Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Examines the novels of four Caribbean women writers who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies represents difference. This book represents a phase in postcolonial studies that calls for a fundamental rethinking of the terminology and assumptions. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923475
- ISBN
- 9780813923475
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Condition: New
€ 29.26
€ 29.26
Hardcover. A definitive study of an author who in celebrating one era helped usher in the next. In this critical examination, the author sees Mary Arnold Ward as being "behind her times" in two senses - in her tireless defense of her evolving era's achievements and intentions, but also in her wariness of the advance of time and of the violence of change. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923673
- ISBN
- 9780813923673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.65
€ 58.65
Paperback. Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of Black women writers and filmmakers, the author proposes that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing "life-force" to sustain the community of people who read and view their work. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923703
- ISBN
- 9780813923703
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Condition: New
€ 29.08
€ 29.08
Paperback. With inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, this study shows how the "peripheral" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models, and addresses issues that many post colonial theorists have struggled with. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KLSB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923765
- ISBN
- 9780813923765
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Condition: New
€ 31.69
€ 31.69
Paperback. Examines the post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, this book reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. It shows how their accomplishments were silenced in official Cuban history and culture. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925264
- ISBN
- 9780813925264
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Condition: New
€ 33.87
€ 33.87
Hardcover. What constitutes reading? This work seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of ""Religion and Literature"" into ""Reading and Religion,"" emphasizing both the material and the institutional contexts for each. It aims to make a contribution to various models for understanding change in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 621.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925714
- ISBN
- 9780813925714
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Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Providing a literary history of the twentieth century in England, this work studies the problematic terms of national identity during England's transition from an imperial power to its integration in the global cultural marketplace. It suggests that it is largely one city - London - through which national identity has been reframed. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 b & w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925745
- ISBN
- 9780813925745
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Condition: New
€ 36.03
€ 36.03
Hardcover. Referred to long ago as a "disease" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. This book traces the development of nostalgia from a memory disorder in the eighteenth century to its modern formulation as a pleasant recreational distraction. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 524.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925981
- ISBN
- 9780813925981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.88
€ 60.88
Hardcover. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, this work reveals that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. It shows how through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926100
- ISBN
- 9780813926100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.24
€ 59.24
Paperback. Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926131
- ISBN
- 9780813926131
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Condition: New
€ 35.80
€ 35.80
Paperback. Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. This book examines the work of various writers to show how it expresses the appeal that rural and wilderness spaces can hold for the diasporic imagination. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926391
- ISBN
- 9780813926391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.48
€ 35.48
Paperback. In Western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature." This book uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection, and often breakdown. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF; RNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926568
- ISBN
- 9780813926568
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Condition: New
€ 37.46
€ 37.46
Paperback. Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. This book states that yet, autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind queries about the embodied self. It analyzes the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSK; VFJB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926650
- ISBN
- 9780813926650
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Condition: New
€ 31.29
€ 31.29
Paperback. Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926810
- ISBN
- 9780813926810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.12
€ 32.12
Paperback. Staging a dialogue between Maryse Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, this work argues that Conde enacts a strategy of "critical incorporations" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927152
- ISBN
- 9780813927152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.37
€ 33.37
Hardcover. Concerned with draft materials, with the manuscripts that constitute text in a state of process, this book draws on an international context - mainly French and German traditions - for approaches to textual criticism. It applies a fresh form of critical analysis to authors in the Anglo-American tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages, 21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927749
- ISBN
- 9780813927749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.21
€ 79.21
Paperback. Novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories. This title recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927800
- ISBN
- 9780813927800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Hardcover. Combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927831
- ISBN
- 9780813927831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.76
€ 58.76
Paperback. Exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. This book reveals how various models of queer egalitarianism attempt to reconcile the plantation's regional legacies with national debates about equality and democracy, particularly during the eras of the New Deal, World War II, and the civil rights movement. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927923
- ISBN
- 9780813927923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.95
€ 35.95
Hardcover. Tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. This book analyzes William Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta, and Lord Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927954
- ISBN
- 9780813927954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.61
€ 73.61