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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230013292
ISBN
9780230013292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, this title offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre. Series Editor(s): Bluebond-Langner, Myra. Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813546643
ISBN
9780813546643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.97

Hardback. Explores how authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252060489
ISBN
9780252060489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.63

Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 2ADS; 3JH; DSB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137352798
ISBN
9781137352798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349456802
ISBN
9781349456802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardback. Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137310972
ISBN
9781137310972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HRCL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632278
ISBN
9780691632278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.42

Paperback. Kate Grenville's "The Secret River" was one of the most loved novels of 2006. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. This book tells the story of how Grenville came to write this book. It maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in our lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; DSBH; DSK; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168. The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel. 240 pages, Illustrations. Kate Grenville's "The Secret River" was one of the most loved novels of 2006. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. This book tells the story of how Grenville came to write this book. It maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in our lives. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1MBF; DSBH; DSK; WQY. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight: 176.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847670021
ISBN
9781847670021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. Explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this title presents the discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of modernity in Britain. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646258
ISBN
9780748646258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.81
€ 103.50

Paperback. This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349471461
ISBN
9781349471461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Hardcover. This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137359230
ISBN
9781137359230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardcover. Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137457714
ISBN
9781137457714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.86

paperback. BIC Classification: DSBH. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349567904
ISBN
9781349567904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 105.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816679287
ISBN
9780816679287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. An annual narrative bibliography which aims to provide a comprehensive collection of theoretical essays with bibliographies for work published in a given year. Volume 7 covers work published in 1997. Editor(s): McGowan, Kate. Series: Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219309
ISBN
9780631219309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 263.09

Paperback. Includes chapters through which the scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time. This book addresses gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and privacy. Editor(s): McLoughlin, Kate. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401418
ISBN
9781474401418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719089848
ISBN
9780719089848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.88
€ 64.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174251
ISBN
9780231174251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.43

Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 672.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174244
ISBN
9780231174244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.08
€ 64.47

Hardback. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary. Num Pages: 231 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
234
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230228580
ISBN
9780230228580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.27

Hardcover. This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in historical fiction from the eighteenth century to today. In shifting focus to the agency of the reader and taking a long historical view, the collection brings a new perspective to the field of historical representation. Editor(s): Mitchell, Kate; Parsons, Nicola. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230343139
ISBN
9780230343139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardback. Featuring essays by scholars from around the globe, Kate Chopin in Context revitalizes discussions on the famed 19th-century author of The Awakening. Expanding the horizons of Chopin's influence, contributors offer readers glimpses into the multi-national appreciation and versatility of the author's works, including within the classroom setting. Editor(s): Ostman, Heather; O'Donoghue, Kate. Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137551795
ISBN
9781137551795
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.46

Paperback. Explores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253213679
ISBN
9780253213679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.56

Hardcover. Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137354198
ISBN
9781137354198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

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