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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray. Series: Studies in English Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Condition
New
SKU
V9783898215916
ISBN
9783898215916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.93

Hardback. In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori. This title focuses on the poet's life in the summer of that year. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846316432
ISBN
9781846316432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.22

Paperback. How is it that biographies of Shakespeare can continue to appear when so little is known about him, and what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why is it that a majority of the biographies published in the last decade have been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? This book aims to solve this puzzle. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646678
ISBN
9780748646678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time. Num Pages: 230 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521720069
ISBN
9780521720069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.54

Paperback. Series: Master Guides. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333397688
ISBN
9780333397688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.84

Hardback. The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408262
ISBN
9781421408262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 54.57

Paperback. Editor(s): Johnson, David F.; Claassens, Geert H. M. Series: Arthurian Archives. Num Pages: 770 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1074. Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation. Series: Arthurian Archives. 770 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Johnson, David F.; Claassens, Geert H. M. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 42. Weight: 1074.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
770
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843108
ISBN
9781843843108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.67

Paperback. Series: Arthurian Archives. Editor(s): Johnson, David F.; Claassens, Geert H. M. Parallel texts of key Dutch Arthurian romances in acclaimed translations with notes and introductions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 87. Weight: 2408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
1590
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843115
ISBN
9781843843115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 91.43

Paperback. Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. Editor(s): Fairer, David; Gerrard, Christine. Series: Blackwell Annotated Anthologies. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118824757
ISBN
9781118824757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.78

Paperback. The canon of eighteenth-century poetry has expanded to include women poets, laboring-class and provincial poets, and many unheard voices. This book questions some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. Series: Longman Literature in English Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Routledge
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582227774
ISBN
9780582227774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.72

Paperback. This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318726
ISBN
9781846318726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.74

Hardcover. Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE, drawing on case studies to open up analysis of the genre to the wider theme of aesthetic experience in early classical Greece. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; ACG; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198746379
ISBN
9780198746379
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.82

Paperback. The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in 18th-century aesthetics. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738484
ISBN
9780804738484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardback. The early part of the period covered by this volume marked the centrality of the book as a vehicle of communication. The later part of the period witnesses the book's decline as a mass medium, although it retains a high cultural value in contemporary society. Editor(s): Bell, Bill; Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair. Series: The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Num Pages: 544 pages, 49 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 252 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618293
ISBN
9780748618293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.96
€ 197.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, b/w illus & tables. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195182
ISBN
9781845195182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.49

Hardcover. What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its aesthetic qualities or as the result of dictates by social hegemonies (the power view). Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193683
ISBN
9781845193683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.51

Paperback. The Chronicles of Narnia or the The Perelandra Chronicles may be a reader's first encounter with the writings of C.S. Lewis, but what is the story behind these works of fantasy and science fiction written by a recent convert to Christianity? Introducing C.S. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405158848
ISBN
9781405158848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 217 x 2. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179690
ISBN
9780231179690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.63

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179683
ISBN
9780231179683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.18
€ 64.13

Hardcover. In this volume, David Gardiner investigates the national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets. There is also an analysis of Spenser's influence on Northern Irish poets. Num Pages: 233 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Creighton University,U.S.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781881871385
ISBN
9781881871385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.00

Paperback. Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Eland Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955010514
ISBN
9780955010514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.04

Paperback. Reconstructs the cultural and political world that gave birth to Dracula. This book argues that Dracula should be read as a text torn between the stances of the colonizer and the colonized, unable to accept or reject the racialised images of backwardness that dogged debates about Irish nationhood. It is suitable for scholars of Victorian fiction. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317982
ISBN
9780822317982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493832
ISBN
9781611493832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.09

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd London
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871551747
ISBN
9781871551747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

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