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Hardback. Since the war Graham Greene has travelled habitually to the world's trouble-spots and has provided leading newspapers and journals with articles about what he saw. This book is about his political reportage and how the observations that formed it were transformed into literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333458983
- ISBN
- 9780333458983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardback. A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, including novels, an active part in the compromise between aristocratic and middle class cultures in this period. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333458266
- ISBN
- 9780333458266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.83
€ 193.83
Hardback. This text completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with "Victorian Bloomsbury" and continued with "Edwardian Bloomsbury". The book analyses interrelated literary works by Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333458242
- ISBN
- 9780333458242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Paperback. The theme of this book is the relationship between literature and the contemporary means of production and distribution collectively termed "the media" - film, radio and television. It attempts to explore and evaluate the mutual opportunites and restrictions in this relationship. Series: Insights Series. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; APT; APW; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 307.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333457931
- ISBN
- 9780333457931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.41
€ 61.41
Hardback. Revised or expanded lectures given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley. The poems are placed in the context of their intellectual background and related to the writing of other poets. Editor(s): Collins, Philip. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333457900
- ISBN
- 9780333457900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.71
€ 193.71
hardcover. An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; CFG; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1989th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333457429
- ISBN
- 9780333457429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardback. Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his friends, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career - the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualized self. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333457412
- ISBN
- 9780333457412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.85
€ 194.85
Hardback. This book sets out to interpret the fiction of the Bronte sisters in the light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Among the themes discussed are the role of the governess, the importance of sexual domination and the formal qualities of the novels. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333454831
- ISBN
- 9780333454831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.50
€ 193.50
Hardback. Dryden's career is addressed chronologically and thematically. The book takes issue with those who impugned Dryden's integrity, and argues that he was a sincere, if sceptical, writer whose main subjects were the abuse of political power, the difficulties of sexuality and the pursuit of freedom. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333453797
- ISBN
- 9780333453797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.78
€ 193.78
Hardback. An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333452882
- ISBN
- 9780333452882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.95
€ 193.95
Paperback. Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors. This volume looks at T.S.Eliot and traces the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped his writing. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333452783
- ISBN
- 9780333452783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.19
€ 60.19
Hardback. 60 years after Lawrence's death, the nature of his achievement is still being debated. His vision has aroused passionate interest in many countries beyond his own. As a writer in the 20th century and as one with international standing, this book presents Lawrence "in the modern world". Editor(s): Preston, Peter; Hoare, Peter. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333452691
- ISBN
- 9780333452691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. An attempt to illuminate Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by providing an original thoery regarding her use of the random frames provided by life. Her novels are shown to use windows, thresholds, mirrors and, less directly, rooms to frame scenes which chart the border between life and art. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333448809
- ISBN
- 9780333448809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.98
€ 126.98
Hardback. This study examines the relationship between tragicomedy in modernist theatre and the consumerist culture in which the genre has risen. In the plays of Beckett, Shepard and Pinter, Orr argues, playfulness and confusion overlay a black vision of nuclear apocalypse. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture & Society. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333448793
- ISBN
- 9780333448793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.57
€ 193.57
Hardback. An attempt to collate a variety of approaches to the work of Dickens and his major contemporaries, from traditional scholarship to recent literary theory. The work emphasizes the connections between Victorian literature and society and highlighting the longevity of the Victorian literary period. Editor(s): Shattock, Joanne. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447086
- ISBN
- 9780333447086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.32
€ 194.32
Paperback. In this account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, the author draws on recent research about the poet and his age. It includes a discussion of Shelley's social background, politics and response to rationalism. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 169 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447055
- ISBN
- 9780333447055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.34
€ 126.34
Hardback. In this account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece the author draws on recent research about the poet and his age. It includes a discussion of Shelley's social background, politics and response to rationalism. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447048
- ISBN
- 9780333447048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardback. This introduction to the theatre also attempts to offer a meditation on the theatricality of the Incarnation. Arguing that both biblical and dramatic texts should be approached with a theatrical rather than a literary imagination, the author explores theatrical history. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 168 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSG; HRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447024
- ISBN
- 9780333447024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Paperback. Previous biographies have set Jane Austen within her social context. This biography places her firmly within her professional context as one of an increasing number of women who published novels between 1790 and 1820. Being a professional writer was, apart from her family, more important to Austen than anything else in her life. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447017
- ISBN
- 9780333447017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1988th Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333445860
- ISBN
- 9780333445860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.93
€ 26.93