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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of 19th century poet Christina Rossetti. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring the themes of loss and unattainable hope across subjects ranging from love to the divine. Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853264290
ISBN
9781853264290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.41

Hardcover. Christina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets. "The Letters of Christina Rossetti" makes available all of her extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never before been published. These letters come from over 100 private and institutional collections. The fourth and final volume covers the last eight years of her life. Editor(s): Harrison, Antony H. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 975.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922959
ISBN
9780813922959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.67
€ 87.77

Hardback. The letters in this volume show the woman Rossetti was at this time in her life. By 1874 she was an established poet with a literary reputation among her contemporaries. But her personal life was overshadowed by the deaths and illness of close friends, and her own affliction with Graves' disease. In the VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE series. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 875.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917832
ISBN
9780813917832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.99

hardcover. The third volume of "Letters.." covers years in which Christina Rossetti lost several important family members, including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew, Michael. In the face of her loss, she turned increasingly to religion and wrote works of devotional prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919294
ISBN
9780813919294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.99

Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935126
ISBN
9780813935126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.70

Hardback. A clear, theoretically-grounded, chronological study of Maturin's six novels. A new critical paradigm by which to view and read Irish Romantic fiction. Offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Maturin and his fiction available today. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719085321
ISBN
9780719085321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.20

Hardback. Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance. Num Pages: 192 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362838
ISBN
9780822362838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.28

Optical Impersonality will appeal to scholars and advanced students of modernist literature and visual culture and to those interested in the intersections of art, literature, science, and technology. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 352 pages, 38, 30 black & white halftones, 8 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413631
ISBN
9781421413631
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.56

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801481109
ISBN
9780801481109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 45.16

Hardback. Editor(s): Kenyon-Jones, Christine. Num Pages: 129 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
129
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493337
ISBN
9781611493337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.00

Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Editor(s): Lehleiter, Christine. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 3JF; DSB; HBJD; HBTB; HPCD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442645981
ISBN
9781442645981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.76

paperback. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2BXK; DSB; HBJF1; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138883871
ISBN
9781138883871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Hardback. Addressing the ways alliterative poems share concerns with history and the often-dangerous confrontation of the present with the past, Christine Chism shifts her focus away from the emphases on meter, dialect, and provenance that have routinely marked studies of alliterative poetry. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 356 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 659.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236552
ISBN
9780812236552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.02

Hardcover. Includes essays that offer ecocritical readings of Irish literary and cultural texts of various genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama and the visual image. This title places emphasis on place not only pervades Irish writing of the twentieth century but also is in fact rooted in ancient traditions of Celtic mythology. Editor(s): Cusick, Christine. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 578.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
286
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184547
ISBN
9781859184547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardback. Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HRQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639656
ISBN
9780748639656
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.05
€ 113.33

Paperback. Traces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. This book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, "The Voyage Out", through her last, "Between the Acts". Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231134453
ISBN
9780231134453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Hardback. Traces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. This book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, "The Voyage Out", through her last, "Between the Acts". Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231134446
ISBN
9780231134446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.52
€ 83.03

Hardback. A look at the many sources, literary and otherwise, that influence film adaptations. This work subverts the idea that film adaptations of novels and plays must be faithful to the original texts. Series: Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742538207
ISBN
9780742538207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.36

Hardcover. Asks how 'reading for the law' as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. This title demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of 'outsider jurisprudence'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928937
ISBN
9780813928937
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.50

Paperback. An illuminating examination of writer and lay theologian Dorothy L. Sayers' Trinitarian understanding of human creativity, and how it offers a theologically authentic basis for a socially-committed Christian life. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718893347
ISBN
9780718893347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.90

Paperback. New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. Editor(s): Rauer, Christine. Translator(s): Rauer, Christine. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844310
ISBN
9781843844310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.28

Hardback. New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. Editor(s): Rauer, Christine. Translator(s): Rauer, Christine. Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843474
ISBN
9781843843474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.95

Hardback. The humorous target of History of the Abderites is thc ignorance, backwardness, provinciality, bigotry, pedantry, lack of taste, and the sodden contentment with things as they are that Wieland found all around him. Translator(s): Dufner, Max. Num Pages: 327 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934223256
ISBN
9780934223256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.26

Hardback. Presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 211 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055575
ISBN
9780674055575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.56

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