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Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921457
ISBN
9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.52

Paperback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921433
ISBN
9780813921433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.23

Paperback. His third novel, Jacques Stephen Alexis brings his powerful characterization and political consciousness to the age-old question of whether a prostitute can leave "the life" to find her own identity and true love. La Nina Estrelita is plying her trade during Holy Week, 1949 in Port-au-Prince. Translator(s): Danticat, Edwidge; Coates, Carrol F. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921396
ISBN
9780813921396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.82

Hardcover. In this study, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the 19th century and early 20th century novel. The author examines flirtation in major English, French and American texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921006
ISBN
9780813921006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.04

Hardcover. This volume examines the ways in which 19th-century novels and texts that portrayed women performing charity helped to make the inclusion of this work in the domestic sphere seem natural. It examines the contradictions this caused within the domestic ideal by making women "public persons". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920887
ISBN
9780813920887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.90

Paperback. This volume asserts that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American literary voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. The book provides evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920672
ISBN
9780813920672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.49

Paperback. Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination. This text explores the process by which this happened. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919805
ISBN
9780813919805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.93

Hardcover. Sensation novels - characterized by emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots - had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s. Exploring the metaphor of marital violence, the author examines the relationship between the representations of such violence in fiction and in the law. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC; JFFE3; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1061.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919492
ISBN
9780813919492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.51

Hardcover. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian theories of sublimation and courtly love to reconfigure this rift in the field of Hopkins criticism. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919409
ISBN
9780813919409
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.32

Hardcover. In this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HPN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919362
ISBN
9780813919362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.17

Hardcover. This text seeks to return Marie Corelli, popular novelist of the turn of the 20th century, to conversations about the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary world. It reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination and discusses how seriously we should take Corelli's aesthetic. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919157
ISBN
9780813919157
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. In the 1990s the field of ecocentrism began to establish and define itself. Arguing that the field has matured to the point where it requires a thorough critique and new theoretical underpinnings, this text suggests ways ecocentrism can become more sophisticated in its methodologies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919065
ISBN
9780813919065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.52

Paperback. An anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the "Yellow Wallpaper", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from "Herland", Gilman's feminist Utopia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918761
ISBN
9780813918761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.05

Paperback. One of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. This representative selection from Gilman's diaries includes entries written between January 1879 and March 1935. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 facsim.,1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; DSBF; DSBH; JFFK; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917962
ISBN
9780813917962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.60

Paperback. First published in 1963 this new edition of Ruskin's writings aims to make his ideas and works accessible to the modern reader. This volume powerfully demonstrates the range and inexhaustible vitality of his prose and provided a reference tool for Victorianists. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917894
ISBN
9780813917894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.13

Hardcover. A collection of essays form Louisa McCord, a 19th-century Southern US conservative intellectual. A supporter of slavery and a believer in the superiority of the white race, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles, supported laissez-faire political economy and abhorred socialism. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813915708
ISBN
9780813915708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.01

Hardcover. Jessie Fauset's and Nella Larsen's novels raise important questions about gender and race. This book looks at Fauset's "Plum Bun" and "Comedy: American Style" and Larsen's "Quicksand" and "Passing", finding them revisionary and subversive. It looks at their work rather than at their lives. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFF; JFSJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813915531
ISBN
9780813915531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42

Paperback. Studies the place of the feminine in Nietzsche's work, bringing together scholars in philosophy, feminism, comparative literature and German studies. Without dismissing his misogyny, the work argues that Nietzsche's many statements about women are ambivalent and cannot be labelled simply. Editor(s): Burgard, Peter J. Series: Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory S. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSBF; HPC; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813914954
ISBN
9780813914954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.56

Paperback. Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Hir, Taylor Mac's subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about gender, families, the middle class - and cleaning - in hilarious and ultimately tragic disarray. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810133587
ISBN
9780810133587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801486494
ISBN
9780801486494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13, 10 black & white illustrations, 3 charts. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801456565
ISBN
9780801456565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.33

Hardback. Editor(s): Hogan, William P. Series: The Cornell Yeats. Num Pages: 184 pages, 41. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447044
ISBN
9780801447044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.07

Hardback. Editor(s): Cave, Richard Allen. Series: The Cornell Yeats. Num Pages: 448 pages, 165. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 914.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801446115
ISBN
9780801446115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.37

Hardback. Editor(s): Mays, J. C. C. Series: The Cornell Yeats. Num Pages: 1152 pages, 297. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 74. Weight in Grams: 2085.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801443619
ISBN
9780801443619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 286.41

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