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Hardcover. The Absence of America: the London Stage 1576-1642 looks at London theater at the time of Shakespeare and how it represented the New World, considering whether early modern drama was anti-American, as some contemporaries suggested. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198734321
- ISBN
- 9780198734321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.16
€ 157.16
Hardcover. This volume considers the phenomenon of mimetic contagion, whereby works of art draw viewers into direct imitation of themselves, and how it operates within specific historical contexts. Terence's Eunuch is used as a case study, situating the motif within the peculiarities of mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art. Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198738732
- ISBN
- 9780198738732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.09
€ 152.09
Hardcover. Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time draws on new archival research to suggest ways in which MacNeice's poetry is closely linked to contemporaneous developments in Irish literature and culture. Series: Oxford English Monographs. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198745150
- ISBN
- 9780198745150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.32
€ 175.32
Hardback. Editor(s): Denecke, Wiebke; Li, Wai-yee; Tian, Xiaofei. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199356591
- ISBN
- 9780199356591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 248.18
€ 248.18
Paperback. Translator(s): Powell, Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus Barry B (University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). Num Pages: 536 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199394074
- ISBN
- 9780199394074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.20
€ 54.20
Multiple copy . A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence. This young phenomenon-author, statesman, courtier, poet, and soldier-exchanged letters with some of the age's most influential figures. Includes general and textual introductions, biographical sketches, and notes. Editor(s): Kuin, Roger. Num Pages: 1464 pages, Frontispiece to each volume; 20 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBD; DSC; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 240 x 118. Weight in Grams: 2566.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199558223
- ISBN
- 9780199558223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 712.91
€ 712.91
Hardback. The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles. Editor(s): O'Neill, Michael; Howe, Anthony. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 733 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 179 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 733
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199558360
- ISBN
- 9780199558360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 244.44
€ 244.44
Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years. Editor(s): Brearton, Fran; Gillis, Alan A. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 744 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 744
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199561247
- ISBN
- 9780199561247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 227.33
€ 227.33
T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature provides a comprehensive discussion of the engagement of Eliot with that earlier English literary period which he declared to be his favourite. It offers a full sense of the critical and literary context against which Eliot measured his own ideas on Early Modern poets and playwrights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199574773
- ISBN
- 9780199574773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.12
€ 163.12
The second volume of this two-volume edition brings together leading scholars to offer the first full-scale literary history of Europe. Spanning the period 1348-1418, the volumes demonstrate in unprecedented detail what the free movement of European literature achieved through its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power. Editor(s): Wallace, David. Num Pages: 736 pages, 93 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 896
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199580026
- ISBN
- 9780199580026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 215.35
€ 215.35
Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies is a major reference work, which aims to provide informed insights into the possible future of postcolonial studies as well as a comparative overview of the latest developments in the field. Editor(s): Huggan, Graham. Series: Oxford Handbooks of Literature. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 180 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 752
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199588251
- ISBN
- 9780199588251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 244.73
€ 244.73
The authoritative, standard text of this cycle of religious dramas, one of the great literary and theatrical monuments of the late Middle Ages in English. Volume 2 contains the Commentary and Glossary, incorporating the most recent scholarship. Editor(s): Beadle, Richard. Series: Early English Text Society Supplementary Series. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 52. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199590360
- ISBN
- 9780199590360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.77
€ 165.77
A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199607945
- ISBN
- 9780199607945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.47
€ 77.47
Darwin's enormous cultural success depended as much on the construction of his argument and the artistry of his language as it did on the power of his ideas. By exploring Darwin as a writer as well as a scientist, this book transforms our understanding of him, giving us a Darwin who is comic rather than tragic and ebullient rather than austere. Num Pages: 272 pages, three black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199608430
- ISBN
- 9780199608430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.56
€ 45.56
Hardback. Volume Nine of The Oxford History of the Novel in English provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the 'world novel' in English. Editor(s): Crane, Ralph; Stafford, Jane; Williams, Mark. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199609932
- ISBN
- 9780199609932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 226.73
€ 226.73
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199645602
- ISBN
- 9780199645602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.14
€ 31.14
Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199647019
- ISBN
- 9780199647019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.11
€ 118.11
The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199662302
- ISBN
- 9780199662302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.91
€ 150.91
In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epit=edeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts. Editor(s): Moreno, Alfonso; Thomas, Rosalind. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199668885
- ISBN
- 9780199668885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.77
€ 168.77
Provides, for the first time, a full edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter, and gives detailed evidence for the second revision. Editor(s): Hudson, Anne. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 610 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 50. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 610
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199674299
- ISBN
- 9780199674299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.00
€ 154.00
This mid fourteenth-century poem was one of the most popular Middle English texts in its time. This edition makes it accessible to modern scholars with full annotation, a comprehensive introduction, and detailed commentary. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 45. Weight in Grams: 782.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199680993
- ISBN
- 9780199680993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.26
€ 153.26
The third and final volume of this first time edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter. This volume contains the texts of Psalms 116-150. Editor(s): Hudson, Anne. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 600 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 47. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199688180
- ISBN
- 9780199688180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.38
€ 123.38
A critical annotated scholarly edition of John Aubrey's Brief Lives with full editorial matter and definitive commentary. Editor(s): Bennett, Kate. Num Pages: 1968 pages, Numerous illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 168 x 118. Weight in Grams: 3214.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1036
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199689538
- ISBN
- 9780199689538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 616.11
€ 616.11
Hardcover. This Companion is the first place to look for information on the authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, and others involved in children's literature, and on the stories and characters at their centre. Written both to entertain and to instruct, it is a reference work that no one interested in the world of children's books should be without. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1140.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199695140
- ISBN
- 9780199695140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.10
€ 58.10