http://www.palgrave.com/home/ Literature News from Palgrave Macmillan. Mon, 28 June 2010 11:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-gb http://www.palgrave.com/assets/i/palgrave_rss.gif http://www.palgrave.com/home/ http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=407311 This innovative work uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson's physical encounter with live religious performances in late medieval York. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=400889 This study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature. Mon, 28 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281470 This book brings together detailed case studies of eight theatre companies making devising-based performances, illuminating the aims, strategies and approaches of current creative processes. Tue, 18 June 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=408273 Looking at modes of forms of theatre in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, this book places performance in the social and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century society. Wed, 26 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=408304 This innovative collection brings together leading theatre historians to create a variety of new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights and playhouses. Wed, 26 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=400464 This book analyzes Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law Wed, 26 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=397901 Considers popular culture's confrontations with the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music Tue, 25 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=398126 A fascinating genealogy of liberalism, part cultural history and part social theory, using up-to-date scholarship from history and philosophy of science in the cause of literary scholarship. Mon, 24 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=410851 This book identifies some of the boundaries and limits of the field of postcolonial studies, with a specific focus on its relationship to the literary Fri, 21 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=377205 A timely and interdisciplinary analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America. Thu, 20 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=308079 Numerous claims have been staked for the sexual Blake; this is the first collection of essays dedicated to the neglected topic of 'queer Blake' Wed, 19 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=405371 This book is an extensive exploration of the nature and importance of letters in eighteenth-century British culture Tue, 18 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=383545 This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media Mon, 17 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=373594 A lively, informed and incisive survey of key criticism on A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Fri, 14 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=396308 Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men. Thu, 13 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=398616 This timely study of early historical fiction opens up a new field of discovery in Anglo-American criticism, offering valuable commentary on a field of fictional output that has been largely ignored. Wed, 12 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375227 This book explores how Japanese writers in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan used narratives of romantic and familial love in order to traverse the dangerous currents of empire. Tue, 11 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=384116 This book traces the rise of cyberfiction in the work of key authors in the field, including J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others. Mon, 10 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=390234 A landmark study of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a classic of cultural materialist thought, the reissued third edition now features a candid and inspiring new Preface by the author Fri, 07 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=379650 This book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but also the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of the language. Thu, 06 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=343869 An up-to-date and extended new edition of one of the leading short introductions to the genre, which provides complete coverage from its origins through to the present day. Wed, 05 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=346788 This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front, of heroic community in the face of the Blitz. Wed, 05 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=397896 Offers a rereading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel by exploring the relation of the writer to the reader. Mon, 22 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=384116 This book traces the rise of cyberfiction in the work of key authors in the field, including J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others. Fri, 19 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=377205 A timely and interdisciplinary analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America. Thu, 18 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=351501 This unique collection examines the complex significations of 'Asia' in the literary and cultural production of Early Modern England. Wed, 17 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283307 This text provides an innovative and comprehensive methodology for the analysis of Storyspace hypertext fiction. Tue, 16 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276491 A comprehensive dictionary of the work and life of George Gordon, Lord Byron Mon, 15 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=303535 Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Fri, 12 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281094 The book investigates Virginia Woolf's critical historiographical ideas and practices in relation to the culture of modernity and constellates them with the thought of Walter Benjamin. Thu, 11 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=384113 This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labour' in mid-nineteenth-century America. Wed, 10 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=394496 A study of the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture Tue, 09 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281127 Experienced university teachers from the UK, USA and Ireland discuss and offer models for all aspects of the nineteenth century fiction syllabus Tue, 09 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375055 Exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships, this text argues that McCarthy is our greatest millennial novelist Fri, 05 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=366777 This text presents a 'cross-channel' poetics that redefines the relationship between 'Victorian' and 'modern' poetry. Thu, 04 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=334174 This text explores how recent literary and cinematic texts engage the violence and politics of the Northern Irish Troubles Wed, 03 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278592 This volume collects essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars