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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Condition
New
SKU
V9780771017346
ISBN
9780771017346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.14

Hardcover. Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception history of the poems of Ossian, this book examines a uniquely modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the rapidly changing landscapes of an industrial world. -- Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 206 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938172
ISBN
9780813938172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.36

Hardcover.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
164
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184837
ISBN
9781859184837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardback. As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts. Editor(s): Bennett, Michael Y. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137410924
ISBN
9781137410924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 822.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
9780300208306
ISBN
9780300208306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.00

hardcover. This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished notebooks that functioned as a major ante-text of Historical Criticism (1879). The notebook illuminates Wilde's practices of research and composition, contains the unused materials Wilde studied, and shows his wit and imagination at work. Editor(s): Smith, Philip E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGL; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199688012
ISBN
9780199688012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195410
ISBN
9781845195410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471618
ISBN
9781611471618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.70

Paperback. A pre-eminent Orwell scholar's lifetime of work on the icon of modern literature Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 Map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077463
ISBN
9780252077463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. George Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Including interviews with friends and people who knew him in his years of obscurity, this book offers a human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPR; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 40. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283461
ISBN
9780099283461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. The author goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845951689
ISBN
9781845951689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. This volume takes the reader through the journey of a myth - where Orpheus becomes an Orpheus-Christus, a courtly knight and the writer of love lyrics. Num Pages: 265 pages, 34 b&w photographs, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628255
ISBN
9780815628255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.72

Paperback. Today's poets provide a new spin on Greek myths. Editor(s): DeNicola, Deborah. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2ABM; DCQ; DSC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874519181
ISBN
9780874519181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Hardback. Investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant, Toni Morrison, and Saint-John Perse - to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926407
ISBN
9780813926407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635101
ISBN
9780691635101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.26

Develops a sustained meditation on late-Enlightenment debates concerning political liberty, women's rights, conventions of sex-gender, and their relation to the reshaping of an Atlantic world in the throes of transformation. This edition includes "Alcuin (1798)", a dialogue on women's rights and marriage. Editor(s): Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 758.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841269
ISBN
9781603841269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.91
€ 53.41

Paperback. Develops a sustained meditation on late-Enlightenment debates concerning political liberty, women's rights, conventions of sex-gender, and their relation to the reshaping of an Atlantic world in the throes of transformation. This edition includes "Alcuin (1798)", a dialogue on women's rights and marriage. Editor(s): Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841252
ISBN
9781603841252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.94

Paperback. Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through history first as a man, then as a woman. At its heart is the figure of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history and wryly examines sexual double standards. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199650736
ISBN
9780199650736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Bary, Brett De. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313236
ISBN
9780822313236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. This work explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674002630
ISBN
9780674002630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.61

A wide-ranging and elegantly written study of how nineteenth-century culture thought about, and thought with, the idea of originality. It reveals how plagiarism was not only a theoretical concern of Victorian commentators on literature, but also provided a creative resource for many important writers including Eliot, Dickens, Pater, and Wilde. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199296507
ISBN
9780199296507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 119.39

Hardback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472684
ISBN
9781611472684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.61

Hardcover. Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135940
ISBN
9781571135940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.28

Hardback. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJF; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801443763
ISBN
9780801443763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.42

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