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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. An interdisciplinary study that explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692958
ISBN
9780748692958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.00

Paperback. Intends to bear on a variety of ancient and modern masterpieces - Homer's "Odyssey", the Bible, Fielding, Trollope, Balzac, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Faulkner, among others. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253207913
ISBN
9780253207913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.36

Hardcover. Kant's The Critique of Judgment> laid the groundwork of modern aesthetics when it appeared in 1790. Eli Friedlander's reappraisal emphasizes the internal connection of judgment and meaning, showing how the pleasure in judging is intimately related to our capacity to draw meaning from our encounter with beauty. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674368200
ISBN
9780674368200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.32

Hardback. Complicating our understanding of Victorian marriage ideology's more well-trodden focus on a productive, nation-building ideal, Exquisite Masochism offers fascinating insight into our own culture's debates around illicit sexuality, marriage, reproduction, and feminism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DS; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419930
ISBN
9781421419930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.57
€ 46.41

Paperback. Introduces the art of extra-illustration and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading. This work includes an introduction to the concept of designing and creating a unique book by adding external material and an overview of the phenomenon's history and its heyday in the later 18th and 19th centuries. Num Pages: 40 pages, 20 color illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; AKLB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 296 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295990231
ISBN
9780295990231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.27

Paperback. Examines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329749
ISBN
9780822329749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Lutterworth Press
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718892791
ISBN
9780718892791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.97

Paperback. Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 327 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740958
ISBN
9780814740958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691605029
ISBN
9780691605029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 41.94

Hardcover. In The Extravagant, Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period. He aims to illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language that is in the world. Also shaping the book is that a dialectic of instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work throughout modern culture. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268021818
ISBN
9780268021818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.73

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Edition
First edition.
Number of pages
54
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890650117
ISBN
9781890650117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.44

Hardback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231166348
ISBN
9780231166348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.66

Paperback. A systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226510644
ISBN
9780226510644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Dimension: 256 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838203652
ISBN
9783838203652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.75

paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DSB; DSC; HPCB; HRKN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442613119
ISBN
9781442613119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.59

Hardcover. This book is a detailed study of Ezra Pound's explicit and implicit use of elements of the Neoplatonic tradition in his prose and poetry, and of the way it informed his poetics as well as his political and social-economic views. Num Pages: 461 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
461
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472738
ISBN
9781611472738
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.87

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691600468
ISBN
9780691600468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.18

Hardcover. The third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed biography examines Pound's final years, which saw much personal tragedy for Pound at a tragic point in World history. Num Pages: 680 pages, 24-page plate section. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 169 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1206.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198704362
ISBN
9780198704362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.08

Hardcover. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. This title seeks to demonstrate that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557532275
ISBN
9781557532275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.00

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 180 x 14. Weight in Grams: 99.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Old Castle United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904048404
ISBN
9781904048404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.25

Paperback. Explores many of the important social, historical and cultural contexts surrounding the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Editor(s): Mangum, Bryant. Num Pages: 516 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 75.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107454163
ISBN
9781107454163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.00

Paperback. Series: Focus on. Num Pages: 50 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 136 x 5. Weight in Grams: 88.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
50
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075293
ISBN
9781906075293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.24

Hardback. This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Fitzgerald's major texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical and literary contexts and key criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Fitzgerald's work for the first time. Series: Analysing Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230292215
ISBN
9780230292215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 84.41

Paperback. The first edition ever published of Trimalchio, original version of Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby. Editor(s): West, James L. W., III. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521890472
ISBN
9780521890472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.80

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