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Hardcover. In the Romantic period's economics of 'fiat' money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat. Focused on William Wordsworth, but in constant range of his poet-successors and modern critics, Romantic Fiat presents an argument for a double romantic signature of 'let there be' and 'let be.' Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230282360
- ISBN
- 9780230282360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 296 pages, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280717
- ISBN
- 9780230280717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280298
- ISBN
- 9780230280298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. This paperback edition includes a new preface. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; APFA; DSBH; JFC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279650
- ISBN
- 9780230279650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period's most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic period's most contentious issues. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392. Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829. 240 pages, 5 black & white halftones. The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period's most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic period's most contentious issues. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279513
- ISBN
- 9780230279513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278875
- ISBN
- 9780230278875
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Before, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts were produced, circulated and received as taking a position for or against the invasion, or as contributing political insights. This topical new book provides an in-depth survey of such texts and examines what they reveal about the condition of literature. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2AB; 3JM; DSBH; HBWS5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278776
- ISBN
- 9780230278776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardcover. In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2AB; DSBH; HBWS5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278752
- ISBN
- 9780230278752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278325
- ISBN
- 9780230278325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardcover. Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both his poetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of 'the limit' with contemporary force. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278110
- ISBN
- 9780230278110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Locating a shared interest in the philosophy of "art for art's sake" in aestheticism and modernismo, this study examines the changing role of art and artist during the turn-of-the-century period, offering a consideration of the multiple dichotomies of art and life, aesthetics and economics, production and consumption, and center and periphery. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278097
- ISBN
- 9780230278097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. This book offers a critical account of historical books about Britain written for children, including realist novels, non-fiction, fantasy and alternative histories. It also investigates the literary, ideological and philosophical challenges involved in writing about the past, especially for an audience whose knowledge of history is often limited. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278080
- ISBN
- 9780230278080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277724
- ISBN
- 9780230277724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680 (Early Modern Lite...
Adrian, John, M. Adrian, John
Hardcover. Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277717
- ISBN
- 9780230277717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardcover. 'Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277618
- ISBN
- 9780230277618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Paperback. Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276963
- ISBN
- 9780230276963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276659
- ISBN
- 9780230276659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.83
€ 116.83
Hardcover. This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era. Philosophical, historical, dramatic and poetic texts explore how animals were regarded in all aspects of ancient life, from philosophy to farming. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA; HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276611
- ISBN
- 9780230276611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the radical politics and culture of the 1790s. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBTB; HPCD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276185
- ISBN
- 9780230276185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett and testimony. It offers new readings of the problem of unspeakability in Beckett in relation to testimonial expression and the problems of knowledge which arise in recent theoretical conceptions of testimony and the archive. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275768
- ISBN
- 9780230275768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.31
€ 116.31