Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Drawing upon recent insights in ethical criticism and moral philosophy, this text offers new readings of fictional and nonfictional works by such figures as Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, David Lodge, David Mamet, Ishmael Reed, Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar and Jane Smiley. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 447.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333918821
- ISBN
- 9780333918821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.95
€ 118.95
Hardcover. This text explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AGH; DSB; DSK; HRA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333918951
- ISBN
- 9780333918951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.07
€ 63.07
Hardback. In this text, the author considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333923931
- ISBN
- 9780333923931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.95
€ 118.95
Hardcover. From the 16th century to the 18th century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. This title looks at some of those representations to tease out the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333925379
- ISBN
- 9780333925379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.87
€ 118.87
Hardback. This title is a study of Samuel Beckett's affinity with the British 18th century and of the influence of such writers as Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, and Johnson on his work. It demonstrates how Becket was not only influenced by them but how he interprets them for us in a quite modern way. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333925393
- ISBN
- 9780333925393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.95
€ 118.95
Hardback. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333928882
- ISBN
- 9780333928882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.85
€ 119.85
Hardcover. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333929513
- ISBN
- 9780333929513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This text is a contribution to critical debates on Keats as one of the "Cockney" school of poets. Ayumi Mizukoshi argues that Keats as a poet of "aesthetic pleasure" by placing him in historical context of bourgeois consumer revolution. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333929582
- ISBN
- 9780333929582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardback. This study explores thematic parallels between Max Weber's theory of the rationalization and disenchantment of the modern work and the critiques of contemporary culture developed by Lyotard, Foucault and Baudrillard. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSA; HPS; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333930588
- ISBN
- 9780333930588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.85
€ 118.85
Paperback. This book develops the theory that 'Wuthering Heights' was recast and expanded between its first submission to a publisher in 1846 and its final acceptance and publication in 1847, argues that the chronological coherence of the book was an innovation of the second version and explores the anomolies which still remain. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333945452
- ISBN
- 9780333945452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.18
€ 118.18
Hardback. Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's six published novels against the background of a "long 18th century" that stretched from the Restoration to the Regency. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; HPCD; HRCC91; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333948088
- ISBN
- 9780333948088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.07
€ 119.07
Hardcover. This comprehensive study of the revival and appropriation of the Roman triumph from the 1580s to the 1650s includes an original survey of ancient literary models and the work of humanist antiquarians, and shows how all its texts are implicated in contemporary political conflicts and discourses. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DST; 2ADL; 3D; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 489.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333948224
- ISBN
- 9780333948224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. This study examines Hardy's prolonged struggle with his contemporary readers, whose bourgeois values he despised. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962602
- ISBN
- 9780333962602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardcover. Taking into account developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of "The Politics of Nature" enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's study of Romanticism. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962756
- ISBN
- 9780333962756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Paperback. Taking into account developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of "The Politics of Nature" enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's study of Romanticism. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962763
- ISBN
- 9780333962763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333963814
- ISBN
- 9780333963814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.87
€ 118.87
Hardback. How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? This text illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, and others. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333963999
- ISBN
- 9780333963999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.85
€ 132.85
Hardcover. This text offers a chronological survey of the history of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent. As royal servants, courtiers, diplomats, soldiers, writers and patrons of numerous other authors, the Sidneys occupied a central position in the development of early Modern English literature. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; BGH; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333964002
- ISBN
- 9780333964002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.13
€ 120.13
Hardcover. Most modern literary theory is explicitly anti-theological. This work states the case for a contemporary literary theory whose principles derive from Christian theology. It concludes with an assessment of how such a theory can be formulated and used in contemporary cultural analysis. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 407.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333964217
- ISBN
- 9780333964217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. Working at the intersections of feminist literary criticism, new historicism, and narratology, "Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing" revises contemporary understandings of 19th century representations of prostitution, female sexuality and the "rights of woman" debate. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333964958
- ISBN
- 9780333964958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.57
€ 119.57