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Hardcover. The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the post-Yeatsian legacy of the Irish-Japanese connection through an analysis of work by 12 poets from the early 1960s to 2006. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248953
ISBN
9780230248953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248137
ISBN
9780230248137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Paperback. This comprehensive study of rape and representation, now available in paperback with a new Preface, considers a wide range of texts drawn from prose fiction, poetry and drama by male and female writers, both canonical and non-canonical, demonstrating how the representation of gender relations has exploited the subject of rape. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; JFFE2; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230247734
ISBN
9780230247734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402. Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-century Poetry. 240 pages. Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 18. Weight: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230247468
ISBN
9780230247468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230247239
ISBN
9780230247239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works. Challenging the binary opposition of historicism and critical theory, it combines topical debates in a manner that is sensitive both to the circumstances of their emergence and to their relevance for the twenty-first century. Editor(s): Green, Matthew J. A. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230246461
ISBN
9780230246461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardcover. In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230246294
ISBN
9780230246294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardcover. Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230244238
ISBN
9780230244238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardcover. This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries on all the major poems and prose works (including inspiration, composition and publication), Shelley's politics, relationships and travels, his representation in novels, drama, film and portraits, and his critical reception. Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230244221
ISBN
9780230244221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.59

Hardcover. This book develops an innovative Irish-Scottish postcolonial approach by galvanizing Emmanuel Levinas' ethics with the socio-cultural category of the 'subaltern'. It sheds new light on contemporary Scottish and Irish fiction, exploring how these writings interact with the recent restructuring of the three state-formations in Ireland and Scotland. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1DBKS; 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241701
ISBN
9780230241701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier, explore crucial ways in which popular 'middlebrow' authors imagine and shape the nation, providing an innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241367
ISBN
9780230241367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardcover. This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241138
ISBN
9780230241138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.52

Hardcover. This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230238466
ISBN
9780230238466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.09

Hardcover. What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of language. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230237872
ISBN
9780230237872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardcover. Philip Larkin, one of England's greatest and most popular twentieth-century poets, is nonetheless widely regarded as a misanthropic, provincial recluse. This volume re-examines that critical view and argues that Larkin's poetry, far from demonstrating his misanthropy, highlights his profound awareness of and concern for readers. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230237780
ISBN
9780230237780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 2AFR; CFB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230237506
ISBN
9780230237506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230236271
ISBN
9780230236271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have transformed how we access the print archive. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBA; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230235533
ISBN
9780230235533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardcover. This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230235106
ISBN
9780230235106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.53

Hardcover. Dealing with the historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory, this collection brings together a diversity of specialist scholars in the area. Building on recent discourses in theology as well as their knowledge of hermeneutic and critical traditions, they examine major themes in contemporary critical theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 141 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230234802
ISBN
9780230234802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

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