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Paperback. A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS epidemic. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSG; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349422
- ISBN
- 9781137349422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.91€ 46.40
€ 52.91
€ 46.40
Hardcover. This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349392
- ISBN
- 9781137349392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349224
- ISBN
- 9781137349224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346339
- ISBN
- 9781137346339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344717
- ISBN
- 9781137344717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.84
€ 116.84
The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio. Performing Shakespeare, Tran...
. Ed(S): Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri
Hardback. Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri. Num Pages: 347 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 655.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344212
- ISBN
- 9781137344212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.11
€ 129.11
Hardcover. In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien regime more broadly. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343994
- ISBN
- 9781137343994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.91€ 46.85
€ 52.91
€ 46.85
Hardcover. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343833
- ISBN
- 9781137343833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. This volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics, religion, gender, and the Romantic sensibility. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343604
- ISBN
- 9781137343604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343482
- ISBN
- 9781137343482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature. Num Pages: 274 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342454
- ISBN
- 9781137342454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture (Palgrave Studies i...
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Hardcover. Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342393
- ISBN
- 9781137342393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.53
€ 149.53
Hardcover. How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of cosmetic multilingualism in prize-winning fiction, making a case for an emerging transparent-turn in which momentary multilingualism works in the service of long-term monolingualism. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340351
- ISBN
- 9781137340351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardcover. This book investigates how selves are represented and reconstructed in selected auto/biographies in African literary discourse and examines how this relates to issues of identity, nation and history. Editor(s): Hove, Muchativugwa; Masemola, Kgomotso. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340320
- ISBN
- 9781137340320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market Crash, New York writing becomes akin to geographical fieldwork in this rich study. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; DSA; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340191
- ISBN
- 9781137340191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340078
- ISBN
- 9781137340078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340047
- ISBN
- 9781137340047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
British Pirates in Print and Performance (Nineteenth-Century Major Liv...
Burwick, Frederick, Powell, Manushag N.
Hardcover. Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performance explores representations of pirates through dozens of stage performances, including adaptations by Byron, Scott, and Cooper. Num Pages: 241 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339911
- ISBN
- 9781137339911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardback. The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; DSBD; HBG; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137338204
- ISBN
- 9781137338204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
hardcover. Editor(s): Mathuray, Mark. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137337214
- ISBN
- 9781137337214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.55
€ 138.55