Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364127
- ISBN
- 9780230364127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. 'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Pearson York Notes
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582784260
- ISBN
- 9780582784260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.33
€ 11.33
Paperback. In 1932 the young writer and political activist C.L.R. James arrived in London from his native Trinidad. This volume reveals C.L.R. James's first encounter with the colonial metropolis and the values that had already shaped his intellectual development in Trinidad. Num Pages: 140 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2ABM; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 116 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First UK edition.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902669618
- ISBN
- 9781902669618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.69
€ 17.99
€ 17.69
Hardback. This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230291577
- ISBN
- 9780230291577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Paperback. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 113 x 184 x 26. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176109
- ISBN
- 9780691176109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.97
€ 20.99
€ 16.97
Paperback. Editor(s): Livingstone, A. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 309 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 309
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349296057
- ISBN
- 9781349296057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Paperback. An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R A B Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 750 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286252
- ISBN
- 9780520286252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 36.36
€ 49.99
€ 36.36
Hardcover. These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics. Editor(s): DiPietro, Cary; Grady, Hugh. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017307
- ISBN
- 9781137017307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.31
€ 68.31
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403969422
- ISBN
- 9781403969422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.70€ 67.09
€ 105.70
€ 67.09
Hardback. A comprehensive and thematic exploration of representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction, this book is relevant to those with interests in literary studies and is a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and enhance clinical practices. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219755
- ISBN
- 9780230219755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641843
- ISBN
- 9780691641843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.71
€ 141.71
Paperback. Prepares students to read Greek by presenting basic traditional grammar and by introducing Greek written by ancient Greeks, from the first day of study. Num Pages: 392 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 174 x 22. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Second Edition,2
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208896
- ISBN
- 9780872208896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.87
€ 54.99
€ 39.87
Hardback. Katherine Mansfield had a lifelong interest in literatures in translation and in literary translating. From her early notebooks until letters written just before her death, she records the joy of learning foreign languages, often using transformative, inter-lingual games of her own as a source of creativity. Editor(s): Davison, Claire; Kimber, Gerri; Martin, Todd. Series: Katherine Mansfield Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; CFP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474400381
- ISBN
- 9781474400381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.58€ 107.79
€ 111.58
€ 107.79
Hardback. What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. The medieval Irish inherited and further transformed this tradition, producing vivid eschatological narratives which had a profound Editor(s): Carey, John; Nic Carthaigh, Emma; O'Dochartaigh, Caitriona. Num Pages: 964 pages. BIC Classification: 2AFR; DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 252 x 59. Weight in Grams: 2732.
- Publisher
- Celtic Studies Publications,U.S. United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781891271205
- ISBN
- 9781891271205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.49
€ 144.49
Inside Angels & Demons: The Story Behind the International Bestseller
Burstein, Dan, de Keijzer, Arne
An unauthorized tie-in to the Ron Howard blockbuster movie Angels & Demons, based on the Dan Brown bestseller, starring Tom Hanks and Naomi Watts, to be a major motion picture releasing in May 2009 Editor(s): Burstein, Dan; de Keijzer, Arne; Shugarts, David A; Berger, Paul; Bernstein, Peter; Swan, Annalyn. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 107 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Carousel Press,US
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KIN0006717
- ISBN
- 9781593154899
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Tells about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. This book is also about the second when the guard drops, that moment when the eyes blink and miss the incoming hammer blow. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571300204
- ISBN
- 9780571300204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.56
€ 14.99
€ 11.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; FYB; FYT; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 12.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691172637
- ISBN
- 9780691172637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.39
€ 46.99
€ 33.39
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307949738
- ISBN
- 9780307949738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.61
€ 18.99
€ 17.61
Hardback. The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2, 2 figures. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442631915
- ISBN
- 9781442631915
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.97
€ 67.97
Paperback. This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press England
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227719
- ISBN
- 9780719067983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. The variety of medieval translation among the English, and among those translators working in the greater empires of Cnut, the Normans, and the Angevins, is remarkable. Reversing Babel charts a course through the evidence and tries to answer the fundamental questions medieval historians should ask when their sources are medieval translations. Num Pages: 362 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490527
- ISBN
- 9781611490527
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.06
€ 161.06
Paperback. A Guide to Old English is a detailed but accessible introduction to the Old English language for beginners. The language section offers a simple yet comprehensive language reference, including sections on orthography and pronunciation, inflexions, word formation, and syntax. Num Pages: 444 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 444
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 8th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470671078
- ISBN
- 9780470671078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.57
€ 43.99
€ 43.57
Hardback. The world Thomas conjures up in this groundbreaking new study is one in which successful remedies to racial wrongs remain to be imagined. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSA; HBJK; HBLL; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 245 x 2. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421322
- ISBN
- 9781421421322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.40
€ 46.99
€ 39.40
Paperback. "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DS; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479847662
- ISBN
- 9781479847662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.88
€ 35.99
€ 32.88