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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Focuses on the ways in which Harold Pinter conceives of and dramatizes time according to the medium in which he is working. The text shows how Pinter undermines the temporal assumptions of naturalism and realism to form a relativistic world in which time is a central feature. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607619
ISBN
9780333607619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.61

Hardback. This text traces the development of reading tastes during the 19th century, and describes how Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel. It features nine other novelists in addition to Scott, among them, Walter Besant, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rafael Sabatini. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607626
ISBN
9780333607626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Hardback. Taking its title from James's ambivalent catchphrase, this study explores fundamental concerns of his fiction. The book adopts a modern critical approach, yet is written for the reader whose interest in James is not necessarily academic. It examines six key novels and a number of short stories. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333611395
ISBN
9780333611395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.29

Hardback. Examines attitudes and uses of metaphor in Elizabethan poetry, concentrating on "The Faerie Queene". This work shows that the Elizabethan trust in the veracity of metaphor offers a possible explanation for the structure of certain literary forms of the period. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333613672
ISBN
9780333613672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Hardback. Draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and "the higher common sense". Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333614204
ISBN
9780333614204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. This study deals with Gaskell's fiction, approaching her as a deeply poetic novelist and short-story writer. Among topics covered are women and the creation of the self, death and personal integrity, the status of words as utterance and the shape and meaning of individual lives. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333614525
ISBN
9780333614525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.05

Hardback. Focusing on the key late-19th-century discourses of feminism, prostitution, colonialism, science and evolution, this study explores, in depth, Olive Schreiner's achievement as a writer. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333615324
ISBN
9780333615324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Hardback. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
181
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333618776
ISBN
9780333618776
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.12

Paperback. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
181
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333618783
ISBN
9780333618783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardback. This critical study analyzes Robert Louis Stevenson's literary criticism. It then conducts a re-examination of his works, and views his writings in the context of emerging modernism. Alan Sandison is the author of "The Wheel of Empire" and "The Last Man in Europe". Num Pages: 433 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
433
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333620670
ISBN
9780333620670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.40

Hardback. An exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities. It investigates the underworld of literary production and from it finds a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding such areas as publishing and reading practices in America and Britain and ideas of genre. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSK; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333623015
ISBN
9780333623015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.05

Hardback. This work of Hardy criticism has been revised and makes use of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks and letters, and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him. The author seeks to resolve the "work/life dichotomy" by pursuing the "unitary conception of a career". Num Pages: 432 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333623152
ISBN
9780333623152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.73

Paperback. This work of Hardy criticism has been revised and makes use of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks and letters, and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him. The author seeks to resolve the "work/life dichotomy" by pursuing the "unitary conception of a career". Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333623169
ISBN
9780333623169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.74

Hardback. This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333625156
ISBN
9780333625156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.73

Paperback. This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333625163
ISBN
9780333625163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.74

Paperback. This biography draws from a variety of sources including Hardy's published writings, biographies of Hardy and his contemporaries, correspondence of friends and acquaintances, Emma Hardy's diaries, and unpublished letters between Emma, Thomas and Florence. Num Pages: 438 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 32. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Great Britain
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333625200
ISBN
9780333625200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.32

Paperback. This study focuses on literature for girls. Written by women for children, such texts have been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment. Using 20th-century feminist critical practice, the authors open up fresh perspectives on popular fiction written for girls between 1850 and 1920. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333626733
ISBN
9780333626733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.02

Hardback. This text documents the changing representation of subjectivity in medieval and early modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of "self-speaking", including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with models of subject formation, especially that of Lacan. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; CFA; DSBB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333628997
ISBN
9780333628997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.44

Hardback. This collection of essays examines Austen in relation to her business. Many of these essays, including those by Julia Prewitt Brown, Margaret Drabble, Jan Fergus, Isobel Grundy, Gary Kelly, and Elaine Showalter, were first delivered as papers at the Lake Louise conference on "Persuasion". Editor(s): McMaster, Juliet; Stovel, Bruce. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333629208
ISBN
9780333629208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.96

Paperback. Providing perspectives on Virginia Woolf as observed and remembered by relatives, close friends, acquaintances and fellow writers, this book sheds light on the private and public personalities of Virginia Woolf. Editor(s): Stape, J. H. Series: Interviews & Recollections S. Num Pages: 195 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333629215
ISBN
9780333629215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Hardback. This text draws on innovations in Renaissance literary theory and advances in early modern Irish history, to construct a powerful case for the placing of Ireland in the foreground of Spenser studies. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; DSC; HBJD1; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333629420
ISBN
9780333629420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardback. This volume examines Ben Jonson's role as literary critic, and examines the ways in which that criticism defines his role as a professional author. It suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the profession of letters in England for more than a century. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333629819
ISBN
9780333629819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.12

Paperback. This text explores the ways in which four British novelists used and transformed the theme of women's relation to sexual love in the 18th and 19th centuries. It analyzes the moment in cultural history when gender roles, sexuality and literature met to become a new ideology. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1997th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333630204
ISBN
9780333630204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.43

Hardback. This study explores the affinity between the Kafka and Pinter. The author offers an interpretation of Kafka's portrayal of the struggle between father and son in "The Judgment" and "The Metamorphosis" and examines the extent to which Pinter's treatment of the theme was influenced. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333631164
ISBN
9780333631164
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.54

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