intense relationship between history and artistic form during the 1940s. The essays cover a comprehensive range of issues, including the Blitz, demobilization, nostalgia for the pre-war years, addiction, and the formation of sexual identity. Editor(s): Reeve, N. H.; Mengham, Rod. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333918852
ISBN
9780333918852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Hardcover. This text examines and interrogates the relationships between Samuel Beckett's works and contemporary French and German thought. The collection takes a look as issues such as postmodern and poststructuralist thought in relation to Beckett studies. Editor(s): Lane, Richard. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333918791
ISBN
9780333918791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardcover. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades of the 20th century, re-defined the term "war literature" and its cultural legacy. Devoted to both familiar and lesser known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium. Editor(s): Quinn, Patrick; Trout, Steven. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333764596
ISBN
9780333764596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardcover. This collection of essays on novels and short stories ranges from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the 19th century. The essays represent a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints on fiction, and take in some of the lesser-known authors. Editor(s): Jenkins, Alice; John, Juliet. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Re-issue
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333714454
ISBN
9780333714454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.72

Hardcover. A study of the dialogue that takes place between biographers and the writers who are their subjects. The text features 22 essays by scholars and biographers including Hermione Lee and Lawrence Lipking, tackling the lives of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Chaucer. Editor(s): Gould, Warwick; Staley, Thomas F. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333684610
ISBN
9780333684610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

Paperback. This title is a collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists. Editor(s): McMullan, Gordon. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333676660
ISBN
9780333676660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Hardcover. Poets, novelists and academics join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading means to them as individuals. Included are George Steiner and George Craig on the act of reading, and Joseph Brodsky, Les Murray, Douglas Oliver and Hester Jones on reading, poetry and vision. Editor(s): Davis, Philip. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333670026
ISBN
9780333670026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.96

Hardback. This issue is devoted to one of the realities of Yeats's writing, the Irish audience that he loved enough to scorn. This audience managed to wound him both by its attention and its indifference. As these eight essays by Irish critics show, it matters even more in the changing Ireland of today. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 661.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633151
ISBN
9780333633151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.46

Hardback. This annual has four broad themes: W.B. Yeats's written and oral poetic technique; his philosophical interests in Eastern thought and "A Vision"; his manuscripts; and Jack B. Yeats's work, including his illustrations for his brother's writing. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333536377
ISBN
9780333536377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.77

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