Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
paperback. This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought. Editor(s): Knowles, Ronald. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1998th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333711422
- ISBN
- 9780333711422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 180.86
€ 180.86
Hardback. Aimed at Potter fans and media and literature students. A critical analysis of Potter's oeuvre which looks at his status as an author and as a celebrity. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333713891
- ISBN
- 9780333713891
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Condition: New
€ 119.10
€ 119.10
Hardback. An attempt to re-create and examine the literary culture of 1798, the culture on which Wordsworth and Coleridge decided to make their "experiment". This is a book in which Wordsworth and Coleridge vie for attention, as they did in 1798, with many other writers, including Schleiermacher. Editor(s): Cronin, Richard. Series: Romanticism in Perspective. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714089
- ISBN
- 9780333714089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.09
€ 181.09
Hardback. Harold Fisch explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of landmark works by Fielding, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Whilst the great novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time 'it would not do'. The book concludes with two chapters on the Israeli novelists S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HRA; HRLB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 465.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714096
- ISBN
- 9780333714096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Hardcover. Happel claims that the Christian God is intimately involved at every level of physical and biological science. This volume examines the exploratory work of metaphors for time in astrophysical cosmology, chaos theory, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714102
- ISBN
- 9780333714102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Hardcover. The Song of Songs, with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the seventeenth century, and its appeal to seventeenth-century writers, particularly women. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714119
- ISBN
- 9780333714119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. Margaret Drabble, Jeffrey Meyers, Catherine Peters, Ann Thwaite, Joseph Epstein and Ferdinand Mount, are among the 20 contributors of essays to this guide for those interested in the past and future of books and the publishing industry. Editor(s): Salwak, Dale. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DSB; KNTP; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714485
- ISBN
- 9780333714485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.23
€ 63.23
Hardback. Offers a culturally-informed analysis of the literary significance of landscape in the Romantic period. This book discusses the cultural construction of gender as defined through landscape viewing, and includes an investigation of property law, aesthetic tracts and conduct books. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714492
- ISBN
- 9780333714492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.23
€ 119.23
Hardback. Examines the complex relationship between Shakespeare and Irish literary and cultural traditions. Addressing Shakespearean representations of Ireland as well as Irish writers' responses to the dramatist, the book ranges from theatrical performances, pedagogical practices to political developments. Editor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714508
- ISBN
- 9780333714508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.43
€ 119.43
Hardcover. By contrasting Pound's political values with those of Stein and Zukofsky, this study argues that these three different writers share a complex set of attitudes that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of corporate social forms. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714515
- ISBN
- 9780333714515
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Condition: New
€ 119.57
€ 119.57
Hardcover. This work deals with the fundamentals of novel writing and the execution of such. Though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333716861
- ISBN
- 9780333716861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Hardcover. This challenge to critical orthodoxy argues that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age after the French Revolution. He attacked the binary thinking dominating public affairs and questioned the value of the Georgian domestic ideal, using the homeless to bear his message. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFCX; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718872
- ISBN
- 9780333718872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.52
€ 119.52
Hardcover. This text is a comparative study of Romanticism on theories of education. It looks at the ideas presented by the romantics in late 18th-century Britain and Germany of what a university should be. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFCX; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 387.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718889
- ISBN
- 9780333718889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Hardback. An exploration of the lyrical fragments which construct a new version of the autobiographical I, written by Wordsworth in his letters to Coleridge between 1798 and 1799. The volume is part of the ROMANTICISM IN PERSPECTIVE series which offers a fresh assessment of Romanticism by looking at it from a number of perspectives. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718896
- ISBN
- 9780333718896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.87
€ 118.87
Hardback. An interdisciplinary study of William Wordsworth's poetry and prose, combining literature, sociology, and geography, in which the author seeks to demonstrate Wordsworth's participation in the major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718902
- ISBN
- 9780333718902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.07
€ 119.07
Hardback. An exploration of the relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The text illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed a sublime universe to Emerson, in which matter is boundless electrical force. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718926
- ISBN
- 9780333718926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Hardback. An exploration of national identity in Victorian Britain. It draws on travel journals by middle-class British men and women who toured Britain and the Continent, aiming to illustrate the contexts that inspired the collective identities of Britishness, Englishness, Scotsness and Welshness. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333719992
- ISBN
- 9780333719992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.46
€ 119.46
Hardback. This collection of essays by 12 scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson's texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford text, "Works", and generated a Jonson whose "Works" and career look quite different. Editor(s): Butler, Martin. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720417
- ISBN
- 9780333720417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.14
€ 181.14
Hardback. In this collection of 12 essays on the writings of Bram Stoker, the authors aim to show how he blended the Gothic with discourses on politics, sexuality, medicine and national identity. The text includes an introduction which analyzes how Stoker's writings have been received this century. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720462
- ISBN
- 9780333720462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.89
€ 180.89
Hardcover. This look at romantic fiction seeks to discover the reason for its appeal by combining analysis of the poetics of the genre with a study of the real reader's intervention. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720493
- ISBN
- 9780333720493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.55
€ 159.55