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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Explores the relationship between philanthropy and literary realism in novels by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, and William Dean Howells, and examines how each used the figure of philanthropy both to redefine the sentiments that informed social identity and to refashion their own aesthetic practices. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625086
ISBN
9780748625086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.89
€ 108.53

Paperback. Series: Writer as Critic S. Num Pages: 317 pages, 22cm. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
317
Condition
New
SKU
V9780920897577
ISBN
9780920897577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Series: Stud. Age Chaucer Ye. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784277
ISBN
9780933784277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Series: Stud. Age Chaucer Ye. Num Pages: 549 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784284
ISBN
9780933784284
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Hardcover. The yearbook of The New Chaucer Society is published annually. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 2AC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784291
ISBN
9780933784291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784307
ISBN
9780933784307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
218
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195136128
ISBN
9780195136128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.01

Paperback. This classic work, back in print for the first time in over a decade, questions the public's harsh perception of the artist, while at the same time gently poking fun at the artists' own, often inflated self-image. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415261876
ISBN
9780415261876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.58

Paperback. Includes essay on Botticelli that traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226431758
ISBN
9780226431758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.36

Paperback. The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780140285925
ISBN
9780140285925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415758963
ISBN
9780415758963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.21

Paperback. A major new compendium of poems including: 'The Uninvited Guest' where a new world emerges in a strangely edited riot of epigrams and annotations and 'West Aland' in which a massively important writer and thinker is put firmly in his place. The compendium also includes a collection of individual new poems. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547443
ISBN
9781857547443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.99

Paperback. This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; McLaughlin, Thomas. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 173 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862. 480 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; McLaughlin, Thomas. This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 232 x 173 x 33. Weight: 762.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226472034
ISBN
9780226472034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. A critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded "Rolling Stone" interview with the author and extracts from his novels. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822311447
ISBN
9780822311447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.45

Paperback. An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century's foremost literary critics. It presents a range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; DuBois, Andrew. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330394
ISBN
9780822330394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Recovering politically potent poems aiming from "the long lost father of modern Black poetry" Editor(s): Tidwell, John Edgar. Series: American Poetry Recovery Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252074684
ISBN
9780252074684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.91

Paperback. Translator(s): Nisetich, Frank J. Num Pages: 384 pages, 7, 5 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 28. Weight in Grams: 732.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801823565
ISBN
9780801823565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.22

Paperback. Good Irish short stories will always be a delight. In this selection by Frank O'Connor, himself a distinguished short-story writer, the richly varied Irish tradition of spinning a yarn is triumphantly displayed. Editor(s): O'Connor, Frank. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780192819185
ISBN
9780192819185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 52 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DC; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Black Cat
Number of pages
52
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802134523
ISBN
9780802134523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611492323
ISBN
9781611492323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.82

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