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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 421.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583226407
ISBN
9781583226407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.37

Hardcover. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HRQM2; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230200050
ISBN
9780230200050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Hardcover. In developing a gender theory for analysing Samuel Richardson's three novels - "Pamela", "Clarissa", and "Sir Charles Grandison" - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat sometimes expose the extraordinary labour required to construct and maintain the 18th-century ideology of gender. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 443.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721165
ISBN
9780804721165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Hardback. Arguing that Austen's novels articulate a range of anxieties about authorship and authority, this book points to how the novels experiment in different ways with possible sources and the ultimate failures of authority, always returning to the compromised figure of the narrator. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607275
ISBN
9780333607275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.13

Paperback. Rashundari Debi, who gave birth to eleven children - her first was born when she was eighteen years old, the last when she was forty-one - ruminates on her very individual understanding of bhakti beliefs as well as the new times that were unfolding around her. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Zubaan India
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9789381017906
ISBN
9789381017906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.48

Paperback. Editor(s): Tanfield, Christopher. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474266109
ISBN
9781474266109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.12

Hardback. A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230234062
ISBN
9780230234062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardcover. Presents a study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest-born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York. Series: A Robert B. Heilman Book. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993621
ISBN
9780295993621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.98

Paperback. In 1934, these were the lines which made the Librarian of Winchester College realize that he had discovered a hitherto unknown version of Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte dArthur, a work known to all previous readers only through Caxtons 1485 edition. For it was known that Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel had been imprisoned on numerous occasions .. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196059
ISBN
9781845196059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405861816
ISBN
9781405861816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

Hardback. Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230298347
ISBN
9780230298347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. This study examines Hardy's prolonged struggle with his contemporary readers, whose bourgeois values he despised. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333962602
ISBN
9780333962602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Paperback. A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st ed. 2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137547729
ISBN
9781137547729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Hardback. Investigates the shifts in ideas of homeness in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels. This title deals with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) and beyond to the war's crucial and long-standing by-product: expatriation. Series Editor(s): El-Enany, Rasheed. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643424
ISBN
9780748643424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 103.50

Hardback. Focusing on the period from about 1690 to 1890, these essays depict an age of sensibility that was in transformation. New connections are revealed between sensibility and other key preoccupations of the age, including the feminine ideal and the poetic imagination. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838633526
ISBN
9780838633526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.62

Drawing on secondary theoretical material as well as her own original research, the author conducts an analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic representations of the 2/28 Incident and White Terror. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 3JJP; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231143608
ISBN
9780231143608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.91

Paperback. First translation of French novella (1801) about passion, social convention, obsession, and despair. Translator(s): Delany, Sheila. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; HBJD; HRCV4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772121230
ISBN
9781772121230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.05

Paperback. Studies the relationship between the personal lives of writers and the works they produce. In particular, this book reconsiders the place of John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) in the development of literary modernism in Britain. It rewrites standard assumptions about John Middleton Murry's relationships with Katherine Mansfield and D H Lawrence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362. John Middleton Murray, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. 240 pages. Studies the relationship between the personal lives of writers and the works they produce. In particular, this book reconsiders the place of John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) in the development of literary modernism in Britain. It rewrites standard assumptions about John Middleton Murry's relationships with Katherine Mansfield and D H Lawrence. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight: 362.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748664863
ISBN
9780748664863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; BT; DSK; JFMP; LNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 242 x 13. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Daunt Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970979
ISBN
9781907970979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.75

Hardcover. "Cadenus" is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), "Swift's Most Valuable Friend" with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Edition
New
Number of pages
320
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220096
ISBN
9781843510178
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Hardcover. "Cadenus" is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), "Swift's Most Valuable Friend" with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Edition
New
Number of pages
320
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220095
ISBN
9781843510178
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Hardcover. "Cadenus" is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), "Swift's Most Valuable Friend" with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New
SKU
KEX0201819
ISBN
9781843510178
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. "Cadenus" is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), "Swift's Most Valuable Friend" with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. .
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd Ireland
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843510338
ISBN
9781843510338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.00
€ 31.92

Hardcover. Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy. Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465281
ISBN
9781580465281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

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