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Paperback. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418223
- ISBN
- 9781421418223
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€ 35.99€ 30.42
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Paperback. " Funny, raw, and colorfully musical, "Nod" plays what teeters, like a tuning fork. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417141
- ISBN
- 9781421417141
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€ 20.99€ 19.10
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Paperback. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416984
- ISBN
- 9781421416984
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€ 35.99€ 30.42
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Paperback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415727
- ISBN
- 9781421415727
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€ 35.99€ 30.42
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Hardback. Written in an accessible narrative style, The Afterlife of Little Women speaks to scholars, librarians, and devoted Alcott fans. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12, 2 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415581
- ISBN
- 9781421415581
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€ 51.99€ 43.27
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Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415239
- ISBN
- 9781421415239
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€ 56.12€ 51.80
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Hardback. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression. Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415208
- ISBN
- 9781421415208
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Hardback. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421414355
- ISBN
- 9781421414355
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€ 56.12€ 52.02
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Hardback. Myers, of prostitution in Restif de la Bretonne by Rori Bloom, of ruins in Lazzaro Spallanzani by Sabrina Ferri, of Arthur Murphy's female characters by Barbara Mackey King, and of recent film adaptations of the century's masterworks by Karen Gevirtz. Editor(s): Erwin, Timothy; Burnham, Michelle. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413761
- ISBN
- 9781421413761
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€ 51.99€ 43.27
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Paperback. As much as they ponder, they celebrate in exact, careful, and loving terms the haunting and bracing stimuli from which they originate. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413471
- ISBN
- 9781421413471
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€ 26.99€ 23.73
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Hardback. Proust's Latin Americans will be of interest to scholars of modernism, French literature, Proust studies, gender studies, and Latin American studies. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 54, 8 colour plates, 31 black & white halftones, 15 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413457
- ISBN
- 9781421413457
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€ 51.99€ 43.27
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Paperback. Other contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters. Editor(s): Bloch, R. Howard; Calhoun, Alison; Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline; Kupper, Joachim; Patterson, Jeanette. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412412
- ISBN
- 9781421412412
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€ 35.99€ 30.42
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Hardback. Irwin seamlessly ties together details from Fitzgerald's life with elements from his entire body of work and considers central themes connected to wealth, class, work, love, jazz, acceptance, family, disillusionment, and life as theatrical performance. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412306
- ISBN
- 9781421412306
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€ 49.99€ 41.74
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Hardback. By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412085
- ISBN
- 9781421412085
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€ 53.76€ 49.99
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Hardback. He draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32, 32 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSGS; GLMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411873
- ISBN
- 9781421411873
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€ 38.99€ 32.98
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Paperback. One will do well to read these hymns, these poems, and find nourishment in them in Slavitt's translations."-Anglican Theological Review, reviewing Slavitt's translation of Hymns of Prudentius Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411378
- ISBN
- 9781421411378
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€ 27.99€ 24.76
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Hardback. Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until his own lifetime. This book represents an important bridge between Homer's works in Greek and Vergil's Aeneid. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411293
- ISBN
- 9781421411293
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€ 70.89€ 65.07
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Hardback. It will interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature. Translator(s): Curley, Michael J.; Rendall, Steven. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 568 pages, 14, 12 black & white line drawings, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 904.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411248
- ISBN
- 9781421411248
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€ 83.29€ 75.66
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Paperback. Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves. Num Pages: 328 pages, 29, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; DSBF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409658
- ISBN
- 9781421409658
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€ 38.99€ 32.94
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Paperback. His sharp, bright imagery affirms the unique beauty of our world and explores its invisible mysteries. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408569
- ISBN
- 9781421408569
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€ 26.99€ 23.73
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Hardback. Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408422
- ISBN
- 9781421408422
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€ 53.76€ 49.96
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Hardback. Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. This title offers a study of this pervasive theme of murder in children's literature. It adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408408
- ISBN
- 9781421408408
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Condition: New
€ 59.07€ 54.57
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Hardback. The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408262
- ISBN
- 9781421408262
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Condition: New
€ 59.07€ 54.57
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Hardback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407524
- ISBN
- 9781421407524
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.85
€ 54.99
€ 45.85