Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
by Professor Matthew Beedham
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
One of the most popular contemporary authors, Kazuo Ishiguro has so far produced six highly regarded novels which have won him international acclaim and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Award and an OBE for Services to Literature.
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Strange Divisions and Alien Territories
The Sub-Genres of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Strange Divisions and Alien Territories explores the sub-genres of science fiction from the perspectives of a range of top SF authors. Combining a critical viewpoint with the exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing authors working in the field, contributors include Michael Swanwick, Catherine Asaro and Paul di Filippo.
by Dr Lynn Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
This introduction to the work of Ian McEwan places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores his biography, literary techniques and the issues of ethics and representation. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author it also offers an overview of the critical reception McEwan's work has provoked.
London Clubland
A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction
The Female Gentleman
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman. Exploring this character type leads to a new evaluation of the politics of classic detective fiction and the middlebrow novel as a whole.
Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.
Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850
Gender, Genre and Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.
Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions
The Significance of Objects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia.
by J. Darcy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to a nineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.
by Dr Jane Stabler
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2001
Definitions of the Romantic period have undergone considerable change in the last few years. Beyond the careers of the 'Big Six' (Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats), critics have begun to recognise a much fuller range of writers flourishing in the second half of the eighteenth century...
by R. Terry
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality.
The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid
Liberal Humanitarians and Transnational Activists in Britain and the United States, c.1919-64
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century. The book provides the first detailed history of the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain and the USA, tracing the network of individuals and groups who shaped the moral and political character of the movement.
by A. Biney
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political discourse and controversies surrounding him.
Social Theory of Fear
Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.