Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Examines the literary strategies of Anais Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions, scrutinizing her artistry, and identifying her modernist techniques and her poetic vision. This volume also contains views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell. Editor(s): Nalbantian, Suzanne. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333650875
- ISBN
- 9780333650875
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.61
€ 119.61
Hardback. This text shows how Thackeray's own life shaped his novels. It analyzes his philosophy and religion along with his experiences with women, and his acknowledgements of his dependence on writing for a livelihood, to provide an explanation for his narrative strategies. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333650929
- ISBN
- 9780333650929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.65
€ 118.65
Paperback. This text shows how Thackeray's own life shaped his novels. It analyzes his philosophy and religion along with his experiences with women, and his acknowledgements of his dependence on writing for a livelihood, to provide an explanation for his narrative strategies. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333650936
- ISBN
- 9780333650936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 117.75
€ 117.75
Paperback. As well as being the author of children's literature, Stevenson's travel writing - an insight into life of the South Sea islands - has also grown in reputation. This volume brings together interviews and recollections from a range of material, portraying the life and times of the author. Editor(s): Terry, R.C. Series: Interviews & Recollections S. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333650998
- ISBN
- 9780333650998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.81
€ 36.81
Hardcover. This work situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The first half considers the construction of the Regency peasant poet and the second covers asylum culture. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333652701
- ISBN
- 9780333652701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Paperback. This work situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The first half considers the construction of the Regency peasant poet and the second covers asylum culture. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333652718
- ISBN
- 9780333652718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. This volume explores the relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. In its examination, the text argues that the mainstream has been infiltrated by modernist and postmodernist estrangement effects. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 1. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655658
- ISBN
- 9780333655658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.43
€ 119.43
Paperback. This volume explores the relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. In its examination, the text argues that the mainstream has been infiltrated by modernist and postmodernist estrangement effects. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655665
- ISBN
- 9780333655665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. An initial proposition is made that literary theory is divided into two broad, antithetical camps - one where the focus is purely textual, the other where the focus is on context. The text articulates a number of possible responses with consequences for future research and education. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655689
- ISBN
- 9780333655689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.91
€ 55.91
hardcover. This text rethinks the nature of classical influence and finds that the relationship between the modern West and Greece is one of anxiety, fascination and resistance. It uses Shelley's protean and radical writing to question and illuminate the contemporary Romantic understanding of Greece. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD; HBLA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655696
- ISBN
- 9780333655696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.43
€ 119.43
Hardback. Explores representations of "monstrous" women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing male responses to the feminist movement of the era. This text argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions. Num Pages: 245 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655771
- ISBN
- 9780333655771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Paperback. Explores representations of "monstrous" women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing male responses to the feminist movement of the era. This text argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions. Num Pages: 245 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Dublin, Ireland
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655788
- ISBN
- 9780333655788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.57
€ 118.57
Hardback. Examines the debate about the meaning of the Falklands War. Using literary critical methods, this book examines how the Thatcherite reading of the war as a myth of British greatness reborn was developed through political speeches and journalistic writing. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MTASF; 3JJPN; DSBH; HBJM; JFC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655818
- ISBN
- 9780333655818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.05
€ 119.05
Paperback. Reissued to mark the centenary of the publication of "A Shropshire Lad", this biography is a complete account of A.E. Housman's life and career. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it provides readers with an insight into Housman the poet, the scholar and the man. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333656013
- ISBN
- 9780333656013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Hardback. Covering classic texts such as "Frankenstein" and "Wuthering Heights" and contemporary fiction by authors including Iain Banks and William Gibson, this study focuses on the opposition between the Gothic tradition and the law, suggesting that at all points it produces transgression. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333658017
- ISBN
- 9780333658017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.33
€ 119.33
Paperback. Covering classic texts such as "Frankenstein" and "Wuthering Heights" and contemporary fiction by authors including Iain Banks and William Gibson, this study focuses on the opposition between the Gothic tradition and the law, suggesting that at all points it produces transgression. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333658024
- ISBN
- 9780333658024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.77
€ 118.77
Hardback. A study of the relationship between walking and writing which argues that much Romantic literature has its source in the rise of pedestrian touring in the late 18th century. Discusses the impact of this cultural revolution on the creativity of Romantic writers, including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats, Hazlitt and Hunt. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333658147
- ISBN
- 9780333658147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.04
€ 181.04
Hardcover. This collection of William Makepeace Thackeray's letters has been selected according to their ability to convey the essential biographical developments of his life, as well as their ability to represent his characteristic verbal and pictorial expressions. Num Pages: 416 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 818.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333660737
- ISBN
- 9780333660737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.51
€ 121.51
Hardback. Sir Walter Ralegh created a public identity by means of the prose texts he wrote from prison. This study not only offers an analysis of these political writings, but also demonstrates the ways in which his readers modified Ralegh's public identity in a series of posthumous reinterpretations. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333660768
- ISBN
- 9780333660768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Hardcover. This text describes Hopkins's family and early education. It illustrates the working life of the priest-poet whose work was not made public until more than 30 years after his death, and also includes sections on the religious and political background to his work. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333661956
- ISBN
- 9780333661956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.07
€ 119.07