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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

David Macey, Jr., " Et in Arcadia Ego?: Thomas Amory, Mary Hamilton, and the (Re)Construction of Arcadia"Howard Irving, "John Marsh and the Ancient-Modern Polemic"Amy Wyngaard, "Revising Rousseau: Young Legrand d'Aussy and the Challenge to Enlightenment Constructions of the Peasantry, 1787-1794" Editor(s): Mostefai, Ourida; Ingrassia, Catherine. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801872563
ISBN
9780801872563
Condition: New

€ 50.11

Firmly establishing the importance of the topic for understanding eighteenth-century English literature and culture, her work is bound to spur further discussion of the significance of incest discourses in the early modern period and beyond. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801872044
ISBN
9780801872044
Condition: New

€ 58.50

Paperback. A collection of essays from feminist critics, each of which explores the history of the English novel, literature's place in cultural debate and women's studies. They begin with the fictions of the late 17th century and end with Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen. Editor(s): Backscheider, Paula R. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801870958
ISBN
9780801870958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.09

The only full-length study of existentialism in America, this highly engaging and original work provides an invaluable guide to the history of American culture since the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18, 17 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; HPCF3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801870378
ISBN
9780801870378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.93

Hardcover. The author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801867552
ISBN
9780801867552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.98

Hardcover. How did Byron become "Byron"? The author of this text locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations he performed at Harrow School, in this examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience. Throughout, the poet is recognized in the boy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801863431
ISBN
9780801863431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Paperback. Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves.. and the accompanying original engravings. -- Diane Johnson, Washington Post. Num Pages: 512 pages, 33, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 749.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Maryland
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801842184
ISBN
9780801842184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.59

Paperback. Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a "guileless" protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier. Editor(s): Vautour, Bart; Robins Sharpe, Emily. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 148 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 185.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Edition
Critical
Condition
New
SKU
V9780776623689
ISBN
9780776623689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.61

Paperback. This is the first critical edition of The God of Gods: A Canadian Play by Carroll Aikins. With an abundance of archival material, this volume offers a unique insight into early Canadian theatre and modernism. Editor(s): Wright, Kailin. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Edition
Critical
Condition
New
SKU
V9780776623276
ISBN
9780776623276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.78

Paperback. The short story occupies a prominent place in Canadian literature and never more so than since Alice Munro's 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Kruk's work is a singularly original exploration of the layered "double-voicing" in the short fiction of eight acclaimed Canadian writers. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780776623238
ISBN
9780776623238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 39.57

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart Inc. Canada
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
SKU
V9780771016622
ISBN
9780771016622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.72

Hardcover. Editor(s): Marcus, Leonard S. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), photographs. BIC Classification: AC; DSB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 240 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 859.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Candlewick Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Candlewick ed.
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780763635060
ISBN
9780763635060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761823445
ISBN
9780761823445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.43

Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
UPA
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761819240
ISBN
9780761819240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.65

Hardcover. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Dr Julian (Loughborough University University of Portsmouth Loughborough University University of Portsmouth University of Portsmouth Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University). BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748699667
ISBN
9780748699667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.19

Hardcover. Offers a study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. This title provides the study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'. It challenges the misconception that girls were largely absent from English Renaissance literature. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748655908
ISBN
9780748655908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.71

Hardcover. The first book length study of Deleuze's critical and clinical project and the conceptualisations of health and illness he developed over the course of his career. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460. Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. 224 pages. The first book length study of Deleuze's critical and clinical project and the conceptualisations of health and illness he developed over the course of his career. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPS. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 18. Weight: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748650552
ISBN
9780748650552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.37

Hardcover. Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. This title explores the term 'Afromodernisms' and the study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic. It sets an agenda for the study of blackness and modernism. Editor(s): Sweeney, Fionnghuala; Marsh, Kate. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646401
ISBN
9780748646401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.97

This book defends and outlines the key issues surrounding the philosophy of content as demonstrated in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSBH; HPCF; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748611072
ISBN
9780748611072
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.23

Hardback. A new edition of The Talisman, the second of Tales of the Crusaders, which is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189-92) Editor(s): Ellis, J. B.; Alexander, J.H. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 448 pages, glossaries. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 32. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748605828
ISBN
9780748605828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.21

Focuses on the work of Umberto Eco - one of Europe's best-known writers and intellectuals. This title covers the range of Eco's work, from his theoretical writings on semiotics to his best-selling novels. It assesses the influence of Eco's work on contemporary culture. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745608495
ISBN
9780745608495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.96

Paperback. Argues that four French writers - Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Leila Sebbar - practice "activist writing" which, when combined with the work of certain photographers, reframes a picture of Maghreb produced by two centuries of Orientalist misrepresentation. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AJC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742515468
ISBN
9780742515468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.10

Paperback. These stories introduce an emerging generation of women writers, including Chen Ran, Bikwan Wong and Chen Xue. By presenting fiction from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the collection deliberately maps the literary contours of same-sex intimacy in cultural rather than purely political terms. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; DSBH; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742511385
ISBN
9780742511385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.57

Hardcover. This study provides literary analysis of some of the most celebrated Greek novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the issues of identity, autobiography and social determinism raised in these texts. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Lexington Books
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739106259
ISBN
9780739106259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.43

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