Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Possibly one of the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition. This biography traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of "Atlantic Monthly". Num Pages: 545 pages, 47 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 926.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 545
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520238961
- ISBN
- 9780520238961
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.15
€ 51.99
€ 37.15
Hardback. A biography of Mary Austin that explores her life and achievement. It tells the larger story of the importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 255 x 30. Weight in Grams: 740.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246355
- ISBN
- 9780520246355
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.54
€ 41.99
€ 29.54
Hardback. Above all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801868245
- ISBN
- 9780801868245
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Condition: New
€ 50.22€ 47.00
€ 50.22
€ 47.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135466
- ISBN
- 9780300135466
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.82
€ 43.99
€ 30.82
Paperback. The once and future history of sex and gender Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073793
- ISBN
- 9780252073793
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.89
€ 25.99
€ 25.89
Paperback. Demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. By speaking about or even as the dead, this work tells what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation. Series: Jewish Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 340 pages, 20 b&w photos, 1 color photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3734 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253218872
- ISBN
- 9780253218872
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859893312
- ISBN
- 9780859893312
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Condition: New
€ 58.97
€ 58.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 82.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559886
- ISBN
- 9781875559886
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316749
- ISBN
- 9780822316749
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.33
€ 30.99
€ 30.33
Hardcover. Susan Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths in the 1980s. This book provides a way into Howatch's new world by presenting many of her own considerations of her work, and by allowing a group of scholars to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of Howatch's art. Editor(s): Howatch, Susan; Johnson, Bruce; Huttar, Charles A. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910963
- ISBN
- 9781575910963
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Condition: New
€ 133.02
€ 133.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811224659
- ISBN
- 9780811224659
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.22
€ 17.99
€ 16.22
hardcover. Analyzes the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of six woman writers - Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Romola Nijinsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi - whose lives were twined with the cultural vibrations of their time. Num Pages: 224 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802036902
- ISBN
- 9780802036902
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Condition: New
€ 73.16
€ 73.16
Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492002
- ISBN
- 9781611492002
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Condition: New
€ 115.43
€ 115.43
Paperback. This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Editor(s): Owen, Susan J. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 474 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 33. Weight in Grams: 596.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405176101
- ISBN
- 9781405176101
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Condition: New
€ 53.85
€ 53.85
Hardback. This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894732
- ISBN
- 9780801894732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.66€ 64.02
€ 70.66
€ 64.02
Paperback. This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894749
- ISBN
- 9780801894749
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.33
€ 37.99
€ 32.33
Paperback. Shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation. Num Pages: 456 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761055
- ISBN
- 9780804761055
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.07
€ 29.99
€ 29.07
paperback. Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." In God's Arbiters, Susan K. Harris shows that the identification of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation" played a major role in the debates over U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Imagining the Americas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Usa United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199307203
- ISBN
- 9780199307203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.09
€ 48.09
Hardback. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 312 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBBW; 2AB; DSB; HBJK; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803226999
- ISBN
- 9780803226999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801432002
- ISBN
- 9780801432002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.86
€ 110.86
Paperback. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015064
- ISBN
- 9780691015064
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Condition: New
€ 64.24€ 50.21
€ 64.24
€ 50.21
Hardback. Num Pages: 433 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492750
- ISBN
- 9781611492750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.34
€ 161.34
Hardback. Examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. This book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG; JFC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115832
- ISBN
- 9780691115832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.60€ 66.96
€ 87.60
€ 66.96
Hardback. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911571
- ISBN
- 9781575911571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.20
€ 137.20