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paperback. This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role in the development of children's literature. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349451067
- ISBN
- 9781349451067
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€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Paperback. Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; 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
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451005
- ISBN
- 9781349451005
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. 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
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450909
- ISBN
- 9781349450909
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€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Paperback. Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing offers a new critical approach to E. M. Forster's legacy. It examines key themes in Forster's work (homosexuality, humanism, modernism, liberalism) and their relevance to post-imperial and postcolonial novels by important contemporary writers. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450015
- ISBN
- 9781349450015
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€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, this book demonstrates that many of his representations were 'fabrications', more idealized than real, which played a vital part in the country's developing identity and sense of its place in the world. Num Pages: 230 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
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449996
- ISBN
- 9781349449996
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ; JKV. 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
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449934
- ISBN
- 9781349449934
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Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; HPS; 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
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449705
- ISBN
- 9781349449705
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€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; AJ; DSA; DSC. 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
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449491
- ISBN
- 9781349449491
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€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Paperback. This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others. Editor(s): Salvan, Paula Martin; Salas, G. P.; Heffernan, J. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; 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
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349448753
- ISBN
- 9781349448753
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious. Editor(s): Fulton, Doveanna S. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349448555
- ISBN
- 9781349448555
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349448326
- ISBN
- 9781349448326
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€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. Focusing on British novels about the Muslim immigrant experience published after 9/11; this book examines the promise as well as the limits of 'British Muslim' identity as a viable form of self-representation, and the challenges - particularly for women - of reconciling non-Western religious identity with the secular policies of Western states. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349448265
- ISBN
- 9781349448265
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers. Editor(s): Silverberg, M. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. 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
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447770
- ISBN
- 9781349447770
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh theoretical model it presents challenges existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC; JHB. 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
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447510
- ISBN
- 9781349447510
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Condition: New
€ 116.83
€ 116.83
Paperback. Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446926
- ISBN
- 9781349446926
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Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
Paperback. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446650
- ISBN
- 9781349446650
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ; JHBA; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446100
- ISBN
- 9781349446100
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Condition: New
€ 137.82
€ 137.82
Paperback. Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. 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
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445981
- ISBN
- 9781349445981
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Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
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
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 250 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY; JFC; JFSP; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349445783
- ISBN
- 9781349445783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90