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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274847
- ISBN
- 9781137274847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.84
€ 67.84
Hardcover. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403920294
- ISBN
- 9781403920294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. "Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain" examines the work of two of the most important English Renaissance authors in terms of the cultural, social and political contexts of early modern Britain. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DCF; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333993132
- ISBN
- 9780333993132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Paperback. This lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth-- and early seventeenth--century English literature. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220244
- ISBN
- 9780631220244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.71
€ 61.71
Hardback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638119
- ISBN
- 9780691638119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.01
€ 201.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609928
- ISBN
- 9780691609928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 51.34
€ 65.27
€ 51.34
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; DSK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1257.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 612
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691653853
- ISBN
- 9780691653853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 319.15
€ 319.15
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1028.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 612
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780691628202
- ISBN
- 9780691628202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 92.57€ 71.49
€ 92.57
€ 71.49
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644547
- ISBN
- 9780691644547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.71
€ 145.71
Hardcover. Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294913
- ISBN
- 9781137294913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers - these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popular Fictions. This book shows how Joseph Conrad experimented creatively with genres such as crime and espionage fiction, and sheds new light on the sources and contexts of his work. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 264 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559166
- ISBN
- 9781137559166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardback. The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239225
- ISBN
- 9780812239225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.36
€ 136.36
Paperback. Offers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120256
- ISBN
- 9780691120256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.41€ 42.58
€ 53.41
€ 42.58
Hardback. Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138145
- ISBN
- 9780691138145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.14€ 60.10
€ 77.14
€ 60.10
Paperback. Public spectacle formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. This text presents a description of Rome's early history, by the historian Livy (16 BCE-17 CE). He presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as a visual monument and public spectacle. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210271
- ISBN
- 9780520210271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Jones revises our understanding of modern China by tracing the ways that evolutionary works developed into a form of vernacular knowledge in modern Chinese literature. From children's primers to print culture, from fairy tales to filmmaking, his analysis offers an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on China's cultural evolution. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674047952
- ISBN
- 9780674047952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.21€ 60.05
€ 65.21
€ 60.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319508108
- ISBN
- 9783319508108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.98
€ 116.98
Paperback. Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804773621
- ISBN
- 9780804773621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231107532
- ISBN
- 9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. Editor(s): Dix, Andrew; Taylor, Jonathan. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845190262
- ISBN
- 9781845190262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58