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Hardcover. Oscar Wilde's wit is foundational to his works, from his plays and novels to his self-defense at his trials. This book is a comprehensive account of Oscar Wilde's wit that focuses on discovering reasons for his critical success and ongoing legacy. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137488480
ISBN
9781137488480
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context - their productions, circulations and readerships - to understand current social trends. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSB; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137489289
ISBN
9781137489289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardcover. James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is a study of all of Ellroy's key works, from his debut novel Brown's Requiem to the epic Underworld USA trilogy. This book traces the development of Ellroy's writing style and the importance of his Demon Dog persona to carving out his unique place in American crime fiction. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137490827
ISBN
9781137490827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardback. Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 148 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137492623
ISBN
9781137492623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 46.40

Hardcover. Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities. Editor(s): Ameel, Lieven; Finch, Jason; Salmela, Markku. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137492876
ISBN
9781137492876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardcover. This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive, self-reflective society. Series: Literary Disability Studies. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFGR; DSB; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137493477
ISBN
9781137493477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Hardback. This book illuminates the politics of Renaissance theatre culture and playbook publication by analysing how and why playhouses came to be referred to as 'public' or 'private'. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 95 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137494917
ISBN
9781137494917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.46

Hardcover. Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of Austen were heavily influenced by these early developments in sociology. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137496010
ISBN
9781137496010
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardback. This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers a snapshot view of new feminist research in the field today and traces the influence of the substantial feminist inheritance in English Studies through six distinct, individual pieces of rigorous and innovative new work. Editor(s): Jones, Clara; Hogg, Emily. Num Pages: 104 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497499
ISBN
9781137497499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Hardcover. Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese female writers: Ishimure Michiko, Taguchi Randy, Morisaki Kazue, and Nashiki Kaho. Translator(s): Berman, Michael. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497789
ISBN
9781137497789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.34

Hardback. Series: Information Technology and Global Governance. Num Pages: 366 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JM; DNJ; HBTV; JFD; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497895
ISBN
9781137497895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.75

Hardcover. Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types-horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space-as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive. Editor(s): Gavin, Adrienne E.; Humphries, Andrew F. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; WG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137499035
ISBN
9781137499035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardcover. Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire tells the untold story of Hughes's Mexborough period (1938-1951) and demonstrates conclusively that Hughes's experiences in South Yorkshire - in town and country, educationally, in literature and love - were decisive in forming him as the poet of his subsequent fame. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137499349
ISBN
9781137499349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137499370
ISBN
9781137499370
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Hardcover. This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137500113
ISBN
9781137500113
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Hardcover. This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137501073
ISBN
9781137501073
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardcover. This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137502841
ISBN
9781137502841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 201 pages, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137502889
ISBN
9781137502889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.58

Hardcover. In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural expression. This collection shows that a focus on the spatial can help elucidate important facets of symbolic expression and cultural production, whether it be literature, music, dance, films, or art. Editor(s): Richardson, Bill. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 2 diagrames. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137502896
ISBN
9781137502896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardback. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137503190
ISBN
9781137503190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.23

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