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Paperback. Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338573
ISBN
9781349338573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. 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, R.; Roberts, D. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338535
ISBN
9781349338535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. 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, R.; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338337
ISBN
9781349338337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338214
ISBN
9781349338214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy. Editor(s): Elmarsafy, Ziad. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338177
ISBN
9781349338177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. From 'The Other Boleyn Girl' to 'Fingersmith', this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history. Editor(s): Cooper, K. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349337828
ISBN
9781349337828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Ford Madox Ford is a major modernist writer, yet many of his works do not conform to our assumptions about modernism. Examining ways in which he, alongside other 'misfit moderns', undermines 'stabilities' we expect from novels and memoirs, this book poses questions about the nature of narrative and the distinction between modernism and modernity. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349337118
ISBN
9781349337118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. 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 showhow theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible." Editor(s): Streete, A. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 433.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336760
ISBN
9781349336760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

paperback. With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFF; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336623
ISBN
9781349336623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Paperback. 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: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336227
ISBN
9781349336227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336104
ISBN
9781349336104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; DS; HBJD; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335596
ISBN
9781349335596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 143.62

Paperback. Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335558
ISBN
9781349335558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.94

Paperback. Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335206
ISBN
9781349335206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Exploring, amongst other themes, representations of the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, the issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire, this book projects a study of post-colonialism through the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335169
ISBN
9781349335169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335145
ISBN
9781349335145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. "This book emerges from "Consumer Culture, Advertising, and Literature in Ireland 1848-1921," a Leverhulme Major Research Project .. funded by the Trust between 2008 and 2011 .. a joint venture between the universities of Durham and Sunderland"--P. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; KJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334940
ISBN
9781349334940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.19

Paperback. In16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women." Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334841
ISBN
9781349334841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with the more dominant representations of female ageing to be found in popular culture it suggests that they offer a feminist understanding of the 'invisible' woman sometimes lacking in feminism itself. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334766
ISBN
9781349334766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a clef, providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences." Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334544
ISBN
9781349334544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

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