Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. This title offers an examination of her poetry. Num Pages: 256 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571192359
- ISBN
- 9780571192359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. Disraeli vividly depicts the appalling conditions of the poor-their pitiful wages, their miserably overcrowded tenements, and their exploitation by the new breed of powerful industrialists-as an indirect plea for social and political reform and for the fulfilment of his dream of a new, more democratic England. Editor(s): Shrimpton, Nicholas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198759898
- ISBN
- 9780198759898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.44
€ 16.99
€ 13.44
Hardback. Editor(s): Gerard, W. B.; Taylor, E. Derek; Walker, Robert G. Num Pages: 312 pages, colour illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490589
- ISBN
- 9781611490589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.51
€ 172.51
Hardback. Scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780801895074
- ISBN
- 9780801895074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Hardcover. In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings. Num Pages: 79 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399816
- ISBN
- 9781137399816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardback. More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay. Num Pages: 111 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311627
- ISBN
- 9781137311627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with introductions and annotations. Editor(s): Fabricant, Carole; Mahony, Robert. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 451.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349385911
- ISBN
- 9781349385911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardback. This edition offers original material with scholarly annotation, joining Swift's most important writings on Ireland in both prose and poetry with the full context and significance of each work. Editor(s): Fabricant, Carole; Mahony, Robert. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312228880
- ISBN
- 9780312228880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.66
€ 68.66
Hardback. How do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734363
- ISBN
- 9780804734363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.03
€ 82.03
Hardcover. It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343641
- ISBN
- 9780230343641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349344734
- ISBN
- 9781349344734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 212 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075835
- ISBN
- 9781906075835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.49
€ 19.99
€ 18.49
Paperback. A unique, personal guide to Shakespeare's life and plays told through the experience of one of our leading classical actors. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: ANC; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848423442
- ISBN
- 9781848423442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.43
€ 17.99
€ 16.43
Hardcover. Loosely based on his popular one-man show, the author illustrates the little we know about Shakespeare's childhood, early marriage, his roles as an actor, with apt quotations from the works. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854595683
- ISBN
- 9781854595683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93
€ 52.93
Paperback. Providing a comprehensive study of tragedy, this book deals with both theory and practice. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233602
- ISBN
- 9780631233602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.24
€ 38.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226484709
- ISBN
- 9780226484709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.42
€ 41.99
€ 32.42
Paperback. Includes the author's interviews with various crime writers conducted at Yellowbird Productions, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 30, 2011. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 2ACSW; APFN; APT; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090691
- ISBN
- 9780719090691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.45
€ 39.45
Paperback. The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth century's most acclaimed novel Editor(s): Carter, William C. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Series: In Search of Lost Time. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 192 x 28. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300185430
- ISBN
- 9780300185430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.20
€ 29.99
€ 22.20
Paperback. In its centennial year, Marcel Proust's masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Lee, Susanna. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393919165
- ISBN
- 9780393919165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.26
€ 22.26
Paperback. Editor(s): Kolin, Philip C.; Young, Harvey. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415624930
- ISBN
- 9780415624930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.94
€ 57.94