Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief in their right of access to the private life of royalty. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402. Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821. Series: Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters. 264 pages, 0. This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief in their right of access to the private life of royalty. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616301
- ISBN
- 9780230616301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; HBJD; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349514397
- ISBN
- 9781349514397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403919007
- ISBN
- 9781403919007
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 383 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 383
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349999606
- ISBN
- 9781349999606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 132.62
€ 132.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349057115
- ISBN
- 9781349057115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.98
€ 59.98
Hardcover. Provides an reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. This book examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748698554
- ISBN
- 9780748698554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.88€ 103.30
€ 111.88
€ 103.30
Paperback. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333557211
- ISBN
- 9780333557211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333557204
- ISBN
- 9780333557204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Hardback. Yves Bonnefoy is considered as foremost French poet of his generation. This title features both epigrammatic concision and narratives that meander with the poet's thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. It also includes Bonnefoy childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverley Bie. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422279
- ISBN
- 9780857422279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.45
€ 20.99
€ 18.45
Paperback. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674780286
- ISBN
- 9780674780286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.15
€ 42.99
€ 36.15
Paperback. This work presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women. Editor(s): Conley, John J. (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, USA). Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226648330
- ISBN
- 9780226648330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.04
€ 32.99
€ 26.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801497674
- ISBN
- 9780801497674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Hardcover. "Rulin waishi" (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is an 18th century landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. Through a close reading of this novel, the author seeks answers to such questions as: what accounts for the literati's enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010956
- ISBN
- 9780674010956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
€ 44.99
€ 38.32
Hardback. This book, the first of two volumes, is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. The study draws on the existing work concerning queenship but innovates in its focus on the literary, feminist, and philosophical representations of female governance in France. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JD; DSBD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137567970
- ISBN
- 9781137567970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. This book, the second of two volumes, explores and analyzes the dramatic representations of women in power in seventeenth-century France. Key to the analysis is an examination of the ways in which questions of virtue and sexual differentiation are negotiated and how they contribute to the construction of a nascent paradigm of equality. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137568427
- ISBN
- 9781137568427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. Explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts. Focusing on pre-Conquest works, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon writers drew upon accounts of legendary royal wives to construct cultural ideals of queenship during a time when that institution was undergoing profound change. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033101
- ISBN
- 9780268033101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is the most popular poet in the United States. The main key to Rumi's success is the spiritual appeal of his work. It combines lyrical beauty with philosophical profundity, a sense of rapture and an acute awareness of human suffering in ways which speak directly to contemporary audiences. Editor(s): Washington, Peter. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 116 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841597690
- ISBN
- 9781841597690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.48
€ 16.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, this title is written by a medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular poet in America. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 35. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061905834
- ISBN
- 9780061905834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.21
€ 16.99
€ 12.21
Paperback. Augusten Burroughs's jaw-dropping memoir, out now in paperback: 'Adrian Mole scripted by Hieronymous Bosch' Fiona Hook, The Times Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843541516
- ISBN
- 9781843541516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691608501
- ISBN
- 9780691608501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 42.58
€ 53.00
€ 42.58
Hardcover. These essays present a wide ranging re-evaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offer new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender in the Victorian period, and in our own. Num Pages: 225 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333968970
- ISBN
- 9780333968970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. In this volume, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskin's voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333915608
- ISBN
- 9780333915608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349423156
- ISBN
- 9781349423156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. This collection of essays sets out to challenge the dominant narrative about Victorian theatre by placing the practices and products of the Victorian theatre in relation to Victorian visual culture, through the lens of the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre', an approach to theatre which values its educative purpose as well as its aesthetic expression. Editor(s): Heinrich, Anselm; Newey, Kate; Richards, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200593
- ISBN
- 9780230200593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95