addressing Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's aesthetics. Tue, 02 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278593 This volume collects essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars addressing Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politics Tue, 02 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=327966 This book comprises thirteen essays which explore aspects of morality in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. Mon, 01 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=367655 This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera. Mon, 01 March 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=287808 A collection of practical and informative essays by leading poets and critics on effective and innovative ways to teach modernist poetry today. Wed, 24 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375746 A developmental and comparative study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of four Indian women writing in English. Tue, 23 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=309796 Postcolonial Environments brings postcolonial and environmental studies in dialogue with each other and offers a new critical paradigm for the literary cultures of contemporary India. Mon, 22 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=294362 This study argues that female networks of conversation, correspondence and patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Fri, 19 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=370855 The collection uses three methodologies: the historical, the theoretical and the archival - offering a comprehensive and solid scope. Thu, 18 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=384115 The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero. Wed, 17 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=384112 This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern. Tue, 16 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=378563 This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African. Mon, 15 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375231 Addressing the 'lack of discussion of Tolkien's style' in scholarly interrogations of that writer, this book uncovers the multifaceted appeal of Tolkien's prose style. Fri, 12 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375226 This work examines African Americans' experiences under the law and how that in turn has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticism in African American culture. Thu, 11 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=302572 The captivating life and career of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist by one of the world's most esteemed thinkers and writers on Latin American literature. Wed, 10 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=361465 Romanticism and the Object explores ways in which European Romantic culture and its artifacts were shaped by 'object aesthetics,' a new and often disruptive use of objects in literary expression. Tue, 09 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=361432 This book reveals how imitations of Ovid's works helped to redefine emotional experience and the political efficacy of emotional expression in late sixteenth-century England. Mon, 08 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=348451 The first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre. Thu, 04 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=320167 From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, this cultural study reveals the role of 'Southern Mountain Whites' in American racial history and poetics. Mon, 01 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=366707 This book examines and critiques the influence of postmodernism on current conceptions of race, within and beyond literary and cultural studies. Tue, 02 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=348442 To date, this is the only book that approaches Latin American literatures with the methodology known as Ecocriticism. Wed, 03 February 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=369079 This text confronts the various and sometimes conflicting meanings of modernism, modernity, and the modern in a range of disciplines and is edited by the forthcoming President of the MSA. Fri, 22 January 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=366720 On occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, the illuminating and personal biography of one of Russia's most influential writers and dramatists, by his younger brother. Wed, 13 January 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=379320 A study of Larkin's complex interactions with his reading audience, particularly through his writings about personal history, jazz and religion. Fri, 08 January 2010 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=321472 This book delineates Performance as Research within the legacies and influences of other practice-based research models in the arts and the particular influences of the field of Performance Studies. Thu, 24 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=313288 This text examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality. Wed, 23 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288683 This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Tue, 22 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=313739 The first comprehensive study to investigate the history of kabuki actresses and the complex hierarchy of male kabuki. Mon, 21 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=346583 This accesible and helpful guide addresses the crucial relationship between theatrical production team members. Fri, 18 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=350749 Offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama Thu, 17 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=348452 This book is an examination of the intersection between theature and spirituality in India and sheds light on the popular form of theatre, râs lila Wed, 16 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=303521 This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Tue, 15 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=313291 While many plays centre on issues of class and social hierarchy, this is one of the few books that focus on antebellum theatre. Mon, 14 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=355888 Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama Fri, 11 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=310602 The first essay collection to explicitly engage the diverse fields of Performance Studies and Irish Studies Thu, 10 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=306063 A fully revised and updated second edition of an essential text in the field of Irish Theatre Studies. Wed, 09 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=306063 The hard facts about the acting profession: how it's run, how to break into it, how to succeed at it. Tue, 08 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=311782 This groundbreaking integrated book and DVD presents advanced creative/scholarly multimedia materials that help define this fast-emerging field of research Mon, 07 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=307266 This award-winning study considers the impact of globalization on contemporary theatre, with particular focus on Irish drama since 1990. Fri, 