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hardcover. An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230203259
ISBN
9780230203259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.29

Hardback. Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by a rural GP explores these and many other medical issues in Hardy's life and works. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230203174
ISBN
9780230203174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Hardback. This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; AN; DSG; HBLH; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202610
ISBN
9780230202610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardback. A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230200074
ISBN
9780230200074
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardback. Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120822
ISBN
9780230120822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardcover. Studying cultural memory of the Grenada Revolution as it surfaces in literature, music, the visual arts, law, landscape, and everyday life, this book approaches the 1979-1983 Grenada Revolution as a pan-Caribbean event. Puri reveals the deep consequences for Caribbean politics and culture even today. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KJWWG; 3JJPL; DSBH5; HBTV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120327
ISBN
9780230120327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.32

hardcover. This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare's depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright's art and thought. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116610
ISBN
9780230116610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115934
ISBN
9780230115934
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.45

Hardcover. A literary reading informed by the recent temporal turn in Queer Theory, this book analyzes medieval Biblical drama for themes representing modes of power such as the body, politics, and law. Revitalizing the discussions on medieval drama, Sturges asserts that these dramas were often intended not to teach morality but to resist Christian authority. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115781
ISBN
9780230115781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115422
ISBN
9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.21

Hardback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115118
ISBN
9780230115118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardback. An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. This book is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies. Editor(s): Horlacher, Stefan. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115095
ISBN
9780230115095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. Modernist Fiction and News characterizes uses novel reading of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf to explore how these authors engaged with a rapidly expanding news industry in order to establish an experimental space in which to represent experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to reality. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114517
ISBN
9780230114517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114197
ISBN
9780230114197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.96

hardcover. This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national community. Through the life and works of 'A'isha Taymur, Hatem gives insight into how literature and changing gender roles contributed to the definition and/or development of a sense of community. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; 3JH; DSK; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113503
ISBN
9780230113503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Paperback. This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANB; DD; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113015
ISBN
9780230113015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 47.15

Hardback. This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father's Law (2008). Editor(s): Craven, Professor Alice Mikal; Dow, William. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112810
ISBN
9780230112810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.36

Hardback. This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112483
ISBN
9780230112483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.42

Hardback. Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111684
ISBN
9780230111684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardback. This study maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Sean Heuston combines interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, with close reading, and in so doing argues provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111677
ISBN
9780230111677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

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