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Hardcover. This collection of essays sets out to challenge the dominant narrative about Victorian theatre by placing the practices and products of the Victorian theatre in relation to Victorian visual culture, through the lens of the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre', an approach to theatre which values its educative purpose as well as its aesthetic expression. Editor(s): Heinrich, Anselm; Newey, Kate; Richards, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200593
- ISBN
- 9780230200593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Featuring the cutting-edge interventions of nine leading scholars in Asia and Europe, this interdisciplinary volume showcases new comparative perspectives in the fields of literary, social, artistic, and economic history and re-examines the theoretical and methodological premises of comparative historical studies. Editor(s): Porter, David. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120891
- ISBN
- 9780230120891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Hardcover. Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era. Editor(s): Perry, Dennis R.; Sederholm, Carl H. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120860
- ISBN
- 9780230120860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.98
€ 116.98
Hardcover. 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, Benjamin. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBLC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120839
- ISBN
- 9780230120839
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This exciting collection offers a range of undutiful feminist voices of our time. Editor(s): Gunkel, Henriette; Nigianni, Chrysanthi; Soderback, Fanny. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230118317
- ISBN
- 9780230118317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.81
€ 149.81
Hardcover. This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose. Editor(s): Despotopoulou, Anna; Reed, Kimberly C. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115262
- ISBN
- 9780230115262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse. Editor(s): Sheehan, Sarah; Dooley, Ann. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115255
- ISBN
- 9780230115255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was. Editor(s): Goldy, Charlotte Newman; Livingstone, Amy. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 309 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114555
- ISBN
- 9780230114555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardcover. Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss love, happiness, suffering, memory and death. Editor(s): Afridi, Mehnaz M.; Buyze, David M. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2FMC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114111
- ISBN
- 9780230114111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory. Editor(s): Sanborn, Geoffrey; Otter, Samuel. Num Pages: 271 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113794
- ISBN
- 9780230113794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics. Editor(s): Johnson, Merri Lisa; Mintz, Susannah B. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113701
- ISBN
- 9780230113701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead. Editor(s): Kordela, A. Kiarina; Vardoulakis, Dimitris. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113428
- ISBN
- 9780230113428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing of haiku. Here, contributors investigate the impact of Eastern philosophy/religion on African American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison and offer a new field of literary inquiry. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113411
- ISBN
- 9780230113411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Anatol, Giselle Liza. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; DSY; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110687
- ISBN
- 9780230110687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives. Editor(s): Hayden, Prof. Judy A. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110298
- ISBN
- 9780230110298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.63
€ 67.63
Hardcover. Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today. Editor(s): Segol, Marla; Brown, Jennifer. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109803
- ISBN
- 9780230109803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large. Editor(s): Peer, Larry H. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108837
- ISBN
- 9780230108837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. Editor(s): Bowers, Toni; Chico, Tita. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108677
- ISBN
- 9780230108677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Hardcover. This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing. Editor(s): Maynard, James. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 263 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108103
- ISBN
- 9780230108103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters. Editor(s): De Castro, Juan E.; Birns, Nicholas. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLSR; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105294
- ISBN
- 9780230105294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03