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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137389206
ISBN
9781137389206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardback. Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137435989
ISBN
9781137435989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843009
ISBN
9781843843009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.85

Paperback. Peterson, University of Maryland; Francesca Sawaya, University of Oklahoma; Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY; Alpana Sharma, Wright State University; Lynn Thiesmeyer, Keio University; Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck College, University of London; and Julian Yates, University of Delaware. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801869358
ISBN
9780801869358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.65

Hardback. Editor(s): Jurney, Florence Ramond; McPherson, Karen. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319408491
ISBN
9783319408491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.14

Hardback. Speaking to the range of female experience during Early America, this rich collection conveys the acts of bravery, protest, and survival of women that contributed to the formation of an empire. Letters, diaries, and narratives, among other texts, serve as the point of entry into the overlooked topic of the female body as a site of contestation. Editor(s): Balkun, Mary McAleer; Imbarrato, Susan Clair. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 613.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137559906
ISBN
9781137559906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.91

Hardback. This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623051
ISBN
9780748623051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.07
€ 97.67

Paperback. This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623068
ISBN
9780748623068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 168 x 35. Weight in Grams: 842.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801888199
ISBN
9780801888199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.96

Hardback. This multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period. Editor(s): Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie. Series: Women's Writing Anthologies. Num Pages: 352 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DQ; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 889.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748610969
ISBN
9780748610969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.47
€ 158.83

Hardcover. In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230105416
ISBN
9780230105416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Touching on the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Proust, and Plato, among others, this title outlines the problem of duality in modern thought - the separation of the mind and body, word and referent, intelligence and mystery, human and natural - and makes the case for a fuller kind of nature poetry, one that strives to overcome this false separation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571313270
ISBN
9781571313270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.23

Paperback. The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the most basic facts about the work. This project attempts to discover the ways in which diagrams accompanying the text and its commentaries show trends in the development of the kabbalistic tradition as a whole. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HRAX; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531431
ISBN
9781349531431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 159.74

Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; D; DS; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403969743
ISBN
9781403969743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.53

Paperback. An account of blasphemy in Victorian England, retelling the forgotten stories of more than 200 working-class blasphemers, such as G.W. Foote, who stood trial three times for the crime of blasphemy. Foote's "martyrdom" transformed blasphemy from a religious offence into a class and cultural crime. Num Pages: 442 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; HBTB; HRAM7; HRCC2; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226506913
ISBN
9780226506913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349180264
ISBN
9781349180264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.22

Hardback. Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him-romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'. Num Pages: 256 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0027124
ISBN
9780199592166
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

hardcover. With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, this book is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Editor(s): Baker, Peter S.; Howe, Nicholas. Series: Toronto Old English Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated.........
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802041531
ISBN
9780802041531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297740
ISBN
9781349297740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116979
ISBN
9780230116979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

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