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Hardback. Presenting twelve essays that explore in depth the publishing and reading practices which were formed and changed by the First World War. This work provides crucial historical information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during a period of international crisis. Editor(s): Hammond, Mary; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230500761
ISBN
9780230500761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Hardcover. Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230507845
ISBN
9780230507845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardback. This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens with a personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Editor(s): Potts, Gina; Shahriari, Lisa. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230517660
ISBN
9780230517660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.91

Hardback. This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230518025
ISBN
9780230518025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

hardcover. This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230535633
ISBN
9780230535633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.15

Hardback. The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English. Editor(s): Jones, Charles. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; CBX; CFB; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230537330
ISBN
9780230537330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Hardback. This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230537583
ISBN
9780230537583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardback. Dickens's London often acts as a complex symbol, composed of numerous sub-symbols, such as crowd, river, railway networks and police systems. This book is particularly interested in how Dickens's treatment of the city allows him to re-examine traditional Christian discourses on the issues of revelation, renunciation and regeneration. Num Pages: 253 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230545236
ISBN
9780230545236
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49

hardcover. This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230547117
ISBN
9780230547117
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.27

Hardback. This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries. Editor(s): Ballaster, Ros. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230549388
ISBN
9780230549388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.61

Hardback. This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Editor(s): Labbe, Jacqueline M. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230550711
ISBN
9780230550711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.18

Hardback. This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and revolutions in the human perception and appropriation of space. 'Space' for the writers concerned has its political, historical, cultural and gender dimensions as well as its geographical identity. Editor(s): Lange, Attie de; Fincham, Gail; Hawthorn, Jeremy; Lothe, Jakob. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230553163
ISBN
9780230553163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.66

Hardback. At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time, his love for Fanny Brawne, his coterie of literary figures and his tragic early death. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230572638
ISBN
9780230572638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.43

Hardback. Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, style and the significance of poetry to advance our understanding of women's lives in the nineteenth century. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230601260
ISBN
9780230601260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.43

Hardback. This volume insists on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales to the understanding of the literary cultures of Medieval Britain. Editor(s): Kennedy, Ruth; Meecham-Jones, Simon. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 290 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602953
ISBN
9780230602953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.75

Hardback. In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602977
ISBN
9780230602977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.61

hardcover. Bringing together memory theory, medieval cognition of images, and the English Corpus Christ drama in an innovative way, this study argues that the relationship of frames or backgrounds to the image has been misunderstood in the study of drama. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603219
ISBN
9780230603219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Hardback. A remarkably engaging work of literary analysis, this book employs biography and cultural history to explore the scene of the abandoned house in the lives and work of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603226
ISBN
9780230603226
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Hardback. The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603233
ISBN
9780230603233
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.15

Hardback. This collection contributes to scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel? Editor(s): King, Lovalerie; Selzer, Linda F. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 521.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603271
ISBN
9780230603271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.75

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