Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardback. This study explores the literary representations of Adolf Hitler in American fiction and makes the case that his figure has slowly developed from a means of left-wing critique into a device of right-wing affirmation. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613416
- ISBN
- 9780230613416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. Offering close readings of novels by Sherman Alexie to Leslie Marmon Silko, this book documents the reinvention of Anglo-European nationality in the interests of sustaining the indigenous traditions that long-preceded colonization. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613423
- ISBN
- 9780230613423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardback. This book presents a comprehensive examination of the history of print culture through the lens of a study of the innovative monthly periodical Belgravia. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615212
- ISBN
- 9780230615212
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Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardback. Driscoll argues that the attempted cultural erasure of class in Great Britain in the period since Thatcher has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in literature and theory. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615274
- ISBN
- 9780230615274
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
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
Hardcover. This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to make sense of the ways in which these works 'remap' the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore the legacy of apartheid. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615373
- ISBN
- 9780230615373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. The first book to examine Elizabeth I as a learned princess, Learned Queen examines Elizabeth's own demonstrations of erudition alongside literary works produced by such political luminaries as Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Devereux, earl of Essex. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615625
- ISBN
- 9780230615625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
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. Covington explores the manner in which the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness was claimed by a range of discourses in a century of turbulence and change. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616011
- ISBN
- 9780230616011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
hardcover. This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616264
- ISBN
- 9780230616264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement
. Ed(S): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett
hardcover. This collection brings together leading scholars to locate experimental strategies in diasporic poetry. Editor(s): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616295
- ISBN
- 9780230616295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardback. Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618701
- ISBN
- 9780230618701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. This book examines and critiques the influence of postmodernism on current conceptions of race, within and beyond literary and cultural studies. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618749
- ISBN
- 9780230618749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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. This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett as a figure that cannot be read historically by drawing on new archival materials and situating his finished works in their historical context. Editor(s): Kennedy, Sean; Weiss, Katherine. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619449
- ISBN
- 9780230619449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to ...
. Ed(S): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; He...
Hardback. This comprehensive volume develops a lucid yet sophisticated and innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to cultural taboo that have emerged in recent years. Editor(s): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; Heiler, Lars. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619906
- ISBN
- 9780230619906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.92
€ 127.92
Hardback. Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative of the 'underworld descent.' Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620469
- ISBN
- 9780230620469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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