04 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=319319 A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which articulates the power of experiential practice in the arts. Thu, 03 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=347461 Featuring original essays by leading scholars, this book, now available in paperback, explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the start of the twentieth century Wed, 02 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=292849 An accessible and provocative starting point for understanding the vast array of theory surrounding theatre and the body. Tue, 01 December 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=302364 This text examines the complex relationship between women writers and ancient Greek literature and myth in the late-nineteenth century. Mon, 30 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277459 A revised and updated new edition of a successful introductory textbook which helps students adopt a genuinely degree-level approach to English Studies. Fri, 27 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores Samuel Taylor Coleridge's thought on human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death. Tue, 24 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288992 This book covers all aspects of biographical and autobiographical writing, from literary biography to autofiction. Mon, 23 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=321558 A new 'bookish' literary history that rethinks the culture of the book during the time when print became incorporated into everyday life. Fri, 20 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=345148 This book examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to resist commemorative models and to treat grief as an occasion for social critique. Tue, 17 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=322718 A rich and varied collection of essays which intervene in current debates around the concept of the 'Female Gothic'. Mon, 16 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=333539 This is the first book to take the craft of Heaney's poetry as its central focus, setting out a historically informed approach to his developing versification. Thu, 12 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=368170 An examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic fiction, which provides a basis for discussion of postcolonist texts and theoretical issues central to postcolonialism. Fri, 06 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=319852 The book explores the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, demonstrating the ways in which the writer contributes to current literary-philosophical debates Thu, 05 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=355885 Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison. Wed, 04 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=354810 A range of academics, novelists, and writers take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring Kurt Vonnegut's life, works, and influence, adeptly reassessing his influential body of work. Tue, 03 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375122 A fascinating look at the science and magic of ice glaciers, the poles and crystals, highlighting their central place in the Romantic imagination Mon, 02 November 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=370854 With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Fri, 30 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=309637 A definitive account of Samuel Beckett's relationship to Ireland and Irishness Thu, 29 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=368170 An examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic fiction, which provides a basis for discussion of postcolonist texts and theoretical issues central to postcolonialism. Wed, 28 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=364692 A study of cosmopolitanism in early nineteenth-century Britain. Tue, 27 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=364600 This text demonstrates how a refusal of consolation and closure promotes a progressive cultural agenda in some of the most experimental fiction of the twentieth century Mon, 26 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=357187 This challenging study is the first monograph fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory, and authorship Fri, 23 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=354916 This lively and accessible collection of essays by leading scholars provides an overview of Children's Literature and is likely to become the standard textbook for courses in the area. Thu, 22 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=366718 Traditional scholarship in this area focuses on a white/black binary with little or no mention of this region's ethnic and racial diversity. Wed, 21 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=366706 This is the first time the edited transcriptions of Woolf's reading notes on Russian literature will appear in print. Tue, 20 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=303540 Demonstrates relevance of early medieval studies to contemporary ecological humanities. Mon, 19 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=333653 This study offers detailed critical readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre, exploring the complex negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory and literature which inform her work Fri, 16 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=355000 Provides students and teachers of Children's Literature with access to high quality critical material on the most widely studied classic and contemporary children's books. Thu, 15 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=333596 This text examines the writings of three prominent women writers and in particular how they engage with the French Revolution and the movement for reform in Britain. Wed, 14 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=322718 A rich and varied collection of essays which intervene in current debates around the concept of the 'Female Gothic'. Tue, 13 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=301144 An updated and expanded new edition of an established text which now incorporates the latest scholarship and covers all of Rushdie's novels to date. Mon, 12 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=262616 A timely addition to the Critical Issues series which explores the work of one of the best-known nineteenth-century novelists, featuring close textual analysis of Hardy's novels. Fri, 09 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=355884 This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces the impact haiku has made on modernist poetics. Thu, 08 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=354812 Wed, 07 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=351512 This work will appeal as well to readers of cultural studies, with its emphasis on the body, and relatedly, the new field of disability studies. Tue, 06 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=375123 A collection of critical and theoretical comparative essays on James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Mon, 05 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=357512 This text analyzes the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, authorship and reading. Fri, 02 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=293649 A practical, informative guide to beginning a degree in English Literature, covering everything from UCAS applications and entrance interviews to study skills and literary theory. Thu, 01 October 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=351919 How was Ted Hughes's poetry influenced by Sylvia Plath? