Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture
Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.
New World Irish
Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.
Literary Geographies
Narrative Space in Let The Great World Spin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
Feminism
Transmissions and Retransmissions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Adding to the debate on a range of issues, this book presents a critical and deeply personal history of Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta Lamas covers topics such as the political development...
by P. Loscocco
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.
Emily Dickinson
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century.
Konrad Morgen
The Conscience of a Nazi Judge
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a moral biography of Georg Konrad Morgen, who prosecuted crimes committed by members of the SS in Nazi concentration camps and eventually came face-to-face with the system of industrialized murder at Auschwitz. His wartime papers and postwar testimonies yield a study in moral complexity.
Hitler - Films from Germany
History, Cinema and Politics since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination.
Carl Gustav Jung
Avant-Garde Conservative
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer. Most accounts have unfortunately been marred by factual...
Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance
History, Practice, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This established text explores the history, theory and practice of improvisation within the rapidly changing field of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. New material includes improvisation in film, stand-up comedy, LARPing, applied theatre and theatre sports. It contains a wealth of new exercises and examples from contemporary practitioners.
Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940
Channel Packets
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between 'high' and popular art forms.
The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910
Authorial Work Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’. Whereas previous studies...
Decadent Poetics
Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.
Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture
Time, Politics and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.