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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This study argues that the private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism. Published in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, Puerto Rico and the United States between 1995 and 2005, the novels use fictional houses to criticize and unsettle home and homeland, depicting their linked oppressions and exclusions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358625
ISBN
9781349358625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 offers a theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical drama in the under-researched period 1926-1949. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358588
ISBN
9781349358588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse." Editor(s): Eeckhout, Bart; Ragg, Edward. Num Pages: 263 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358502
ISBN
9781349358502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Paperback. This book is a scholarly examination of the relationship between sacramental controversy and dramatic production in sixteenth-century England. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358489
ISBN
9781349358489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.58

Paperback. This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358441
ISBN
9781349358441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book discusses changing attitudes towards science and technology, nature, animals, and the environment in twentieth-century Germany and their representation in selected novels, plays, poems, and essays. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JPA; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358403
ISBN
9781349358403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Paperback. This new addition to the Author Chronologies series details the tumultuous and tragic life of Katherine Mansfield (she died from tuberculosis aged only thirty-four) andshedsnew light onher approach and attitudes to writing." Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 163 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
163
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357826
ISBN
9781349357826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.70

paperback. This book surveys more than 200 plays about the First World War that were written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSBH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357802
ISBN
9781349357802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are dialogically interconnected. The dialogic resonances in the presentation of character consciousness are analysed using linguistic evidence and evidence drawn from everyday conversational practices. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFG; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357734
ISBN
9781349357734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Paperback. Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357635
ISBN
9781349357635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.74

Paperback. This volume presents the fully annotated text of James Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae" (1791), with an extensive editor's introduction, and an appendix that includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to "Vindiciae Gallicae" in the late summer of 1791." Editor(s): Garratt, Edmund. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
A Critical ed
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357598
ISBN
9781349357598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.98

Paperback. This book is a history of reading in the British Isles from 1695-1870 that focuses on "common" rather than professional readers and which explores a range of previously undervalued sources. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357574
ISBN
9781349357574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Powell, S. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
373
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357550
ISBN
9781349357550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

Paperback. This book discusses the relationship between children and sexuality in the past in a series of case studies extending from the Greeks to the Great War. Editor(s): Rousseau, G. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 389 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBG; HBTB; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357444
ISBN
9781349357444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Paperback. This new edition to the Crime Files series considers how the cozy world of Agatha Christie is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics and moral liberalization. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357413
ISBN
9781349357413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357246
ISBN
9781349357246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers. It establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridge's poetry and later religious thought. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HPCF; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349356553
ISBN
9781349356553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Paperback. Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics. This book examines why critics who are otherwise suspicious of Western forms of knowledge are drawn to psychoanalytic theories, and whether it is possible to use such theories without reproducing the colonial discourse that also structures psychoanalytic thought. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; DSBF; DSBH; JMAF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349356539
ISBN
9781349356539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Paperback. Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions encounter today, in an environment where nationalism and national identity are increasingly contested by global, transnational and local agendas, and where economic forces create conflicting demands. Editor(s): Wilmer, S. E. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349356102
ISBN
9781349356102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices. Editor(s): Galasinska, Aleksandra; Krzyzanowski, M.; Krzyzanowski, Michal. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; DS; J; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2009
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349356003
ISBN
9781349356003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSY; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349355754
ISBN
9781349355754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Paperback. This book discusses proto-sociological sketches of urban types and manners, a text-image genre which boomed in Europe during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD; HBL; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349355716
ISBN
9781349355716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Paperback. This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; DSBF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349355693
ISBN
9781349355693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

paperback. This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny. Editor(s): Jervis, John. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349355396
ISBN
9781349355396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

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