Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113890
- ISBN
- 9780691113890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.20€ 81.84
€ 108.20
€ 81.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443523
- ISBN
- 9780140443523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Hardback. A memoir of a life in exile. Anca Vlasopolos recounts her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States. She writes about the peculiar attributes of displacement in the comtemporary world; the ambiguous identities, and the nostalgia for places dimly recalled. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121309
- ISBN
- 9780231121309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 45.93
€ 58.80
€ 45.93
Paperback. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. This work is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between him and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Translator(s): Watts, Victor. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447804
- ISBN
- 9780140447804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Hardcover. Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction-2012 Indie Choice Awards Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011 An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him-until he was saved by writing. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393064667
- ISBN
- 9780393064667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.45
€ 27.99
€ 24.45
Paperback. Translator(s): Becker, S. Num Pages: 212 pages, xiv, 198 p. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Chicago University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226502908
- ISBN
- 9780226502908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.22
€ 35.99
€ 28.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 pages of B&W photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pegasus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781605986173
- ISBN
- 9781605986173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.17
€ 17.99
€ 17.17
Hardcover. The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 318 pages. Editor(s): Cusack, Andrew; Murnane, Barry. The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; DSK. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135193
- ISBN
- 9781571135193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.26
€ 113.26
Paperback. The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. Editor(s): Shail, Andrew. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; DSK; FYB; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898546
- ISBN
- 9780859898546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.97
€ 43.97
Hardback. The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory. Editor(s): Hughes, William. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748642496
- ISBN
- 9780748642496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.73€ 107.06
€ 111.73
€ 107.06
Hardback. The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. Editor(s): Shail, Andrew. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; DSK; FYB; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898539
- ISBN
- 9780859898539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.96
€ 134.96
Hardcover. First critical study of prize-winning French author Marie NDiaye. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319464
- ISBN
- 9781846319464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Brozman, Owen. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 112 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- For Beginners United States
- Number of pages
- 105
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934389379
- ISBN
- 9781934389379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.47
€ 15.99
€ 14.47
Paperback. Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Series: Texts and Contexts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826436962
- ISBN
- 9780826436962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.26
€ 33.99
€ 28.26
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
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
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: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099116417
- ISBN
- 9780099116417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
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
€ 111.73€ 106.42
€ 111.73
€ 106.42
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
€ 72.65
€ 72.65
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
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Helm Information Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903206140
- ISBN
- 9781903206140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.13
€ 25.13