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Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860 Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism Eleanor Courtemanche Palgrave Macmillan The "invisible hand," Adam Smith’s metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	A. S. Byatt Art, Authorship, Creativity Christien Franken Palgrave Macmillan This book considers the work of the novelist and critic A.S. Byatt in the context of contemporary debates about art, authorship, creativity, and gender. A.S....

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	A.S. Byatt Critical Storytelling Contemporary British Novelists Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos Manchester University Press This comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s works of fiction up to and...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	The Absurd in Literature Neil Cornwell Manchester University Press Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	The Achievement of Thomas Hardy Phillip Mallett Palgrave Macmillan The essays collected here range widely over Hardy's career as both a novelist and a lyric poet. They offer fresh reading of individual works--including his...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Adolescence, America, and Postwar Fiction Developing Figures Rachael McLennan Palgrave Macmillan Arguing that metaphor and the figurative are central to constructions and narrations of adolescence in America, this book uses a wide array of fictional and...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Dickens, Balzac and the Language of the Walls Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Sara Thornton Palgrave Macmillan "The language of the walls" is a central concept in this inquiry into advertising's influence on production and consumption of fiction from 1830-70. New...

Trade Paperback : $44.00 Buy	Aesthetic Autobiography From Life to Art in the Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin Suzanne Nalbantian Palgrave Macmillan Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining Proust, Joyce,...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction Life After Death Alice Bennett Palgrave Macmillan Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction....

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Against Theatre Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage Performance Interventions Edited by Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner Palgrave Macmillan Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers,...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Agatha Christie Power and Illusion Crime Files Richard York Palgrave Macmillan This new edition to the Crime Files series considers how the cozy world of Agatha Christie is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility,...

Trade Paperback : $41.00 Buy	Alice To the Lighthouse Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art Juliet Dusinberre Palgrave Macmillan Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults.

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative Mailer, Wideman, Eggers American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century Jonathan D’Amore Palgrave Macmillan American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative explores the contorted and often conflicted relationship writers have with their images and reputations as...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past Theophilus Savvas Palgrave Macmillan Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction,...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Anthony Burgess and Modernity Edited by Alan Roughley Manchester University Press This book provides a variety of new perspectives and contexts for exploring Burgess’s literature and music. A range of international scholars and critics...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Apprenticeships The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana Thomas L. Jeffers Palgrave Macmillan Novels about growing up have long been loved by ordinary readers and analyzed, sometimes with more heat than light, by scholars. This book respects the...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The Arabian Nights and Orientalism Perspectives from East and West Edited by Yuriko Yamanaka and Tetsuo Nishio Foreword by Robert Irwin I.B. Tauris To commemorate the tercentenary of the first Western edition of The Arabian Nights, Yamanaka and Nishio marry Western and Japanese perspectives to analyze the...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The Arabian Nights A Companion Robert Irwin Tauris Parke Paperbacks The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Art and Life in Aestheticism De-Humanizing or Re-Humanizing Art, the Artist and the Artistic Receptor Edited by Kelly Comfort Palgrave Macmillan Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life, between the aesthetic and the social, and promotes the former term over the latter one in...

Hardcover : $126.00 Buy	Aspects of Bloomsbury Studies in Modern English Literary and Intellectual History S.P. Rosenbaum Palgrave Macmillan Eight key essays cover a range of topics related to the Bloomsbury Group, a group whose individuals, culture, and unique place in literary and social history...

Trade Paperback : $41.00 Buy	At the Borders of the Human Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period Edited by Erica Fudge, Gilbert Ruth and Susan Wiseman Palgrave Macmillan What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renogotiation of the relationship between the self...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century Seduction and Sentiment Edited By Toni Bowers and Tita Chico Palgrave Macmillan Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else Creative Writing after Theory Michelene Wandor Palgrave Macmillan An examination of the fascinating and complex relationship between creative writing and theory.

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Authors on Writing Metaphors and Intellectual Labor Barbara Tomlinson Palgrave Macmillan Through an original method of interpreting metaphorical stories, Tomlinson argues that writing is both an individual activity and a collective practice, a...

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