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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. "The Jew of Malta" was influential on Shakespeare when he came to write "The Merchant of Venice", the play exploring anti-Semitism and revenge. An introduction discusses the significance of this play, with detailed commentary provided for meanings of difficult words, lines and references. Editor(s): Bevington, David. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719051807
ISBN
9780719051807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.48

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

€ 46.84

Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718892258
ISBN
9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.35

Hardback. Editor(s): Donner, Fred M. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 2CSR; DSA; DSB; HBAH; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691640877
ISBN
9780691640877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.62

Hardback. Current date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSC; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691630755
ISBN
9780691630755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.96

Paperback. Explores the 19th century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. This book shows how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike. Num Pages: 248 pages, 17 color plates. 55 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2AB; 2ADF; ACQ; AFC; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143231
ISBN
9780691143231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.19

Hardcover. This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230670
ISBN
9780631230670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.51

Paperback. A comprehensive guide to Dante's life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante's writing, and the reception of his work by later readers, from the 14th century to the present. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631228530
ISBN
9780631228530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Brings Christian theology, creative literature and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'. This book also considers scientific views on the nature of time. It provides an exegesis of novels, plays and poems by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, T S Eliot, and Virginia Woolf. Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HRCM; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220848
ISBN
9780631220848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 187.90

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. Editor(s): Matthews, John T. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 616 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 180 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1198.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631206873
ISBN
9780631206873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 284.72

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. Editor(s): Anderson, Amanda; Shaw, Harry E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; DSRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 179 x 30. Weight in Grams: 978.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
532
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470655993
ISBN
9780470655993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 236.34

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780452298156
ISBN
9780452298156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.41

Hardcover. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780389208808
ISBN
9780389208808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.07

Hardback. This study aims to provide readers with a convenient source of reliable, scholarly, and accessible information on Chaucer's work, life, and times. Topics include Chaucer's works, major fictional characters, social, and political contexts, writers who influenced Chaucer or influenced by him, people and places of significance in Chaucer's life. Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333998083
ISBN
9780333998083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.89

Hardcover. Exploring Freud's use of the notion of "mass", Celine Surprenant treats it as an epistemological issue rather than exclusively as a socio-political issue. She raises anew the question of the "application" of psychoanalysis, beyond a mechanistic understanding of this term and of Freud's writings. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF; HRAB; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 373.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333997420
ISBN
9780333997420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Paperback. This text, first published in 1976, has been extensively revised in this new edition and includes new chapters on "Henry V", "As You Like It" and on "the study of the audience and the study of response". Num Pages: 275 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333995822
ISBN
9780333995822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Offering theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford, this volume addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure and aesthetic pleasure. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 294 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333995570
ISBN
9780333995570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Hardback. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, this collection shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Editor(s): Dolin, Tim; Widdowson, Peter. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333994450
ISBN
9780333994450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

Hardcover. This text defines the Shakespearean canon, from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" to "The Two Noble Kinsmen". It traces the influences on the drama of exile, examining the legal context of banishment (pursued against Catholics, gypsies and vagabonds) in early modern England. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 427.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333993446
ISBN
9780333993446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Hardback. This text places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-19th-century England. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333993378
ISBN
9780333993378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

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