Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. An attempt to collate a variety of approaches to the work of Dickens and his major contemporaries, from traditional scholarship to recent literary theory. The work emphasizes the connections between Victorian literature and society and highlighting the longevity of the Victorian literary period. Editor(s): Shattock, Joanne. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333447086
- ISBN
- 9780333447086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.36
€ 194.36
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843269
- ISBN
- 9781843843269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.65
€ 80.65
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644738
- ISBN
- 9780691644738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.38€ 74.99
€ 96.38
€ 74.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 387 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 3rd
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312123277
- ISBN
- 9780312123277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.92
€ 105.92
Hardcover. This volume describes the hereditary theories that were current in Dickens's time and how these are reflected in his fiction. It argues that Dickens jettisoned his earlier belief in the prescriptive and deterministic potential of heredity after Darwin published "The Origin of the Species". Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333747230
- ISBN
- 9780333747230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Paperback. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. This title takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099437093
- ISBN
- 9780099437093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. The fifth episode of the hit Dick Barton musical spy-spoof series Num Pages: 108 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General. Dimension: 130 x 210 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 108
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840024289
- ISBN
- 9781840024289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.45
€ 11.45
Paperback. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement and language use that inform their poetics. Editor(s): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102729
- ISBN
- 9780230102729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement
. Ed(S): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett
hardcover. This collection brings together leading scholars to locate experimental strategies in diasporic poetry. Editor(s): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616295
- ISBN
- 9780230616295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children's linguistic creativity and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. Editor(s): Erlich, Victor. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 658 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- abridged ed
- Number of pages
- 658
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300106114
- ISBN
- 9780300106114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.05€ 58.23
€ 74.05
€ 58.23
Paperback. The surviving diary of Dawid Sierakowiak, a teenager who died in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II, relates with intimate, undefended prose the relentless horror of everyday life in the ghetto, where more than 60,000 Jews perished. 58 photos. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195122855
- ISBN
- 9780195122855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.50
€ 25.99
€ 22.50
Paperback. The first of three abridged volumes of 'the greatest diarist of our times' Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: AVQ; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719566813
- ISBN
- 9780719566813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.14
€ 19.99
€ 15.14
Paperback. This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 222 x 33. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496058
- ISBN
- 9781847496058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.73
€ 13.99
€ 11.73
Hardcover. This title intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana and assesses issues at stake in debates over the "meaning" of Diana. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTG; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333736883
- ISBN
- 9780333736883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This title intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana and assesses issues at stake in debates over the "meaning" of Diana. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; BGR; DSBH; HBTG; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333736890
- ISBN
- 9780333736890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Averil Cameron refutes an argument by some scholars that Christians did not dialogue after a wall of silence came down in the fifth century AD. Cameron shows that in late antiquity and throughout Byzantium Christians debated and wrote philosophical, literary, and theological dialogues, and she makes a case for their centrality in Greek literature. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AGR; DSBB; HBLA; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 6. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674428355
- ISBN
- 9780674428355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.71
€ 21.99
€ 20.71
Hardcover. What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its aesthetic qualities or as the result of dictates by social hegemonies (the power view). Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193683
- ISBN
- 9781845193683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.24
€ 130.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, b/w illus & tables. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195182
- ISBN
- 9781845195182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Num Pages: 93 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 7. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809315796
- ISBN
- 9780809315796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.14
€ 45.14
Paperback. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415329224
- ISBN
- 9780415329224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63