Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. This brilliantly original study uncovers a side to Napoleon Bonaparte which has hitherto been ignored by biographers -- that of the aspiring novelist and man of letters. Num Pages: 208 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; BGH; DSBD; DSK; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745625355
- ISBN
- 9780745625355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.38
€ 72.38
Paperback. A comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years. Traces the development of his career, and the significant contribution he has made to contemporary writing. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719070532
- ISBN
- 9780719070532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.00
€ 40.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Whitehead, Andrew; White, Jerry. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907869662
- ISBN
- 9781907869662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.65
€ 19.99
€ 18.65
Paperback. Richard Wright's "Native Son" (1940) presents an account of crime and racism which remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this book acts as a guide to this novel and provides a range of perspectives. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415344487
- ISBN
- 9780415344487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.18
€ 56.18
Paperback. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. Series Editor(s): Thieme, John. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719070518
- ISBN
- 9780719070518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.07
€ 40.07
Paperback. This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films. Editor(s): Hughes, William; Smith, Andrew W. M. Series Editor(s): Bronfen, Elisabeth; Bruhm, Steven; Gelder, Ken; Hogle, Jerrold E.; Horner, Avril; Hughes, William. Series: International Gothic Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AFPS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 303 x 24. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526106896
- ISBN
- 9781526106896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.97
€ 26.99
€ 26.97
Hardback. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333220931
- ISBN
- 9780333220931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.17
€ 196.17
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Helm Information Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903206140
- ISBN
- 9781903206140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.17
€ 25.17
Hardcover. This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272705
- ISBN
- 9780230272705
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Using a wealth of diverse source material this book comprises an innovative critical study which, for the first time, examines Scott through the filter of his female contemporaries. It not only provides thought-provoking ideas about their handling of, for example, the love-plot, but also produces a different, more sombre Scott. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276544
- ISBN
- 9781137276544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318429
- ISBN
- 9781846318429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.70
€ 139.70
Paperback. A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381168
- ISBN
- 9781781381168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Paperback. An engaging and accessible book looking at 1970s sf writing, film and television - alongside music and architecture - to reclaim the decade as a crucial period in the history of science fiction. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381175
- ISBN
- 9781781381175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.45
€ 36.45
Hardback. This book includes critical introductions to some of Scott's most influential poems, and explores the narrative strategies and ideological interests of some of his greatest novels. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748626069
- ISBN
- 9780748626069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.70€ 112.72
€ 116.70
€ 112.72
paperback. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 768 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSK; U. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099116417
- ISBN
- 9780099116417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403944467
- ISBN
- 9781403944467
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Approaching novels and films such as Beloved and The Exorcist, this study intersects psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and various spatial theories. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137536815
- ISBN
- 9781137536815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.90
€ 139.90
Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 243 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121468
- ISBN
- 9780691121468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.45
€ 45.99
€ 33.45
Hardcover. This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274847
- ISBN
- 9781137274847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.45
€ 68.45
Hardcover. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403920294
- ISBN
- 9781403920294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638119
- ISBN
- 9780691638119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.87
€ 202.87
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; DSK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1257.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 612
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691653853
- ISBN
- 9780691653853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 322.88
€ 322.88
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644547
- ISBN
- 9780691644547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.06
€ 147.06
Hardcover. Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers - these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popular Fictions. This book shows how Joseph Conrad experimented creatively with genres such as crime and espionage fiction, and sheds new light on the sources and contexts of his work. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 264 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559166
- ISBN
- 9781137559166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21