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Hardcover. 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre. Editor(s): Powell, Steven. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525375
- ISBN
- 9780230525375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.83
€ 128.83
Hardcover. Growing academic interest and the republication of B.S. Johnson's major works have been reinforced by Coe's award-winning biography Like A Fiery Elephant (2004). With a preface by Coe, this collection, co-edited by two leading Johnson scholars, offers an annotated bibliography, a chronology and readings of the author and his work. Editor(s): Tew, Philip; White, Glyn. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524927
- ISBN
- 9780230524927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. A uniquely focused collection addressing the identification, functional properties, and broader consequences of phonological weakness over a broad chronological range, from Old to Present-Day English and its varieties, enriching the phonological literature with fresh empirical findings from a variety of sources. Editor(s): Jones, Charles; Minkova, Donka. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524750
- ISBN
- 9780230524750
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Condition: New
€ 128.68
€ 128.68
Hardcover. This collection demonstrates how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies. Between 1860 and 1920 witnessed unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and artists, finding common ground in the prevailing intellectual climate of biological determinism. Editor(s): Stiles, Anne. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 239 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSK; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230520943
- ISBN
- 9780230520943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Rasmussen, Eric; West, Anthony James. Num Pages: 956 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS; DSR; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 960
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517653
- ISBN
- 9780230517653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 746.41
€ 746.41
Hardcover. This book uses the theme of 'debatable lands', to explore aspects of writing in the Romantic period. Walter Scott brought it to a wider public, and the phrase came to be applied to debates which were intellectual, political or artistic. These debates are pursued in a collection of essays grouped under the headings such as 'Britain and Ireland'. Editor(s): Lamont, Claire; Rossington, Michael. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 139 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507852
- ISBN
- 9780230507852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Editor(s): Yuejun, Zhang; Christie, Stuart. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391710
- ISBN
- 9780230391710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Uniquely placed to explore the worldwide phenomenon of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the book offers the first full-length study of Larsson's work in both its written and filmed forms. Editor(s): Peacock, Steven. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390430
- ISBN
- 9780230390430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the effects of literary realism. Editor(s): Cockin, Katharine. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367401
- ISBN
- 9780230367401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular, but also provides posthumanist readings of other Shakespearean plays. Editor(s): Herbrechter, Stefan; Callus, Ivan. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360907
- ISBN
- 9780230360907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.' Editor(s): Clark, J. C. D.; Erskine-Hill, Howard. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230356009
- ISBN
- 9780230356009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.' Editor(s): Clark, J. C. D.; Erskine-Hill, Howard. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355996
- ISBN
- 9780230355996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch's work by placing it within a diversity of new contexts. It also reveals startling parallels between Murdoch's work and other literary and philosophical texts. Editor(s): Rowe, Anne; Horner, Avril. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348288
- ISBN
- 9780230348288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture. Editor(s): Dente, Carla; Soncini, Sara. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343276
- ISBN
- 9780230343276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship. Editor(s): Cook, Daniel; Culley, Amy. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343078
- ISBN
- 9780230343078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.83
€ 138.83
Hardcover. Indography considers literary and non-literary representations of Indians in early modern English writing in relation to processes of globalization and race formation. Editor(s): Harris, Mr. Jonathan Gil. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341371
- ISBN
- 9780230341371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.48
€ 129.48
Hardcover. Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies. Editor(s): Van Dyke, Carolynn. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338586
- ISBN
- 9780230338586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture. Editor(s): Mianowski, Marie. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 2 charts, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319394
- ISBN
- 9780230319394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardcover. Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. Editor(s): Sell, Jonathan P. A. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314221
- ISBN
- 9780230314221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama. Editor(s): Brown, Sarah; Lublin, Robert I.; McCulloch, Lynsey. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230313859
- ISBN
- 9780230313859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76