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his career? This close study of Hughes's poetic development answers all these questions and more. Tue, 30 June 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276443 This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms and more, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface. Wed, 24 June 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=309852 The second edition of this ground-breaking approach to the Harry Potter series contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world. Wed, 10 June 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276970 A comprehensive guide to the range of criticism surrounding Wordsworth's widely-studied poem, The Prelude, from the first Victorian reviewers right through to present day commentaries Fri, 05 June 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275655 This collection of rare and classic documents provides students with rich source material and context for studying the literature of Shakespeare's age. Fri, 29 May 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/literature/series/series_crime.asp The groundbreaking Crime Files series publishes 'Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction' and 'A Counter-History of Crime Fiction' in paperback Fri, 22 May 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305593 This book is an exploration of contemporary fictional technique in British fiction from authors such as Martin Amis, Will Self and Graham Swift Fri, 15 May 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=320403 This study examines the links between German sexology and English literary culture from Victorianism to Modernity Mon, 27 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276414 Transversal Subjects proposes a combined theory of consciousness, subjectivity, and agency derived from analyses of Western intellectual history Fri, 24 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=335724 From the Royal Shakespeare Company and Macmillan comes A NEW EDITION OF Shakespeare’s sonnets and FOUR new editions of his plays Thu, 23 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=285090 This book brings together the study of British theatre history and visual culture in the nineteenth century through the figure of John Ruskin and the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre' Thu, 09 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288680 The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism. Mon, 26 January 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279650 This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Fri, 23 January 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288755 Demonstrates that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about Mon, 19 January 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270053 This book surveys the appearances of righteous heathens or virtuous pagans in literature and histories. Mon, 19 January 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=315552 This book offers a post-structuralist inspired explication of Conrad’s literary vision and its defining feature, the aesthetic principle. Fri, 09 January 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=320373 Childhood in Edwardian Fiction is a collection of original critical essays that explore the Edwardian cult of childhood as expressed in fiction between 1901 and 1914 Wed, 24 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=308055 This book explores the relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on the works of William Hazlitt Tue, 23 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281468 This book interrogates the patriotic and utopian ideal of the People’s War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in British literature and film of the Blitz Mon, 22 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=309966 A study of the distinct narratives demanded by different kinds of violence (slavery, state, world wars) and the reasons for and the manner of the construction of collective identities upon them Thu, 18 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=284590 A timely and topical anthology offering a broad selection of critical texts - introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews - written by British women of the Romantic era Wed, 17 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=326387 As the first book to deal with the implications of presentism for issues of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare, it genuinely breaks new ground Tue, 16 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=320705 This reference book, now in paperback, contains over 250 entries on individual authors and on relevant historical, literary and cultural topics Mon, 15 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278574 An essential student guide to the text, context and performance of Richard II Thu, 11 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277242 A concise, accessible and up-to-date introduction to Winterson's work, placing it in key critical and historical contexts Wed, 10 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277122 A lively assessment of the critical responses to a range of contemporary Scottish fiction, poetry and drama which also explores issues such as nationalism, language, postcolonialism and gender. Tue, 09 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276438 An essential student guide to the text, context and performance of 'The Winter's Tale' Mon, 08 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270208 An essential student guide to the text, context and performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream Fri, 05 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=284097 Provides new and original readings of adolescence in American postwar fiction, in which the role of metaphor and the figurative remains central Thu, 04 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281492 This new edited collection examines the diverse ways in which Blake engaged with conflict as both a productive and a destructive force Thu, 04 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276492 This new volume of essays celebrates and interrogates Renaissance scholarship across disciplines, featuring top-name editors and contributors Tue, 02 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276390 Sound poetry-writing advice for the critically minded poet in the contemporary moment Mon, 01 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281425 A study of the role and representation of music in contemporary British fiction which also provides a theoretical account of the historical relationship between the two media Mon, 01 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280209 This original study examines the intersections of fiction, history and visuality in Conrad's eastern tales Fri, 28 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279650 This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to t Thu, 27 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278675 A clear and lively introduction to the critical