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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242542
- ISBN
- 9780823242542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.32
€ 88.32
Paperback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780823242559
- ISBN
- 9780823242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Hardcover. Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental - the product of an emerging middle class. This title uncovers a strain of cruelty coursing through the period that reminds us just how slowly ordinary sufferings became worthy of sympathy. It expands our understanding of many of the century's major authors. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226146188
- ISBN
- 9780226146188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 78.49
€ 95.07
€ 78.49
Paperback. Dealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Num Pages: 382 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226142548
- ISBN
- 9780226142548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.50
€ 46.99
€ 36.50
Paperback. Editor(s): Dickel, Simon. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; AB; DSBH; JFCA; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837628937
- ISBN
- 9783837628937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.21
€ 51.99
€ 37.21
Paperback. An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 28. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007445318
- ISBN
- 9780007445318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.13
€ 16.99
€ 12.13
Paperback. The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual actor's perspective; here Simon Callow offers his view of Falstaff in "Henry IV, Part I" Editor(s): Nicholson, Colin. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; ANC; APB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 112 x 9. Weight in Grams: 72. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0006111
- ISBN
- 9780571214068
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446893
- ISBN
- 9781137446893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.82€ 113.38
€ 118.82
€ 113.38
Paperback. Aiming to help readers overcome the difficulties of approaching poetry, this study provides a historical overview of theories of interpretation as they apply to symbol and allegory. Beginning with the Greeks, Brittan moves from classical theory through to Romantics and Modern ideas. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921570
- ISBN
- 9780813921570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.02
€ 33.02
Hardback. This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748627653
- ISBN
- 9780748627653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.89€ 108.53
€ 112.89
€ 108.53
Paperback. This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political contexts, along with newly edited and annotated texts from certain plays. Editor(s): Barker, Simon; Hinds, Hilary. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 189 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415187343
- ISBN
- 9780415187343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.56
€ 53.56
Hardback. The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English. Editor(s): Gikandi, Simon. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1104.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199765096
- ISBN
- 9780199765096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.29
€ 186.29
Paperback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Editor(s): Reed, Glenn M. Series: Masterworks of Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DS; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780808404354
- ISBN
- 9780808404354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.33
€ 46.33
Paperback. Originally published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 372
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Second Edition, Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845231071
- ISBN
- 9781845231071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.73
€ 45.73
Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481877
- ISBN
- 9781611481877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.76
€ 114.76
Paperback. A new play from the Platform initiative, which comprises big-cast plays with predominantly female casts, written specifically for youth performers. Num Pages: 87 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848425026
- ISBN
- 9781848425026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.56
€ 15.99
€ 12.56
Paperback. Series: New Directions in German Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628927894
- ISBN
- 9781628927894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.01
€ 38.99
€ 33.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Backes, David. Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DNS; DSBH; RNA; RNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780816637096
- ISBN
- 9780816637096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.66
€ 18.99
€ 18.66
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691649160
- ISBN
- 9780691649160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.87
€ 161.87
paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691622385
- ISBN
- 9780691622385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.73
€ 54.99
€ 39.73
hardcover. "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder." Translator(s): Smith, Chadwick, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804780599
- ISBN
- 9780804780599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.97
€ 139.97
Paperback. "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder." Translator(s): Smith, Chadwick, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 273
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804780605
- ISBN
- 9780804780605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Hardback. An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514. The Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia. 212 pages, Illustrations. An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 158 x 241 x 23. Weight: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842897
- ISBN
- 9781843842897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.99
€ 97.99
Hardback. This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. Editor(s): Siemens, Ray; Schreibman, Susan. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 185 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1266.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405148641
- ISBN
- 9781405148641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 226.91
€ 226.91