Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Myers, of prostitution in Restif de la Bretonne by Rori Bloom, of ruins in Lazzaro Spallanzani by Sabrina Ferri, of Arthur Murphy's female characters by Barbara Mackey King, and of recent film adaptations of the century's masterworks by Karen Gevirtz. Editor(s): Erwin, Timothy; Burnham, Michelle. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413761
- ISBN
- 9781421413761
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€ 51.99€ 42.94
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Hardback. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421414355
- ISBN
- 9781421414355
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€ 56.45€ 51.62
€ 56.45
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Hardback. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression. Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415208
- ISBN
- 9781421415208
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€ 51.99€ 42.94
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Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415239
- ISBN
- 9781421415239
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€ 56.45€ 51.80
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Hardback. Written in an accessible narrative style, The Afterlife of Little Women speaks to scholars, librarians, and devoted Alcott fans. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12, 2 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415581
- ISBN
- 9781421415581
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 42.94
€ 51.99
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Paperback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415727
- ISBN
- 9781421415727
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€ 35.99€ 30.19
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Paperback. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416984
- ISBN
- 9781421416984
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€ 35.99€ 30.19
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Paperback. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417028
- ISBN
- 9781421417028
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€ 40.65
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Paperback. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418223
- ISBN
- 9781421418223
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€ 35.99€ 30.19
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Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 34 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421419848
- ISBN
- 9781421419848
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€ 35.99€ 30.19
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Hardback. While the imperatives of the postmodern eventually gave order to this chaos, Wilkens explains that the same forces are again at work in today's fracturing literary market. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420875
- ISBN
- 9781421420875
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.28
€ 41.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 20th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421650
- ISBN
- 9781421421650
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Condition: New
€ 38.78
€ 38.78
Paperback. An argument, based in history, law, literature, and philosophy, for empathy as an integral part of decisions about who will be designated an enemy of the state Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; LNDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439903247
- ISBN
- 9781439903247
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€ 33.99€ 30.61
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Paperback. How race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and Americans Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; DSBH; JFSJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439905876
- ISBN
- 9781439905876
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909775
- ISBN
- 9781439909775
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
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Hardback. Reflecting the profound impact of critical theory on the study of the humanities, this collection of original essays examines the texts and artifacts of the Anglo-Saxon period through key theoretical terms such as ethnicity' and gender'. It explores the interplay between critical theory and Anglo-Saxon studies. Editor(s): Stodnick, Jacqueline; Trilling, Renee R. Series: Critical Theory Handbooks. Num Pages: 334 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 183 x 20. Weight in Grams: 694.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444330199
- ISBN
- 9781444330199
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Condition: New
€ 147.50
€ 147.50
Hardback. Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader presents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution and influenced the Romantic authors. The anthology features an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the 'Revolution debate' - from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Editor(s): Mee, Jon; Fallon, David. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; 3JF; DQ; DSB; HBJD; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444330434
- ISBN
- 9781444330434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.82
€ 109.82
Paperback. Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader presents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution and influenced the Romantic authors. The anthology features an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the 'Revolution debate' - from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Editor(s): Mee, Jon; Fallon, David. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; 3JF; DQ; DSB; HBJD; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444330441
- ISBN
- 9781444330441
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Condition: New
€ 43.63
€ 43.63
Paperback. This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. Editor(s): Luckhurst, Mary. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 608 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444332049
- ISBN
- 9781444332049
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Condition: New
€ 73.20
€ 73.20
Paperback. This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers.
* Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium.
* Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion. Editor(s): Worthington, Ian. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1076.
* Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium.
* Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion. Editor(s): Worthington, Ian. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1076.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444334142
- ISBN
- 9781444334142
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Condition: New
€ 59.81
€ 59.81
Paperback. A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond. Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars. Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth. Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature. Editor(s): Dominik, William J.; Hall, Jon. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 30. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444334159
- ISBN
- 9781444334159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.27
€ 57.27
Paperback. A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. * A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries. Editor(s): Kallendorf, Craig W. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 30. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444334166
- ISBN
- 9781444334166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.74
€ 59.74
Hardback. This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Editor(s): Cartmell, Deborah. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 25. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444334975
- ISBN
- 9781444334975
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Condition: New
€ 193.18
€ 193.18
Paperback. This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of the country's most critically celebrated and successful writers. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444336207
- ISBN
- 9781444336207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74