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Hardcover. Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection. Editor(s): Martin-Junquera, Imelda. Num Pages: 249 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2AB; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293602
- ISBN
- 9781137293602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in the Arts and Humanities can offer fresh perspectives on current social and political issues. Editor(s): Goodman, Sam; Matthews, Graham. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137296894
- ISBN
- 9781137296894
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come. Editor(s): Acquisto, Joseph. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303639
- ISBN
- 9781137303639
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections are made with related work in a range of disciplines. Editor(s): Baldwin, Thomas; Fowler, James; De Medeiros, Ana. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309136
- ISBN
- 9781137309136
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household. Editor(s): Patterson, Serina. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311030
- ISBN
- 9781137311030
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Condition: New
€ 138.75
€ 138.75
Hardcover. Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprun, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of testimony and fiction in representations of the Holocaust. Editor(s): Ferran, Ofelia; Herrmann, Gina. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 334 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322807
- ISBN
- 9781137322807
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Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
Hardcover. This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new-the distinctly modern. Editor(s): Clewell, Tammy. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326591
- ISBN
- 9781137326591
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Rhys Matters, the first collection of essays focusing on Rhys's writing in over twenty years, encounters her oeuvre from multiple disciplinary perspectives and appreciates the interventions in modernism, postcolonial studies, Caribbean studies, and women's and gender studies. Editor(s): Wilson, Mary; Johnson, Kerry L. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJWWD; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327901
- ISBN
- 9781137327901
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This edited book provides a unique opportunity for international scholars to contribute to the exploration of liminality in the field of Anglo-American literature written by or about women between the Victorian period and the Second World War. Editor(s): Gomez Reus, Teresa; Gifford, Terry. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330468
- ISBN
- 9781137330468
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer; both popular and critically valid but also problematic in terms of his depictions of race, gender and class. Editor(s): Simmons, David. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332240
- ISBN
- 9781137332240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.83
€ 149.83
Hardcover. This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, the poet-artist's work celebrate Blakean attractions and repulsions. Editor(s): Bruder, Helen P.; Connolly, Tristanne. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332837
- ISBN
- 9781137332837
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Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. These essays explore the impartial critical outlook American writers acquired through their experiences in Europe since 1850. Collectively, contributors reveal how the American writer's intuitive sense of freedom, coupled with their feeling of liberation from European influences, led to intellectual independence in the literary works they produced. Editor(s): Asya, Ferda. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340016
- ISBN
- 9781137340016
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Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions. Editor(s): Pender, Patricia; Smith, Rosalind. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342423
- ISBN
- 9781137342423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Paperback. Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri. Num Pages: 352 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white plates, 9 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344205
- ISBN
- 9781137344205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles. Editor(s): Feather, Jennifer; Thomas, Catherine E. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344748
- ISBN
- 9781137344748
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Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardcover. 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: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348289
- ISBN
- 9781137348289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. 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: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349347
- ISBN
- 9781137349347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Paperback. This era witnessed the first full flowering of British women's writing. Drawing on the last 30 years of scholarship and textual recovery which have overturned the theory that women wrote only unambitious, domestic texts, this new paperback highlights that an English literary history that ignores women writers is not only incomplete, but inadequate. Editor(s): Labbe, Jacqueline M. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; DSK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350398
- ISBN
- 9781137350398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.48
€ 56.48
Paperback. This volume, now in paperback, charts significant changes for a literary history of women in an era that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism', revealing that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries. Editor(s): Ballaster, Ros. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350404
- ISBN
- 9781137350404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Paperback. Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this book - now available in paperback - examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century. Editor(s): Bicks, Caroline; Summit, Jennifer. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350411
- ISBN
- 9781137350411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.97
€ 138.97