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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A study of William Bartram's "Travels", Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia", and J Hector St John de Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer" that situates them within two important intellectual traditions: the literature of travel and the science of natural history. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; HBJK; WN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 305.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812216868
ISBN
9780812216868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 770 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CS; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
770
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691653716
ISBN
9780691653716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 375.74

Hardcover. Editor(s): Zall, Paul M. Series: The Cornell Wordsworth. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801415364
ISBN
9780801415364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 177.08

Hardback. The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. Drawing on the contrast between Bakhtin's concepts of the carnivalesque and the domain of the law, this book examines such opposites in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 665.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729369
ISBN
9780804729369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.43

Paperback. Offering a look at the creative power of institutions, this book explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the 19th century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, it aims to bring to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era. Num Pages: 328 pages, 54 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; DSBF; DSC; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691049144
ISBN
9780691049144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.63

Hardcover. In this study of desire in late Imperial China, the author argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSA; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674005136
ISBN
9780674005136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 36.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1990
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349207251
ISBN
9781349207251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.69

Paperback. Editor(s): Roudiez, Leon S.; Jardine, Alice A. Translator(s): Gora, Thomas. Num Pages: 305 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
305
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231048071
ISBN
9780231048071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.18

Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631168140
ISBN
9780631168140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

Paperback. Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. This title reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. It assembles a compendium of Arabic writing to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. Num Pages: 472 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBF; DSBH; JFSL; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226509594
ISBN
9780226509594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.06

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226509587
ISBN
9780226509587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.85
€ 47.53

Paperback. Considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book draws on social theorists such as Kant, Weber, Simmel, and Elias to explore the connection between social and literary form. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268031060
ISBN
9780268031060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.19

Hardcover. These essays treat the use of Ovidian themes, texts and tropes in medieval Latin, Old French and in the writings of Boccaccio and Chaucer. They address the social and rhetorical construction of desire in amatory literature while they investigate the usage and value of contemporary critical theory. Editor(s): Paxson, James J.; Gravlee, Cynthia A. Num Pages: 239 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
239
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910130
ISBN
9781575910130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.52

Hardback. Throughout his life, John Donne was well acquainted with the consequences of desire. This book explores this dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired, while taking into account the developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and post-modern psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674023475
ISBN
9780674023475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.36
€ 54.32

Hardback. In readings ranging from early-16th- through late-17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in society and by their articulation of the desire to write. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729826
ISBN
9780804729826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.49

Paperback. In a set of readings ranging from early-16th- through late 17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in their culture and a variety of desires. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729833
ISBN
9780804729833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Provides a unique perspective on cultural life during the German Occupation, & offers crucial insights into the mind and art of one of the most original writers in the second half of the twentieth century Translator(s): Holand, Michael. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251001
ISBN
9780823251001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity in which Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer, Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's steward Manston. Editor(s): Rimmer, Mary. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435238
ISBN
9780140435238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. "No currently available anthology addresses the topic of the metaphysical detective story so directly, so fully, or so relevantly."-Brian McHale, West Virginia University Editor(s): Merivale, Patricia; Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216769
ISBN
9780812216769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Hardback. * A wide-ranging overview of Detective Fiction from its origins to the present day. * Combines general socio-historical background with 'casebook' chapters, providing students with close readings of key texts and introducing them to a variety of critical approaches. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 280 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629414
ISBN
9780745629414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Paperback. * A wide-ranging overview of Detective Fiction from its origins to the present day. * Combines general socio-historical background with 'casebook' chapters, providing students with close readings of key texts and introducing them to a variety of critical approaches. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629421
ISBN
9780745629421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.74

Hardback. Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HRQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639656
ISBN
9780748639656
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.89
€ 108.53

Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Geddes & Grosset (New Lanark)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KHN0001046
ISBN
9781842051542
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Geddes & Grosset (New Lanark)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KAK0010916
ISBN
9781842051542
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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