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hardcover. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812238259
- ISBN
- 9780812238259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.77
€ 93.77
Hardback. In this series of essays Betsy Erkkila considers the historical and psychological dramas of blood-as marker of violence, race, sex, kinship-that have stood near the center of American literature, culture, and politics since the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238440
- ISBN
- 9780812238440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.57
€ 92.57
Hardback. In its innovative methodology and its unprecedented attention to the productive interplay of audience and text, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 offers a compelling new approach to eighteenth-century studies, the history of the book, and the very idea of character itself. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238648
- ISBN
- 9780812238648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.95
€ 98.95
Hardback. Paperwork challenges traditional approaches to print culture and the mass media in the nineteenth century. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy. Series: Critical Authors and Issues. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238884
- ISBN
- 9780812238884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.60
€ 85.60
Hardback. Were the Romantic poets plagiarists, and did plagiarism have the same meaning two hundred years ago as it has today? Tilar J. Mazzeo offers a major reassessment of the role of borrowing, textual appropriation, and narrative mastery in British Romantic literature and provides a new picture of the period and its central aesthetic contests. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 527.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239676
- ISBN
- 9780812239676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.17
€ 93.17
Hardback. Alastair Minnis reveals Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath as interconnected aspects of a radical literary experiment, wherein the relationship between objective authority and subjective fallibility is confronted as never before. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240306
- ISBN
- 9780812240306
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.78
€ 119.78
Hardback. Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; HRKT; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240344
- ISBN
- 9780812240344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.69
€ 87.69
Hardback. Animal Characters follows five species through the literature of early modern Europe. The horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheep all undergo a dramatic change in character as European writers begin to develop a new interest in-and understanding of-human character in its relation to literature. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242492
- ISBN
- 9780812242492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.53
€ 77.53
Hardback. In late medieval and early modern Spain, physicians began to translate and refashion medical information for lay readers. This book explores the concept of the sickly reader, a highly motivated individual whom medical writers encouraged to seek out useful remedies and efficacious hygienic practices in various vernacular health guides. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242553
- ISBN
- 9780812242553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. Translated shortly before 1400, the Bible became the most popular medieval book in English. Scholars call it the Wycliffite Bible, attributing it to followers of the heretic John Wyclif, and say that it was banned in 1407. Henry Ansgar Kelly disagrees, arguing that it was a nonpartisan effort, and never the object of any prohibition. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248340
- ISBN
- 9780812248340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.78
€ 105.78
Hardback. Num Pages: 158 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812278675
- ISBN
- 9780812278675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.35
€ 63.35
Hardback. Editor(s): Riggio, Thomas P.; West, James L. W., III. Series: The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2ABM; 3JJG; BG; DSBH; DSK; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 259 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812280913
- ISBN
- 9780812280913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.32
€ 88.32
Paperback. An exploration of Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy, "His Dark Materials". It looks at the many issues raised by the Dark Materials world, and by the controversies it has stirred up. Editor(s): Greene, Richard; Robison, Rachel. Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; HPX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812696714
- ISBN
- 9780812696714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.80
€ 21.99
€ 19.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813101682
- ISBN
- 9780813101682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.28
€ 48.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813108162
- ISBN
- 9780813108162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.76
€ 32.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813108353
- ISBN
- 9780813108353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.22
€ 49.22
paperback. Editor(s): Soufas, Teresa Scott. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scholarly Book Services Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780813108896
- ISBN
- 9780813108896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.02
€ 56.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813114408
- ISBN
- 9780813114408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.60
€ 49.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813114941
- ISBN
- 9780813114941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.70
€ 49.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813118888
- ISBN
- 9780813118888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.34
€ 49.34
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Premier Book Marketing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813120102
- ISBN
- 9780813120102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.88
€ 48.88
Hardback. This work offers the perspectives of poets, journalists, and scholars as they discuss their views on creativity, the teaching of writing, and the importance of a sense of place in their work. Editor(s): Beattie, L.Elisabeth. Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Edition
- 11
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813121246
- ISBN
- 9780813121246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.71
€ 56.71
Hardback. Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753-1821) was a leading literary figure of the late 18th century - an actress, playwright and editor of several plays and novels. This work covers her life story, but also provides a look at the society and politics of London in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Num Pages: 632 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; BGH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 966.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122366
- ISBN
- 9780813122366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.01
€ 95.01
Hardback. Explore the political underpinnings of the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home Editor(s): Mariotti, Shannon L.; Lane, Joseph. Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSRC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813167763
- ISBN
- 9780813167763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.35
€ 62.35