Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardback. This collection of essays examines Austen in relation to her business. Many of these essays, including those by Julia Prewitt Brown, Margaret Drabble, Jan Fergus, Isobel Grundy, Gary Kelly, and Elaine Showalter, were first delivered as papers at the Lake Louise conference on "Persuasion". Editor(s): McMaster, Juliet; Stovel, Bruce. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333629208
- ISBN
- 9780333629208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.33
€ 119.33
Hardback. This text documents the changing representation of subjectivity in medieval and early modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of "self-speaking", including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with models of subject formation, especially that of Lacan. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; CFA; DSBB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333628997
- ISBN
- 9780333628997
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Condition: New
€ 119.77
€ 119.77
Paperback. This study focuses on literature for girls. Written by women for children, such texts have been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment. Using 20th-century feminist critical practice, the authors open up fresh perspectives on popular fiction written for girls between 1850 and 1920. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333626733
- ISBN
- 9780333626733
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Condition: New
€ 61.67
€ 61.67
Paperback. This biography draws from a variety of sources including Hardy's published writings, biographies of Hardy and his contemporaries, correspondence of friends and acquaintances, Emma Hardy's diaries, and unpublished letters between Emma, Thomas and Florence. Num Pages: 438 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 32. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Great Britain
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333625200
- ISBN
- 9780333625200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.47
€ 68.47
Paperback. This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333625163
- ISBN
- 9780333625163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 181.48
€ 181.48
Hardback. This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333625156
- ISBN
- 9780333625156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.40
€ 182.40
Paperback. This work of Hardy criticism has been revised and makes use of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks and letters, and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him. The author seeks to resolve the "work/life dichotomy" by pursuing the "unitary conception of a career". Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333623169
- ISBN
- 9780333623169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 181.48
€ 181.48
Hardback. This work of Hardy criticism has been revised and makes use of Hardy's own manuscripts, notebooks and letters, and of the correspondence and reminiscences of those who knew him. The author seeks to resolve the "work/life dichotomy" by pursuing the "unitary conception of a career". Num Pages: 432 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333623152
- ISBN
- 9780333623152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.40
€ 182.40
Hardback. This critical study analyzes Robert Louis Stevenson's literary criticism. It then conducts a re-examination of his works, and views his writings in the context of emerging modernism. Alan Sandison is the author of "The Wheel of Empire" and "The Last Man in Europe". Num Pages: 433 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333620670
- ISBN
- 9780333620670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.66
€ 120.66
Paperback. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333618783
- ISBN
- 9780333618783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardback. This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New Zealander, a woman writer, a Fuavist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333618776
- ISBN
- 9780333618776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.54
€ 118.54
Hardback. Focusing on the key late-19th-century discourses of feminism, prostitution, colonialism, science and evolution, this study explores, in depth, Olive Schreiner's achievement as a writer. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333615324
- ISBN
- 9780333615324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.15
€ 119.15
Hardcover. This study deals with Gaskell's fiction, approaching her as a deeply poetic novelist and short-story writer. Among topics covered are women and the creation of the self, death and personal integrity, the status of words as utterance and the shape and meaning of individual lives. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333614525
- ISBN
- 9780333614525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.84
€ 180.84
Hardback. Draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and "the higher common sense". Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333614204
- ISBN
- 9780333614204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardback. Examines attitudes and uses of metaphor in Elizabethan poetry, concentrating on "The Faerie Queene". This work shows that the Elizabethan trust in the veracity of metaphor offers a possible explanation for the structure of certain literary forms of the period. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333613672
- ISBN
- 9780333613672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.15
€ 119.15
Hardback. Taking its title from James's ambivalent catchphrase, this study explores fundamental concerns of his fiction. The book adopts a modern critical approach, yet is written for the reader whose interest in James is not necessarily academic. It examines six key novels and a number of short stories. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333611395
- ISBN
- 9780333611395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.06
€ 181.06
Hardback. This text traces the development of reading tastes during the 19th century, and describes how Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel. It features nine other novelists in addition to Scott, among them, Walter Besant, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rafael Sabatini. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333607626
- ISBN
- 9780333607626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.82
€ 118.82
Hardback. Focuses on the ways in which Harold Pinter conceives of and dramatizes time according to the medium in which he is working. The text shows how Pinter undermines the temporal assumptions of naturalism and realism to form a relativistic world in which time is a central feature. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333607619
- ISBN
- 9780333607619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.42
€ 180.42
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives
Bennett, Andrew (Assistant Professor Of, Benn...
Hardcover. Arguing that Elizabeth Bowen is the unrecognized genius of the 20th-century novel in English, this book contends that an appropriate response to Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself. It includes new readings of all Bowen's novels. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 272 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Schol, Print UK
- Edition
- 1995th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333607602
- ISBN
- 9780333607602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.85
€ 118.85
Hardback. Arguing that Austen's novels articulate a range of anxieties about authorship and authority, this book points to how the novels experiment in different ways with possible sources and the ultimate failures of authority, always returning to the compromised figure of the narrator. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333607275
- ISBN
- 9780333607275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.57
€ 118.57