history of one of the most widely-studied nineteenth-century novels, from the first reviews to present day responses. Thu, 27 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279172 A concise and lucid overview of the key criticism, from early reviews to twenty-first commentaries, surrounding the popular genre of Victorian sensation fiction Wed, 26 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277156 An expanded new edition of an established text which provides original analyses of the main Modernist movements, including Futurism, Expressionism, Surrealism and now African American Modernism. Mon, 24 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275997 A wide-ranging and accessible guide to the critical history of two of Hardy's most popular tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present day Fri, 21 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275167 An authoritative guide to the criticism surrounding Stoker's popular and widely-studied novel Dracula, from the nineteenth century through to the present day Thu, 20 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=274026 An accessible introduction to the work of Julian Barnes which places it in historical and theoretical context Wed, 19 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=313375 Looks at the correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges that occurred between them Tue, 18 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=289059 This book explores the phenomenon of the child player at the centre of early modern theatrical culture Mon, 17 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275949 This study explores how the ‘high fantasy’ tradition, from Romantic writers to Philip Pullman, has transposed spiritual and moral values, once the prerogative of organized religion, into new myths Fri, 14 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=308055 This book explores the relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on the works of William Hazlitt Fri, 31 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276492 This new volume of essays celebrates and interrogates Renaissance scholarship across disciplines (art history, literature, history, philosophy, etc). featuring top-name editors and contributors Thu, 30 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275949 This study explores how the ‘high fantasy’ tradition, from Romantic writers to Philip Pullman, has transposed spiritual and moral values, once the prerogative of organized religion, into new myths Wed, 29 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=309751 A close, philosophical reading of the immenent movements of key modernist texts using the pragmatic concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Tue, 28 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=284591 A timely and topical anthology offering a broad selection of critical texts - introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews - written by British women of the Romantic era Mon, 27 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281425 A study of the role and representation of music in contemporary British fiction which also provides a theoretical account of the historical relationship between the two media Thu, 23 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=297429 Exploring modernism’s imaginative uses of the Middle East, this book looks at late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s uses of Orientalism Thu, 23 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=293332 Essays from across Europe and US on Shakespeare’s treatment of war and the uses of Shakespeare in wartime Wed, 22 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=284097 Provides new and original readings of adolescence in American postwar fiction, in which the role of metaphor and the figurative remains central Tue, 21 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275309 A print-culture study of canon formation during the English Romantic era, with chapters on W.H. Ireland's Shakespeare forgeries, Wordsworth's Gothic, Coleridge, the philosophical romance, and Barbauld Mon, 20 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=274039 With a focus on the idea of a gift economy, this book offers a fresh perspective on a wide range of Woolf's writings, engaging with recent critical studies of modernism's relationship to the market Fri, 17 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=320705 This reference book, now in paperback, contains over 250 entries on individual authors and on relevant historical, literary and cultural topics Tue, 14 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=300229 An assessment of the social novel in the age of Reagan, Thatcher and a triumphant market economy Mon, 13 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280685 Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940 examines the radical transformations in the print culture of the United States and Great Britain and their consequences for politics, literature, and the arts Fri, 10 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280355 An innovative approach to the art and practice of screenwriting, using contemporary case studies and interactive exercises Thu, 09 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=271521 Clare Brant's Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture has been awarded the 2008 ESSE Book Award in the field of Literatures in the English Language Wed, 08 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=307369 The first edition of The Tempest developed by and for the RSC, with unique material including a brand new introduction from Jonathan Bate Tue, 07 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=307407 Developed by and for the RSC, with unique additional materials Mon, 06 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=307415 The first edition of Love's Labours Lost developed by and for the RSC Fri, 03 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=317934 The first edition of Richard III developed by and for the RSC, with unique material including a new introduction from Jonathan Bate and interviews with important RSC directors Thu, 02 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=307387 The first edition of Hamlet developed by and for the RSC, with unique material including a brand new introduction from Jonathan Bate and interviews with important RSC directors Wed, 01 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=259876 A stimulating introduction to the concept of literary transgression which shows students how to interpret it from various theoretical standpoints and demonstrates its historical development Tue, 30 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=284721 An examination of British, Irish, and American writing about minstrelsy and improvisation from 1770 to 1830 Mon, 29 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=297429 Exploring modernism’s imaginative uses of the Middle East, this book looks at late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s uses of Orientalism Fri, 26 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=309804 An exploration of the evolution of Tolkien’s mythology within the framework of its cultural and historical context Wed, 24 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275309 A print-culture study of canon formation during the English Romantic era, with chapters on W.H. Ireland's Shakespeare forgeries, Wordsworth's