Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Num Pages: 246 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: 1DFA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929497327
- ISBN
- 9780929497327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.44
€ 46.99
€ 33.44
paperback. An exploration into the "strange science of writing" in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah E. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures S. 162 pages. An exploration into the "strange science of writing", in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 162
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076593
- ISBN
- 9780231076593
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.43
€ 29.99
€ 22.43
Hardcover. Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343665
- ISBN
- 9780230343665
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402554
- ISBN
- 9781137402554
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Condition: New
€ 116.55
€ 116.55
Hardcover. This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role in the development of children's literature. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293053
- ISBN
- 9781137293053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFCA; JFMD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223783
- ISBN
- 9780230223783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Editor(s): Fulton, Helen. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 586 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780470672372
- ISBN
- 9780470672372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.99€ 42.31
€ 69.99
€ 42.31
Hardcover. This book examines how the interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669486
- ISBN
- 9780748669486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.88€ 103.24
€ 111.88
€ 103.24
Hardback. Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? This title explores the history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how and why the mythology of these two charismatic and enduring cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128061
- ISBN
- 9780691128061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.89€ 46.84
€ 58.89
€ 46.84
hardcover. Many modern scholars believe that the Virgin Queen was a cult figure who replaced the Virgin Mary, yet this seems incongruous with a Protestant state officially opposed to idolatry. This book examines the issue through readings of a wide variety of Elizabethan texts. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1994th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333566640
- ISBN
- 9780333566640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.72
€ 194.72
Paperback. The author reveals that the hysterical female character of the 19th-century novel is more than just a literary "femme fatale", and contends, using readings from Balzac, Eliot and others, that these narratives are sources for understanding hysterical states of mind. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris London
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- SKU
- KRS0019043
- ISBN
- 9781860641879
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115231
- ISBN
- 9780230115231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.61
€ 53.37
€ 46.61
paperback. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, Hoy raises and addresses questions around 'difference' in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Soft Cover Edition
- SKU
- V9780802084019
- ISBN
- 9780802084019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.95
€ 43.99
€ 39.95
Hardback. An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature. Num Pages: 356 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844365
- ISBN
- 9781843844365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Lojek, Helen. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carysfort Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004145
- ISBN
- 9781904505013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Lojek, Helen. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carysfort Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004376
- ISBN
- 9781904505013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Reception studies have transformed the classics. Editor(s): Lovatt, Helen; Hodkinson, Owen. Series: Library of Classical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; HBLA1; HRKP3; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781788310208
- ISBN
- 9781788310208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.55€ 47.09
€ 129.55
€ 47.09
Hardcover. This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories. Num Pages: 255 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397829
- ISBN
- 9781137397829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. This edition makes available an important poem in the history of the epic and of European colonialism and provides a wealth of contextual material [] for readers, students, and instructors of British Romanticism. Daniel Robinson, Professor of English at Widener University Editor(s): Feldman, Paula R. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Critical ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811281
- ISBN
- 9781554811281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.97
€ 31.99
€ 23.97
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955507953
- ISBN
- 9780955507953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.88
€ 30.99
€ 26.88
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ostovich, Dr. Helen; Silcox, Mary V.; Roebuck, Graham. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874136807
- ISBN
- 9780874136807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.45
€ 148.45
Hardcover. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403997043
- ISBN
- 9781403997043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardback. A study of the nurse in Greek literature from Homer to Euripides. Depicted as a central figure of authority, the author focuses on the verbal manifestations of the nurse's authority - advice, approval, diasapproval, directions and orders. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822630661
- ISBN
- 9780822630661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.87
€ 143.87
Hardback. In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JNAM; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199683864
- ISBN
- 9780199683864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.28
€ 70.28