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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. * Presents the most influential and significant critical writing on Victorian fiction. * Offers students careful guidance through the critical literature by means of a narrative framework. * Encourages students to engage with critical debates about Victorian literature. Editor(s): O'Gorman, Francis. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631227045
ISBN
9780631227045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.57

Hardcover. This guide looks at how the Victorian novel has been read over the past 100 years. Unlike other critical guides, it not only provides students with examples of significant strands of criticism, but also helps them to make sense of these articles and extracts by means of a narrative framework. Editor(s): O'Gorman, Francis. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631227038
ISBN
9780631227038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.73

Paperback. * An inspiring student guide, free of critical jargon, which challenges conventional ways of seeing Victorian novel. * Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. * Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226284
ISBN
9780631226284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.69

Hardcover. * An inspiring student guide, free of critical jargon, which challenges conventional ways of seeing Victorian novel. * Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. * Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226277
ISBN
9780631226277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.13

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

€ 112.73
€ 108.53

Hardback. Num Pages: 198 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319302188
ISBN
9783319302188
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.59

Paperback. An anthology that collects classic and lesser-known writings on Victorian fiction. This title presents important Victorian statements on the form and the function of fiction. It addresses questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; and, questions about the morality of fiction. Editor(s): Maitzen, Rohan Amanda. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117690
ISBN
9781551117690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.48
€ 43.75

Hardback. Writer Higuchi Ichiyo has been described as a consummate stylist of classical prose. Drawing critical momentum from the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores in five of her best-known stories how traditional rhetoric and literary devices are engaged with discourses associated with modernity within the pages of her narratives. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022720
ISBN
9780674022720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.79

Paperback. Series: Phoenix fiction series. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002849
ISBN
9780226774039
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the 20th century's Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. This title argues that through their legacy of social trauma and their obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to practices of mourning that pervade the literature of the region. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324157
ISBN
9780822324157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Hardback. In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as profet national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film. Staging a comparative dialogue with writers and critics such as Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan, and Mahmoud Darwish, Halabi focuses on new articulations of loss, displacement, and memory. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; HBJF1; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474421393
ISBN
9781474421393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.92

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; PB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195334579
ISBN
9780195334579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.60

hardcover. Laird sets Moletti's Dialogue within the historical background of medieval and Renaissance mechanics, sketches the life and works of Moletti, and analyses the arguments and the geometrical theorems of the Dialogue. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBD; DSK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780802046994
ISBN
9780802046994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.97

Hardback. Anderson's carefully considered work makes a persuasive case for revisiting this celebrated book with a keener appreciation for the subtlety and beauty of Franklin's performance. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; DSBD; DSK; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405230
ISBN
9781421405230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.33
€ 54.16

Hardback. This is an analytical study of "The Phantom of the Opera" in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the 21st century. It reveals the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; APF; DSBF; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293468
ISBN
9780312293468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.86

hardcover. The publishers of Ulysses by James Joyce were brought to trial and convicted of obscenity in the USA in 1921. The Ulysses Trials chronicles the progress of the trials and adds not only to the understanding of Joyce but also to the history of the laws of obscenity, censorship and freedom of speech. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Signed and inscribed to Ivor. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031535
ISBN
9781843516682
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

Hardback. Literary professors, and academia in general, have a history of turning a blind eye against popular fiction but why? The Ulysses Delusion explores this question by linking this literary condescension to a wider discussion on the gendered history of reading novels. Topics include Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137553621
ISBN
9781137553621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

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
€ 33.37

Paperback. Offers the analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 color and 65 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 330. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292706705
ISBN
9780292706705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405160230
ISBN
9781405160230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.79

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