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Paperback. This work of Hardy criticism has been revised and makes use of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks and letters, and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him. The author seeks to resolve the "work/life dichotomy" by pursuing the "unitary conception of a career". Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333623169
ISBN
9780333623169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.70

Hardback. This work of Hardy criticism has been revised and makes use of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks and letters, and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him. The author seeks to resolve the "work/life dichotomy" by pursuing the "unitary conception of a career". Num Pages: 432 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333623152
ISBN
9780333623152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.69

Hardback. An exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities. It investigates the underworld of literary production and from it finds a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding such areas as publishing and reading practices in America and Britain and ideas of genre. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSK; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333623015
ISBN
9780333623015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardback. This critical study analyzes Robert Louis Stevenson's literary criticism. It then conducts a re-examination of his works, and views his writings in the context of emerging modernism. Alan Sandison is the author of "The Wheel of Empire" and "The Last Man in Europe". Num Pages: 433 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
433
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333620670
ISBN
9780333620670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.37

Paperback. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
181
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333618783
ISBN
9780333618783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardback. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
181
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333618776
ISBN
9780333618776
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.10

Hardback. Focusing on the key late-19th-century discourses of feminism, prostitution, colonialism, science and evolution, this study explores, in depth, Olive Schreiner's achievement as a writer. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333615324
ISBN
9780333615324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardcover. This study deals with Gaskell's fiction, approaching her as a deeply poetic novelist and short-story writer. Among topics covered are women and the creation of the self, death and personal integrity, the status of words as utterance and the shape and meaning of individual lives. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333614525
ISBN
9780333614525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.01

Hardback. Draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and "the higher common sense". Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333614204
ISBN
9780333614204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardback. Examines attitudes and uses of metaphor in Elizabethan poetry, concentrating on "The Faerie Queene". This work shows that the Elizabethan trust in the veracity of metaphor offers a possible explanation for the structure of certain literary forms of the period. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333613672
ISBN
9780333613672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardback. Taking its title from James's ambivalent catchphrase, this study explores fundamental concerns of his fiction. The book adopts a modern critical approach, yet is written for the reader whose interest in James is not necessarily academic. It examines six key novels and a number of short stories. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333611395
ISBN
9780333611395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.25

Hardback. This text traces the development of reading tastes during the 19th century, and describes how Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel. It features nine other novelists in addition to Scott, among them, Walter Besant, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rafael Sabatini. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607626
ISBN
9780333607626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.40

Hardback. Focuses on the ways in which Harold Pinter conceives of and dramatizes time according to the medium in which he is working. The text shows how Pinter undermines the temporal assumptions of naturalism and realism to form a relativistic world in which time is a central feature. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607619
ISBN
9780333607619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.57

Hardcover. Arguing that Elizabeth Bowen is the unrecognized genius of the 20th-century novel in English, this book contends that an appropriate response to Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself. It includes new readings of all Bowen's novels. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 272 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Schol, Print UK
Edition
1995th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607602
ISBN
9780333607602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Hardback. Arguing that Austen's novels articulate a range of anxieties about authorship and authority, this book points to how the novels experiment in different ways with possible sources and the ultimate failures of authority, always returning to the compromised figure of the narrator. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607275
ISBN
9780333607275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.13

Paperback. This first of a three-volume study of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group describes the intellectual, family and Cambridge backgrounds of Bloomsbury as they are reflected in the group's early or autobiographical works, covering Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 429.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333606957
ISBN
9780333606957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.32

Hardback. This is a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy, which range over his work, thought, creative methods and life, and show a variety of critical approaches. They are aimed at scholars, students and the Hardy enthusiast. Editor(s): Pettit, Charles P. C. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333606605
ISBN
9780333606605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Hardcover. This text concerns a particular area in the history of the book. It demonstrates developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism relating to 19th-century literature. Editor(s): Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Number of pages
349
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333606599
ISBN
9780333606599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

Hardcover. An exploration of key texts "Howards End", "The Rainbow", and the poetry of Owen, Sassoon and Edward Thomas to show the mingled continuation and rejection of convention as their characteristic achievement It also discusses the writing's increasing concern with inadequacies of language. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; CF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333605400
ISBN
9780333605400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Hardback. This is an investigation of Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly Noh theatre with its central dance. Num Pages: 385 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; ASD; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 651.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333604984
ISBN
9780333604984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.37

Paperback. Shows that J.M. Synge's command of Irish was extensive, and that this knowledge proved invaluable in the writing of his major plays. This reappraisal of Synge's achievement draws on his unpublished papers in the Irish language. The author reveals Synge's indebtedness to the Gaelic tradition. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AFR; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333604823
ISBN
9780333604823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333604731
ISBN
9780333604731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.06

Hardcover. Northern Irish Literature, 1956-1975 and its companion volume, Northern Irish Literature 1975-2006, examine the contexts for literary production over the past fifty years, addressing the troubled intersections of literature, history and politics. These volumes explore the diversity that is Northern Irish literature. Num Pages: 377 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJPG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333604151
ISBN
9780333604151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.16

Hardback. This is a study of Friel's entire oeuvre, relating his work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body, with a view to offering some placement of Friel in relation to both postmodernism and traditional humanism. Central to the study is Friel's concept of "translation". Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333600757
ISBN
9780333600757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.56

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