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Literature: history & criticism

paperback. From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature. Editor(s): Poplawski, Paul. Num Pages: 770 pages, 107 b/w illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781316506639
ISBN
9781316506639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.19

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 720 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1171.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646657
ISBN
9780691646657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 299.51
€ 222.66

Paperback. English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and The English novel. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199569267
ISBN
9780199569267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271035260
ISBN
9780271035260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.60
€ 83.18

Paperback. The canon of eighteenth-century poetry has expanded to include women poets, laboring-class and provincial poets, and many unheard voices. This book questions some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. Series: Longman Literature in English Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Routledge
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582227774
ISBN
9780582227774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.13

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651538
ISBN
9780691651538
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.72

Hardcover. Offers an annotated edition of both Creswell's English text, based on the original copy presented to the ambassador of James I, and his contemporary Castilian version from the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. Creswell draws on his personal knowledge to write comments about the Gunpowder Plot events. Num Pages: 210 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JD; DNF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780823214464
ISBN
9780823214464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.50

Hardcover. The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. * Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226291
ISBN
9780631226291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.79

Paperback. The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. * Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226307
ISBN
9780631226307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.18

Hardback. Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812241709
ISBN
9780812241709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.79

Hardcover. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403976697
ISBN
9781403976697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

paperback. This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537303
ISBN
9781349537303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Paperback. This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333463659
ISBN
9780333463659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Hardcover. Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity. Editor(s): Roe, Nicholas. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223745
ISBN
9780230223745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.64

Hardback. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333349052
ISBN
9780333349052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.87

Hardcover. An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies. Editor(s): Gildea, Niall; Goodwyn, Helena; Kitching, Megan; Tyson, Helen; Brunetti, Aymo. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 12. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478047
ISBN
9781137478047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

Hardback. English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author s exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present. Series: Classical Receptions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 252 x 18. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405199018
ISBN
9781405199018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.79

Hardback. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493061
ISBN
9781611493061
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.87

Paperback. Editor(s): Sheen, B.A. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 21. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590332603
ISBN
9781590332603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.78
€ 71.15

Hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403988287
ISBN
9781403988287
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Hardcover. This study looks particularly at Enid Blyton's "Noddy", "The Famous Five" and "Malory Towers". It draws extensively on the view of her readership, past and present, and uses a variety of critical approaches to show how adult criticism has consistently missed the secret of her appeal. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333747186
ISBN
9780333747186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.41

Hardback. Draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. This book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 color illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HPM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691151588
ISBN
9780691151588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. This book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 color illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF; JMS; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159539
ISBN
9780691159539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.43

paperback. Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HRC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2006
SKU
V9781349535637
ISBN
9781349535637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

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