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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Agent of Empire is a detailed study of creative works inspired by the escapades of the American soldier of fortune William Walker. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325446
ISBN
9780820325446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.22

Hardback. A collection of essays on Montana literature, focusing on developments in Native American writing, feminist criticism, queer theory and environmentalism. Editor(s): Harrison, Brady. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803213906
ISBN
9780803213906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.22

hardcover. Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) - coauthors and lovers - for the poetry and verse drama they published. This book presents their love letters, which contain poems and insights into the dramas and their production and are supplemented by annotation and a biographical introduction. Editor(s): Bickle, Sharon. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBF; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927510
ISBN
9780813927510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.76

Hardback. Writers of the Beat Generation were conscious that they shared thematic and philosophical concerns with writers of the American Renaissance. This study provides the first extended examination of interests held in common by these two groups. The writers studied include Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Baraka. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472455
ISBN
9781611472455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.38

Hardback. Demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts points to a deep engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. This book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othella. Editor(s): Cormack, Bradin; Nussbaum, Martha C.; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226924939
ISBN
9780226924939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.21
€ 78.59

Hardcover. English law underwent transformation in sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation. This book shows how Renaissance writers engaged practical and conceptual dynamics of jurisdiction, both as a subject for critical investigation and as a frame for articulating literature's sense of itself. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226116242
ISBN
9780226116242
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.99

hardcover. Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the finest and most delightful of letter writers. This is one of a set of eight volumes containing his collected letters. The edition contains nearly 2800 letters. Volumes V and VI cover the period from July 1884 to September 1890. Series: The Collected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Num Pages: 474 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JH; BGA; BJ; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 950.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300061901
ISBN
9780300061901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.85

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
245
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107400344
ISBN
9781107400344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.81

Hardback. " Promoting critical and creative anachronism, Metaphors of Mind redefines the notion of an archive in the age of Amazon and Google Books. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10, 6 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 33. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416885
ISBN
9781421416885
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.18

Paperback. Explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America. The author weaves together the histories of American literature and anthropology. His study brings to life not only the regionalist fiction of the time but also revives a range of neglected materials. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226222646
ISBN
9780226222646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.38

Hardback. This work is an examination of the stories that grew out of the dust-bowl experience. Across America, newpapers, magazines, and books, produced imagery of blight for mass audiences. This book seeks to provide insight into the history of the cultural narratives that have come to define an era. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; RNA; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 534. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821413753
ISBN
9780821413753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.53

Paperback. Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2011. Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 239 x 2. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810133143
ISBN
9780810133143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.34

Hardcover. 192 pages. The vulnerability of material objects as Holocaust texts. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSBH; HBTZ1. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 20. Weight: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253355645
ISBN
9780253355645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.75

Series: Revived Modern Classic. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 368.
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811210898
ISBN
9780811210898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.64

hardcover. This collection of essays begins the process of reassessing Frye's thought and writings in light of extraordinary, unpublished material contained in archives at the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto. Editor(s): Boyd, David V.; Salusinszky, Imre. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
74th ed.
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802042521
ISBN
9780802042521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.98

hardcover. First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 215 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear.DJ price clipped & has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Routledge
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTS0036316
ISBN
9780714615486
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

Paperback. In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. This title gathered many of those foundational essays. Editor(s): Bove, Paul A. Series: A Boundary 2 Book. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316497
ISBN
9780822316497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.95

hardcover. Editor(s): Bourne, Bill; Eichler, Udif. Series: Voices. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 140. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Spokesman Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851244839
ISBN
9780851244839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.06

Hardback. John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739137932
ISBN
9780739137932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.87

Paperback. A collection of 11 plays, from North America, the UK, and South Africa that delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. It provides historical background on South Asian migration and performance traditions in each region, along with critical introductions and biographical background on each playwright. Editor(s): Bose, Neilesh. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 712. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253220684
ISBN
9780253220684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.46

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