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Hardcover. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis. Editor(s): Fludernik, Monika; Nandi, Miriam. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137403995
ISBN
9781137403995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.22

Hardcover. Looking at the works of the Bronte sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontes as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States. Editor(s): Qi, Shouhua; Padgett, Jacqueline. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137405142
ISBN
9781137405142
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.35

Hardcover. This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building. Editor(s): Leerssen, Joep; Rigney, Ann. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137412133
ISBN
9781137412133
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.24

Hardcover. An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It brings together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world. Editor(s): Malreddy, Pavan Kumar; Heidemann, Birte; Laursen, Ole Birk; Wilson, Janet. Num Pages: 266 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFFN; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137435927
ISBN
9781137435927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.78

Hardcover. Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volume contends has been both gatekeeper as well as a significant force in shaping the production and consumption of this literature. Editor(s): Dwivedi, Om Prakash; Lau, Lisa. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137437709
ISBN
9781137437709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.55

Hardcover. This fascinating collection draws together perspectives on the future of writing in publishing, journalism and online sites. Discussion ranges across the challenges and opportunities for writing and publishing in the context of new content platforms, formats and distribution networks, including e-books, online news and publishing, and social media. Editor(s): Potts, John. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137440396
ISBN
9781137440396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.15

Hardcover. Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace. Analyzing transatlantic literature and culture, the book refocuses our view of Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange. Editor(s): Miller, Kristine A. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137443205
ISBN
9781137443205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07

Hardcover. This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. Editor(s): Amberson, Deborah; Past, Elena M. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137454751
ISBN
9781137454751
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.80
€ 45.66

Hardcover. This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing. Editor(s): Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137457578
ISBN
9781137457578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.43

Hardcover. What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Connolly, Tristanne. Num Pages: 297 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137461957
ISBN
9781137461957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.05

Hardcover. This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces. Editor(s): Ramsey, Neil; Russell, Gillian. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137474308
ISBN
9781137474308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.70

Hardcover. Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities. Editor(s): Chappell, Julie A.; Kramer, Kaley A. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; APFA; DSB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137474735
ISBN
9781137474735
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Hardcover. This collection brings together current research on topics that are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland. Editor(s): Esterhammer, Angela; Piccitto, Diane; Vincent, Patrick. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 2ADF; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137475855
ISBN
9781137475855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Hardcover. An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies. Editor(s): Gildea, Niall; Goodwyn, Helena; Kitching, Megan; Tyson, Helen; Brunetti, Aymo. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 12. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478047
ISBN
9781137478047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Hardcover. This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era. Editor(s): Davidson, Guy; Evans, Nicola. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478498
ISBN
9781137478498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.70

Hardcover. Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction. Editor(s): Larson, Katherine R.; Miller, Naomi J. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479624
ISBN
9781137479624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.95

Hardcover. Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuzian philosophy to a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, and stage, film and television work. Editor(s): Wilmer, S. E.; Zukauskaite, Audrone. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137481139
ISBN
9781137481139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.52

Hardcover. Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools. Editor(s): Attar, Karina F.; Shutters, Lynn. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB; HBLC1; JNM; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137481337
ISBN
9781137481337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.67

Hardcover. Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television. Editor(s): Anderson, Jean; Miranda, Carolina; Pezzotti, Barbara. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137483683
ISBN
9781137483683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.38

Hardcover. This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate; Singer, Christoph. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137486769
ISBN
9781137486769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49

Hardcover. This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period. Editor(s): Fowler, Joanna; Ingram, Allan. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137487629
ISBN
9781137487629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.13

Hardcover. Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece. Editor(s): Ridout, Alice; Rubenstein, Roberta; Singer, Sandra L. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137488374
ISBN
9781137488374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Hardcover. Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean author, essays address such topics as Borges's influence, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism and discuss works like 2666, The Savage Detectives, and Distant Star. Editor(s): Lopez-Calvo, Ignacio. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137495174
ISBN
9781137495174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.65

Hardcover. This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on genre and identifies developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. Genre approaches are applied to examine a fascinating range of texts including ancient Greek poems, Holocaust visual and literary texts, contemporary Hollywood films, selfies, melodrama, and classroom practices. Editor(s): Rulyova, Natalia; Dowd, Garin. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137505477
ISBN
9781137505477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.82

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