Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalization. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBAH; HBTB; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349283644
- ISBN
- 9781349283644
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€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. This book studies the representation of the body in Beckett's work, focusing on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', it aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was registered. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349283774
- ISBN
- 9781349283774
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€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Paperback. Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siecle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment. Through a close examination of the textures of the novels, Kventsel defines and explores their psycho-cultural field of meaning." Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349283873
- ISBN
- 9781349283873
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
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
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349284078
- ISBN
- 9781349284078
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Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 65.52
€ 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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349284139
- ISBN
- 9781349284139
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349284399
- ISBN
- 9781349284399
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The Forms of Renaissance Thought. New Essays in Literature and Culture...
. Ed(S): Barkan, L; Cormack, B; Keilen, S
paperback. This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. It charts the most important developments in the field since the turn towards cultural and ideological features of the Renaissance imagination. Editor(s): Barkan, L; Cormack, B; Keilen, S. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- SKU
- V9781349284450
- ISBN
- 9781349284450
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Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
paperback. This book is a study of wartime anxiety in the fiction, art, and psychoanalytic writings of mid-century Britain. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 241.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- SKU
- V9781349284566
- ISBN
- 9781349284566
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. This book explores early modern English attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349285785
- ISBN
- 9781349285785
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Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
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
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Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 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. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349286065
- ISBN
- 9781349286065
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 203 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
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349286409
- ISBN
- 9781349286409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
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
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
Silec, Tatjana; Chai-Elsholz, Raeleen; Carrut...
Paperback. Dedicated to Andre Crepin on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349286447
- ISBN
- 9781349286447
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulami...
Merck, Mandy; Sandford, Stella
paperback. In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFD; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- SKU
- V9781349286508
- ISBN
- 9781349286508
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. This study analyzes Sir Philip Sidney's reputation from his own day to the present by discussing his reception in the work of authors as diverse in time and type as Sir Fulke Greville, Christopher Hill, Charles Lamb, Edmund Waller, and Thomas Warton the elder. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349286706
- ISBN
- 9781349286706
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Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. This comparative study graphs the feminist theological trajectory of the religious writings of four eclectic, but similar, women: Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Mary Baker Eddy. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRAM; HRLK; JFFK; JFSJ. 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
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349286935
- ISBN
- 9781349286935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74