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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349283972
ISBN
9781349283972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.05

Paperback. This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children's literature and graphic novels. Editor(s): Clark, S.; Whittaker, J. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284078
ISBN
9781349284078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

Paperback. From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284115
ISBN
9781349284115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.52

Paperback. This book focuses on the work of a group of British novelists who have broken in different ways from the realist British novel of the post Second World War period without losing their broad appeal among readers. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284139
ISBN
9781349284139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Paperback. This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land . Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284399
ISBN
9781349284399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. An introduction byleading experts in the fieldto the fascinating subject of translating audiovisual programmes for the television, the cinema, the Internet and the stage and the problems the differences between cultures can cause." Editor(s): Diaz-Cintas, Jorge. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; CBX; CFP; CJ; DSB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286003
ISBN
9781349286003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.06

Paperback. An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AMC; D; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286065
ISBN
9781349286065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Paperback. This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286157
ISBN
9781349286157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Once celebrated as 'the English Sappho, ' Mary Robinson was a major figure in British Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a poet, a professional writer, a formative influence on the Romantic movement, and a participant in the literary, political, and social scene of the late 1700s Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286423
ISBN
9781349286423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286959
ISBN
9781349286959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286997
ISBN
9781349286997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Inthis textnine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen." Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287017
ISBN
9781349287017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This study examines several unexploredaspects of the poetry of Robert Frost, one of the most widely read and studied American poets, and shows how they contribute to the reader's experience and modernism in general." Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287055
ISBN
9781349287055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about21st-century ideas of nature." Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 245 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287093
ISBN
9781349287093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287413
ISBN
9781349287413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.32

Paperback. This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287437
ISBN
9781349287437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Paperback. Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist prose. Editor(s): Blinder, Caroline. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287475
ISBN
9781349287475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.72

paperback. This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Editor(s): Graham, Shane; Walters, J. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287499
ISBN
9781349287499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287710
ISBN
9781349287710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.16

Paperback. From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 222 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSBB; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287734
ISBN
9781349287734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287758
ISBN
9781349287758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287871
ISBN
9781349287871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349288137
ISBN
9781349288137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Through an analysis of a wide range of commercial and amateur recordings, this book describes how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S., from the 1930's through the mid-century performances of poets such as Dylan Thomas and Anne Sexton. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349288151
ISBN
9781349288151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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