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Literature: history & criticism

Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an 'embodied soul' for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JB; DSBB; HRCS1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442644281
ISBN
9781442644281
Condition: New

€ 79.37

Paperback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149518
ISBN
9780231149518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardcover. A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118457887
ISBN
9781118457887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.49

Hardcover. An interdisciplinary study that explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692958
ISBN
9780748692958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.71
€ 102.03

Paperback. This book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804790550
ISBN
9780804790550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Revelatory conversations between renowned writers at New York City's legendary bookshop. Editor(s): Strand, Jessica; Aguilar, Andrea. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
9780393352085
ISBN
9780393352085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 156 x 6. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dedalus Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781906614973
ISBN
9781906614973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Examines the saga of the Grail. Exploring the legend's Gnostic roots, this book considers how the legend of the Grail related to fertility rites with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. It traces its origins to a Gnostic text that served as a link between ancient vegetation cults and the Celts and Christians who embellished the story. Editor(s): Segal, Robert A. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691021072
ISBN
9780691021072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

paperback. The relationship between James Joyce and Samuel Beckett has long been of interest to literary critics and readers. This volume provides the reader with an overview of the main trends and dilemmas that have dominated discussions on the complex Joyce/Beckett relationship, and pulls together previously scattered materials into a cohesive whole. Editor(s): Carey, Phyllis. Num Pages: 199 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823213412
ISBN
9780823213412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. This guide has been specifically written for AS and A2 students and is filled with in-depth analysis on contexts, character, key themes and critical perspectives. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 295 x 6. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447913177
ISBN
9781447913177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.37

Hardback. The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 30. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723916
ISBN
9780804723916
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.38

paperback. The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 421.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804725200
ISBN
9780804725200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.73

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 780.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648654
ISBN
9781442648654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816669905
ISBN
9780816669905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Examining Levinas's texts and readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, this text shows how the thread of the literary leads to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. It provides a critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later transitional essays. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226721132
ISBN
9780226721132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

hardcover. Figuring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780802090980
ISBN
9780802090980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.61

Hardcover. Explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling in their works with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world. Editor(s): Twark, Jill E.; Hildebrandt, Axel. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 334 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135698
ISBN
9781571135698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSGS; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062378729
ISBN
9780062378729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Series: Trent books. 245 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSC. Dimension: 208 x 148 x 17. Weight: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Nottingham Trent University
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780905488578
ISBN
9780905488578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.41

Paperback. How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture. 312 pages, 28 illustrations. Assesses the popular literary culture that has developed in the United States. This book describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. It highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346067
ISBN
9780822346067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.64

hardcover. Offering a revisionist account of the genre of the epyllion, Ellis transforms theories of sexuality, literature, and politics of the Elizabethan age, making an erudite and intriguing contribution to the field. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780802087355
ISBN
9780802087355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.75

Hardcover. Sacred chants are Ada Franklin's power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family's barn is consumed by flame, her identity as a healer is upended. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804011846
ISBN
9780804011846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.73

Hardcover. Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139641
ISBN
9781571139641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
86
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226677071
ISBN
9780226677071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.11

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