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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides detailed readings of play texts to explore the politics, pathologies and parodies of mourning. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230001534
ISBN
9780230001534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.93

Paperback. Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter. Editor(s): Ross, Angus. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344. Good clean copy showing light age. Prevous owners name to half title page otherwise internally text is clear and remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
496
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0020939
ISBN
9780141441429
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 18.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190. 256 pages. A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 128 x 198 x 18. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747546016
ISBN
9780747546016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.51

Paperback. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AP; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349384938
ISBN
9781349384938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 44.11

Hardcover. This challenge to critical orthodoxy argues that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age after the French Revolution. He attacked the binary thinking dominating public affairs and questioned the value of the Georgian domestic ideal, using the homeless to bear his message. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFCX; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333718872
ISBN
9780333718872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.52

Hardcover. Romantic Diasporas examines exile in the Romantic period from the different perspectives of French emigres in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230610651
ISBN
9780230610651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195300079
ISBN
9780195300079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. These essays include discussions of the "Odyssey" and "Ulysses", the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarme's English and T.S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226074252
ISBN
9780226074252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 32.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411630
ISBN
9781572411630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.19

Hardcover. The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly influenced by the Hebrew literature of the day. This book traces the tensions between the extraliterary - the historical, social, and political - and the literary - the aesthetic, formal, and stylistic - in Hebrew fiction. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631576
ISBN
9780815631576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611492972
ISBN
9781611492972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.51

Paperback. The first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, this argues that suburban identity is tied to the rise and fall of the British empire. Drawing on postcolonial theory, urban studies, and Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929262
ISBN
9780813929262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.58

Paperback. Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts. Editor(s): Wolfson, Susan J.; Brown, Marshall. Series: A Robert B. Heilman Book. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295986487
ISBN
9780295986487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.43

Paperback. One of the finest British poets of this century, Roy Fuller was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the C.B.E., and was elected to the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. The achievements of the late poet, novelist, critic and autobiographer are honoured here in essays and poems by writers who were his friends. Editor(s): Tolley, A.T. Num Pages: 137 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. . Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Biography - Novelists, Poets & Playwrights - Poets,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Poetry & Poets,Subjects - Biography"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Carleton University Press,Canada U.S.A.
Number of pages
137
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
SKU
KHS0038618
ISBN
9780886292102
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 19.99
€ 17.52

Paperback. Editor(s): Tolnay, Thomas. Num Pages: 86 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Birch Brook Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
86
Condition
New
SKU
V9780913559543
ISBN
9780913559543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. Editor(s): Lutz, Tom. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSRC; GBCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 5. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Los Angeles Review of Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940660004
ISBN
9781940660004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.08

Paperback. Editor(s): Lutz, Tom. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC; GBCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 8. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Los Angeles Review of Books United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940660127
ISBN
9781940660127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Lutz, Tom. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSRC; GBCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Los Angeles Review of Books United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940660165
ISBN
9781940660165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Lutz, Tom. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSRC; GBCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Los Angeles Review of Books United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940660066
ISBN
9781940660066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.17

Hardcover. This book takes the work of three contemporary poets-John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald-to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137364746
ISBN
9781137364746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.92

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