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Literary studies: general
Paperback. This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466153
- ISBN
- 9781349466153
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€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Paperback. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466887
- ISBN
- 9781349466887
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€ 65.66
€ 65.66
Paperback. Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467129
- ISBN
- 9781349467129
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€ 149.39
€ 149.39
Paperback. Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe. Editor(s): Hall, Jason David; Murray, Alex. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467624
- ISBN
- 9781349467624
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€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. Editor(s): Loughnane, Rory; Semple, Edel. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467884
- ISBN
- 9781349467884
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€ 66.58
€ 66.58
paperback. A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction. Editor(s): Ryle, M.; Jordan, J. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349467945
- ISBN
- 9781349467945
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism. Editor(s): Shaw, J.; Kelly, P.; Semler, Dr. L. E. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; DSB; DSBB; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349468201
- ISBN
- 9781349468201
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€ 67.01
€ 67.01
The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Volume II
. Ed(S): Cefalu, Paul; Kuchar, Gary; Reynolds...
Paperback. This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology. Editor(s): Cefalu, Paul; Kuchar, Gary; Reynolds, B. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349468669
- ISBN
- 9781349468669
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€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469260
- ISBN
- 9781349469260
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€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Paperback. Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469284
- ISBN
- 9781349469284
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€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469307
- ISBN
- 9781349469307
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€ 65.57
€ 65.57
Paperback. Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFC; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469765
- ISBN
- 9781349469765
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€ 66.12
€ 66.12
paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349469925
- ISBN
- 9781349469925
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950
. Ed(S): Moruzi, Kristine; Smith, Michelle J.
Paperback. Editor(s): Moruzi, Kristine; Smith, Michelle J. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349470440
- ISBN
- 9781349470440
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€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349471461
- ISBN
- 9781349471461
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€ 66.26
€ 66.26
paperback. Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349472505
- ISBN
- 9781349472505
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Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472680
- ISBN
- 9781349472680
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349472741
- ISBN
- 9781349472741
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€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. In The Plausible World, the intersections of literature and cartography enable readers to understand that place is anything but purely geographic: a plausible world is created as a strategy to fill the void. Innovative in his approach, Westphal challenges the view that perceptions and representations of space are stable or straightforward. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473403
- ISBN
- 9781349473403
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€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization. Num Pages: 195 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473601
- ISBN
- 9781349473601
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Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
Paperback. Here, Bjorklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant. The lasting power of negative discourses upends the assumption that Sweden's progressive laws reflect progressive attitudes toward homosexuality." Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473625
- ISBN
- 9781349473625
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Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Paperback. The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473700
- ISBN
- 9781349473700
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Condition: New
€ 65.66
€ 65.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Balaev, M. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473953
- ISBN
- 9781349473953
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Condition: New
€ 126.22
€ 126.22
Paperback. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin's Press LLC. Editor(s): Allen, N.; Simmons, D. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473977
- ISBN
- 9781349473977
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80