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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts. Num Pages: 1440 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
1440
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138753877
ISBN
9781138753877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.68

Hardback. Nature Speaks recovers the common ground shared between physics-what used to be known as "natural philosophy"-and fiction-writing as ways of representing the natural world. In doing so, it traces how nature gained an authoritative voice in the late medieval period only to lose it at the outset of modernity. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 456 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248654
ISBN
9780812248654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.61

paperback. Contains articles on almost all aspects of ancient philosophy that include critical notices of major books. This volume features essays on Empedocles, Xenophon, and Socrates, with several on each of Plato and Aristotle. Editor(s): Sedley, David. Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199287451
ISBN
9780199287451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.13

Hardback. An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 744 pages, 24 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 186 x 245 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
744
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199287246
ISBN
9780199287246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 206.33

paperback. Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism is a response to the Holocaust. He offers a range of new perspectives, including new ways of looking at testimony and at recent Holocaust fiction; explores controversies in Holocaust history; looks at the importance of the Holocaust for recent philosophy; and asks what the Holocaust means for reason, ethics, and for being human. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBG; HBLW3; HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199239375
ISBN
9780199239375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.42

Hardcover. This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had. Editor(s): Wyles, Rosie; Hall, Edith. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 496 pages, 28 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 227 x 33. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198725206
ISBN
9780198725206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.47

Paperback. Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women. Editor(s): Alberghene, Janice M.; Lyon Clark, Beverly. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138798977
ISBN
9781138798977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.65

Paperback. The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title covers the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg. Series: Scotnotes Study Guides. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; YQE; YQZ. Category: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight in Grams: 120. Series: Scotnotes. 56 pages. The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title covers the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg. Cateogry: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XR) Revision / study guides. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; YQE; YQZ. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Association for Scottish Literary Studies (AS
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9780948877056
ISBN
9780948877056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.29

paperback. This biography of William Wordsworth attempts to tell the story of his life through a rigourous reading of key and representative works of the poet. Its reading of the poems, in tune with current theoretical practice, offers a sense of the continuities in Wordsworth's life. Num Pages: 301 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217168
ISBN
9780823217168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

paperback. Focuses on European and American trial fiction since about 1880, arguing that, although generally animated by a sense of injustice, this literature reflects the virtual collapse in Western culture of the idea of a universal, or "natural", ethical law. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 429.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823215102
ISBN
9780823215102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

paperback. Traces sentimentality in 19th-century imaginative literature by focusing on six major writers: Tennyson and Dickens as the giants of Victorian domestic sentimentality; Hopkins and Hardy as transitional figures; and Lawrence and Eliot as representatives, in different ways, of that era. Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823214969
ISBN
9780823214969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

paperback. The relationship between James Joyce and Samuel Beckett has long been of interest to literary critics and readers. This volume provides the reader with an overview of the main trends and dilemmas that have dominated discussions on the complex Joyce/Beckett relationship, and pulls together previously scattered materials into a cohesive whole. Editor(s): Carey, Phyllis. Num Pages: 199 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823213412
ISBN
9780823213412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 125 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823210749
ISBN
9780823210749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. In such selections as The Search for Redemption, The Novelist as Prophet, An American Girl, and Flannery O'Connor's Clarity of Vision, ten critics examine the fiction of the modern American writer. Editor(s): Friedman, Melvin J.; Lawson, Lewis A. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823207114
ISBN
9780823207114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

hardcover. Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire is a new book of essays by distinguished US and UK scholars on this most influential and prolific of Victorian writers and thinkers. Editor(s): Dzelzainis, Ella; Kaplan, Cora. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719081330
ISBN
9780719081330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.09

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636658
ISBN
9780691636658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.00
€ 68.15

Paperback. Editor(s): Bagnall, Roger S. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History. Num Pages: 712 pages, 122 h/t, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 175 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199843695
ISBN
9780199843695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 87.00

Paperback. The first comprehensive study of fantasy's uses of myth, this book offers insights into the genre's popularity and cultural importance. Combining history, folklore, and narrative theory, Attebery's study explores familiar and forgotten fantasies and shows how the genre is also an arena for negotiating new relationships with traditional tales. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; FL; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199316076
ISBN
9780199316076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.05

hardcover. For over two centuries, scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays, and have used a variety of methods to differentiate their shares from his. This study takes up and extends these discussions, presenting an evidence. Num Pages: 576 pages, 5 halftones and numerous tables. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1131.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199256532
ISBN
9780199256532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.20

paperback. Euripides' Alcestis is one of the dramatist's most brilliant - as well as most controversial - plays. This thoroughly annotated edition is designed to aid close reading, and to serve as an introduction to the play in its various aspects. Editor(s): Parker, L. P. E. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3D; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199254675
ISBN
9780199254675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 88.87

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