Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
paperback. Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." In God's Arbiters, Susan K. Harris shows that the identification of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation" played a major role in the debates over U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Imagining the Americas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Usa United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199307203
- ISBN
- 9780199307203
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Condition: New
€ 51.76
€ 51.76
Hardcover. This volume explores the influence that well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the US and in England in the years 1870-1920. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295295
- ISBN
- 9780312295295
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation. Num Pages: 456 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 617.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761055
- ISBN
- 9780804761055
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894749
- ISBN
- 9780801894749
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.19
€ 38.99
€ 33.19
Hardback. This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894732
- ISBN
- 9780801894732
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Condition: New
€ 71.11€ 65.80
€ 71.11
€ 65.80
Paperback. This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Editor(s): Owen, Susan J. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 474 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 33. Weight in Grams: 596.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405176101
- ISBN
- 9781405176101
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Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492002
- ISBN
- 9781611492002
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Condition: New
€ 121.95
€ 121.95
hardcover. Analyzes the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of six woman writers - Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Romola Nijinsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi - whose lives were twined with the cultural vibrations of their time. Num Pages: 224 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802036902
- ISBN
- 9780802036902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.51
€ 70.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811224659
- ISBN
- 9780811224659
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.65
€ 17.99
€ 17.65
Hardcover. Susan Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths in the 1980s. This book provides a way into Howatch's new world by presenting many of her own considerations of her work, and by allowing a group of scholars to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of Howatch's art. Editor(s): Howatch, Susan; Johnson, Bruce; Huttar, Charles A. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910963
- ISBN
- 9781575910963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.16
€ 142.16
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316749
- ISBN
- 9780822316749
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559886
- ISBN
- 9781875559886
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.07
€ 19.99
€ 15.07
Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSG; GBCS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977656
- ISBN
- 9781403977656
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Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1918, over 125 plays by 70 dramatists were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer. This book analyzes the issues dramatized in those plays which reveal Americans to have been 'dis/contented' citizens, conflicted by the demands of a dynamically changing nation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032966
- ISBN
- 9781137032966
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 262 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137588494
- ISBN
- 9781137588494
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Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Paperback. Drawing on the history of English feminism and the study of Victorian periodical and newspaper presses, this book asks a key question that neither history nor literary studies has yet addressed: what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349548095
- ISBN
- 9781349548095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859893312
- ISBN
- 9780859893312
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Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Paperback. Demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. By speaking about or even as the dead, this work tells what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation. Series: Jewish Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 340 pages, 20 b&w photos, 1 color photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3734 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253218872
- ISBN
- 9780253218872
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. The once and future history of sex and gender Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073793
- ISBN
- 9780252073793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.39
€ 25.99
€ 24.39
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135466
- ISBN
- 9780300135466
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.64
€ 43.99
€ 31.64
Hardback. Above all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801868245
- ISBN
- 9780801868245
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Condition: New
€ 50.54€ 47.68
€ 50.54
€ 47.68
Hardback. Possibly one of the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition. This biography traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of "Atlantic Monthly". Num Pages: 545 pages, 47 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 545
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520238961
- ISBN
- 9780520238961
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
€ 52.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. "Blood Talk" shows how race melodrama emerged from race abolitionist works such as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and surprisingly manifested itself in a set of more aesthetically and politically varied works, such as historical romances, sentimental novels and travel literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226293905
- ISBN
- 9780226293905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.76
€ 40.99
€ 31.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226293875
- ISBN
- 9780226293875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82