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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. With a critical look at Tolstoy's persona, faith, and thought, this book treats the writer as a midwife of modern counterculture. It shows and tries to correct the metaphysical blunder on which Tolstoy's philosophy was based. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230615861
ISBN
9780230615861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Hardcover. In a clear and accessible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230615939
ISBN
9780230615939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Arnold A. Schmidt, a high profile author recreates Byron's intellectual milieu during his Italian years and provides translations of seminal texts that have previously been unavailable in English. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616004
ISBN
9780230616004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief in their right of access to the private life of royalty. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402. Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821. Series: Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters. 264 pages, 0. This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief in their right of access to the private life of royalty. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616301
ISBN
9780230616301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

Hardcover. Moore analyzes how the Christmas holiday, revitalized during the Victorian era, and the flurry of texts supporting it contributed to English national identity. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616547
ISBN
9780230616547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616752
ISBN
9780230616752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Hardcover. Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617322
ISBN
9780230617322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Hardcover. Heredia offers a comparative perspective on gender, race, and migration between Latin America and the U.S. in Latina narratives. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617377
ISBN
9780230617377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.53

Hardcover. Romanticism and the Object explores ways in which European Romantic culture and its artifacts were shaped by 'object aesthetics,' a new and often disruptive use of objects in literary expression. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617384
ISBN
9780230617384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. With new perspectives on postcolonial studies, this volume traces the development and forms of a fascination with Eastern European cultures in South African literature during and after the Cold War. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617391
ISBN
9780230617391
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.59

Hardcover. This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617643
ISBN
9780230617643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62

Hardcover. Featuring contributions from respected scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to Augusto Roa Bastos's work and contextualizes themes of nationhood, identity, and history. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400. The Life and Work of Augusto Roa Bastos. 254 pages. Featuring contributions from respected scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to Augusto Roa Bastos's work and contextualizes themes of nationhood, identity, and history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSK. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617667
ISBN
9780230617667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Hardcover. This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618732
ISBN
9780230618732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.07

Hardcover. Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618763
ISBN
9780230618763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Hardcover. In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider offers a valuable and eloquent contribution to the critical tradition. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618848
ISBN
9780230618848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Paperback. The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. Editor(s): Mohanty, Satya P. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619081
ISBN
9780230619081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judicious listening' in his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619418
ISBN
9780230619418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Drawing on the work of diverse poets and thinkers, Bettridge argues that the disruptive techniques of recent innovative poetry are in fact a form of literary faith. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619425
ISBN
9780230619425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294. Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. 200 pages. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619661
ISBN
9780230619661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.92
€ 45.89

Paperback. Exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships, respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy's canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619678
ISBN
9780230619678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.76

Paperback. The Spiritual History of Ice explores the ecology of ice in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected context of the Romantic age but also the esoteric history and psychology of frozen phenomena. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619715
ISBN
9780230619715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.01

Hardcover. This book explores how Japanese writers in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan used narratives of romantic and familial love in order to traverse the dangerous currents of empire. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619890
ISBN
9780230619890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.70

Hardcover. Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620001
ISBN
9780230620001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62

Hardcover. This book is an analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America, tracing the active interplay between language, space, and memory. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620360
ISBN
9780230620360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.35

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