Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
by J. Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts.
Technically Alive
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Drawing on the later writings of Martin Heidegger, the book traces the correspondence between the philosopher's concept of technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity in the Sonnets.
Debating American Exceptionalism
Empire and Democracy in the Wake of the Spanish-American War
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Spanish-American War focused not only on foreign policy, but also on the nation's very essence and purpose. At the heart of this debate was a consensus on American nationalism. This book explains why the belief in exceptionalism still serves as the basis of American nationalism and foreign policy even in spite of more recent military failures.
by J. Wilt
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sheik, and the novels of Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett.
Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon
From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking to established texts.
Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900
Lived Environments, Practices of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James.
The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution
The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.
Cuba Under Siege
American Policy, the Revolution and Its People
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
For more than 50 years America's unrelenting hostility toward the Cuban Revolution has resulted in the development of a siege mentality among island leadership and its citizens. In a vibrant new look at Cuban-American relations, Keith Bolender analyzes the effects this has had on economic, cultural, and political life.
by F. Tolhurst
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.
Mapping Malory
Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand Malory's world.
Utopia as Method
The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.
Social Reform in Gothic Writing
Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry
The Lyric and the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how...