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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study of the amorous and sexual behaviors of Nabokov's characters this book shows how Eros, both as a clown or a pervert, contributes to the poetic excellence of his novels and accounts for the unfolding of the plots. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487387
ISBN
9781349487387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Paperback. The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBL; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487202
ISBN
9781349487202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487189
ISBN
9781349487189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis. Editor(s): Fludernik, Monika; Nandi, M. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; HBTB; JFC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487141
ISBN
9781349487141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. Editor(s): McInnis, David; Steggle, Matthew. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487127
ISBN
9781349487127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include Oprah's Book Club, the Man Booker Prize and the Harry Potter phenomenon. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486847
ISBN
9781349486847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Paperback. Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486823
ISBN
9781349486823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Paperback. Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at fiction set in metropolises, regional cities, and rural communities, this book argues that the everyday experience of these places produces forms of wide connections that emphasize social justice. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. 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
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486762
ISBN
9781349486762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

Paperback. Editor(s): Davis, C.; Johnson, D. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSA; JFC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486441
ISBN
9781349486441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.01

Paperback. Editor(s): Demetriou, Tania. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486403
ISBN
9781349486403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486380
ISBN
9781349486380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Scanlon, M.; Engbers, Chad. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFG; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486342
ISBN
9781349486342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486281
ISBN
9781349486281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. Analyzing the renowned Saint Birgitta of Sweden from the perspectives of power, authority, and gender, this probing study investigates how Birgitta went about establishing her influence during the first ten years of her career as a living saint, in 1340 1349." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485642
ISBN
9781349485642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Paperback. Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by time, evidence, and interpretation in defining the historical. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485628
ISBN
9781349485628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Paperback. This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture. Editor(s): Meineck, Peter; Konstan, David. Series: New Antiquity. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485604
ISBN
9781349485604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 160.92

Paperback. Race and Identity in D. H. Lawrence is a wide-ranging examination of Lawrence's adoption and adaptation of stereotypes about minorities, with a focus on three particular 'racial' groups. This book explores societal attitudes in England, Europe, and the United States and Lawrence's utilization of cultural norms to explore his own identity. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485581
ISBN
9781349485581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBL; JFD; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485307
ISBN
9781349485307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBJM; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485109
ISBN
9781349485109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485086
ISBN
9781349485086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. 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. 2014
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349484133
ISBN
9781349484133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.34

Paperback. This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization. Translator(s): Rosenberg, Andrea. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JFC; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349484096
ISBN
9781349484096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. Through examining the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, Katherine Ebury shows cosmology had a considerable impact on modernist creative strategies, developing alternative reading models of difficult texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; PGC; PHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349483693
ISBN
9781349483693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2015
SKU
V9781349483679
ISBN
9781349483679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

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