Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Paperback. In this work, Sharon L. Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. Insightful and accessible, this book places six centuries of texts in conversation with one another, pairing them in ways that reveal the realities of women's choice and agency. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 220 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386229
- ISBN
- 9781137386229
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Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 52.77
€ 53.46
€ 52.77
Hardcover. This study explores the relationships of black and white women in the context of contemporary southern fiction. It provides an overview of literary incarnations of friendship and examines how prevalent specific relationships have become in certain writer's work. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322490
- ISBN
- 9780820322490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38
€ 64.38
Paperback. Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was a writer, scholar, literary critic and college teacher in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best known for his short stories written in the late 1950s and for his second novel, 'Buckingham Palace', District Six, in which he depicted the well known cosmopolitan area of District Six, where he grew up. Num Pages: 224 pages, Black and white photographs. BIC Classification: B; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868147434
- ISBN
- 9781868147434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." This book offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes fresh readings of this story. Editor(s): St.Jean, Shawn. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821416532
- ISBN
- 9780821416532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.01
€ 46.01
Paperback. Thanks to the recent discovery of Judith Sargent Murray's papers-including some 2,500 personal letters-Sheila L. Skemp has documented the compelling story of a talented and most unusual eighteenth-century woman. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222487
- ISBN
- 9780812222487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
€ 41.99
€ 37.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816634187
- ISBN
- 9780816634187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
€ 27.99
€ 26.28
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463898
- ISBN
- 9781580463898
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.70
€ 37.99
€ 31.70
Paperback. * The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man on the legendary island of Capri by the renowned author of THE TRANSIT OF VENUS Num Pages: 160 pages, Section: 8, B&W. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AHA; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860498732
- ISBN
- 9781860498732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Hardback. Editor(s): Sciban, Shu-ning; Pidhainy, Ihor. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939161581
- ISBN
- 9781939161581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.75
€ 138.75
Paperback. Editor(s): Sciban, Shu-ning. Series: Cornell East Asia Series. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939161789
- ISBN
- 9781939161789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
€ 30.86
Hardback. Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSB; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206458
- ISBN
- 9780520206458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98€ 49.08
€ 62.98
€ 49.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133363
- ISBN
- 9780874133363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.74
€ 110.74
Hardback. The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English. Editor(s): Gikandi, Simon. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1104.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199765096
- ISBN
- 9780199765096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.29
€ 186.29
Paperback. An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 28. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007445318
- ISBN
- 9780007445318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.13
€ 16.99
€ 12.13
Hardback. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843311072
- ISBN
- 9781843311072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.83
€ 132.83
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107083882
- ISBN
- 9781107083882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.59
€ 116.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226425276
- ISBN
- 9780226425276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.88
€ 31.99
€ 24.88
Paperback. This edition of the letters between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson has been expanded and revised to include 59 letters discovered after the book's original publication in 1979. The additional letters and new annotations clarify the correspondence and illuminate the writers' friendship. Editor(s): Karlinsky, Simon. Num Pages: 398 pages, 26 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220805
- ISBN
- 9780520220805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.56
€ 36.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 234 x 38. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895378
- ISBN
- 9780859895378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.80
€ 136.80
Paperback. Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895385
- ISBN
- 9780859895385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.35
€ 36.35