.png){kind=logo}
Literature: history & criticism
Results 3169 - 3192 of 9532
Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This revealing autobiography illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a personal insight into the life of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Pan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330484053
- ISBN
- 9780330484053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.32
€ 17.99
€ 13.32
Paperback. With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge the author takes up in this book, using Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone. Num Pages: 600 pages, 4 fine line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBF; JFC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674258624
- ISBN
- 9780674258624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.02
€ 42.99
€ 36.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Lacy, Norris J. Translator(s): Chase, Carol J.; Burns, E. Jane. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542. The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation. History of the Holy Grail. 348 pages. Editor(s): Lacy, Norris J. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 27. Weight: 550. Translator(s): Chase, Carol J.; Burns, E.Jane.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842248
- ISBN
- 9781843842248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.76
€ 40.99
€ 38.76
Hardback. In this edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson", Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition. Editor(s): Waingrow, Marshall. Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748606054
- ISBN
- 9780748606054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.13€ 116.66
€ 130.13
€ 116.66
Paperback. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472579492
- ISBN
- 9781472579492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.20
€ 46.99
€ 39.20
Paperback. Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846272721
- ISBN
- 9781846272721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.26
€ 10.99
€ 9.26
Hardcover. Updated editions in this trusted Shakespeare series Series: Heinemann Shakespeare. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 205 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435026479
- ISBN
- 9780435026479
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.94
€ 17.94
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442646377
- ISBN
- 9781442646377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.45
€ 72.45
Paperback. "This magnificent collection completely re-imagines the vast and well-trodden field of the Bible and Literature. From Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature offers a compelling narrative of how the English literary tradition has itself used, re-written and re-visioned sacred texts. Editor(s): Lemon, Rebecca; Mason, Emma; Roberts, Jonathan; Rowland, Christopher. Num Pages: 714 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 246 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1082.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470674994
- ISBN
- 9780470674994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.19
€ 51.19
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474415729
- ISBN
- 9781474415729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.47€ 102.72
€ 106.47
€ 102.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472573315
- ISBN
- 9781472573315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.89
€ 35.99
€ 30.89
Paperback. A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Translator(s): Kirkup, James. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185330
- ISBN
- 9780141185330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.84
€ 13.00
€ 11.84
Paperback. Editor(s): Wolfe, Cary. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816641062
- ISBN
- 9780816641062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. Why have ancient Rome and Greece been so influential? Series: All That Matters. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 179 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444177961
- ISBN
- 9781444177961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Presents the study of nineteenth-century American literature. This title examines the contexts of and critical responses to the author's work. Editor(s): Davey, Michael J. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415247719
- ISBN
- 9780415247719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.62
€ 31.62
Paperback. Offers a collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. This title includes a selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns' 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the men and women writers whose good-humoured accessibility so characterised the poetry of their time. Editor(s): MacLachlan, Christopher. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841952536
- ISBN
- 9781841952536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.28
€ 20.99
€ 15.28
Paperback. A study of modernist aesthetics, which attempts to reveal how the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation for such writers as Flaubert, Proust and Baudelaire. The author demonstrates how the modernist movement was influenced by Oriental culture and history. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3556. .
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822310945
- ISBN
- 9780822310945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. A guide to the myriad definitions and meanings of "ideology", this title traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Machiavelli to the present day; asks why ideology matters; and examines ideology within the critical frameworks of empiricism, idealism, Marxism, post-Marxism and postmodernism. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 224 pages, glossary, further reading, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415290128
- ISBN
- 9780415290128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.06
€ 36.06
Paperback. Retaining the first edition's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse - after correcting errors and reordering poems - this edition also contains a foreword that considers the heritage of the first edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books. Translator(s): Fowlie, Wallace. Num Pages: 496 pages, 6halftones, 7line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226719771
- ISBN
- 9780226719771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.16
€ 25.99
€ 21.16
Paperback. "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder." Translator(s): Smith, Chadwick, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 273
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804780605
- ISBN
- 9780804780605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses. Editor(s): Forey, Madeleine. Translator(s): Golding, Arthur. Num Pages: 576 pages, chronology, bibliog , notes. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 43. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140422306
- ISBN
- 9780140422306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. Showcasing a vibrant new generation of writers from one of the world's fastest-growing nations. Editor(s): Freeman, John. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADPB; DQ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 208 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Granta Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905881635
- ISBN
- 9781905881635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
€ 17.99
€ 13.03
Paperback. Richard Wright's "Native Son" (1940) presents an account of crime and racism which remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this book acts as a guide to this novel and provides a range of perspectives. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415344487
- ISBN
- 9780415344487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.83
€ 55.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 864 pages, 77. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1360.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 832
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801433542
- ISBN
- 9780801433542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.61
€ 86.61