Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Part Two set is comprised of The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, edited by Garrett A. Num Pages: 3072 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 177 x 172. Weight in Grams: 5610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 3072
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119969266
- ISBN
- 9781119969266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 1,094.87
€ 1,094.87
Paperback. The definitive biography of the war poet - 'Dominic Hibberd has probably done more more than any other individual to illuminate Owen's life and work. His new Life is a triumph .. it is difficult to believe it will ever be superseded' Mark Bostridge, The Independent on Sunday Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 584
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753817094
- ISBN
- 9780753817094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 438 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691629841
- ISBN
- 9780691629841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 218.75
€ 218.75
Paperback. Sensation fiction dominated the literary market in the 1860s. This book focuses on the roots of its emergence and demise, relating its rise to the crisis of faith in the ideology of self-help. Rance has also written "The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in 19th century England." Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349119660
- ISBN
- 9781349119660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.26
€ 71.26
Paperback. This book builds on a critical and scholarly revival of interest in Collins. Baker draws upon biographical revelations and the recent publication of Collins's letters to provide a unique insight into both the man and the writer. The volume will appeal to all students of Collins and those with an interest in the life of Nineteenth-century England. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349544493
- ISBN
- 9781349544493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
paperback. Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors. The book takes in Collins's notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a professional author in the changing world of Victorian publishing. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349525317
- ISBN
- 9781349525317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403948960
- ISBN
- 9781403948960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Almost on the centenary of his death, this book studies the novels of Wilkie Collins and attempts to appreciate his representation of Victorian mores. It pays particular attention to Collins' views on sexuality, both male and female, and the laws concerning the distribution of property. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349089024
- ISBN
- 9781349089024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.62
€ 71.62
Paperback. Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears. In this book, by reconnecting with this historic reality we are able to experience the true character of the playwright himself. It traces Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative generosity. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 312 x 36. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847924520
- ISBN
- 9781847924520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. Japanese "private writer" bridges gap between traditional and pop cultures with stories of the ordinary. Illustrator(s): Mitani, Tomoko. Translator(s): Meldrum, Yukari F. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888645449
- ISBN
- 9780888645449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.42
€ 30.99
€ 22.42
Hardcover. This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self's work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all his fictional and non-fictional work up to and including his Booker prize nominated novel Umbrella. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; JFC; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 297 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486554
- ISBN
- 9781137486554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardback. This study examines the ways in which Willa Cather handles landscape and exile in her fiction. Cather's characters are intricately connected to the places they inhibit, and they are often banished from a native or authentic landscape. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 127
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945636564
- ISBN
- 9780945636564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.40
€ 108.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780389208822
- ISBN
- 9780389208822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.65
€ 119.65
paperback. With a focus on Willa Cather's artistic principle of "the thing not named," this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories-regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class-around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326724
- ISBN
- 9780822326724
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Willa Cather. Num Pages: 370 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611474091
- ISBN
- 9781611474091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.52
€ 161.52
Hardcover. Drawing on a range of material from archives in the US and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. It explores "progressivism", "primitivism" and "Americanization" in such novels as "My Antonia" and "O Pioneers!". Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333634516
- ISBN
- 9780333634516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 209 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 13. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803279964
- ISBN
- 9780803279964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Presents a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. This work concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological". Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- 4th Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803263321
- ISBN
- 9780803263321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.99
€ 21.99
€ 20.99
Hardback. Willa Cather's Modernism challenges the assumption that Cather was an old-fashioned exponent of styles of fiction, demonstrating instead that Cather was clearly aware of the experimentation within the modernist movement. Illustrative chapters deal with three central novels: A Lost Lady, The Professor's House, and My Mortal Enemy. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Willa Cather. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470925
- ISBN
- 9781611470925
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Condition: New
€ 121.97
€ 121.97
Paperback. William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect" (1844) and "Hwomely Rhymes" (1859). Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 120 x 11. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main - Poet to Poet
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571236657
- ISBN
- 9780571236657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. This volume on Blake follows the writer's life and combines biography and critical analysis. Covering Blake's early career, his major works and his work as a visual artist, this new study will be a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts. Recent discoveries concerning Blake's forebears and their religion make this new study additionally timely. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BG; CF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546820
- ISBN
- 9780230546820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Hardback. In Blake's designs, transparent skinned bodies passionately contort in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. This volume re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; AGB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333968482
- ISBN
- 9780333968482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
Hardcover. Offering a challenge to the Blake establishment, this text places some of Blake's early prophetic works in new historical contexts. The book shows what can be achieved when feminist historicism is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333640364
- ISBN
- 9780333640364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.33
€ 128.33
Paperback. Taking into account Blake's unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order of the old regime. Num Pages: 392 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226502601
- ISBN
- 9780226502601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82