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Literature: history & criticism

hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474312
ISBN
9781611474312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.16

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843916185
ISBN
9781843916185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.05

Paperback. Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing. Editor(s): Raitt, Suzanne. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393926323
ISBN
9780393926323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155882
ISBN
9781903155882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.97

Paperback. Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is unveiled. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers its spellbinding oddness and originality, helping the reader through this most poetic and haunting of novels. Editor(s): Bradshaw, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199642922
ISBN
9780199642922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.91

Paperback. Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through history first as a man, then as a woman. At its heart is the figure of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history and wryly examines sexual double standards. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199650736
ISBN
9780199650736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.94

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; 3JJG; DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509843183
ISBN
9781509843183
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's biography and other studies of her, the author's own account of her early life should hold fascination for its unexpected detail and clear-sighted judgement of Victorian values. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712646185
ISBN
9780712646185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. With an introduction, notes and references, this title combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century, which together form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. It argues against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099734314
ISBN
9780099734314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.78

Paperback. Virginia Woolfs many novels, notably Night and Day (1919), Mrs Dalloway (1925), and The Waves (1931), transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterisation. In charting some of the milestones in Woolfs life, the author acknowledges the seen and unseen aspects of her subject; the outer and the inner, the recognisable and the concealed. Num Pages: 192 pages, 192 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AGHF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 21. Weight in Grams: 782.
Publisher
National Portrait Gallery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855144811
ISBN
9781855144811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 39.29

Paperback. Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099518259
ISBN
9780099518259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.33

Paperback. Freedom and enfranchisement. Something anarchical which pushes at boundaries. Each of these rich avenues of meaning are bound up in the word 'liberty'. This book explored liberty via Virginia Woolf's novels like those in the feminist polemic of A Room of One's Own, or a whimsical account of roaming the streets of London. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872717
ISBN
9781784872717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.78

Hardcover. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 220 x 24. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714510125
ISBN
9780714510125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.22

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530826
ISBN
9780714530826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.23

Hardback. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472141
ISBN
9781611472141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.76

Hardback. Idle Pursuits examines transformations of leisure in the literature and culture of early modern France. It traces a trajectory beginning with the initial detachment of the 'idle condition' from religious contemplation in the thirteenth century, to the birth of the modern contemplative at the end of the Renaissance. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611492361
ISBN
9781611492361
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.15

Paperback. Poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It also maps out the future for work in historical poetics and lyric theory. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691119915
ISBN
9780691119915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.20

Paperback. Designed for students, teachers, scholars, poets, and readers with a general interest in poetics, this book presents an intellectual history of the theory of lyric reading that has circulated both within and beyond the classroom, wherever poetry is taught, read, discussed, and debated today. Editor(s): Jackson, Virginia; Prins, Yopie. Num Pages: 680 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 181 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1048.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421412009
ISBN
9781421412009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.81
€ 48.80

This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies."-Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408873
ISBN
9781421408873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.00

Hardback. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed. Num Pages: 472 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 778.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400327
ISBN
9781421400327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.12

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