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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Translator(s): Scholar, Angela. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGLA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540037
ISBN
9780199540037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.47

paperback. Presenting a study of the work of Joanna Russ, this book offers an introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ' work and assesses its development. It is suitable for students of SF and feminist SF. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853236245
ISBN
9780853236245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.68

Hardcover. Reconsiders Virginia Woolf's work for the 21st century focusing on coevolution, duality and contradiction. This book explores multiple meanings related to the conjoined, fused, connected, and evolving nature of Woolf studies. It extends existing critical work that considers a multiplicity of constructions of 'Virginia Woolf'. Editor(s): Dubino, Jeanne; Lowe, Gill; Neverow, Vara; Simpson, Kathryn. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748693931
ISBN
9780748693931
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.01
€ 103.24

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474414135
ISBN
9781474414135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with the more dominant representations of female ageing to be found in popular culture it suggests that they offer a feminist understanding of the 'invisible' woman sometimes lacking in feminism itself. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230298569
ISBN
9780230298569
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Examines why so many British and American women novelists seem preoccupied with Biblical themes and stories. By analyzing texts in the context of myth and religion, however, the author also contributes to a number of the interdisciplinary debates taking place within women's studies. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRCG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333918722
ISBN
9780333918722
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.60

Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403917270
ISBN
9781403917270
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813930879
ISBN
9780813930879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.77

Paperback. Investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the fortune a man can count on to last. This work studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. It addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114675
ISBN
9780691114675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; FL; FM; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823271887
ISBN
9780823271887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Identifies an overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. This title analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229857
ISBN
9780823229857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231167680
ISBN
9780231167680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.43
€ 51.34

Hardback. The first analysis in any language of China's recent epic novels about official corruption, this book explores how Chinese authors treat the theme of official malfeasance in mass-market thrillers, how those works reflect modern life, and how they approach the taboo subject of regime change. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754859
ISBN
9780804754859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardcover. The long-awaited biography of an unsung literary legend who informed the major 1960s cultural and political movements: Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas s life and his creative development." Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: B; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820328706
ISBN
9780820328706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 324. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Inscription to previous owner on half title page, remains very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
SOUTHBANK PUBLISHING
SKU
KCW0017297
ISBN
9781904915096
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Filled with provocative new assessments and new facts, this biography presents the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , and one of the great figures of modern literature. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815411123
ISBN
9780815411123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.47

Paperback. Meyers illuminates the brief and troubled life of the talented British short-story writer, and reveals the inspirations for her frequently-anthologized tales. Num Pages: 344 pages, 29. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815411970
ISBN
9780815411970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.03

Hardcover. Fictions of Conversion investigates the anxieties produced by the rapid and erratic religious, political, and cultural transformations in early modern England, which were often given shape in poetry, plays, and translations by the figure of the Jewish converso. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244823
ISBN
9780812244823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 272 x 28. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179447
ISBN
9780231179447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230280298
ISBN
9780230280298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Hardcover. A comprehensive study of cannibalism in literature and film, spanning colonial fiction, Gothic texts and contemporary American horror. Amidst the sharp teeth and horrific appetite of the cannibal, this book examines real fears of over-consumerism and consumption that trouble an ever-growing modern world. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230360518
ISBN
9780230360518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Paperback. As a wave of open misogyny swept through French literature and society, a new generation of professional women writers took up pen to redress the situation. This book analyzes and challenges the way in which these women writers have been marginalized and offers reappraisals of their thematically and aesthetically innovative works. Series: Berg French Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298. An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Berg Publishers Oxford
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KRS0018107
ISBN
9781859731185
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

hardcover. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
Edition
1983rd Edition
SKU
V9780333350195
ISBN
9780333350195
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Paperback. Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent brother. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099553281
ISBN
9780099553281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

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