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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Examines the novels of four Caribbean women writers who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies represents difference. This book represents a phase in postcolonial studies that calls for a fundamental rethinking of the terminology and assumptions. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923475
ISBN
9780813923475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.62

Hardcover. Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style analyses the strengths and failures of her poetry, its attention to rhythm and the shifts of diction, its momentum and reserve, and the rationale for its revision. It also explores Rossetti's poetry for children, her reconfiguration of religion and poetry and the influences of female precursors she admired. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923390
ISBN
9780813923390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.04

Hardcover. There is a preoccupation with religion in the work of Northrop Frye. This book shows that it played a greater role than assumed - religion was central to practically everything Frye wrote. It focuses on the works with which Frye began and ended his career - "Fearful Symmetry" and, 50 years on, his two studies of the Bible and "The Double Vision". Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922997
ISBN
9780813922997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.47

Hardcover. Christina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets. "The Letters of Christina Rossetti" makes available all of her extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never before been published. These letters come from over 100 private and institutional collections. The fourth and final volume covers the last eight years of her life. Editor(s): Harrison, Antony H. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 975.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922959
ISBN
9780813922959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.24

Paperback. Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T. S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922782
ISBN
9780813922782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.37

Hardcover. In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman. This is Hannah Adam's biography, which focuses primarily on the intimate connection between Adams's reading and her own literary work. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 803.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press Virginia
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922720
ISBN
9780813922720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.55

Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922553
ISBN
9780813922553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.44

Hardcover. Largely ignored in American literary history, the magazine was extremely popular throughout the 19th century, with editors describing the form as a virtual "necessity". This book covers a variety of magazines and authors emphasizing their engagement with the social issues of the day. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 b&w illustrations, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922409
ISBN
9780813922409
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98

Hardcover. Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922171
ISBN
9780813922171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.34

Hardcover. Part guidebook and part exploration into literary history, this book explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. The author examines how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JM; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921679
ISBN
9780813921679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.85

Paperback. Aiming to help readers overcome the difficulties of approaching poetry, this study provides a historical overview of theories of interpretation as they apply to symbol and allegory. Beginning with the Greeks, Brittan moves from classical theory through to Romantics and Modern ideas. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921570
ISBN
9780813921570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.01

Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921457
ISBN
9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.52

Paperback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921433
ISBN
9780813921433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.23

Hardcover. In this study, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the 19th century and early 20th century novel. The author examines flirtation in major English, French and American texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921006
ISBN
9780813921006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.04

Hardcover. This volume examines the ways in which 19th-century novels and texts that portrayed women performing charity helped to make the inclusion of this work in the domestic sphere seem natural. It examines the contradictions this caused within the domestic ideal by making women "public persons". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920887
ISBN
9780813920887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.90

Paperback. This volume asserts that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American literary voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. The book provides evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920672
ISBN
9780813920672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.49

Paperback. Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination. This text explores the process by which this happened. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919805
ISBN
9780813919805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.93

Hardcover. Sensation novels - characterized by emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots - had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s. Exploring the metaphor of marital violence, the author examines the relationship between the representations of such violence in fiction and in the law. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC; JFFE3; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1061.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919492
ISBN
9780813919492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.51

Hardcover. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian theories of sublimation and courtly love to reconfigure this rift in the field of Hopkins criticism. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919409
ISBN
9780813919409
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.32

Hardcover. In this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HPN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919362
ISBN
9780813919362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.17

Hardcover. This text seeks to return Marie Corelli, popular novelist of the turn of the 20th century, to conversations about the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary world. It reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination and discusses how seriously we should take Corelli's aesthetic. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919157
ISBN
9780813919157
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. In the 1990s the field of ecocentrism began to establish and define itself. Arguing that the field has matured to the point where it requires a thorough critique and new theoretical underpinnings, this text suggests ways ecocentrism can become more sophisticated in its methodologies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919065
ISBN
9780813919065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.52

Paperback. An anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the "Yellow Wallpaper", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from "Herland", Gilman's feminist Utopia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918761
ISBN
9780813918761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.05

Paperback. One of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. This representative selection from Gilman's diaries includes entries written between January 1879 and March 1935. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 facsim.,1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; DSBF; DSBH; JFFK; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917962
ISBN
9780813917962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.60

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