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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. A searching critique of the popular Elizabethan literature that praised merchants, industrialists and craftsmen. Series: Past and Present Publications. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 421. Clean copy with some shelf wear fine in dustjacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001722
ISBN
9780521265065
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This book asks us to rethink such a way of understanding Pope. Refusing to accept Popea s version of reality, Laura Brown reads his poems not for what they claim to say, but for what they rationalize away or fail to recognize. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631135036
ISBN
9780631135036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.19

Hardcover. Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity. Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook. 250 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Bradley, Laura; Leeder, Karen. Brecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses in the GDR and after. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; GBCY; JFC. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134929
ISBN
9781571134929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Hardback. Offering an intriguing new approach to American cultural history through one of its enduring icons, Larzer Ziff traces the rise and flourishing of an ideal type once represented by such figures as George Washington and Tom Sawyer - a type immensely popular before antiheroes like Holden Caulfield captured our imagination Series: Discovering America. Num Pages: 154 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780292738928
ISBN
9780292738928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.39

Paperback. Metafact: Essayistic Science in Eighteenth-Century France Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3J; DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0228107
ISBN
9780807892824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Studying Shakespeare s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to the non-Shakespearian drama of Renaissance England that can be read as complete subject overview or used as an indexed reference resource. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781405132435
ISBN
9781405132435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.15

Hardcover. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry (Rutgers University, New Jersey). Series: Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Num Pages: 671 pages, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1202.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rutgers, SUNY
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784239
ISBN
9780933784239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.45

Paperback. A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 314 pages. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry. A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight: 512.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
314
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521602587
ISBN
9780521602587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.25

Hardcover. New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139405
ISBN
9781571139405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.42

Paperback. Pairing close readings of Moliere's comedies with accounts of French social history and aesthetics, this book aims to show how Moliere perceived satire as a "public mirror" provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226591520
ISBN
9780226591520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Hardcover. Turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. This title explores how the authoritative status of Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 2AHA; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226591483
ISBN
9780226591483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.28
€ 50.51

Hardback. Brings together all of the approximately 3,070 published and unpublished poems composed by Larry Eigner (1927-1996), a prominent American poet of the postwar era and one of the principal figures of the influential Black Mountain school. Editor(s): Grenier, Robert; Faville, Curtis. Num Pages: 1868 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 157. Weight in Grams: 6328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1868
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750905
ISBN
9780804750905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 199.26

Hardback. Negotiations of National Identity. 338 pages, black & white illustrations. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 31. Weight: 680.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9781843842880
ISBN
9781843842880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.88

Paperback. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843931
ISBN
9781843843931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.00
€ 30.91

Hardback. Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs. Editor(s): Tracy, Larissa. Num Pages: 365 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 black and white. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843511
ISBN
9781843843511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.69

Paperback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349352319
ISBN
9781349352319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.06
€ 13.44

Paperback. Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading. Editor(s): Cohen, Lara Langer; Stein, Jordan Alexander. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 432 pages, 43 illus. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223347
ISBN
9780812223347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816649655
ISBN
9780816649655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
181
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662469
ISBN
9781855662469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.17

Hardback. Langston Hughes was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. This book offers a collection of letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds light on his life and politics. It deals with his life and work. Editor(s): Crawford, Evelyn Louise; Patterson, Mary Louise. Num Pages: 424 pages, 30 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; BJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285330
ISBN
9780520285330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.85
€ 72.77

Paperback. Langston Hughes was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. This book offers a collection of letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds light on his life and politics. It deals with his life and work. Editor(s): Crawford, Evelyn Louise; Patterson, Mary Louise. Num Pages: 424 pages, 30 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; BJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285347
ISBN
9780520285347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Hardcover. Editor(s): Bruhn, Jorgen; Lundquist, Jan. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
180
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772896014
ISBN
9788772896014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.32

Hardback. A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century. Editor(s): Lamb, Robert Paul; Thompson, G. R. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 640 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1296.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405100649
ISBN
9781405100649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 243.14

Paperback. In this work, Lajos Egri examines a play from the inside out, starting with the heart of any drama: its characters. For it is people - their private natures and their inter-relationships - that move a story and give it life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSG; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780671213329
ISBN
9780671213329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.26

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