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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw 'the Indian Mutiny' of 1857-59 as an epochal event. This book seeks to discover why. It offers a view of this episode - and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally - at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTQ; HBTV; JWXT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143309
ISBN
9780691143309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.24

Paperback. Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141664
ISBN
9780691141664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.36

Hardback. Offers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples. Num Pages: 608 pages, 60 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1176.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141350
ISBN
9780691141350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.77
€ 41.45

Hardback. Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691139845
ISBN
9780691139845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.78

Paperback. Integrates archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. This book traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138459
ISBN
9780691138459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.20

Paperback. Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than novelist Philip Roth? This book examines Roth's 'mature immaturity' in its depth and richness. It lets readers to reconsider the narrow categories into which Roth has often been slotted - laureate of Newark, New Jersey; junior partner in the firm Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, and Malamud. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138435
ISBN
9780691138435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138145
ISBN
9780691138145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.22
€ 58.48

Hardback. Answers the question, 'how does one read an author', by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. This book provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138121
ISBN
9780691138121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. Traces the uses of "Hamlet" in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. This title identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic "Hamlet". Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691137803
ISBN
9780691137803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.77
€ 41.45

Hardback. Presents a philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's "Othello". This book opens with a portrait of Iago, and considers the nature and moral significance of the evil that he represents. It addresses the boundaries dividing normality and pathology. Translator(s): Lob, Ladislaus. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691137339
ISBN
9780691137339
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.23

Hardback. There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. This book illuminates the fundamental concern with democratic sovereignty that informs the literary works of the twentieth century. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136950
ISBN
9780691136950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.36
€ 54.48

Hardback. W H Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work - it changed the course of American poetry itself. This book deals with Auden's influence on American poetry. It offers an account of Auden's dramatic impact on the younger American poets, from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136790
ISBN
9780691136790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.77
€ 41.45

Paperback. Revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136301
ISBN
9780691136301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.62

Hardback. Charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U S Civil War, this title identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136134
ISBN
9780691136134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49
€ 50.27

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136127
ISBN
9780691136127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.93

Paperback. What impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy? This book argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691134741
ISBN
9780691134741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.24

Paperback. A translated selection from the epic five-volume "Italian Il Romanzo" (2001-2003), this title views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. It is suitable for all students and scholars of literature. Editor(s): Moretti, Franco. Num Pages: 960 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
944
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691134734
ISBN
9780691134734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.63
€ 46.12

Paperback. Presents Albert Camus' WWII resistance and early postwar writings published in Combat, the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer. These writing depict issues ranging from the liberation, deportation, justice for collaborators, the return of POWs, to the postwar role of international institutions. Editor(s): Levi-Valensi, Jacqueline. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Second Printing
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691133768
ISBN
9780691133768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.94

Paperback. With selections extending from the beginning of comparative study through the years of intensive theoretical inquiry and on to contemporary discussions of the world's literatures, this title helps readers navigate a rapidly evolving discipline in a dramatically changing world. Editor(s): Damrosch, David; Melas, Natalie; Buthelezi, Mbongiseni. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 688.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691132853
ISBN
9780691132853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 38.89

Hardback. "The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 408 pages, 20 color illus. 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131368
ISBN
9780691131368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.95
€ 66.99

Hardback. Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. This work helps us to appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's masterpiece and, in the process, presents a humane vision of fiction as an alternative reality that can help us imagine a different and better world. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 220 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131115
ISBN
9780691131115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

Hardback. Arguing for Harlem as a crossroads between writers and the image, this book explores its power for canonical writers, whose work was profoundly responsive to the changing meanings and uses of photographs. It opens possibilities for understanding the entangled histories of literature and the photograph. Num Pages: 376 pages, 73 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130873
ISBN
9780691130873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49
€ 50.39

Hardback. Traces how the William Faulkner's fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's modernization in the mid-twentieth century. By demonstrating the interrelation of literary forms and economic systems, this book describes, the poetics of an economy. It makes helps the reader understand the relation between literature and history. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130712
ISBN
9780691130712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.36
€ 54.68

Paperback. Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130330
ISBN
9780691130330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.91

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