Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442627000
- ISBN
- 9781442627000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.17
€ 35.99
€ 33.17
Hardback. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory's most engaged thinkers. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894633
- ISBN
- 9780801894633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.61
€ 78.61
Hardback. This collection presents a retrospective and comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living writer, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's 'Ancient Light'. There are radio plays, as well as a selection of his essays and reviews. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 242 x 46. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447214724
- ISBN
- 9781447214724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.98
€ 19.99
€ 14.98
Hardback. Explores the conjunction of, and the frictions between, the studies of twentieth-century United States postcolonial studies, race studies, urban studies, and eco-criticism, and works to refigure this portrayal of urban spaces. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803230460
- ISBN
- 9780803230460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.85
€ 52.85
Paperback. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349295463
- ISBN
- 9781349295463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. By far the largest bibliography of Portuguese literature published in the U.S. Num Pages: 521 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSB; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 521
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810828445
- ISBN
- 9780810828445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.95
€ 169.95
Hardcover. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 26. Series: Irish Literacy Studies Series. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004306
- ISBN
- 9780389207146
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Num Pages: 455 pages, 8 color illustrations, 149 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AKLB; DSB; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 264 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 455
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520223202
- ISBN
- 9780520223202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.17€ 53.97
€ 68.17
€ 53.97
Paperback. Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance is mysterious. This generously illustrated book offers a new perspective on Shakespeare likenesses, as well as exploring the afterlife of these images. Num Pages: 136 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 221 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851244058
- ISBN
- 9781851244058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.29
€ 19.99
€ 16.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349049035
- ISBN
- 9781349049035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.70
€ 71.70
Hardback. Follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverly Bie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 color illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128247
- ISBN
- 9780231128247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 73.45
€ 94.03
€ 73.45
Hardcover. A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 385
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871404084
- ISBN
- 9780871404084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.93
€ 32.99
€ 27.93
Num Pages: 79 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 79
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813116556
- ISBN
- 9780813116556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.29
€ 30.29
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- City Lights Books United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872864924
- ISBN
- 9780872864924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.11
€ 20.99
€ 20.11
Paperback. What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? This title examines the role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146621
- ISBN
- 9780691146621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.11
€ 42.99
€ 31.11
Electronic book text. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474419598
- ISBN
- 9781474419598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.54€ 108.85
€ 117.54
€ 108.85
Paperback. Ferguson argues that the emergence of pornography as a literary phenomenon in Western culture can be tied to the development of utilitarian philosophy. He contends that considering the usefulness of something rather than its individual essence diverts our attention from individual identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliographical references , index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFMP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226243214
- ISBN
- 9780226243214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Hardback. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621107
- ISBN
- 9780230621107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. In recent years, the 'Popular Shakespeare' phenomenon has become ever more pervasive: in fringe productions, mainstream theatre, or the mass media, Shakespeare is increasingly constructed as an authentic part of popular culture. A vivid account of Shakespeare in performance since the 1990s, this book examines what 'Shakespeare' means to us today. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577039
- ISBN
- 9780230577039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Hardcover. A detailed study of the N t da saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions of identity, gender, female solidarity, and the romance genre itself. Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNC; 2ACSC; DSBB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089647955
- ISBN
- 9789089647955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.82
€ 143.82
Hardcover. The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 318 pages. Editor(s): Cusack, Andrew; Murnane, Barry. The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; DSK. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135193
- ISBN
- 9781571135193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 225 x 33. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837628104
- ISBN
- 9783837628104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81€ 52.05
€ 65.81
€ 52.05
Hardcover. Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical press writings and popular drama, this study explores the imaginative appeal of the social structures and literary forms of the Middle Ages, and how they raised awareness of Britain's tradition of freedom. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 245 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103740
- ISBN
- 9780230103740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Consists of papers delivered at a symposium, Popular Media Cultures: Writing in the Margins and Reading Between the Lines, held at the Odeon Cinema Covent Garden in London in May 2012. Editor(s): Geraghty, Lincoln. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY; JFC; JFD; KN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349468348
- ISBN
- 9781349468348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20