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Paperback. Through analysis of eight English novels of the Nineteenth century, this work explores the ways in which the novel contributes to the formation of ideology regarding the family, and, conversely, the ways in which changing attitudes toward the family shape and reshape the novel. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537167
ISBN
9781349537167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349223411
ISBN
9781349223411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 193.11

Paperback. The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBL; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487202
ISBN
9781349487202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Hardcover. The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is geographically and culturally boundless and influenced by great novelists working in other languages. Michael Schmidt, choosing as his travel companions not critics or theorists but other novelists, does full justice to its complexity. Num Pages: 1180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 257 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1874.
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674724730
ISBN
9780674724730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.56

Paperback. In The Official World Mark Seltzer analyzes the suspense fiction, films, and performance art of Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J.G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others to demonstrate that the modern world continuously establishes itself through the staging of its own conditions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 285 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361008
ISBN
9780822361008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. In The Official World Mark Seltzer analyzes the suspense fiction, films, and performance art of Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J.G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others to demonstrate that the modern world continuously establishes itself through the staging of its own conditions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360865
ISBN
9780822360865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

hardcover. A study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Margaret Jensen re-imagines the links between text and context as palimpsest historicizes literary influence, by taking Bloomian "anxiety" and Kristevan "intertextuality" into fields of actual history and biography. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293536
ISBN
9780312293536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature. Num Pages: 109 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; AVRG; DSA; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
109
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319492223
ISBN
9783319492223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Hardcover. In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin itself. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Wills, Ika. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. 296 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Wills, Ika. In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin itself. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JFCX. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 20. Weight: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581906
ISBN
9780230581906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

Paperback. The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349479849
ISBN
9781349479849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.40

Paperback. The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe, Byron's Mazeppa, and Eliot's Middlemarch, and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333165
ISBN
9781349333165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Paperback. A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures. Editor(s): Nischik, Reingard M. Num Pages: 417 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
417
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349490066
ISBN
9781349490066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

Hardback. A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures. Editor(s): Nischik, Reingard M. Num Pages: 417 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 764.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
417
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137413895
ISBN
9781137413895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.59

Hardback. Editor(s): Tambling, Professor Jeremy. Num Pages: 863 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HBT; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 1484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
863
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137549105
ISBN
9781137549105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 344.01

Paperback. Many courses in literary or cultural studies include some discussion of psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-modernism, linguistics and semiotics. This dictionary should bring the reader information on the wide variety of interdisciplinary topics in critical theory. Num Pages: 496 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSA; GBC; HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140513691
ISBN
9780140513691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349432547
ISBN
9781349432547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. "This book arises from a conference entitled 'The Perils of Print Culture' organised .. at Trinity College Dublin in September 2010." Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349490554
ISBN
9781349490554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Hardcover. This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history. Editor(s): Patten, Eve. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; KNTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137415318
ISBN
9781137415318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

paperback. Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and Rossetti." Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349497416
ISBN
9781349497416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF3; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349203000
ISBN
9781349203000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Paperback. This is a lively, freshly invited collection of papers by a number of well-known philosophers and other specialists who have focused very pointedly on certain central conceptual puzzles posed by the general practice of interpretation in the arts, literature, history, and the natural and human sciences. Editor(s): Margolis, Joseph; Rockmore, Tom. Series: Metaphilosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220473
ISBN
9780631220473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.63

Paperback. Probes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems. Num Pages: 463 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
3rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520024830
ISBN
9780520024830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Paperback. By exploring central issues in the philosophy of literature, illustrated by a wide range of novels, poems, and plays, Philosophy of Literature gets to the heart of why literature matters to us and sheds new light on the nature and interpretation of literary works. Series: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405121989
ISBN
9781405121989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 38.57

Hardcover. By exploring central issues in the philosophy of literature, illustrated by a wide range of novels, poems, and plays, Philosophy of Literature gets to the heart of why literature matters to us and sheds new light on the nature and interpretation of literary works. Series: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405121972
ISBN
9781405121972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.57

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