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Hardcover. Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290792
- ISBN
- 9780230290792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker. Editor(s): Middeke, Prof. Martin; Wald, Christina. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293724
- ISBN
- 9780230293724
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€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. 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): Brown, Erica; Grover, Mary. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298361
- ISBN
- 9780230298361
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Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts. Editor(s): Kim, Rina; Westall, Claire. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299870
- ISBN
- 9780230299870
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€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity. Editor(s): Vanacker, Sabine; Wynne, Catherine. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300507
- ISBN
- 9780230300507
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible. Editor(s): Streete, Adrian. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301092
- ISBN
- 9780230301092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302785
- ISBN
- 9780230302785
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Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, Rosalyn; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303720
- ISBN
- 9780230303720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Hardcover. This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction. Editor(s): Morrison, Robert; Roberts, Daniel S. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304413
- ISBN
- 9780230304413
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Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy - including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters - this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid. Editor(s): Astrom, Berit; Gregersdotter, Katarina; Horeck, Tanya. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308404
- ISBN
- 9780230308404
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama. Editor(s): Brown, Sarah; Lublin, Robert I.; McCulloch, Lynsey. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230313859
- ISBN
- 9780230313859
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€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Hardcover. Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. Editor(s): Sell, Jonathan P. A. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314221
- ISBN
- 9780230314221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture. Editor(s): Mianowski, Marie. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 2 charts, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319394
- ISBN
- 9780230319394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.99
€ 67.99
Hardcover. This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval. Editor(s): Ashton, Gail; Kline, Daniel T. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337343
- ISBN
- 9780230337343
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wallace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both thematic essays and focused examinations of each of his major works of fiction. Editor(s): Boswell, Marshall; Burn, Stephen J. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338111
- ISBN
- 9780230338111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.63
€ 138.63
Hardcover. Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies. Editor(s): Van Dyke, Carolynn. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338586
- ISBN
- 9780230338586
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Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Hardcover. Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives. Editor(s): Walter, Katie L. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338708
- ISBN
- 9780230338708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.33
€ 138.33
Hardcover. Indography considers literary and non-literary representations of Indians in early modern English writing in relation to processes of globalization and race formation. Editor(s): Harris, Mr. Jonathan Gil. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341371
- ISBN
- 9780230341371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.45
€ 128.45
Hardcover. This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship. Editor(s): Cook, Daniel; Culley, Amy. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343078
- ISBN
- 9780230343078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Hardcover. What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture. Editor(s): Dente, Carla; Soncini, Sara. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343276
- ISBN
- 9780230343276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial literature and theory. Editor(s): Burns, Lorna; Kaiser, Birgit M. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348257
- ISBN
- 9780230348257
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Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch's work by placing it within a diversity of new contexts. It also reveals startling parallels between Murdoch's work and other literary and philosophical texts. Editor(s): Rowe, Anne; Horner, Avril. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348288
- ISBN
- 9780230348288
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Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing. Editor(s): Miller, Vivien; Oakley, Helen. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230353985
- ISBN
- 9780230353985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Hardcover. A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.' Editor(s): Clark, J. C. D.; Erskine-Hill, Howard. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355996
- ISBN
- 9780230355996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88