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paperback. The relationship between fiction and historiography in Francoist Spain (1939-1975) is a contentious one. Making a decisive intervention in the debate about the ways in which narration determines both the meaning and truth of history and fiction, this title is of interest to students of politics, history, and literature of twentieth-century Spain. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315971
- ISBN
- 9780822315971
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Paperback. Reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. This book presents a view of the development of literary history in the United States, and a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315995
- ISBN
- 9780822315995
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Paperback. Editor(s): Arac, Jonathan; Ritvo, Harriet. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
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- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780822316121
- ISBN
- 9780822316121
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Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Paul Julian; Bergmann, Emilie. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 448 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 780.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316152
- ISBN
- 9780822316152
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316695
- ISBN
- 9780822316695
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€ 27.99€ 26.21
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Paperback. Ambivalent about the disruption, perplexity, and variety apparent in the London of his day, Johnson was committed to the conventions of moral reflection and troubled by the pressure to adopt the perspective of the crowd and the language of social theory. This work explores the consequences of his ambivalence and his attempt to order the chaos. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HPQ; JFSG; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317173
- ISBN
- 9780822317173
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Paperback. Focuses on the status of novels as commodities, their mediation of national cultures, and their role in transnational exchange. This book examines the forms and histories of the novel in England, Nigeria, Japan, France, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Editor(s): Lynch, Deidre; Warner, William Beatty. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 794.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318439
- ISBN
- 9780822318439
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€ 34.99€ 31.70
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Paperback. In narratives ranging from Eliot's and Trollope's novels about scandalous women to Oscar Wilde's writing and his trials for homosexuality, this book shows how, in each instance, sexuality appears couched in coded terms. It is suitable to scholars and general readers interested in Victorian literature, the history of sexuality, and gender studies. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318484
- ISBN
- 9780822318484
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Paperback. Documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in US history. This book examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2JN; DSB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319443
- ISBN
- 9780822319443
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Paperback. The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches to early modern literary works, using King Lear as the focus of her argument, and offering a theoretical framework of her own. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320388
- ISBN
- 9780822320388
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paperback. Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, this book challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century. It is of interest to readers engaged in literary and queer theory. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320494
- ISBN
- 9780822320494
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Paperback. Focusing on criticism of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries, this is a collection of essays considering various forms the dissenters used for their critique. Editor(s): Walker, Julia M. Num Pages: 312 pages, 7. BIC Classification: BG; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822320746
- ISBN
- 9780822320746
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Paperback. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321170
- ISBN
- 9780822321170
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€ 31.99€ 28.42
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paperback. Offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a context for understanding debates about America's relation to the rest of the world. Ranging over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, this work contributes to debates about utopian thought, globalisation, and American literature. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322474
- ISBN
- 9780822322474
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Paperback. A key participant in all the major debates in Latin American studies - beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism - the author is recognised for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. This book offers a selection of her essays. Editor(s): Newman, Kathleen M.; Pratt, Mary Louise. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 925.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322481
- ISBN
- 9780822322481
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Paperback. Covers a broad cross-section of eighteenth-century literary history. This book explores the intersection of literary studies with history, philosophy, psychology, and the visual arts. It discusses a range of topics, including feminism, nationalism, domestic ideology, and the classical novel-drama-lyric poetry triad. Editor(s): Brown, Marshall. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322672
- ISBN
- 9780822322672
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Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322962
- ISBN
- 9780822322962
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Paperback. Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323150
- ISBN
- 9780822323150
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Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narrative...
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Paperback. Presents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323402
- ISBN
- 9780822323402
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Paperback. Presents the Harlem Renaissance, exploring early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from figures such as Henry Louis Gates Jr and Houston Baker, this book looks at the work of four fiction writers: James Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323457
- ISBN
- 9780822323457
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