Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts. Focusing on pre-Conquest works, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon writers drew upon accounts of legendary royal wives to construct cultural ideals of queenship during a time when that institution was undergoing profound change. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033101
- ISBN
- 9780268033101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.43
€ 32.99
€ 29.43
Paperback. This edition of the letters between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson has been expanded and revised to include 59 letters discovered after the book's original publication in 1979. The additional letters and new annotations clarify the correspondence and illuminate the writers' friendship. Editor(s): Karlinsky, Simon. Num Pages: 398 pages, 26 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220805
- ISBN
- 9780520220805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.75
€ 35.99
€ 26.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231034654
- ISBN
- 9780231034654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.06
€ 50.06
Paperback. Translator(s): Joyce, Jane Wilson. Series: Masters of Latin Literature. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1900
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801481376
- ISBN
- 9780801481376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.52
€ 34.99
€ 31.52
Paperback. Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?' Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 halftones in text. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068418
- ISBN
- 9780472068418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.16
€ 29.99
€ 27.16
Paperback. A cultural studies examination of the 20th-century genre of dystopian fiction in the political and scholarly context of the evolution of science fiction studies and utopian studies since the 1960s. Num Pages: 406 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813397689
- ISBN
- 9780813397689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.22
€ 73.22
Paperback. This book gathers some of the most important studies from the past twenty-five years of scholarship on the greatest Old English literary work. Editor(s): Baker, Peter S. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815336662
- ISBN
- 9780815336662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.68
€ 59.68
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353898
- ISBN
- 9780822353898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. The essays here speak from a conviction that torture does not work to elicit truth, secure justice, or maintain security Editor(s): Carlson, Julie A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSC; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242252
- ISBN
- 9780823242252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. Series: Broadview Literary Texts. Num Pages: 299 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551113227
- ISBN
- 9781551113227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.38
€ 51.38
Paperback. A long-overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones. Barbara Gates, University of Delaware Editor(s): Collins, Thomas J. Num Pages: 692 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 902.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 692
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551113661
- ISBN
- 9781551113661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.52€ 61.41
€ 79.52
€ 61.41
Paperback. Marking a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a modern consciousness, this play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly. Editor(s): Gladden, Samuel Lyndon. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551116945
- ISBN
- 9781551116945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.44
€ 23.99
€ 18.44
Paperback. E. Pauline Johnson's writings on Indigenous issues and identity are gathered for the first time in this new collection. Editor(s): Fee, Margery; Nason, Dory. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811915
- ISBN
- 9781554811915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.12
€ 31.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. This brilliant guide provides an introductory overview of the history of 'literature' as a cultural concept, reflecting on its contemporary nature, place and function, and what the literary might mean for us today. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOG0008010
- ISBN
- 9780415169141
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet's skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin's passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823276837
- ISBN
- 9780823276837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.01
€ 26.99
€ 25.01
Hardcover. Although often embroiled in controversy and public debate, Spender's all consuming passion was literature. This is a serious literary biography which quotes extensively from Spender's writing and shows its relationship to the major political and social events with which Spender became involved. Num Pages: 350 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160. Weight in Grams: 644. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0016490
- ISBN
- 9780715629482
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the best-selling book-length poem selected for the Best American Poetry annual in both 1999 and 2000. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 187 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306810732
- ISBN
- 9780306810732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.49
€ 23.49
Paperback. Consists of ten essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, and genre, to the fascination with Caxton's books. This book suggests that the first century of print production is defined less by transition or break, than by a dynamic transformation in literary production itself. Editor(s): Kuskin, William. Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; TDPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033095
- ISBN
- 9780268033095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.78
€ 34.99
€ 31.78
Paperback. Editor(s): Gale, Monica R. Num Pages: 200 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688898
- ISBN
- 9780856688898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.22
€ 33.99
€ 31.22
Hardcover. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772895604
- ISBN
- 9788772895604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 36.03
€ 49.99
€ 36.03