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Hardback. This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230272293
ISBN
9780230272293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.86

paperback. This book explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, but simultaneously closeted them within a form of writing that often encompassed genre, style, rhetoric and theme. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2007
SKU
V9781349540853
ISBN
9781349540853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403986412
ISBN
9781403986412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Hardback. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, 2, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887055
ISBN
9780801887055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.24
€ 56.48

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638010
ISBN
9780691638010
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.78

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691609805
ISBN
9780691609805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538898
ISBN
9781349538898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403981943
ISBN
9781403981943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230215597
ISBN
9780230215597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sheik, and the novels of Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137426970
ISBN
9781137426970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

paperback. Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sheik, and the novels of Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349490974
ISBN
9781349490974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252078842
ISBN
9780252078842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.25

Hardback. Editor(s): Daymond, M. J.; etc. Series: Women Writing Africa S. Num Pages: 562 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 233 x 44. Weight in Grams: 932.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Feminist Press at The City University of New York United States
Number of pages
562
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558614062
ISBN
9781558614062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.03

Hardback. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; DSB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319494265
ISBN
9783319494265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.15

Hardback. Draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and "the higher common sense". Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333614204
ISBN
9780333614204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349392469
ISBN
9781349392469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Women Writing the Nation engages in recent discussions of the development of British nationalism during the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Leanne Maunu argues that women writers looked not to their national identity, but rather to their gender identity to make claims about the role of women within the British nation. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482744
ISBN
9781611482744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.43

paperback. Editor(s): Soufas, Teresa Scott. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scholarly Book Services Inc United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780813108896
ISBN
9780813108896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349508518
ISBN
9781349508518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Hardcover. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 391.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403903068
ISBN
9781403903068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Paperback.
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746311448
ISBN
9780746311448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.94

Hardcover. This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship. Editor(s): Cook, Daniel; Culley, Amy. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230343078
ISBN
9780230343078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Hoeveler, Diane Long; Schuster, Donna Decker. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539307
ISBN
9781349539307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Hardback. Editor(s): Hoeveler, Diane Long; Schuster, Donna Decker. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 443.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403983831
ISBN
9781403983831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

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