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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. An interdisciplinary study of William Wordsworth's poetry and prose, combining literature, sociology, and geography, in which the author seeks to demonstrate Wordsworth's participation in the major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333718902
ISBN
9780333718902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Hardback. Featuring over 75 fascinating personal profiles of romance writers, this popular reference work also lists every book in every romance series and provides an index of author pseudonyms. Num Pages: 928 pages, 60 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1383.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
928
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810830028
ISBN
9780810830028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.20

Paperback. Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349454655
ISBN
9781349454655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Hardcover. Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137304971
ISBN
9781137304971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. This classic work, back in print for the first time in over a decade, questions the public's harsh perception of the artist, while at the same time gently poking fun at the artists' own, often inflated self-image. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415261876
ISBN
9780415261876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349231201
ISBN
9781349231201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 193.69

Hardback. This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894732
ISBN
9780801894732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.80
€ 65.80

Paperback. This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894749
ISBN
9780801894749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.19

This book explores the conceptual complexity and formal challenges posed by the concept of intimacy in eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804786096
ISBN
9780804786096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.39

Hardcover. Lee unfolds the stories of six women with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles and Napoleon against the grand narrative of England's 18th century empire building. This book is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312294588
ISBN
9780312294588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Hardcover. This study traces the conflict and co-operation that developed within and among literary families as they sought to leave their legacies in the English world of letters from 1760-1820. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604759
ISBN
9780230604759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. This title explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness and difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literature. Series Editor(s): Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. 224 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. Examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. This title explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness and difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literature. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight: 346. Series Editor(s) :Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748641987
ISBN
9780748641987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

hardcover. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403976451
ISBN
9781403976451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.00

Hardcover. The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a product of and response to a culture that was metropolitan in size and heterogeneity. This book analyses a literary genre that made creative use of a cultural confusion which elsewhere provoked anxiety. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251786
ISBN
9780230251786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Hardback. In Romantic Marks and Measures, Julia S. Carlson examines Wordsworth's poetry of "speech" and "nature" as a poetry of print, written and read in the midst of topographic and typographic experimentation and change. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 368 pages, 31 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812247879
ISBN
9780812247879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Hardcover. Nineteenth-century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of "Ivanhoe". This work argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to critique and change, rather than validate, the present. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333970072
ISBN
9780333970072
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain in the years leading to the Revolution. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349372492
ISBN
9781349372492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain in the years leading to the Revolution. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604681
ISBN
9780230604681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. This book, now in paperback with a new preface, explores the false starts of Romantic writing in Britain - misfits and misfittings - as a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself and the culture of Dissent. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 212 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137018526
ISBN
9781137018526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. An acute and searching account of a linked sequence of authors and literary episodes that centrally challenges and troubles much that is familiar about the history of Romantic writing in Britain. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349542383
ISBN
9781349542383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403989932
ISBN
9781403989932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardback. Effective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801897214
ISBN
9780801897214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.83
€ 63.20

Hardback. Editor(s): Duffy, Cian. Num Pages: 265 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319512457
ISBN
9783319512457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.11

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