Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561224
- ISBN
- 9780099561224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK; HRGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561231
- ISBN
- 9780099561231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Tells the story of author's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 47. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561194
- ISBN
- 9780099561194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493115
- ISBN
- 9781611493115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.31
€ 155.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911024095
- ISBN
- 9781911024095
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.29
€ 24.99
€ 21.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044244
- ISBN
- 9780268044244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardcover. Yamamoto Sanehiko's (1885-1952) achievements as a publisher, writer, and politician in the interwar period served as both a catalyst and a template for developments after the wars. While exploring the accomplishments the compelling figure, this study sheds new light on the social, cultural, and political changes that occurred in postwar Japan. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJP; DSK; HBTB; JFC; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366214
- ISBN
- 9781137366214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102903
- ISBN
- 9780230102903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287437
- ISBN
- 9781349287437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226526225
- ISBN
- 9780226526225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.64
€ 35.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Showing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780226468600
- ISBN
- 9780226468600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. This collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political and psychoanalytic theory, as well as a wide range of texts and theories. Editor(s): Lane, Christopher. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109475
- ISBN
- 9780231109475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.85
€ 42.99
€ 30.85
Hardback. During the Chinese Qin-Han period, there arose a regime of textual authority - overlapping but not coinciding with imperial authority. Drawing on research, this work analyzes the early elite culture, particularly in literature and in linguistic, intellectual and institutional history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847687381
- ISBN
- 9780847687381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.61
€ 193.61
Hardcover. This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137502841
- ISBN
- 9781137502841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. An examination of crucial texts of 18th-century American literature, this book argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Balancing the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture, it uncovers the complex process of articulating a new nation. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226492834
- ISBN
- 9780226492834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing the surprising queerness of nineteenth-century American literature. Editor(s): Looby, Christopher. Series: Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223668
- ISBN
- 9780812223668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976079
- ISBN
- 9781403976079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056039
- ISBN
- 9780674056039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.98
€ 49.99
€ 41.98
Hardback. Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide--ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth--century American poetry. * A wide--ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth--century American poetry. * Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220251
- ISBN
- 9780631220251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.18
€ 152.18
Paperback. A guide to twentieth-century American poetry. It explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced. It also includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220268
- ISBN
- 9780631220268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.69
€ 47.69