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Hardcover. Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300492
- ISBN
- 9781137300492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300621
- ISBN
- 9781137300621
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Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301314
- ISBN
- 9781137301314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Hardcover. Textual Imitation offers a new critique of the space between fiction and truth, poetry and philosophy. In a nimble, yet startlingly wide-ranging argument, esteemed scholar Jonathan Hart argues that recognition and misrecognition are the keys to understanding texts and contexts from the Old World to the New World. Num Pages: 172 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301345
- ISBN
- 9781137301345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.03
€ 83.03
Hardcover. Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302670
- ISBN
- 9781137302670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137304971
- ISBN
- 9781137304971
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Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of the poem, the features of its style, and the range of its possible meanings. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSB; HRCL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306968
- ISBN
- 9781137306968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJPG; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306982
- ISBN
- 9781137306982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Hardcover. Why did deconstruction emerge when it did? Why did commentators in literary studies seem to need to look back on it from the earliest moments of its emergence? This book argues that the invention of deconstruction was spread across several decades, conducted by many people, and focused on its two central figures, Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307026
- ISBN
- 9781137307026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308337
- ISBN
- 9781137308337
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Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project analyzes popular representations of middle class life. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309167
- ISBN
- 9781137309167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSBH; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310170
- ISBN
- 9781137310170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. The first book-length study to trace the origins of the essay to the conte, Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form puts the reader in touch with how unstable times and exceptional artistic insights transform one genre to create a new artistic form. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320827
- ISBN
- 9781137320827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320858
- ISBN
- 9781137320858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322708
- ISBN
- 9781137322708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323798
- ISBN
- 9781137323798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature. Connecting the theory of tradition with the phenomenon of influence, Drout moves beyond current theories. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325808
- ISBN
- 9781137325808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326539
- ISBN
- 9781137326539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. This study emerges from an interdisciplinary conversation about the theory of translation and the role of foreign language in fiction and society. By analyzing Shakespeare's treatment of France, Saenger interrogates the cognitive borders of England - a border that was more dependent on languages and ideas than it was on governments and shorelines. Num Pages: 238 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327826
- ISBN
- 9781137327826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.01
€ 68.01
Hardcover. Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPR; DSA; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330079
- ISBN
- 9781137330079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95