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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A rigorous and exuberant exploration of language Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242054
ISBN
9780823242054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.76

Hardback. Examines the unstable dialectic of reality and imagination, as well as of history and literature Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 655.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823234288
ISBN
9780823234288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.09

Paperback. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. This book takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism and digital information technology. Num Pages: 361 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226486963
ISBN
9780226486963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.59

Hardcover. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. This book takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism and digital information technology. Num Pages: 361 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226486956
ISBN
9780226486956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 78.69

Paperback. A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381168
ISBN
9781781381168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.01

Hardback. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9789380601045
ISBN
9789380601045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.69

Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936284
ISBN
9780813936284
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.72

Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936291
ISBN
9780813936291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.24

Hardback. This book shows how, in his enormously influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natural philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481822
ISBN
9781611481822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Open Letter United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934824320
ISBN
9781934824320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.59

Paperback. Mary Shelley was a complex and committed soc ial thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the im pact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. Lodore tells of a woman"s journey to reconciliati on with her mother. ' Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 555 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
555
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551110776
ISBN
9781551110776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.99

Hardback. Using the events of May '68 as a historical touchstone, this book examines the political ramifications of the literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic work known as French theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724456
ISBN
9780804724456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Whitehead, Andrew; White, Jerry. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
F First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907869662
ISBN
9781907869662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. On ten strolls through some of the most interesting areas of London, this work explores the literary landscape of the capital. It introduces Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth south of the river, finds Virginia Woolf and Lady Ottoline Morell in Bloomsbury, discovers Blake and Trollope in Westminster, and comes across John Keats in beautiful Hampstead. Series: Armchair Traveller. Num Pages: 224 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; DSRC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906598730
ISBN
9781906598730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.49

Paperback. The first book about the literature of the Irish in London examines over 30 novels, short stories and autobiographies set in London since the Second World War, to investigate the complex psychological landscapes of belonging and cultural allegiance found in these unique and intensely personal perspectives on the Irish experience of migration. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380154
ISBN
9781781380154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. A cultural and literary history of London, looking at the capital's development from Roman times to its modern-day role, as financial and tourist metropolis. Series: Cities of the Imagination. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 b&w drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Signal Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904955214
ISBN
9781904955214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.69

Hardback. London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city of London over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honor. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists. Editor(s): Gray, Rosemary. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; DQ; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 104 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Illustrated, Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509827688
ISBN
9781509827688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.49

Hardcover. This volume explores the centrality of the theme of exile as a way of understanding Robert Penn Warren's artistry, demonstrating that the exile figure is both a key to Warren's relation to much of 20th-century southern literature as well as an index to his growth as an artist. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820321783
ISBN
9780820321783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.64

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650951
ISBN
9780691650951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.20

Paperback. An autobiography that explains what it means to be a black ""rebel sojourner"" and presents the exposes of the Harlem Renaissance. This book challenges readers to rethink the author's articulation of identity, art, race, and politics and situate these topics in terms of his oeuvre and his literary contemporaries between the World Wars. Editor(s): Jarrett, Gene Andrew. Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA). Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813539683
ISBN
9780813539683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.53

Paperback. Editor(s): North, Richard; Allard, Joe; Gillies, Patricia. Num Pages: 888 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; 2ACSX; DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1310.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
888
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408247709
ISBN
9781408247709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.61

hardcover. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 1356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138177192
ISBN
9781138177192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.57

Hardcover. Examines the careers, talents, and styles of three women who were acknowledged, each in her time, as the greatest interpreter of Shakespeare's heroines: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench. Series: Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: ANB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325064
ISBN
9780820325064
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.54

Paperback. e single-volume edition of Osborne's two autobiographical works, "A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956" and "Almost a Gentleman: 1955-1966". The book also contains a review of the former by Alan Bennett entitled "Bad John", and David Hare's eulogy delivered at Osborne's memorial service in 1995. Num Pages: 624 pages, 32pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 50. Weight in Grams: 535.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571196494
ISBN
9780571196494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.22

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