Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297726
- ISBN
- 9781349297726
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297740
- ISBN
- 9781349297740
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297764
- ISBN
- 9781349297764
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJH; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297986
- ISBN
- 9781349297986
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. "Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the "modern" and our own, postmodern, lives"-- Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; D; DS; JFC; JFD; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298068
- ISBN
- 9781349298068
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298105
- ISBN
- 9781349298105
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Paperback. This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298525
- ISBN
- 9781349298525
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 341 pages, 47 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; JFC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 564.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298549
- ISBN
- 9781349298549
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Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HRH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298648
- ISBN
- 9781349298648
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DS; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298723
- ISBN
- 9781349298723
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Paperback. Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD; JFC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298907
- ISBN
- 9781349298907
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose. Editor(s): Hudson, B. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298921
- ISBN
- 9781349298921
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 379.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298969
- ISBN
- 9781349298969
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.16
€ 53.37
€ 47.16
Paperback. Editor(s): Perry, D.; Sederholm, Carl H. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSA; DSB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298983
- ISBN
- 9781349298983
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349299003
- ISBN
- 9781349299003
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In itsanalysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, byshowing how thesewriters complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence." Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBWQ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349300655
- ISBN
- 9781349300655
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. This bookinvestigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods." Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349300693
- ISBN
- 9781349300693
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301027
- ISBN
- 9781349301027
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Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
paperback. Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by arural GP explores these and many other medical issues in Hardy's life and works." Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349301041
- ISBN
- 9781349301041
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Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Paperback. "This book investigates the political dimensions of Czech Shakespeare appropriation and production in the wake of the fall of communism, uncovering an anxious struggle between dimensions of Czech nationhood that comes to a head in a competition for a 'true' Shakespeare, and addressing key issues such as gender, globalization and national culture"-- Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301102
- ISBN
- 9781349301102
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Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing developments in the fields of institutional, social, management, curriculum and student concerns and changes. Editor(s): Coverdale-Jones, T; Rastall, P. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; CJ; DSB; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301362
- ISBN
- 9781349301362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Paperback. A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary, to reflections on the ways in which Shakespeare has been represented in Nazi Germany, wartime Denmark, or cold war Romania. Editor(s): King, R.; Franssen, Paul. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301751
- ISBN
- 9781349301751
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. "The categories of authenticity and sincerity have been treated with scepticism since at least the early twentieth century, but they remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Byron, Coleridge and Austen, aims to relocate the terms within the context of current critical debates"-- Editor(s): Milnes, Tim; Sinanan, Kerry. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349302666
- ISBN
- 9781349302666
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Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
paperback. This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on William Hazlitt's writings about linguistic theory and alsoconsideringfigures such asLeigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey." Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349304295
- ISBN
- 9781349304295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81