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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198399001
ISBN
9780198399001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472050666
ISBN
9780472050666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.87

Paperback. Translator(s): Leslie, Tanya. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583225745
ISBN
9781583225745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Translator(s): Leslie, Tanya. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583220528
ISBN
9781583220528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753-1821) was a leading literary figure of the late 18th century - an actress, playwright and editor of several plays and novels. This work covers her life story, but also provides a look at the society and politics of London in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Num Pages: 632 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; BGH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 966.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122366
ISBN
9780813122366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1992
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349216925
ISBN
9781349216925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.47

Hardcover. Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403970176
ISBN
9781403970176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Paperback. This book discusses the treatment of the theme of reading and writing within a major Middle High German Arthurian romance: Albrecht's J"ungerer Titurel."" Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531776
ISBN
9781349531776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Hardback. This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s to the present that experiment with both form and content. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624935
ISBN
9780748624935
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.07
€ 97.93

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 370 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636832
ISBN
9780691636832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.05

Hardcover. Num Pages: 178 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473711
ISBN
9781611473711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.37

Hardback. This book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches and royal proclamations. It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, colonialism, and imperialism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 233 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230104334
ISBN
9780230104334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Paperback. Identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's "La Princesse de Cleves", Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", and poems by various authors. This book offers a counterpoint to anti-Enlightenment revaluations of passivity that have made non-mastery and non-appropriation the fundamental task of the ethical subject. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752893
ISBN
9780804752893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover. Explores Chinese artistic and stylistic influences on Modernist practice in early twentieth century Britain. This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. It offers a coverage of literature, painting and poetry, as well as performance and visual media, and more. Editor(s): Witchard, Dr Anne Veronica. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 b&w illustrations 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 2AB; AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748690954
ISBN
9780748690954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 103.50

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 85.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226902272
ISBN
9780226902272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.45

paperback. In examining the principles governing Gothic literature, this book proposes three new premises: that Gothic is poetic, not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions - Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 half-tones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226899077
ISBN
9780226899077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.01

Hardback. The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together for the first time. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 237 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618576
ISBN
9780748618576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.75

Paperback. Presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory. This book examines debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts; introduces the reader to key thinkers in the field; and traces the links between theorisations and literary representations of memory. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415402736
ISBN
9780415402736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.45

Hardcover. The cult of the child performer was a significant emergence of the Victorian age. Fierce public debate and lasting legislation grew out of the conflict between a desire for juvenile display and a determination to stop exploitation. This study explores the social and artistic context of their lives and their developing professionalism as actors. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ANB; DSBF; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230551558
ISBN
9780230551558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.63

An insightful history of book reviewing as a genre and a detailed study of its role in Italian literary culture, Reviewing Mario Pratesi opens up a new area for investigation within Italian literary studies. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648715
ISBN
9781442648715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Paperback. Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in 1891 to her retirement from teaching in 1948. Num Pages: 600 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; 1DBKEWC; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 37. Weight in Grams: 792.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895125
ISBN
9780859895125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.56

Paperback. Seven lectures by one of Britain's leading poets tracing the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets in American and Britain since the 1930s. Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373454
ISBN
9781780373454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Hardcover. In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230246294
ISBN
9780230246294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardcover. Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory. Editor(s): Horner, Avril. Num Pages: 211 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224452
ISBN
9780230224452
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

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