Gothic, Coleridge, the philosophical romance, and Barbauld Tue, 23 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280808 An up-to-date survey of the key criticism on the full range of this widely-studied contemporary dramatist's work, engaging with Mamet's work in film as well as in the theatre. Mon, 22 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280986 A new edition of this essential guide to bestselling works, authors and genres since the start of the twentieth-century, taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination Fri, 19 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=271521 Clare Brant's Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture has been short-listed for the ESSE Book Award in the Field of Literatures in the English Language Wed, 17 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276759 Clark Lawlor's Consumption and Literature has been short-listed for the ESSE Book Award in the Field of Literatures in the English Language Tue, 16 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=271319 Catherine Belsey's Why Shakespeare? has been short-listed for the ESSE Book Award in the Field of Literatures Mon, 15 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280412 This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods Fri, 12 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275862 Performance and Cosmopolitics has been awarded the biennial Rob Jordan prize from the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Tue, 09 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288485 This book explores the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism Mon, 08 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276900 The first study of English historical plays about the Turks, using works in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish Tue, 05 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276155 By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances the existing critical discussion of women's crime fiction Tues, 02 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=297429 Exploring modernism’s imaginative uses of the Middle East, this book looks at late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature’s uses of Orientalism Fri, 29 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=287774 Encompassing texts about victims, survivors, refugees and their children, this book effectively inserts British women's writing into critical frameworks for thinking about Holocaust writing Mon, 25 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276629 An essential introduction to all of Mary Shelley's major fictional works, from Frankenstein to Falkner,which offers an overview of existing debates and presents important new readings Fri, 22 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280870 Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic is a collection of essays on the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, its translation into European languages and transformation into other media Fri, 15 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288527 This book corrects the misconception that modernism was an inward facing movement by exploring its interaction with enthnographic writers Wed, 13 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305929 This two-volume pack offers new approaches to the global circulation of print culture across five centuries, from Bulgaria to Brazil in volume one and focusing on Asia in volume two. Sun, 03 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281473 This new study capitalizes on the recent ‘turn to religion’ in Renaissance studies, focusing on major religious works by Spenser, Donne and Milton (amongst others) and their communal aims Fri, 01 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280870 Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic is a collection of essays on the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, its translation into European languages and transformation into other media Tue, 29 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=302658 This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed the contradictory meanings of “Lady” Wisdom Mon, 28 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=303322 The book provides the first sustained theoretical reading of the anti-hero and its significance to post-war American ideology for over 25 years Fri, 25 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270879 The first biographical study to draw on Collins’s recently published collected letters Thu, 24 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276413 An essay collection revealing how Samuel Taylor Coleridge influenced and was appropriated by late Romantic, Victorian and Modernist writers Wed, 23 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280190 Discusses the religious dimension to Dickens's representation of London, focusing on how the picture he paints of the city interacts with other modes of imagery Tue, 22 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280580 A collection of ground-breaking essays exploring the continuities and discontinuities in the narrative depiction of space and place in modernist and postcolonial fiction Mon, 21 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288396 This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis Fri, 18 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=290398 An original and detailed analysis of illness and disease in Hardy's life and works, interpreted from both the physical and psychological perspectives Thu, 17 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=299956 This volume places the print cultures of South Asia in a fresh and revealing spectrum, from orality to cyberspace, rock inscription to byte, palm leaf to hard disk Wed, 16 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=299903 This book offers new approaches to the global circulation of print culture across five centuries, ranging from Bulgaria to Brazil and from popular magazines to Shakespeare Tue, 15 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288690 This book traces the long tradition of our culture's preference for anti-comic regimentation over the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity Mon, 14 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275861 Christiana Gregoriou’s Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction has been shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Critical Work of 2007 Tue, 01 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276966 An indispensable survey of the key critical responses to one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, from the seventeenth century to the present day Mon, 07 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=286275 An anthology of 15 previously published contemporary short stories by distinguished writers including as V.S. Naipaul, Zadie Smith and Peter Carey Tue, 08 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277154 An invaluable guide to the major themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field Wed, 09 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279650 Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture Thu, 10 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288543 This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies Fri, 11 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276155 By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances