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Paperback. Editor(s): Stivale, Charles J.; Mecchia, Giuseppina. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HPS; RGW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349306701
ISBN
9781349306701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. One of the most neglected areas of study in nineteenth-century theatre is pantomime: this book provides a comprehensive overview of pantomime in the Victorian period, ranging from the ideological positions perpetrated by pantomime to discussions of practitioners and enthusiastic spectators, such as E.L. Blanchard, Lewis Carroll and John Ruskin. Editor(s): Davis, J. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBF; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349307111
ISBN
9781349307111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

paperback. The first book-lengthlook atchildhood in Edwardian fiction, this book challengesassumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of the Victorian or the start of the Modern. Exploring both classics and popular fiction, the authors provide a a compellingpicture of the Edwardian fictional cult of childhood." Editor(s): Gavin, A.; Humphries, Andrew F. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2009
SKU
V9781349307159
ISBN
9781349307159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.40

Paperback. Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others. Editor(s): Di Bello, Patrizia. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349307463
ISBN
9781349307463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Paperback. An investigation ofthe influence of gender, social class, age and illness type in the language of people talking about their experiences of illness. It shows evidence of both conformity with and resistance to gender stereotypes." Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349307906
ISBN
9781349307906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice and belief. Butler examines the individuals, institutions and literature associated with this revival and demonstrates how Victorian occultism provided an alternative to the tightening camps of science and religion in a social environment that nurtured magical beliefs. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349308552
ISBN
9781349308552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 159.93

Paperback. Featuring an internationally distinguished list of contributors, Kipling and Beyond reassesses Kipling's texts and their reception in order to explore new approaches in postcolonial studies. The collection asks why Kipling continues to be a significant cultural icon and what this legacy means in the context of today's Anglo-American globalization. Editor(s): Nagai, K. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349309498
ISBN
9781349309498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; CBX; DSA; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349309573
ISBN
9781349309573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Paperback. Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349309610
ISBN
9781349309610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

paperback. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349309863
ISBN
9781349309863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, anddelineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices." Editor(s): Baines, Roger; Marinetti, Cristina; Perteghella, Manuela. Series: Cultural Criminology. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; D; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349310036
ISBN
9781349310036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.36

Paperback. This bookis about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that American film became the leading national cinema of the twentieth century." Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; D. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349310609
ISBN
9781349310609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. In a unique contribution to understanding the interaction of language policy and planning in modern conflict resolution, Janet Mullerprovides an insider account of the search for improved status for the Irish language in Northern Ireland from the 1980s." Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 294 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349311613
ISBN
9781349311613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; HPK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349311965
ISBN
9781349311965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds tothe body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World WarI to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity." Editor(s): Rau, Petra. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349311989
ISBN
9781349311989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349312092
ISBN
9781349312092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. The elegiac aspect of Ted Hughes' poetry has been frequently overlooked, an oversight which this book sets out to rectify.Encompassing a broad range of themes, from the decline of nature and local industry to the national grief caused by the First World War, this bookis a comprehensiveaddition to the study of Hughes' poetry." Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 251.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349312511
ISBN
9781349312511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory." Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349312559
ISBN
9781349312559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, along with an analysis of why periods of linguistic diversity are followed by hegemony. How did the sociolinguistic past differ from the sociolinguistic present? Num Pages: 255 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; DSB; HBG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349312894
ISBN
9781349312894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF; CFG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349313013
ISBN
9781349313013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.46

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