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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603202
ISBN
9780230603202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare. Editor(s): Guneratne, Anthony R. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108981
ISBN
9780230108981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.59

Hardcover. This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZG; DSA; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137298911
ISBN
9781137298911
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.02

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691606033
ISBN
9780691606033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403979902
ISBN
9781403979902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Hardback. Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time Editor(s): Davies, Ben; Funke, Jana. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230275478
ISBN
9780230275478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. In narratives ranging from Eliot's and Trollope's novels about scandalous women to Oscar Wilde's writing and his trials for homosexuality, this book shows how, in each instance, sexuality appears couched in coded terms. It is suitable to scholars and general readers interested in Victorian literature, the history of sexuality, and gender studies. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822318484
ISBN
9780822318484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487644
ISBN
9780801487644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Faith. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 433.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931135
ISBN
9780813931135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.42

Hardcover. Editor(s): Smith, Faith. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931128
ISBN
9780813931128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837617450
ISBN
9783837617450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.43

Hardcover. Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137410320
ISBN
9781137410320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television. Editor(s): Anderson, Jean; Miranda, Carolina; Pezzotti, Barbara. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137483683
ISBN
9781137483683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Paperback. Contains the features of the acclaimed Florida edition of the two works of Sterne's last year of life, "A Sentimental Journey" and "Continuation of the Bramine's Journal", including a selection of its notes. Several additional documents provide context for understanding these works in relation to Sterne's life and other writings. Editor(s): New, Melvyn; Day, W.G. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208001
ISBN
9780872208001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.04

Hardback. Above all, sentimental texts used emotion as an important form of social and cultural distinction, as the attribution of sentience and feeling helped to define who would be recognized as human. Num Pages: 312 pages, 3, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801884306
ISBN
9780801884306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.27
€ 56.36

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

Hardback. Spanning the period encompassing the rise, heyday and decline of sentimentalism, the book considers how the trajectory of the movement affected the sentimental novel's use of discourses of economics, sensibility and femininity and assesses the impact of the pressures of the post-Revolutionary 1790s on these areas. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333644775
ISBN
9780333644775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Hardcover. Guides readers to a deeper appreciation of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood as they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. This edition includes numerous color reproductions that vividly recreate the author's world. Num Pages: 390 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 241 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1464.
Publisher
Belknap Press
Number of pages
390
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674724556
ISBN
9780674724556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.27

Paperback. This series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives to enbable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop critical thinking. This volume explores "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582431423
ISBN
9780582431423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

Hardcover. One of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th-century plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research. Series: Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen. Num Pages: 446 pages, plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 125 x 27. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
446
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192547019
ISBN
9780192547019
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.45

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