Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. The legend of Mulan remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or interventions. In addition to a translation of the earliest recorded version of the legend, this title offers translations of several later iterations of the tale. Translator(s): Kwa, Shiamin; Idema, Wilt L. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9781603841979
- ISBN
- 9781603841979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.28€ 41.27
€ 52.28
€ 41.27
Paperback. Take a peek behind the curtain to discover the boy, the youth, the man behind some of the greatest works of English literature. The life and times of William Shakespeare, richly imagined in this unique biography told using the Bard's own quotes. Num Pages: 120 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 212 x 9. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Upstart Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927262023
- ISBN
- 9781927262023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.39
€ 20.99
€ 20.39
Paperback. These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books. Reissue. (Plays/Drama) Editor(s): Crowther, John. Series: No Fear Shakespeare. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 192 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Spark Notes United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781411401013
- ISBN
- 9781411401013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.93
€ 10.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. This fresh edition of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies offers new insights into the play on the page and in performance, offering interviews with directors Nicholas Hytner and Marianne Elliott and actress Harriet Walter alongside student-friendly scene-by-scene analysis and a new introduction from Jonathan Bate. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232105
- ISBN
- 9780230232105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.42
€ 12.42
Paperback. A key work of early Asian literature in North America, Mrs. Spring Fragrance is now available in an edition with a rich selection of historical materials. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810277
- ISBN
- 9781554810277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.77
€ 29.99
€ 26.77
Paperback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Editor(s): Falvey, E.Catherine. Series: Masterworks of Literature. BIC Classification: DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780808404477
- ISBN
- 9780808404477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.72
€ 48.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551113975
- ISBN
- 9781551113975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.95
€ 15.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. It explores the hidden history of service. Num Pages: 400 pages, integrated b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140254105
- ISBN
- 9780140254105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.79
€ 19.00
€ 16.79
Paperback. One of Bernard Shaw's greatest plays, Mrs Warren's Profession raises issues about class struggle, generational differences, the past, and female hardship through the exploration of a mother and daughter relationship put under enormous strain. Editor(s): Kent, Brad. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 224 pages, Production photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713679946
- ISBN
- 9780713679946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.37
€ 13.99
€ 13.37
paperback. Num Pages: 41 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 3. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 41
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822216872
- ISBN
- 9780822216872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.42
€ 15.99
€ 14.42
Hardcover. A reading of the letters between Mozart and his father, placing them in the context of the stylized strategies of the 18th-century epistolary tradition. The book argues that the letters reveal a rebelliousness deep within Mozart's life and work. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JF; AVGC4; AVH; BGF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300075427
- ISBN
- 9780300075427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404. Includes CD. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, ffep removed, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- HANSIB PUBLICATIONS London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0012861
- ISBN
- 9781870518642
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Hardcover. This book examines how the interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669486
- ISBN
- 9780748669486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.95€ 102.99
€ 106.95
€ 102.99
Paperback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754194
- ISBN
- 9780804754194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Hardback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754187
- ISBN
- 9780804754187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.08
€ 150.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823233977
- ISBN
- 9780823233977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardback. Num Pages: 552 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 39. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801448171
- ISBN
- 9780801448171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Num Pages: 238 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137603302
- ISBN
- 9781137603302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.38
€ 124.38
Paperback. Considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causes Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780295975771
- ISBN
- 9780295975771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.01
€ 37.99
€ 34.01
Paperback. Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigo (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, both tragic and triumphant, of the medieval origins of modern Catalonia. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADC; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662988
- ISBN
- 9781855662988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.77
€ 26.99
€ 26.77
hardcover. Series: Oxford Studies in the History of English. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: CFF; CFM; DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190657802
- ISBN
- 9780190657802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.77
€ 206.77
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 118 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691652788
- ISBN
- 9780691652788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.94
€ 104.94
Paperback. Contests the notion that women occupied a separate private sphere in England during the Romantic Era. This title demonstrates the various ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behaviour in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. Series: Women of Letters S. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213693
- ISBN
- 9780253213693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.53
€ 18.99
€ 18.53
Hardback. A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors. Editor(s): Metcalfe, Jean LeDrew. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802046949
- ISBN
- 9780802046949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65