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Hardback. The early part of the period covered by this volume marked the centrality of the book as a vehicle of communication. The later part of the period witnesses the book's decline as a mass medium, although it retains a high cultural value in contemporary society. Editor(s): Bell, Bill; Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair. Series: The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Num Pages: 544 pages, 49 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 252 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618293
ISBN
9780748618293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.49
€ 197.27

Hardback. Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain's greatest documentary film-makers. A member of the GPO Film Unit and director of canonical films such as Listen to Britain, he was also an acclaimed painter, photographer, poet and writer. This seminal collection of critical essays and archival material explores the life of Jennings and his many artistic works. Series: BFI Silver. Num Pages: 136 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AJB; APFB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844578023
ISBN
9781844578023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.85
€ 85.55

Paperback. This textbook makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. In more than 40 essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume positions Scottish literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media. Editor(s): Schoene, Berthold. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1, b&w. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 824.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623969
ISBN
9780748623969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Hardback. The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory. Editor(s): Hughes, William. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748642496
ISBN
9780748642496
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.64
€ 108.53

Paperback. Character Studies. Series: Character Studies. 160 pages. Aims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This series demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts' themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight: 194.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826493460
ISBN
9780826493460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.77

Paperback. Editor(s): Dow, William; Craven, Professor Alice Mikal; Nakamura, Yoko. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 457.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501312694
ISBN
9781501312694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.94

Paperback. This book provides a chapter-length discussion of the works of 20 major contemporary British novelists and features essays by many of the leading literary critics of the day. It offers new insights into complext contemporary novels and presents a new approaches to narrative, the new multi-cultural Britain, and the writing of historical fiction. Editor(s): Archeson, James. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474403733
ISBN
9781474403733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.38

Hardback. This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
218
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248175
ISBN
9780230248175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.84
€ 34.79

Paperback. This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624508
ISBN
9780748624508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. Editor(s): Dickel, Simon. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; AB; DSBH; JFCA; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837628937
ISBN
9783837628937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.21

Hardback. An introduction to internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Chang-Rae Lee and Amitav Ghosh, set in a range of literary-cultural contexts. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 443.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748622719
ISBN
9780748622719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.78
€ 97.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, 1 coloUr. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148. .
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837637045
ISBN
9783837637045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.27

Hardback. This new guide leads readers through the complexities of the text with detailed commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks and contexts. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1456.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639991
ISBN
9780748639991
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.00
€ 80.68

Hardback. The only book on Hugh MacDiarmid currently in print, this gives unique focus to the politics of modern Scotland's major cultural figure. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 Frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623341
ISBN
9780748623341
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.64
€ 108.53

Paperback. Explores the way Virginia Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. This book includes revisionary accounts of A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), and new readings of Woolf's major and less well-known novels, including The Pargiters, her failed 'essay-novel'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748694105
ISBN
9780748694105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering.The wide range of texts discussed, include Primo Levi, W.G. Sebald, and Alasdair Gray. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617630
ISBN
9780748617630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.50
€ 119.62

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. This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s to the present that experiment with both form and content. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624935
ISBN
9780748624935
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.78
€ 97.45

Hardcover. An interdisciplinary study that explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692958
ISBN
9780748692958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.71
€ 102.03

Hardback. This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623051
ISBN
9780748623051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.78
€ 97.45

Hardback. A biography of one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 702.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748611850
ISBN
9780748611850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.14
€ 147.13

Hardback. A study that examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema. It provides close readings of major and neglected work by Kafka, Joyce, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Nabokov and Beckett, revealing their complex relations with both theatre and cinema. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748684892
ISBN
9780748684892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.71
€ 102.03

Hardcover. Editor(s): Goldstein, David B.; Tigner, Amy L. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Duquesne
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820704951
ISBN
9780820704951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.15
€ 55.32

Hardback. This work offers a mapping of the cultural landscape of China in the late 20th century. By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the book dissects the intellectual, economic, and political contradictions of a turbulent era. Num Pages: 344 pages, 32 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738965
ISBN
9780804738965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.75

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