Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Late style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliche of 'late style' , questioning whether Titian, Beethoven, Goethe and others can usefully be assimilated to one another, as though their particular social and historical circumstances had been transcended by a singular existential predicament. Editor(s): Smiles, Sam; McMullan, Gordon. Num Pages: 250 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198704621
- ISBN
- 9780198704621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.15
€ 143.15
Hardcover. Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years of James's writing life, focussing on the rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction which he began to produce in the 1890s Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198734802
- ISBN
- 9780198734802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.73
€ 165.73
Hardcover. This book surveys the phenomenon of Renaissance verse libel and provides carefully edited texts of fifty-two of these insulting manuscript poems, most of them made available here for the first time. Difficult and unusual words in these poems are glossed, while the commentary explains who is being attacked and why. Num Pages: 464 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 782.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739210
- ISBN
- 9780198739210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.95
€ 155.95
hardcover. Michael Anesko explores Henry James's efforts to correct 'mistakes' that he later perceived in his books as first printed. He focuses on two of Henry James's most important texts, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The Ambassadors (1903), and the ways in which both betray (in very peculiar ways) the fallibility of James himself. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 179 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198794882
- ISBN
- 9780198794882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.31
€ 111.31
hardcover. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within the charged atmosphere of seventeenth-century France. She investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity, and in doing so offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels. Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198796770
- ISBN
- 9780198796770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.47
€ 142.47
paperback. Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." In God's Arbiters, Susan K. Harris shows that the identification of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation" played a major role in the debates over U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Imagining the Americas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Usa United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199307203
- ISBN
- 9780199307203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.93
€ 47.93
Hardback. Editor(s): Elsner, Jas; Hernandez Lobato, Jesus. Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Num Pages: 544 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 43. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199355631
- ISBN
- 9780199355631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.13
€ 179.13
hardcover. This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished notebooks that functioned as a major ante-text of Historical Criticism (1879). The notebook illuminates Wilde's practices of research and composition, contains the unused materials Wilde studied, and shows his wit and imagination at work. Editor(s): Smith, Philip E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGL; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199688012
- ISBN
- 9780199688012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.67
€ 177.67
hardcover. This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety-from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey H. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 592 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 255 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1068.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199731497
- ISBN
- 9780199731497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 225.87
€ 225.87
Hardback. The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English. Editor(s): Gikandi, Simon. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1104.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199765096
- ISBN
- 9780199765096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.69
€ 180.69
Paperback. Uncovering a substantial variety of books by women about the diverse West Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 5SL; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078842
- ISBN
- 9780252078842
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.84
€ 35.99
€ 32.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016279
- ISBN
- 9780674016279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.70
€ 36.99
€ 31.70
Paperback. Traces the growth of ancient biography from the 5th century to the 1st century BC and includes the essay "Second Thoughts on Greek Biography". Momigliano clarifies the social and intellectual implications of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CJCW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674200418
- ISBN
- 9780674200418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.69
€ 35.99
€ 30.69
Paperback. The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature. Dendle argues that the devil?s nebulous character reflects anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802083692
- ISBN
- 9780802083692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.36
€ 42.99
€ 38.36
Paperback. This volume traces Yeats' fascination with the visual arts and their influence on his poetry. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux demonstrates how the influences in Yeats' early years, especially his interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting, helped shape his aesthetic theory and practice as a poet. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 60 photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACVM; AFKB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629955
- ISBN
- 9780815629955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.84
€ 32.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816616961
- ISBN
- 9780816616961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.54
€ 32.99
€ 29.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816625277
- ISBN
- 9780816625277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.13
€ 27.99
€ 26.13
Hardcover. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshalled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change. Num Pages: 512 pages, 25 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332864
- ISBN
- 9780820332864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.33
€ 153.33
hardcover. Editor(s): Watts, Edward; Holt, Keri; Funchion, John. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white photograph, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820348223
- ISBN
- 9780820348223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, profusely illustrated in colour throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; AGB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 245 x 18. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Halstar
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906690571
- ISBN
- 9781906690571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.68
€ 33.99
€ 28.68
Hardcover. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Handmaid's Tale, and more. Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination. Num Pages: 160 pages, 80 full spread, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pulp/Zest Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936976867
- ISBN
- 9781936976867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.84
€ 25.99
€ 24.84
Paperback. The first full account of Whitman's Civil War years sheds new light on the man, his poetry, and the treatment of the war's sick and wounded. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1K; 2ABM; 3JH; BGH; DSBF; DSC; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195147094
- ISBN
- 9780195147094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.11
€ 28.11
Paperback. Editor(s): Bailey, Tom. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195395655
- ISBN
- 9780195395655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 148.79
€ 148.79
Hardcover. Series: The Cornell Wordsworth. Num Pages: 832 pages, 106ill. BIC Classification: DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160. Weight in Grams: 1320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801412837
- ISBN
- 9780801412837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 284.63
€ 284.63