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Paperback. Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that continue to shape cultural notions about love today. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349483396
ISBN
9781349483396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the ever-changing context of Mexican intellectualism. Editor(s): Castillo, Debra A.; Day, S. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349483273
ISBN
9781349483273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482856
ISBN
9781349482856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482795
ISBN
9781349482795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Paperback. Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue European and American scholars and spanning the slavery era through the early 21st century, they draw on approaches from library history, literary history and textual studies. Editor(s): Cottenet, C. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482658
ISBN
9781349482658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482320
ISBN
9781349482320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Paperback. This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HPC; HPCF; JFSJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482306
ISBN
9781349482306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the Danish cartoons controversy, to argue that the human right of free speech is by no means so secure that it can be taken for granted. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPQ; HR; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482085
ISBN
9781349482085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.53

Paperback. This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, into a broader, transnational dialogue. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 202 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSA; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349481521
ISBN
9781349481521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.53

paperback. Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture. Editor(s): Dionne, Craig; Kapadia, Parmita. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 219 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; AS; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349481484
ISBN
9781349481484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.46

Paperback. This original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer." Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; HPCF7; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349480500
ISBN
9781349480500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Paperback. By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts. Editor(s): Murphy, E. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349480364
ISBN
9781349480364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Paperback. Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBL; HBWQ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349480081
ISBN
9781349480081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSBH; DSBH5; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349480043
ISBN
9781349480043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349479849
ISBN
9781349479849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.40

Paperback. Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Holderlin, Verlaine, George, Morike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis." Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349479764
ISBN
9781349479764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Paperback. British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349479375
ISBN
9781349479375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.58

paperback. William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349479108
ISBN
9781349479108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Hansen, A. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349479085
ISBN
9781349479085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478965
ISBN
9781349478965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation. Editor(s): Pascual Soler, Nieves; Abarca, Meredith E. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478354
ISBN
9781349478354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478248
ISBN
9781349478248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Paperback. Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political, social, and cultural conditions of Dublin, emerged in Ireland at this time. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; RP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478224
ISBN
9781349478224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478101
ISBN
9781349478101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

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