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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book, now in paperback and with a new Preface, assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230346437
- ISBN
- 9780230346437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Hardcover. A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder Woman comics, the pioneering prose of Samuel Delany and James Tiptree, and the television shows Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348042
- ISBN
- 9780230348042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348363
- ISBN
- 9780230348363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 2AB; 2BM; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354982
- ISBN
- 9780230354982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Hardcover. Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355187
- ISBN
- 9780230355187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space, this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need to have information of the real domestic. By recreating specifics of these spaces this book innervates the fictional domestic interior for modern readers. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355279
- ISBN
- 9780230355279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Hardcover. A comprehensive study of cannibalism in literature and film, spanning colonial fiction, Gothic texts and contemporary American horror. Amidst the sharp teeth and horrific appetite of the cannibal, this book examines real fears of over-consumerism and consumption that trouble an ever-growing modern world. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360518
- ISBN
- 9780230360518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Paperback. This book, now with a new preface, offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361492
- ISBN
- 9780230361492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.92
€ 61.92
Hardcover. In reading Banville's novels through the work of key psychoanalytical theorists, John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions brings together apparently disparate thematic strands - missing twins, shame, false identities - and presents these as manifestations of a central concern with narcissism. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361706
- ISBN
- 9780230361706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230362246
- ISBN
- 9780230362246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364240
- ISBN
- 9780230364240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Hardcover. Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230366305
- ISBN
- 9780230366305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367418
- ISBN
- 9780230367418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367425
- ISBN
- 9780230367425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369368
- ISBN
- 9780230369368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.12
€ 109.12
Hardcover. Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369375
- ISBN
- 9780230369375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.93
€ 118.93
Hardcover. What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230378001
- ISBN
- 9780230378001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics: The Painter as Writer (Italian and Italia...
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Hardcover. Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion, and contributes to the definition of Levi's humanistic cultural program. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, 11 colour illustrations, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390645
- ISBN
- 9780230390645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D'Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, and celebrity. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st edition,
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390676
- ISBN
- 9780230390676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. In this new paperback edition Mark Burnett investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, Mark Burnett produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391451
- ISBN
- 9780230391451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54