the existing critical discussion of women's crime fiction Fri, 04 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=274535 A wide-ranging collection of contextual documents for the Modernist period, supported by substantial pedagogical material. Mon, 30 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288688 This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton's voice in those debates Mon, 23 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288542 This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies Tue, 24 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288355 The book examines the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black Wed, 25 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=286275 An anthology of 15 previously published contemporary short stories by distinguished writers including as V.S. Naipaul, Zadie Smith and Peter Carey Thu, 26 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280870 Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic' is a collection of essays on the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, its translation into European languages and transformation into other media Fri, 27 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278319 A lively survey enabling students to understand the key critical debates, themes and issues in relation to a wide variety of twentieth-century Irish poets, playwrights and novelists Mon, 16 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275500 A wide-ranging collection of contextual documents for the Romantic period, supported by substantial editorial material Tue, 17 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280190 Discusses the religious dimension to Dickens's representation of London, focusing on how the picture he paints of the city interacts with other modes of imagery Wed, 18 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=269491 William Christie’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life has been awarded the NSW Premier’s Award for Literary Scholarship. Judges remarked that the book was ‘a brilliant, even dazzling contribution to international literary criticism' Thu, 19 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288692 This collection explores the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of England's long distance trade in the early modern period Mon, 09 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288520 This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender Tue, 10 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288458 This book marks the growing exhaustion with a politicized approach to literature, and celebrate the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies Wed, 11 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288229 A revisionist reading of Ernest Hemingway's work with respect to race Thu, 12 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279650 This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century Fri, 13 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288687 Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain Mon, 02 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288681 An interdisciplinary examination of Darwinism, American intellectual life and the work of William Faulkner Tue, 03 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288526 This book draws on a range of critical approaches to consider the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne's novels Wed, 04 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=274779 A significant contribution to early modern studies, as well as to contemporary cultural and psychoanalytic criticism Thu, 05 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=301285 Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries' develops the pioneering critical theory of 'transversal poetics' and offers readings of a number of early modern writers Fri, 06 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=297936 A study of the movement of early modern plays from performance to print and back again Wed, 28 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=300352 The first full-length scholarly study of the phenomenon of literary tourism as it emerges in nineteenth-century Britain, now available in paperback Thu, 29 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288287 This book is an innovative study of humour and the body in Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (1330), using modern analytical techniques to examine the place of the Libro's bawdy and grotesque in relation to secular and sacred culture Fri, 30 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276631 A guide to the text, context and performance of both Parts of Henry IV Mon, 19 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276900 The first study of English historical plays about the Turks, using works in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish Tue, 20 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280996 A broad survey of the nature writing produced by British labouring-class writers during the long Eighteenth century Wed, 21 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270053 This book surveys the appearances of righteous heathens or virtuous pagans in travel literature, chronicles, romances, and sermons, as well as in the work of Langland, Chaucer and Gower Thu, 22 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278319 A lively survey enabling students to understand the key critical debates, themes and issues in relation to a wide variety of twentieth-century Irish poets, playwrights and novelists Fri, 23 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280190 Discusses the religious dimension to Dickens's representation of London, focusing on how the picture he paints of the city interacts with other modes of imagery Mon, 26 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283299 A study of dress in Richardson’s novels that explores the problems and paradoxes of rendering legible the new domestic ideal. Tue, 27 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278867 Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis examines the limitations of using psychoanalysis to theorize colonial and postcolonial cultures Fri, 02 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280684 A new study aiming to situate Jane Eyre more precisely than ever before in relation to the contexts of religious, political and anti-slavery debates. Mon, 05 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283312 A history of the Romantic-era sonnet and a new lens for understanding English Romantic poetry Tue, 06 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270590 This study draws out the similarities between the tenth-century Old English lament and twentieth-century blues song Fri, 16 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270036 This collection of work studies the often neglected writers of the second half of the twelfth century in England Mon, 28 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280690 This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London Fri, 25 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=274779 A significant contribution to early modern studies, as well as to contemporary cultural and psychoanalytic criticism Tue, 22 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280684 Provides a new perspective on the religious and political contexts of Charlotte Bronte's famous novel