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Paperback. The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood. Editor(s): Gavin, A. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY; JFC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349345496
- ISBN
- 9781349345496
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Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
paperback. Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349451678
- ISBN
- 9781349451678
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349431915
- ISBN
- 9781349431915
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349332267
- ISBN
- 9781349332267
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445905
- ISBN
- 9781349445905
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSC; JFC; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349523320
- ISBN
- 9781349523320
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Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSA; DSB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1979
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349033188
- ISBN
- 9781349033188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.77
€ 126.77
Paperback. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siecle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of tertiary-level English teaching." Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456307
- ISBN
- 9781349456307
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Condition: New
€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Paperback. 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: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320370
- ISBN
- 9781349320370
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Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Paperback. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about21st-century ideas of nature." Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 245 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287093
- ISBN
- 9781349287093
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 377.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1989
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349103379
- ISBN
- 9781349103379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.95
€ 71.95
Paperback. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY; JFC; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476480
- ISBN
- 9781349476480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In recentyears controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative." Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBAH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314133
- ISBN
- 9781349314133
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Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Paperback. This study places Jean Rhys's fiction for the first time within the context of interrelated perspectives in modern psychoanalysis, to demonstrate how her narratives powerfully enact primitive and dynamic psychological states. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2005
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349529353
- ISBN
- 9781349529353
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A revisionist reading of Ernest Hemingway's work with respect to race. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533381
- ISBN
- 9781349533381
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231180245
- ISBN
- 9780231180245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.40€ 51.34
€ 65.40
€ 51.34
Paperback. This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465767
- ISBN
- 9781349465767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.62
€ 126.62
Hardback. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 193 pages, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137571403
- ISBN
- 9781137571403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.18
€ 138.18
This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. Series Editor(s): Smith, Alexander. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; JHM. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719084546
- ISBN
- 9780719084546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.80
€ 156.80
Paperback. Widely recognised as one of today's most important cultural critics, Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 180 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415215237
- ISBN
- 9780415215237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.27
€ 36.27
paperback. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his book "Orientalism", Edward W Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This volume on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. Editor(s): Iskandar, Adel; Rustom, Hakem. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520258907
- ISBN
- 9780520258907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.66
€ 19.99
€ 9.66
Paperback. This book investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349530335
- ISBN
- 9781349530335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The nine essays in this volume debate issues arising from contemporary literary theory in relation to drama of the modern period. They address the questions of power, subjectivity, sexuality, psychoanalysis and the nature of the dramatic text. Editor(s): Page, Adrian. Series: Insights Series. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1992nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333513156
- ISBN
- 9780333513156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Paperback. A timely book which makes an important intervention in contemporary feminist theory. It uses an original methodology in "stealing" four figures from ancient Greek texts and reinterpreting them using theories of sexual difference. It will be welcomed by students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Translator(s): Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Serena; O'Healy, Aine; D'Onofrio, S.A-.; Onofrio, Serena Anderlini-D'. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745615721
- ISBN
- 9780745615721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81