Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and A iA ek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 282 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFD; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603301
- ISBN
- 9780230603301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. Using the methods of Edgar Allan Poe's sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, Kopley here offers surprising discoveries about Poe's detective tales and traces the origins of the modern detective tale genre. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604704
- ISBN
- 9780230604704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions between "wilderness" and "civilization." Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605411
- ISBN
- 9780230605411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605428
- ISBN
- 9780230605428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardback. This book explores how feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial female writers use and revise fairy tales and myths through the lens of Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, and Toni Morrison's work. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605541
- ISBN
- 9780230605541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. This original analysis of correspondence between E.M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood illuminates how these two influential writers grappled with WII, their personal relationships, and their creative works. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606753
- ISBN
- 9780230606753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardback. This study explores the rise of periodicals as hugely popular repositories of 'public opinion' in the nineteenth century and the key individuals who shaped their own identities through them. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609471
- ISBN
- 9780230609471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Hardback. Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609822
- ISBN
- 9780230609822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. Malton examines the literary and cultural representation of the financial crime of forgery from the time of massive executions of forgers during the early nineteenth century to the forger's emergence as the ultimate criminal aesthete at the fin-de-siecle. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612228
- ISBN
- 9780230612228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
hardcover. This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612266
- ISBN
- 9780230612266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in 21st C. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615281
- ISBN
- 9780230615281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This volume traces the interrelations and reciprocal influence between Florence Nightingale and important novelists of her time such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615953
- ISBN
- 9780230615953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. This book places the major novels of Jane Austen within the moral and social contexts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England in a clear and accessible language. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618770
- ISBN
- 9780230618770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619432
- ISBN
- 9780230619432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardback. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621107
- ISBN
- 9780230621107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.' Num Pages: 257 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621466
- ISBN
- 9780230621466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This book traces the rise of cyberfiction in the work of key authors in the field, including J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621510
- ISBN
- 9780230621510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
hardcover. A study of popular print and visual materials produced between 1865 and 1910 representing homoerotic and homosocial behavior among men of all ethnicities in the American West. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293406
- ISBN
- 9780312293406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. This book guides us through the world of fairy tales and their criticism and looks at the romantic's mythology of the wandering brothers. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSBD; DSK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293802
- ISBN
- 9780312293802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.45
€ 72.45
Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333300923
- ISBN
- 9780333300923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333319888
- ISBN
- 9780333319888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. An account of the writing life of Henry James which aims to provide a critical overview of all his important writings, set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his time. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333433553
- ISBN
- 9780333433553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. Evelyn Waugh was an autobiographical novelist whose literary life and personal life were closely linked. This study argues that the complex ideas Waugh held about himself as a writer are essential for an understanding of his work. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333611388
- ISBN
- 9780333611388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Paperback. This work examines the influence of Victorian definitions of gender on the cultural processes of reading and canon formation in 19th-century England. The analysis focuses on four canonical and popular novelists - Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade and Charlotte Yonge. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 221.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333622179
- ISBN
- 9780333622179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.32
€ 39.32