Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardcover. Oscar Wilde's wit is foundational to his works, from his plays and novels to his self-defense at his trials. This book is a comprehensive account of Oscar Wilde's wit that focuses on discovering reasons for his critical success and ongoing legacy. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488480
- ISBN
- 9781137488480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 148 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492623
- ISBN
- 9781137492623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 46.40
€ 53.46
€ 46.40
Hardcover. Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of Austen were heavily influenced by these early developments in sociology. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137496010
- ISBN
- 9781137496010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types-horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space-as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive. Editor(s): Gavin, Adrienne E.; Humphries, Andrew F. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; WG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499035
- ISBN
- 9781137499035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137500113
- ISBN
- 9781137500113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501073
- ISBN
- 9781137501073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 201 pages, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 379.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137502889
- ISBN
- 9781137502889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.61
€ 99.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503190
- ISBN
- 9781137503190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.24
€ 116.24
Hardcover. In this work, Alan McCluskey explores materialism, in its many conceptual forms, in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. The author applies a 'cosmopolitan materialist' lens to the novels of Caryl Phillips, J. M. Coetzee, and Philip Roth: three contemporary authors who hail from different parts of the world and produce highly dissimilar novels. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503374
- ISBN
- 9781137503374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This book argues that there are a number of contemporary novels that challenge the reductive 'us and them' binaries that have been prevalent not only in politics and the global media since 9/11, but also in many works within the emerging genre of '9/11 fiction' itself. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506177
- ISBN
- 9781137506177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506306
- ISBN
- 9781137506306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan. Num Pages: 104 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137507259
- ISBN
- 9781137507259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardback. Editor(s): Downes, Daragh; Ferguson, Trish. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 273 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137518224
- ISBN
- 9781137518224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.95
€ 138.95
Hardcover. A study of Graham Greene's fiction from the perspective of ethics and community, focusing on the narrative pattern that emerges from the author's idiosyncratic use of keywords like peace, despair, compassion or commitment. This book explores their potential for the textual articulation of narrative conflict and the dramatization of the ethical. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137540102
- ISBN
- 9781137540102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541307
- ISBN
- 9781137541307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.28
€ 116.28
Hardcover. Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ. A wide range of texts help to illustrate this discovery, ranging from medieval 'Pietas' to Thomas Hardy to contemporary literary theory. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 319. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541338
- ISBN
- 9781137541338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.91
€ 116.91
Hardcover. Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create the place of the nation within a changing global landscape. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545466
- ISBN
- 9781137545466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.62
€ 160.62
Hardcover. This book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549570
- ISBN
- 9781137549570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardback. Editor(s): Shaw, Katy. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553898
- ISBN
- 9781137553898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.24
€ 116.24
Hardcover. This book investigates how four South Asian writers of Muslim background (Salman Rushdie, Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam, and Kamila Shamsie) have responded in English to the challenge of writing about Islamic faith ties in the aftermath of the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks and the ensuing 'War on Terror'. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554376
- ISBN
- 9781137554376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.22
€ 105.22
Hardcover. This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556752
- ISBN
- 9781137556752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSK; DSY; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137558091
- ISBN
- 9781137558091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.27
€ 117.27
Hardcover. This study argues for Hogg's centrality to British Romanticism, resituating his work in relation to many of his more famous Romantic contemporaries. Hogg creates a unique literary style which, the author argues, is best described as 'kaleidoscopic' in view of its similarities with David Brewster's kaleidoscope, invented in 1816. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559043
- ISBN
- 9781137559043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers - these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popular Fictions. This book shows how Joseph Conrad experimented creatively with genres such as crime and espionage fiction, and sheds new light on the sources and contexts of his work. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 264 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559166
- ISBN
- 9781137559166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74