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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This work examines the influence of Victorian definitions of gender on the cultural processes of reading and canon formation in 19th-century England. The analysis focuses on four canonical and popular novelists - Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade and Charlotte Yonge. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 221.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333622179
ISBN
9780333622179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.32

hardcover. In her short life, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, 32 stories and numerous essays. This work addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a "southern lady" and professional author. It considers the reasons for feminist critical neglect of the writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920122
ISBN
9780813920122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.27

Paperback. A collection of essays from feminist critics, each of which explores the history of the English novel, literature's place in cultural debate and women's studies. They begin with the fictions of the late 17th century and end with Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen. Editor(s): Backscheider, Paula R. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801870958
ISBN
9780801870958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Hardcover. American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137469229
ISBN
9781137469229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Paperback. With its succinct, focussed and easy-to-follow approach covering both AS and A2, Revision Express is the fast and effective route to exam success. This new edition has been fully revised and updated for the new A-levels. Series: Direct to Learner Secondary. Num Pages: 200 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; CJ; DSB. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 296 x 212 x 9. Weight in Grams: 588.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408206546
ISBN
9781408206546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

Paperback. With its succinct, focussed and easy-to-follow approach covering both AS and A2, Revision Express is the fast and effective route to exam success. This new edition has been fully revised and updated for the new A-levels. Series: Direct to Learner Secondary. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSB. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 295 x 211 x 11. Weight in Grams: 586.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408206553
ISBN
9781408206553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

paperback. Editor(s): Pease, Donald E. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822314936
ISBN
9780822314936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; APF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137559876
ISBN
9781137559876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.33

Hardcover. Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation. Editor(s): Calvi, Lisanna. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137333131
ISBN
9781137333131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646377
ISBN
9781442646377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.24

Paperback. Published in China in 2010 and appearing here in English for the first time, Revolution and its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution that illuminates the complexity of socialist art, culture, and politics. Editor(s): Karl, Rebecca E.; Zhong, Xueping. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360698
ISBN
9780822360698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.13

Hardback. Published in China in 2010 and appearing here in English for the first time, Revolution and its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution that illuminates the complexity of socialist art, culture, and politics. Editor(s): Karl, Rebecca E.; Zhong, Xueping. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780822360544
ISBN
9780822360544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.03
€ 129.31

Paperback. The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such. Translator(s): Waller, Margaret. Series: European Perspectives. Num Pages: 271 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
271
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231056434
ISBN
9780231056434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. An engagingly written critical genealogy of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 figure, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773270
ISBN
9780804773270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.94

Hardback. While the imperatives of the postmodern eventually gave order to this chaos, Wilkens explains that the same forces are again at work in today's fracturing literary market. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420875
ISBN
9781421420875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312129040
ISBN
9780312129040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349220656
ISBN
9781349220656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Verhoeven, W. M. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; HBJD; HBJK; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349999781
ISBN
9781349999781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.84

Hardcover. Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s discusses the work of three prominent women writers by focusing on the response to the French Revolution and the struggle for reform in Britain. Examining previously-neglected texts as well as more familiar ones, the book contributes to our understanding of a period of intense political and literary engagement. Num Pages: 251 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230575165
ISBN
9780230575165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611483024
ISBN
9781611483024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.13

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