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Literature: history & criticism

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

Paperback. Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that continue to shape cultural notions about love today. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349483396
ISBN
9781349483396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the ever-changing context of Mexican intellectualism. Editor(s): Castillo, Debra A.; Day, S. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 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
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349483273
ISBN
9781349483273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482856
ISBN
9781349482856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JF. 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
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482795
ISBN
9781349482795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Paperback. Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue European and American scholars and spanning the slavery era through the early 21st century, they draw on approaches from library history, literary history and textual studies. Editor(s): Cottenet, C. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482658
ISBN
9781349482658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482320
ISBN
9781349482320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Paperback. This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HPC; HPCF; JFSJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482306
ISBN
9781349482306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

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