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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors showhow theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible." Editor(s): Streete, A. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 433.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336760
ISBN
9781349336760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFF; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336623
ISBN
9781349336623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity. Editor(s): Vanacker, Sabine; Wynne, Catherine. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336227
ISBN
9781349336227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336104
ISBN
9781349336104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; DS; HBJD; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335596
ISBN
9781349335596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.23

Paperback. Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335558
ISBN
9781349335558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Paperback. Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335206
ISBN
9781349335206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. Exploring, amongst other themes, representations of the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, the issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire, this book projects a study of post-colonialism through the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335169
ISBN
9781349335169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335145
ISBN
9781349335145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. "This book emerges from "Consumer Culture, Advertising, and Literature in Ireland 1848-1921," a Leverhulme Major Research Project .. funded by the Trust between 2008 and 2011 .. a joint venture between the universities of Durham and Sunderland"--P. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; KJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334940
ISBN
9781349334940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Paperback. In16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women." Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334841
ISBN
9781349334841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with the more dominant representations of female ageing to be found in popular culture it suggests that they offer a feminist understanding of the 'invisible' woman sometimes lacking in feminism itself. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334766
ISBN
9781349334766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a clef, providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences." Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334544
ISBN
9781349334544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Paperback. Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluatesthe role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature." Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334506
ISBN
9781349334506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334414
ISBN
9781349334414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334308
ISBN
9781349334308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

Paperback. Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems andconsiders the two poets'relations with western literature and tradition. This bookshows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets." Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333844
ISBN
9781349333844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. "Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine. With a particular focus on Wuthering Heights, the book examines adaptations made from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, providing an understanding of how they help shape our cultural landscape"-- Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333226
ISBN
9781349333226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333189
ISBN
9781349333189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe, Byron's Mazeppa, and Eliot's Middlemarch, and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333165
ISBN
9781349333165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Paperback. Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333134
ISBN
9781349333134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

paperback. This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture andseeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker." Editor(s): Middeke, M.; Wald, Christina. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2011
SKU
V9781349333073
ISBN
9781349333073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. "This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear and Cymbeline to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies"-- Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349332779
ISBN
9781349332779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. An interdisciplinary study of the supernatural and the occult in fin-de-siecle France (1870-1914), the present volume examines the explosion of interest in devil-worship, magic and mysticism both from an historical perspective and through analysis of key literary works of the period." Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBJD; HBL; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349332731
ISBN
9781349332731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 159.90

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