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Literary studies: general
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
€ 66.82
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230244238
- ISBN
- 9780230244238
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Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
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
€ 66.58
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
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
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
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
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
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
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
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
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
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
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.
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- 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
€ 66.95
The Performing Century. Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History.
. Ed(S): Davis, Tracy C.; Holland, Peter
Paperback. This book, now available for the first time in paperback, looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On a variety of subjects, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be. Editor(s): Davis, Tracy C.; Holland, Peter. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250406
- ISBN
- 9780230250406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800...
Cordner, Michael, Holland, Peter
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 313 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250574
- ISBN
- 9780230250574
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251083
- ISBN
- 9780230251083
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Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251465
- ISBN
- 9780230251465
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Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Bronte sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontes and the mid-nineteenth century 'woman's novel', but also the situation of women in nineteenth century English law and the debates which moved around its prospective reform. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251472
- ISBN
- 9780230251472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and two neglected but important themes (Larkin and the supernatural, Larkin and Flaubert). Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251717
- ISBN
- 9780230251717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a product of and response to a culture that was metropolitan in size and heterogeneity. This book analyses a literary genre that made creative use of a cultural confusion which elsewhere provoked anxiety. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251786
- ISBN
- 9780230251786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251878
- ISBN
- 9780230251878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardcover. Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH5; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252332
- ISBN
- 9780230252332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.83
€ 67.83
Hardcover. Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy Doyle, it discusses how this hidden, urban Ireland has appeared in the country's literature. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272279
- ISBN
- 9780230272279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.56
€ 128.56
Hardcover. Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384. 224 pages. Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272675
- ISBN
- 9780230272675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272705
- ISBN
- 9780230272705
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. This book, now in paperback, shows how the fantasy tradition culminating in Pullman's His Dark Materials inherits the Romantic quest to transpose spiritual and moral values, once the prerogrative of organized religion, into new myths. Wary of escapist fantasy, it explores how stories can generate a new vision. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272859
- ISBN
- 9780230272859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273405
- ISBN
- 9780230273405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273528
- ISBN
- 9780230273528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50