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Towards a poetics of literary biography
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
This volume develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding...
Bad girls and transgressive women in popular television, fiction, and film
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of 'bad girls' - women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits...
Deviance in contemporary crime fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
The author conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these...
Islam and controversy: the politics of free speech after Rushdie
eBook. English.
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Was Salman Rushdie right to have written 'The Satanic Verses'? Were the protestors right to have protested? What about the Danish cartoons? This important...
Breeding and eugenics in the American literary imagination: heredity rules in the twentieth century
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
First edition
A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates...
Memories of war in early modern England: armor and militant nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare
eBook. English.
Published
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
"Memory and War in Early Modern England" examines depictions of the construction and destruction of the male body in combat in relationship to early modern...
Imagining the Black female body: reconciling image in print and visual culture
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
1st ed
This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various 'imaginings' of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions...
Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature: touching fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with...
We should all be feminists
eBook. English.
Published
London: Fourth Estate, 2014
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. `I would like to ask that...
Why we need the humanities: life science, law and the common good
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence...
