Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274052
- ISBN
- 9781137274052
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€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Using a wealth of diverse source material this book comprises an innovative critical study which, for the first time, examines Scott through the filter of his female contemporaries. It not only provides thought-provoking ideas about their handling of, for example, the love-plot, but also produces a different, more sombre Scott. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276544
- ISBN
- 9781137276544
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Focusing on British novels about the Muslim immigrant experience published after 9/11; this book examines the promise as well as the limits of 'British Muslim' identity as a viable form of self-representation, and the challenges - particularly for women - of reconciling non-Western religious identity with the secular policies of Western states. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281715
- ISBN
- 9781137281715
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Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294067
- ISBN
- 9781137294067
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294074
- ISBN
- 9781137294074
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298980
- ISBN
- 9781137298980
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300492
- ISBN
- 9781137300492
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. The first book-length study to trace the origins of the essay to the conte, Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form puts the reader in touch with how unstable times and exceptional artistic insights transform one genre to create a new artistic form. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320827
- ISBN
- 9781137320827
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323798
- ISBN
- 9781137323798
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339676
- ISBN
- 9781137339676
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339973
- ISBN
- 9781137339973
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Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardcover. This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343543
- ISBN
- 9781137343543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.83
€ 128.83
Paperback. Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. The book, now with a new preface, engages with recent literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's work. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357335
- ISBN
- 9781137357335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Masculine Style presents a groundbreaking account of masculine self-fashioning in American literature. Forging new connections between Modernism and the American West, Worden argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Steinbeck. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360694
- ISBN
- 9781137360694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Hardcover. This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362490
- ISBN
- 9781137362490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Analyzing the trends and developments of African American historical fiction written by women in the twentieth century, Nunes' approach addresses the relationship between history and literature, reworking the historical record from the point of view of the silenced female and giving origin to an unprecedented narrative of the American experience. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363718
- ISBN
- 9781137363718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardback. Editor(s): Godfrey, Emelyne. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137523396
- ISBN
- 9781137523396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.02
€ 150.02
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hammond, Andrew. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137526267
- ISBN
- 9781137526267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardback. Based on papers presented at the joint meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association for Irish Studies held in the summer of 2014 at University College Dublin. Editor(s): Mannion, Elizabeth. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 179 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137539397
- ISBN
- 9781137539397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Thorough revision and expansion of the first edition, tracing the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century, with a new chapter discussing 21st-century science fiction and new material in every chapter. Series: Palgrave Histories of Literature. Num Pages: 524 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 245 x 36. Weight in Grams: 978.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137569561
- ISBN
- 9781137569561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.85
€ 108.85