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Hardcover. From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AC; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103207
ISBN
9780230103207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.13

Hardcover. This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102903
ISBN
9780230102903
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.16

Hardcover. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102675
ISBN
9780230102675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.74

Hardcover. This study examines several unexplored aspects of the poetry of Robert Frost, one of the most widely read and studied American poets, and shows how they contribute to the reader's experience and modernism in general. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102651
ISBN
9780230102651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18

Hardcover. In this text nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102637
ISBN
9780230102637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 45.54

Hardcover. Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102613
ISBN
9780230102613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18

Hardcover. This comparative study graphs the feminist theological trajectory of the religious writings of four eclectic, but similar, women: Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Mary Baker Eddy. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; HRLK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102590
ISBN
9780230102590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18

Hardcover. Once celebrated as 'the English Sappho,' Mary Robinson was a major figure in British Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a poet, a professional writer, a formative influence on the Romantic movement, and a participant in the literary, political, and social scene of the late 1700s. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230100251
ISBN
9780230100251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 42.30

Hardcover. With essays from Mailer's wife and editor, this scholarly volume establishes the writer's literary maturity and dissects the modes of cultural critique employed in his later novels. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st edition,
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230100244
ISBN
9780230100244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 41.71

Hardcover. An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230020009
ISBN
9780230020009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Hardcover. This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently undermined a sense of self and agency. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230013278
ISBN
9780230013278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.11

Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Byron, entries range from detailed coverage of the major poems to items on Byron's songs, conversation, interest in boxing, swimming and vampires, and sexual liaisons; also the 'Byronic Hero', Byron in fiction and drama, and his pervasive influence on subsequent literature. Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008977
ISBN
9780230008977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.29

Hardcover. This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008953
ISBN
9780230008953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 48.05

Hardcover. Recent theoretical approaches have compelled critics to rethink many received notions regarding the significance of contemporary parodic activity. This study places parody firmly (if paradoxically) where it belongs: at the centre of the literary-creative process in the literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008564
ISBN
9780230008564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.82

Paperback. This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic. Editor(s): Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008540
ISBN
9780230008540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.45
€ 28.19

Hardcover. From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; APFA; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008465
ISBN
9780230008465
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.60

Hardcover. This new book situates Beckett in a philosophical and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein. It investigates the relationship between verbal cliche, revealing the strategies he used to challenge intellectual and social authority in his works. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008335
ISBN
9780230008335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 46.64

Hardcover. From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of key texts by Dickens and Balzac. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414. Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. 228 pages, 23 black & white halftones. From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of key texts by Dickens and Balzac. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 18. Weight: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008328
ISBN
9780230008328
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.83

Hardcover. This study examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality and between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Europe to America, it interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; HRCC7; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008311
ISBN
9780230008311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69
€ 69.50

Hardcover. Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siecle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment. Through a close examination of the textures of the novels, Kventsel defines and explores their psycho-cultural field of meaning. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008274
ISBN
9780230008274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.60

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