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Hardcover. Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism - the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime - this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455499
- ISBN
- 9781137455499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Confronted with apartheid, dictatorship or the sheer scale of global economics, realism can no longer function with the certainties of the nineteenth century. Free Realist Style considers how the style of the realist novel changes as its epistemological horizons narrow. Num Pages: 87 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 252.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456083
- ISBN
- 9781137456083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.68
€ 65.68
Hardcover. An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing. Num Pages: 105 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456090
- ISBN
- 9781137456090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.51
€ 104.51
Hardcover. Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world. Editor(s): Tally, Robert T., Jr. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456496
- ISBN
- 9781137456496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.75
€ 149.75
Hardcover. Drawing from classical myth, the history of philosophy, literature, film, music, and painting, Workman connects the artistic claims of Chaucer and tests them against similar gestures in the history of philosophy and literature. What results is a radical retake on Chaucer as a philosopher and poet, upending any preconceived views. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456519
- ISBN
- 9781137456519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of the early twentieth century, when she helped shape female subjectivity and agency. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456526
- ISBN
- 9781137456526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardcover. Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456717
- ISBN
- 9781137456717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Hardcover. Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456779
- ISBN
- 9781137456779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Hardcover. An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any previous text. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457196
- ISBN
- 9781137457196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457714
- ISBN
- 9781137457714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.86
€ 116.86
Hardback. Editor(s): Bradshaw, Michael. Series: Literary Disability Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137460639
- ISBN
- 9781137460639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.53
€ 149.53
Hardcover. This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463036
- ISBN
- 9781137463036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. The different versions of Hamlet constitute one of the most vexing puzzles in Shakespeare studies. In this groundbreaking work, Shakespeare scholar Terri Bourus argues that this puzzle can only be solved by drawing on multiple kinds of evidence and analysis, including book and theatre history, biography, performance studies, and close readings. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 305 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465610
- ISBN
- 9781137465610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.15
€ 52.93
€ 47.15
Hardcover. Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465986
- ISBN
- 9781137465986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; HRKP3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137466341
- ISBN
- 9781137466341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467355
- ISBN
- 9781137467355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardcover. American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469229
- ISBN
- 9781137469229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardback. The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice in a society where there has been a sharp decline in moral values. This study demonstrates how the notion of the detective as a moral exemplar or heroic ideal breaks down in the works of writers such as James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469656
- ISBN
- 9781137469656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardback. Applying new readings of Four Quartets, this book completes a trilogy on the Christian character of Eliot's writing. Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470836
- ISBN
- 9781137470836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Hardback. Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy. Num Pages: 146 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470843
- ISBN
- 9781137470843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16