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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Influencing Darwin, Tennyson and Dickens among others, Lyell's "Principles" was an ambitious attempt to forge links between observable causes - volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, tides and storms - and the current state of the earth. This edition has an introduction by Jim Secord. Num Pages: 528 pages, b&w maps and diagrams. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DNF; DSBF; PSAJ; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435283
ISBN
9780140435283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719072871
ISBN
9780719072871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 222 x 13. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802085832
ISBN
9780802085832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 47.69

Paperback. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; DSRC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 297 x 210. .
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781292138121
ISBN
9781292138121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447948865
ISBN
9781447948865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.94

Paperback. .
Publisher
SparkNotes
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint, Study Guide
Condition
New
SKU
V9781411469785
ISBN
9781411469785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.31

Paperback. This volume, first published in 2006, is a fully annotated scholarly edition of Austen's most popular novel. Editor(s): Rogers, Pat. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Num Pages: 624 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 38. Weight in Grams: 824.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107620483
ISBN
9781107620483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.56

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801443992
ISBN
9780801443992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Hardback. Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated form--the preface. He shows how the notion of authorship changed in the shifts to the modern public sphere and from religion to science as legitimizing authorship. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722841
ISBN
9780804722841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.30

hardcover. What does it mean when a man writes in the voice of a woman? Haswell finds Yeats's answer in his theory of the creative self as bisexual that arose from his experiment in automatic writing. Num Pages: 177 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780875802220
ISBN
9780875802220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 42.60

Hardcover. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, the author mounts an argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating your belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories. Num Pages: 448 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DSK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226242965
ISBN
9780226242965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.33
€ 48.96

Paperback. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DSB; HBT; MBX; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487520038
ISBN
9781487520038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801481321
ISBN
9780801481321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.84

Hardback. This book asks how a selection of South African writers have responded to the period since the end of apartheid. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; FA; FYT; HBJH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198793762
ISBN
9780198793762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.13

Hardcover. This volume seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Num Pages: 516 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804715614
ISBN
9780804715614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.11

Paperback. Series: New Directions in Classics Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848856523
ISBN
9781848856523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.88

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641843
ISBN
9780691641843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Wordsworth, Jonathan; Gill, Stephen. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 704 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Edition
F First Edition Used
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393090710
ISBN
9780393090710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.67

Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPR; 3JMC; DSB; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816681006
ISBN
9780816681006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. In the final ten years of his life, the author tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on - writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This title collects these prefaces. It introduces some of the most significant scholarship on Shakespeare to show the reader how certain critics frame large issues in a useful way. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
848
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674064249
ISBN
9780674064249
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.27

Paperback. This is one of a series of books that provide a guide to Shakespeare's plays. The prefaces include endorsements by both actors and directors. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 116 x 9. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854591111
ISBN
9781854591111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.35

Paperback. A work based on the author's experience as a director and actor and his scholarly knowledge of the Elizabethan stage. Series: Granville Barker's Prefaces to Shakespeare. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848420090
ISBN
9781848420090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.55

paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252063916
ISBN
9780252063916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.07

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1057.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648552
ISBN
9780691648552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 321.41

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