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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Sounds a clarion warning to the world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140182750
ISBN
9780140182750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 25. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781517901523
ISBN
9781517901523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

hardcover. Offers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226014623
ISBN
9780226014623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 87.95

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014630
ISBN
9780226014630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.25

Paperback. Offers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This book argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of 'the feminine.' Num Pages: 205 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520208889
ISBN
9780520208889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Hardcover. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSK; JFFG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633655
ISBN
9780815633655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.64

Hardback. This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions. Editor(s): Smith, Prof Andrew; Wallace, Diana. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230222717
ISBN
9780230222717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.35
€ 127.24

Hardcover. Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine. Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2AB; 2ADF; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135377
ISBN
9781571135377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.41

Paperback. Adrian Kenny's memoir is many things: diary of a frustrated young writer and lover; portrait of bohemian social life in 1970s Dublin; and an intimate history of the rising Catholic middle class, the advanced guard of the Celtic Tiger. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Lilliput Pr Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901866377
ISBN
9781901866377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.30

Paperback. A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episodes from Philip Roth's life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520962
ISBN
9780099520962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Hardback. Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) Essais, was a profound study of human subjectivity. More than three hundred years before the advent of psychoanalysis, Montaigne embarked on a remarkable quest to see and imagine the self from a variety of vantage points. This title traces Montaigne's development of the Western concept of the self. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119924
ISBN
9780231119924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.49
€ 78.05

paperback. The final piece of work from one of the world's most visionary authors Editor(s): Lethem, Jonathan; Jackson, Pamela. Num Pages: 976 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 150 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1280.
Publisher
Gollancz
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780575132443
ISBN
9780575132443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.68

Num Pages: 249 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813117645
ISBN
9780813117645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.92

Paperback. Reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. This book presents a view of the development of literary history in the United States, and a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315995
ISBN
9780822315995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.49

Hardcover. Translator(s): Cribb, Victoria. Series: Islandica. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 688.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Library
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780935995183
ISBN
9780935995183
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.76

Paperback. Presents a wide-ranging and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. This book distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. It covers the works of major authors, including Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Num Pages: 376 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405117074
ISBN
9781405117074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 39.14

textbook. Following from Volume 1, this text includes critical approaches to the 18th-century novel, discussing topics such as the Gothic novel, the rise in the number of women novelists in the later 18th century, the class conflicts of writers like Smollett, and the effects of the French Revolution. Series: Longman Critical Readers. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780582099692
ISBN
9780582099692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.79
€ 53.97

textbook. This collection of essays on the English novel in the 18th-century reflects the state of transatlantic criticism on the 18th-century novel and outlines developments in critical trends since the 1970s. Arguments focus on the "origins" of the novel. Series: Longman Critical Readers. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780582088559
ISBN
9780582088559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.70

Paperback. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account, only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously. Editor(s): Levine, George; Knoepflmacher, U. C. Num Pages: 362 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520046405
ISBN
9780520046405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.04

Hardback. An advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory, The Encyclopedia of the Novel offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, genre and theory of the novel. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature. Num Pages: 1024 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 274 x 212 x 95. Weight in Grams: 2340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1024
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405161848
ISBN
9781405161848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 387.62

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