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Hardcover. This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBG; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230003279
ISBN
9780230003279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Complicating our understanding of Victorian marriage ideology's more well-trodden focus on a productive, nation-building ideal, Exquisite Masochism offers fascinating insight into our own culture's debates around illicit sexuality, marriage, reproduction, and feminism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DS; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419930
ISBN
9781421419930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.54
€ 47.68

Paperback. The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence - which has been unavailable to all previous writers. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
540
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007113224
ISBN
9780007113224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Num Pages: 368 pages, x2 mono image sections. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. How Jane Austen Conquered the World. 384 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight: 274.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847675330
ISBN
9781847675330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.57

Hardback. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739143827
ISBN
9780739143827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.16

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719095498
ISBN
9780719095498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.60

Paperback. Offers a way in to Deleuzean thought through such topics as: 'becoming'; time and the flow of life; 'major' and 'minor' literature; difference and repetition; and desire, the image and ideology. This book is intended for students who wish to think differently about life and literature and to create their own readings of literary texts. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415246347
ISBN
9780415246347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.13

Paperback. An overview of the history and structure of irony, this guide traces its use through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era. It looks closely at the work of Socrates and the more contemporary theorists; explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions; and applies theories to literary texts. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415251341
ISBN
9780415251341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.56

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230308787
ISBN
9780230308787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.01

Hardcover. Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH5; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252332
ISBN
9780230252332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.83

Paperback. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349555048
ISBN
9781349555048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988). Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBF; DSBH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252592
ISBN
9780230252592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardcover. This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain's history as an imperial nation. Rereading canonical war writers Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, alongside war writing by Enid Bagnold, E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Roly Grimshaw and others, the book makes clear that the Great War was more than a European war. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137471642
ISBN
9781137471642
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403989918
ISBN
9781403989918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Hardcover. Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109841
ISBN
9780230109841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Paperback. Editor(s): Sprague, Claire. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349207565
ISBN
9781349207565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 192.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Cindy; Looby, Christopher. Num Pages: 440 pages, B&W Illus.: ,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156172
ISBN
9780231156172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 136 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Edition
First published in the United Kingdom in 1985. Rep
SKU
V9780856682513
ISBN
9780856682513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.36

Paperback. Translator(s): Sharples, R. W. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856684760
ISBN
9780856684760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.36

Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
9780853239475
ISBN
9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

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