Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. This book fills a lacuna in the intellectual history of the seventeenth century by investigating the role that skepticism plays in the declining prestige of memory. It argues that Shakespeare and Donne revolutionize the art of memory, thanks to their skepticism, and thereby transform literary strategies like mimesis, exemplarity, and pastoral. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600287
- ISBN
- 9780230600287
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Paperback. This book discusses proto-sociological sketches of urban types and manners, a text-image genre which boomed in Europe during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD; HBL; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355716
- ISBN
- 9781349355716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This book discusses the visual and verbal city sketches which proliferated during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. It shows how sketches transformed models of visual and printed media and of life science into a unique kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNJ; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230518032
- ISBN
- 9780230518032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.53
€ 68.53
Hardback. Editor(s): Epstein, Marc Michael. Num Pages: 288 pages, 278 color illus. 11 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJS; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 289 x 232 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1556.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165240
- ISBN
- 9780691165240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.69€ 63.74
€ 81.69
€ 63.74
Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609804633
- ISBN
- 9781609804633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.22
€ 25.99
€ 22.22
paperback. Skirting the Ethical presents highly original readings of six pivotal works that, disrupting our conventional concept of morality, point us towards a non-prescriptive mode of ethics, as an ever-to-be-renewed rethinking that has much to do with the act of interpretation. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 figure, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757904
- ISBN
- 9780804757904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Editor(s): Williams, Daniel G. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854114624
- ISBN
- 9781854114624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.79
€ 61.79
Paperback. It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. This book demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Num Pages: 392 pages, 73 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 1KJ; DSB; HBTS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 249 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New in Paper ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160979
- ISBN
- 9780691160979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
€ 40.99
€ 29.04
Paperback. Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet. This title provides the account of the historical transformations which sugar's representation has undergone, providing a resource for scholars in Slavery, Caribbean, Black Atlantic, Postcolonial and Literary Studies. Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846317491
- ISBN
- 9781846317491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.79
€ 30.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. This revealing autobiography illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a personal insight into the life of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Pan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330484053
- ISBN
- 9780330484053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.25
€ 17.99
€ 13.25
Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; JPW; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804784085
- ISBN
- 9780804784085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.11
€ 54.11
paperback. "Slow violence" from climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. The author focuses on the inattention we have paid to the lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism. Num Pages: 370 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- GLD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780674072343
- ISBN
- 9780674072343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.06
€ 29.99
€ 23.06
Paperback. During the second half of the 18th century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. This work explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism permitted educated women to imagine themselves as political subjects. Num Pages: 354 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226310527
- ISBN
- 9780226310527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.48
€ 40.99
€ 31.48
Hardback. Series: Carnegie-Mellon Poetry. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887480065
- ISBN
- 9780887480065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.94
€ 26.99
€ 21.94
Paperback. Series: Carnegie-Mellon Poetry. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887480072
- ISBN
- 9780887480072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.31
€ 19.99
€ 17.31
Paperback. Translator(s): Fong, Professor Gilbert C F. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; AN; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 157 x 7. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629961015
- ISBN
- 9789629961015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.58
€ 15.58
Paperback. Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 319. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226873800
- ISBN
- 9780226873800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.08
€ 30.99
€ 25.08
Hardback. In So Close , the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644356
- ISBN
- 9780745644356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.80
€ 59.80
Paperback. In So Close , the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644363
- ISBN
- 9780745644363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.03
€ 22.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 38. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816696826
- ISBN
- 9780816696826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56