Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike. Editor(s): Keulks, Gavin. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008304
- ISBN
- 9780230008304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
hardcover. This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children's literature and graphic novels. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Whittaker, Jason. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 145 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008441
- ISBN
- 9780230008441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of multi-national capitalism by giving unusual fictional shape to the impact of global events and culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008557
- ISBN
- 9780230008557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Hardback. An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013292
- ISBN
- 9780230013292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
hardcover. Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019676
- ISBN
- 9780230019676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.83
€ 64.83
Hardback. This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It tries to explain the disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, by examining literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, covering a wide range of authors and characters. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230020030
- ISBN
- 9780230020030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.45
€ 133.45
The Religions of the Book. Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660.
. Ed(S): Dimmock, Dr Matthew; Hadfield, Andre...
Hardback. This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book' interacted. The collection illuminates this area of European culture from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Seventeenth century. Editor(s): Dimmock, Dr Matthew; Hadfield, Andrew. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230020047
- ISBN
- 9780230020047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature
Bradford, Clare; Mccallum, Robyn; Mallan, Ker...
Hardback. This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230020054
- ISBN
- 9780230020054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Hardback. This book employs a close reading of Marcellus' works and offers a compelling new interpretation of the relationship between philhellenism and Orientalism. Num Pages: 251 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100237
- ISBN
- 9780230100237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Hardcover. Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100268
- ISBN
- 9780230100268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Hardback. This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music. Editor(s): Semenza, Gregory M. Colon. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 242 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100282
- ISBN
- 9780230100282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38
€ 64.38
Paperback. This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100398
- ISBN
- 9780230100398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.07
€ 90.07
Hardback. This study analyzes Sir Philip Sidney's reputation from his own day to the present by discussing his reception in the work of authors as diverse in time and type as Sir Fulke Greville, Christopher Hill, Charles Lamb, Edmund Waller, and Thomas Warton the elder. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102385
- ISBN
- 9780230102385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardback. This study explores Henry James' work by considering his theme in the context of nineteenth-century thought on consciousness, perception, and cognition. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102620
- ISBN
- 9780230102620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
hardcover. Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102897
- ISBN
- 9780230102897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Hardback. This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and uses sidebars to travel along multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102910
- ISBN
- 9780230102910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.63
€ 64.63
Hardback. This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role in Britain's transition to an imperial state. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103542
- ISBN
- 9780230103542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
hardcover. This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theater, for example). Editor(s): Sodi, Risa; Marcus, Millicent. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103856
- ISBN
- 9780230103856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104099
- ISBN
- 9780230104099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardback. This book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches and royal proclamations. It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, colonialism, and imperialism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 233 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104334
- ISBN
- 9780230104334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15