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Hardback. The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.' Num Pages: 257 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621466
- ISBN
- 9780230621466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621107
- ISBN
- 9780230621107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative of the 'underworld descent.' Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620469
- ISBN
- 9780230620469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to ...
. Ed(S): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; He...
Hardback. This comprehensive volume develops a lucid yet sophisticated and innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to cultural taboo that have emerged in recent years. Editor(s): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; Heiler, Lars. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619906
- ISBN
- 9780230619906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.89
€ 127.89
Hardback. With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619432
- ISBN
- 9780230619432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardback. This book places the major novels of Jane Austen within the moral and social contexts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England in a clear and accessible language. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618770
- ISBN
- 9780230618770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardback. This book examines and critiques the influence of postmodernism on current conceptions of race, within and beyond literary and cultural studies. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618749
- ISBN
- 9780230618749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618701
- ISBN
- 9780230618701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617513
- ISBN
- 9780230617513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardback. Using a variety of approaches from new historicism to performance criticism, Kehler offers a detailed, feminist study of the thirty-one widow characters of Shakespeare's plays. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617032
- ISBN
- 9780230617032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardback. Veteran scholar Jonathan Hart explores notions of 'text' and 'context' in Shakespeare's work, highlighting the nuanced social and historical commentary that imbue The Bard's work. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616776
- ISBN
- 9780230616776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.00
€ 70.00
Hardback. This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces the impact haiku has made on modernist poetics. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616554
- ISBN
- 9780230616554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 623.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616332
- ISBN
- 9780230616332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.05
€ 68.05
Hardcover. This book examines contemporary female portrayals of male Shakespearean roles and shows how these performances invite audiences to think differently about Shakespeare, the English nation, and themselves. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616325
- ISBN
- 9780230616325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement
. Ed(S): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett
hardcover. This collection brings together leading scholars to locate experimental strategies in diasporic poetry. Editor(s): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616295
- ISBN
- 9780230616295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
hardcover. This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616264
- ISBN
- 9780230616264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardback. Covington explores the manner in which the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness was claimed by a range of discourses in a century of turbulence and change. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616011
- ISBN
- 9780230616011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. This volume traces the interrelations and reciprocal influence between Florence Nightingale and important novelists of her time such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615953
- ISBN
- 9780230615953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country s leading scholarsof American Studies. " Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615946
- ISBN
- 9780230615946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to make sense of the ways in which these works 'remap' the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore the legacy of apartheid. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615373
- ISBN
- 9780230615373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85