Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Num Pages: 94 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, 7 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJP; AKLC; DSY; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561978
- ISBN
- 9781137561978
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Condition: New
€ 67.68
€ 67.68
Hardback. Before Joyce became a famous writer, he supported himself through his other language work: English-language teaching. The importance of James Joyce's teaching, however, has been underestimated until now. Closely reading Joyce's famed works, Switaj shows the influence of Joyce's brief career as an English teacher on the development of his canon. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559890
- ISBN
- 9781137559890
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Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a "memory for the future." What resulted was a vital contribution to the legacy of contemporary Arabic literature. Through interviews, literary analysis, and the lens of trauma studies, Lang sheds light on what it means to remember through post-war literature. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559883
- ISBN
- 9781137559883
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Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62
Hardback. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; APF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559876
- ISBN
- 9781137559876
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Condition: New
€ 118.74
€ 118.74
Hardback. Editor(s): Schaumann, Caroline; Sullivan, Heather. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 333 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; APF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 333
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559852
- ISBN
- 9781137559852
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Condition: New
€ 181.65
€ 181.65
Hardcover. Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers - these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popular Fictions. This book shows how Joseph Conrad experimented creatively with genres such as crime and espionage fiction, and sheds new light on the sources and contexts of his work. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 264 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559166
- ISBN
- 9781137559166
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Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. This study argues for Hogg's centrality to British Romanticism, resituating his work in relation to many of his more famous Romantic contemporaries. Hogg creates a unique literary style which, the author argues, is best described as 'kaleidoscopic' in view of its similarities with David Brewster's kaleidoscope, invented in 1816. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559043
- ISBN
- 9781137559043
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Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137558633
- ISBN
- 9781137558633
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Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSK; DSY; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 549.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137558091
- ISBN
- 9781137558091
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Condition: New
€ 109.38
€ 109.38
Paperback. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137557643
- ISBN
- 9781137557643
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Condition: New
€ 61.67
€ 61.67
Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KBB; 2GK; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJF; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137557179
- ISBN
- 9781137557179
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Condition: New
€ 97.94
€ 97.94
Hardcover. This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556752
- ISBN
- 9781137556752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Paperback. Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Through her letters and poems, Brantley identifies Dickinson's dialogue with John Locke's rational empiricism, Charles Darwin's evolutionary biology, Wordsworth's "natural Methodism," and Emerson's idealism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555595
- ISBN
- 9781137555595
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Condition: New
€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Hardback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 188 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555021
- ISBN
- 9781137555021
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Condition: New
€ 108.45
€ 108.45
Hardcover. This book investigates how four South Asian writers of Muslim background (Salman Rushdie, Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam, and Kamila Shamsie) have responded in English to the challenge of writing about Islamic faith ties in the aftermath of the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks and the ensuing 'War on Terror'. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554376
- ISBN
- 9781137554376
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Condition: New
€ 98.15
€ 98.15
Hardback. Editor(s): Shaw, Katy. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553898
- ISBN
- 9781137553898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Hardback. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 305 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137552815
- ISBN
- 9781137552815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.18
€ 140.18
Hardback. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; HBJF; HRA; HRJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137551368
- ISBN
- 9781137551368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. Liminal Fictions in Postmodern Culture examines distinctive literary, musical, and cinematic narratives that seek to inspire critical thought and conduct through provocation. From Gogol's Dead Souls to Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Phillips argues liminal narratives offer an antidote to the modern commodification of the self. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550811
- ISBN
- 9781137550811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550637
- ISBN
- 9781137550637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46