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Literature: history & criticism
Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Wo...
Pamela R. . Ed(S): Matthews
hardcover. Ellen Glasgow's originality of mind and fascination with her native South are in display in this selection of her correspondence with women. Covering more than sixty years, Perfect Companionship collects some 250 letters. Editor(s): Matthews, Pamela R. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11ill. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923352
- ISBN
- 9780813923352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.50
€ 70.50
Paperback. Examines the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region. This book explores the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean. Editor(s): DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.; Gosson, Renee K.; Handley, George B. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923727
- ISBN
- 9780813923727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.51
€ 43.51
Hardback. While the exploration of outer space and cyberspace may now seem limitless, some planners and designers are reconsidering the importance of place. This book furthers this movement by retrieving some common threads of attachment to place in works by John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Henry James, Robert Frost, Wallace Stegner, Jane Jacobs, and others. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925004
- ISBN
- 9780813925004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.34
€ 65.34
Hardback. Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. This book examines the work of various writers to show how it expresses the appeal that rural and wilderness spaces can hold for the diasporic imagination. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926384
- ISBN
- 9780813926384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.88€ 71.35
€ 74.88
€ 71.35
Hardback. Investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas - William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant, Toni Morrison, and Saint-John Perse - to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926407
- ISBN
- 9780813926407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.12
€ 79.12
Hardback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926704
- ISBN
- 9780813926704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.25
€ 98.25
paperback. Examining novels by Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Sherley Anne Williams, Octavia Butler, John Edgar Wideman, Phyllis Perry, Ishmael Reed, Caryl Phillips, and others, this book presents an insightful approach to canonical and noncanonical contemporary fictional slave narratives. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927404
- ISBN
- 9780813927404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.13
€ 38.13
The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876-1909
Bradley, Katherine; Cooper, Edith. Ed(S): Bic...
hardcover. Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) - coauthors and lovers - for the poetry and verse drama they published. This book presents their love letters, which contain poems and insights into the dramas and their production and are supplemented by annotation and a biographical introduction. Editor(s): Bickle, Sharon. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBF; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927510
- ISBN
- 9780813927510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.85
€ 88.85
hardcover. Novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories. This title recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927794
- ISBN
- 9780813927794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.53
€ 95.53
Hardback. Focusing on the representations of spiritual crisis in twentieth-century African American fiction and autobiography, this title asks how some of the most distinguished writers of this tradition wrestle with the inexplicable nature of God and the experience of unmerited natural and moral sufferings such as racial oppression. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927961
- ISBN
- 9780813927961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.35
€ 84.35
hardcover. In his readings of "The Professor's House", "The Great Gatsby", and "Miss Lonelyhearts", the author finds that, far from the simple selfishness or apathy for which it is so often dismissed, the cynicism in these texts is suffused by a desire for the certainty promised by norms such as national teleology, ethnic identity, and civic participation. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928128
- ISBN
- 9780813928128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.86
€ 72.86
Hardback. With an essay examining an issue fundamental to all scholarly editing, the relationship between thoughts and the tangible records of those thoughts in physical documents, this volume also includes another magisterial study of early book jackets by G Thomas Tanselle, this time extending the examination into their florescence in the 1890s. Editor(s): Meulen, David L.Vander. Series: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928784
- ISBN
- 9780813928784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.90
€ 96.90
paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813929668
- ISBN
- 9780813929668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.98
€ 42.98
hardcover. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929798
- ISBN
- 9780813929798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.02
€ 78.02
Hardback. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930619
- ISBN
- 9780813930619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.86
€ 72.86
Paperback. Offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930879
- ISBN
- 9780813930879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.74
€ 64.74
Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment
Cazenave, Odile; Celerier, Patricia
Hardback. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930954
- ISBN
- 9780813930954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.35
€ 84.35
Paperback. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 285 x 17. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813931722
- ISBN
- 9780813931722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.21
€ 44.21
Paperback. "Originally published in French as aEcritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne: Littaerature, oralitae, arts visuels, 2007 aEditions l'Harmattan"--T.p. verso. Translator(s): de Jager, Marjolijn. Num Pages: 255 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813932095
- ISBN
- 9780813932095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 103.12
€ 103.12
paperback. "Originally published in French as aEcritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne: Littaerature, oralitae, arts visuels, 2007 aEditions l'Harmattan"--T.p. verso. Translator(s): de Jager, Marjolijn. Num Pages: black & white halftones, colour illustrations, maps, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813932101
- ISBN
- 9780813932101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.76
€ 53.76