Mon, 21 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=297936 A study of the movement of early modern plays from performance to print and back again Fri, 18 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270421 This new study of Faulkner examines the stages of his career with a view to explaining the distinctive blend of continuity and innovation that characterizes his novels and the extensive and varied reactions they have elicited. Thu, 17 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278620 A comprehensive overview of the criticism surrounding the work of this prize-winning and widely-studied contemporary British writer Mon, 14 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283312 This is a study of the impact of Petrarch's poetry on British culture and literature, 1750-1840 Fri, 11 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279937 This book restores the slaves’ songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination Fri, 04 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279937 This book restores the slaves’ songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination Fri, 04 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279644 This study assesses the career evolution of the Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. poet laureate, while providing a methodology for analyzing other poetic careers. Mon, 31 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280985 This book argues that invented private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism in the writers' homelands. Mon, 31 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276900 The first study of English historical plays about the Turks, using works in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. Fri, 28 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278597 Using film, literature, and perspectives from cultural theory, this book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience. Fri, 28 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280684 A new study aiming to situate Jane Eyre more precisely than ever before in relation to the contexts of religious, political and anti-slavery debates. Thu, 27 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279941 This book tells the story of the bitter feud between the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which resulted in a pair of scandalous trials in London in the revolutionary year of 1776. Wed, 26 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279643 The first extensive study of gay and lesbian historical fiction. Tue, 25 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278830 Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts. Mon, 24 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270590 This innovative study explores the features that characterize the vocal poetics of the remarkably similar tenth-century Old English lament and twentieth-century blues song. Fri, 21 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276926 This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world. Fri, 14 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276761 New World Orders demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. Fri, 07 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270421 This new study of Faulkner examines the stages of his career with a view to explaining the distinctive blend of continuity and innovation that characterizes his novels. Tue, 04 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281302 This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries. Fri, 29 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280848 Demonstrates the varied ways which women writers have used the sonnet since the Sevententh century. Thu, 28 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279620 A detailed account of the day-to-day life of Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand`s most famous author and the finest short-story writer of her day. Wed, 27 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=278590 Offers new perspectives on well-known Gothic writers, such as Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James and Bram Stoker. Tue, 26 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276926 This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry. Mon, 25 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270421 This new study of Faulkner examines the stages of his career with a view to explaining the distinctive blend of continuity and innovation that characterizes his novels. Fri, 22 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288692 "This collection explores the relations between literature and the economy in the early modern period. " Wed, 20 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288681 This interdisciplinary volume examines the entry of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution into American intellectual life and the work of William Faulkner. Tue, 19 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288526 This book considers the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne's novels. Mon, 18 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288485 An exploration of the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism. Fri, 15 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=302388 Through an in-depth analysis of the works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo, this book offers up a new theory of the heroic for the times we live in. Thu, 14 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=299354 This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Wed, 13 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=263877 This book interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century. Wed, 13 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288520 This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Tue, 12 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=299281 Isfahani-Hammond considers the social construction of race in Brazil. Tue, 12 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288458 This book marks the growing exhaustion with a politicized approach to literature, and celebrates the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies. Mon, 11 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288477 A fascinating look at popular print media, the commodification of the author, culture formation and modern myth making, this book opens new ground in our understanding of one of the greatest English writers. Mon, 11 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279155 An edition, translation, and philosophical commentary on Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language Fri, 08 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=288287 This book is an innovative study of humour and the body in Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor. Fri, 08 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280372 Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization, to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large and between the artistic receptor and his or her human existence. Mon, 21 January 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276761 New World Orders demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. Fri, 18 January 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279980 Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of Romantic-era Britain. Fri, 11 January 2008 10:30:00 +0000