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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
Hardcover. Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy - including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters - this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid. Editor(s): Astrom, Berit; Gregersdotter, Katarina; Horeck, Tanya. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308404
- ISBN
- 9780230308404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction. Editor(s): Morrison, Robert; Roberts, Daniel S. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304413
- ISBN
- 9780230304413
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, Rosalyn; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303720
- ISBN
- 9780230303720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible. Editor(s): Streete, Adrian. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301092
- ISBN
- 9780230301092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.61
€ 67.61
Hardcover. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity. Editor(s): Vanacker, Sabine; Wynne, Catherine. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300507
- ISBN
- 9780230300507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker. Editor(s): Middeke, Prof. Martin; Wald, Christina. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293724
- ISBN
- 9780230293724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290792
- ISBN
- 9780230290792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes Blake 2.0 as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Connolly, Tristanne; Whittaker, Jason. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280335
- ISBN
- 9780230280335
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Condition: New
€ 128.83
€ 128.83
Hardcover. Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology. Editor(s): Baxter, Jeannette; Wymer, Rowland. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278127
- ISBN
- 9780230278127
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri; Wilson, Janet. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277731
- ISBN
- 9780230277731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses. Editor(s): Gallagher, Lowell; Raman, Shankar. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275614
- ISBN
- 9780230275614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Today Blake scholarship is experiencing a period of unprecedented variety and mutuality. These essays reflect the methodological cross-fertilisations now taking place in Blake scholarship and explore the range of debates and contentions generated by these encounters, embracing figurative, structural, and material readings of Blake's life and works. Editor(s): Crosby, Mark; Patenaude, Troy; Whitehead, Angus. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275515
- ISBN
- 9780230275515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism. Editor(s): Kelly, Jim. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230274570
- ISBN
- 9780230274570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontes to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them. Editor(s): Mallett, Phillip. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272323
- ISBN
- 9780230272323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of Tudor England. Editor(s): Schurink, Fred. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; CFP; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230271807
- ISBN
- 9780230271807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. Now available in paperback for the first time, this book brings together leading scholars in the field to analyze Shakespeare's plays, showing how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge and royal prerogative. Editor(s): Jordan, Constance; Cunningham, Karen. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230247727
- ISBN
- 9780230247727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics. Editor(s): Holderness, Graham; Wootton, David. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240926
- ISBN
- 9780230240926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society. Their various chapters cover the nature, status, and function of English in Japan, focusing on the ways in which globalization is influencing language practices in the country. Editor(s): Seargeant, Philip. Num Pages: 220 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2AB; CFB; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237667
- ISBN
- 9780230237667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04