Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Susan Oliver's study of Scott and Byron's poetical engagement with borders, both actual and metaphorical, and the people living around them, emphasises reciprocal literary influences and attitudes toward cultural instability. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349544387
- ISBN
- 9781349544387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Hardback. Editor(s): Duff, David; Jones, Catherine, NFA. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482317
- ISBN
- 9781611482317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.28
€ 155.28
Hardback. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483741
- ISBN
- 9781611483741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Hardback. Editor(s): Dawson, Deirdre; Morere, Pierre. Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481709
- ISBN
- 9781611481709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.85
€ 148.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416. The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour". 320 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 5SL; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 16. Weight: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163255
- ISBN
- 9780231163255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.97
€ 44.97
Hardcover. This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203167
- ISBN
- 9780230203167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301027
- ISBN
- 9781349301027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardback. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493672
- ISBN
- 9781611493672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.39
€ 173.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Larsen, K. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349534999
- ISBN
- 9781349534999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Libraries Unlimited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563086519
- ISBN
- 9781563086519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.27
€ 35.99
€ 33.27
Paperback. This text is a theoretically informed and empirically grounded study of the social process through which the credibility of expert advice is produced, challenged, and sustained. The author analyzes science advice as a form of performance, examining how advisory bodies work. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJP; DSG; JH; JP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736466
- ISBN
- 9780804736466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.75
€ 29.99
€ 27.75
Hardback. Leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and Ireland, America and Australia. Editor(s): Holmes, John. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSC; PD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318092
- ISBN
- 9781846318092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.40
€ 142.40
Paperback. David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 172 x 117 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199557455
- ISBN
- 9780199557455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Hardcover. Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137367624
- ISBN
- 9781137367624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349474530
- ISBN
- 9781349474530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DS; FL; HRAB; HRC; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602584600
- ISBN
- 9781602584600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.62
€ 91.62
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474248617
- ISBN
- 9781474248617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.10
€ 53.10
Paperback. Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464166
- ISBN
- 9781349464166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 33. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 540
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195032727
- ISBN
- 9780195032727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.84
€ 34.84
Hardback. * This is the first volume to cover science fiction right up to the present day and includes a substantial last chapter on the rejuvenation of science fiction in the 1990s. * Written specifically for students and non-specialists, in an accessible style throughout. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628929
- ISBN
- 9780745628929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228146
- ISBN
- 9780230228146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.70
€ 39.70
Paperback. Includes a history of science fiction, and the ways in, which the genre has been used and defined. This book provides explanations of key concepts in science fiction criticism and theory. It introduces the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist, and Cyberpunk science fictions. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415366687
- ISBN
- 9780415366687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Hardback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976727
- ISBN
- 9781403976727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well as many fascinating hitherto under-studied writers. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537327
- ISBN
- 9781349537327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20