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Hardcover. Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory. Editor(s): Horner, Avril. Num Pages: 211 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224452
- ISBN
- 9780230224452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230246294
- ISBN
- 9780230246294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. 'In the Orchard' is not so much a collection of poems about birds as a book of memories and rare moments in which a number of familiar birds have played a spark-like role in bringing poems about. They are chiefly lyrical in character and range in time from 'Resurrection' written over fifty years ago to recent poems like 'The Bully Thrush'. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910392836
- ISBN
- 9781910392836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.58
€ 17.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. Seven lectures by one of Britain's leading poets tracing the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets in American and Britain since the 1930s. Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780373454
- ISBN
- 9781780373454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.72
€ 13.99
€ 11.72
Paperback. Anne Stevenson is one of Britain's leading poets. Astonishment, published just before her 80th birthday, is her second new collection since her much praised Bloodaxe retrospective Poems 1955-2005. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134. 64 pages. Anne Stevenson is one of Britain's leading poets. Astonishment, published just before her 80th birthday, is her second new collection since her much praised Bloodaxe retrospective Poems 1955-2005. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 6. Weight: 134.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249472
- ISBN
- 9781852249472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.65
€ 11.99
€ 10.65
Paperback. Contains poems which address the way the written word preserves yet distorts the lives depending on it for fame or survival. Here, the author rewrites the myth as an 'entertainment' to be set to music - her own original take on how ancient, classical stories are reinterpreted by societies that inherit and retell them. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852247751
- ISBN
- 9781852247751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.81
€ 10.99
€ 9.81
Paperback. Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in 1891 to her retirement from teaching in 1948. Num Pages: 600 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; 1DBKEWC; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 37. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895125
- ISBN
- 9780859895125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.87
€ 35.87
Paperback. Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099201410
- ISBN
- 9780099201410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Vintage Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099479413
- ISBN
- 9780099479413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
An insightful history of book reviewing as a genre and a detailed study of its role in Italian literary culture, Reviewing Mario Pratesi opens up a new area for investigation within Italian literary studies. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442648715
- ISBN
- 9781442648715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardcover. The cult of the child performer was a significant emergence of the Victorian age. Fierce public debate and lasting legislation grew out of the conflict between a desire for juvenile display and a determination to stop exploitation. This study explores the social and artistic context of their lives and their developing professionalism as actors. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ANB; DSBF; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230551558
- ISBN
- 9780230551558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Paperback. Presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory. This book examines debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts; introduces the reader to key thinkers in the field; and traces the links between theorisations and literary representations of memory. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415402736
- ISBN
- 9780415402736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Hardback. The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together for the first time. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 237 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618576
- ISBN
- 9780748618576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.78
€ 150.78
paperback. In examining the principles governing Gothic literature, this book proposes three new premises: that Gothic is poetic, not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions - Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 half-tones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226899077
- ISBN
- 9780226899077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.01
€ 36.99
€ 30.01
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 85.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226902272
- ISBN
- 9780226902272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.45
€ 21.99
€ 19.45
Hardcover. Explores Chinese artistic and stylistic influences on Modernist practice in early twentieth century Britain. This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. It offers a coverage of literature, painting and poetry, as well as performance and visual media, and more. Editor(s): Witchard, Dr Anne Veronica. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 b&w illustrations 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 2AB; AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748690954
- ISBN
- 9780748690954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.66€ 103.50
€ 111.66
€ 103.50
Paperback. Identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's "La Princesse de Cleves", Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", and poems by various authors. This book offers a counterpoint to anti-Enlightenment revaluations of passivity that have made non-mastery and non-appropriation the fundamental task of the ethical subject. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804752893
- ISBN
- 9780804752893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. Editor(s): Mai, Anne-Marie; Bredsdorff, Thomas. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 240 x 29. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Edition
- No Additional Printings Listed
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763531283
- ISBN
- 9788763531283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.48€ 46.84
€ 59.48
€ 46.84
Paperback. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Tivoli
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KEX0237783
- ISBN
- 9780717136070
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Gill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KLN0016554
- ISBN
- 9780717135998
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99