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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346524
ISBN
9780822346524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.31

Paperback. 155 pages. The Treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth is a didactic poem in Anglo-Norman which surveys a host of practical matters, ranging from childbirth and our passage through life, to estate management and life in fields, workshops, to activities in the home, the kitchen and the dining-hall, to the flora and fauna (and even the weather) of .. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSC; HBTB; JFCV. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 13. Weight: 232. Translator(s): Dalby, Andrew.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Prospect Books
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
155
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903018866
ISBN
9781903018866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.69

Hardback. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare's plays appear at the most fascinating of times. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, it is shows how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781847922458
ISBN
9781847922458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 4.99

Hardback. Editor(s): Dix, Andrew; Taylor, Jonathan. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845190262
ISBN
9781845190262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.40

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773621
ISBN
9780804773621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Jones revises our understanding of modern China by tracing the ways that evolutionary works developed into a form of vernacular knowledge in modern Chinese literature. From children's primers to print culture, from fairy tales to filmmaking, his analysis offers an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on China's cultural evolution. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047952
ISBN
9780674047952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.42
€ 59.82

Paperback. Public spectacle formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. This text presents a description of Rome's early history, by the historian Livy (16 BCE-17 CE). He presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as a visual monument and public spectacle. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210271
ISBN
9780520210271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.55

Hardback. Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138145
ISBN
9780691138145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.38
€ 59.93

Paperback. Offers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691120256
ISBN
9780691120256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.57
€ 42.52

Hardback. The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239225
ISBN
9780812239225
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.92

paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477188
ISBN
9780801477188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.75

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644547
ISBN
9780691644547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.06

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1028.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
612
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691628202
ISBN
9780691628202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.86
€ 70.47

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; DSK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1257.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
612
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691653853
ISBN
9780691653853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 322.88

Paperback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691609928
ISBN
9780691609928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.48
€ 51.30

Hardback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638119
ISBN
9780691638119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.87

Hardback. A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. Num Pages: 408 pages, 5 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS; HBLH. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198789468
ISBN
9780198789468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.67

Hardcover. Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D.H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence s life, work, and legacy. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470654781
ISBN
9780470654781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.95

Hardcover. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721172
ISBN
9780804721172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.12

Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 243 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691121468
ISBN
9780691121468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.80

paperback. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 768 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSK; U. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 572.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099116417
ISBN
9780099116417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.07

Paperback. Editor(s): Connell, Jolyon. BIC Classification: 4KLR; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level. .
Publisher
Connell Guides
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907776663
ISBN
9781907776663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.06

Hardcover. Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of award-winning poetry. This title includes essays that analyze McDonalds writings about war and the veterans return to civilian life, the regional grounding of his far-reaching verities, and the writer himself. Editor(s): Whittington, Janice. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896724877
ISBN
9780896724877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.55

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