Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
hardcover. This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804724623
- ISBN
- 9780804724623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.87
€ 76.87
Hardback. Examining three works of vernacular fiction dating from 1750 to 1828, this book studies the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731317
- ISBN
- 9780804731317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardcover. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403941060
- ISBN
- 9781403941060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and Samuel Beckett, whose Film (1965) forms a concluding focus. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295446
- ISBN
- 9781137295446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication. Editor(s): Brennan, Eugene; Williams, Russell. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; DSK; JMTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487650
- ISBN
- 9781137487650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471499
- ISBN
- 9781137471499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.61
€ 94.61
Hardback. The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 32. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225378
- ISBN
- 9780823225378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Paperback. Offers a reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the Second World War. It includes a detailed and theoretically informed case studies of canonical writers such as Bowen, Orwell, Greene and Waugh. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748627455
- ISBN
- 9780748627455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.39
€ 40.99
€ 35.39
hardcover. This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national community. Through the life and works of 'A'isha Taymur, Hatem gives insight into how literature and changing gender roles contributed to the definition and/or development of a sense of community. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; 3JH; DSK; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113503
- ISBN
- 9780230113503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Paperback. Against a background of government incompetence and financial scandal, Arthur Clennam searches for the key to the affairs of the Dorrit family, prisoners for debt in the Marshalsea. Mixing humour and pathos, irony and satire, Little Dorrit reveals a master of fiction in top form. This new edition includes all of Phiz's original illustrations. Editor(s): Sucksmith, Harvey Peter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 912 pages, 41 black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 912
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199596485
- ISBN
- 9780199596485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. The author's childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were sometimes agreeable, but often not. His life at Oxford - which he evokes in Brideshead Revisited - was essentially a catalogue of friendship. This title presents a portrait of his recollection of those hedonistic days. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140183092
- ISBN
- 9780140183092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. Moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling author's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the beginning of his prolific writing life. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437055
- ISBN
- 9780099437055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. Editor(s): Alderson, Valerie. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538119
- ISBN
- 9780199538119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.02
€ 10.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868-69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations. Editor(s): Eiselein, Gregory; Phillips, Anne K. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 665 pages, chronology, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393976144
- ISBN
- 9780393976144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.44
€ 18.44
Paperback. Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women. Editor(s): Alberghene, Janice M.; Lyon Clark, Beverly. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138798977
- ISBN
- 9781138798977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Louisa May Alcott "rewrote" not only herself but also her parents and sisters in "Little Women". Yet do we understand her impulse? This study focuses on her motivations in fashioning an idealized family in her novel, suggesting ways to view both the fictional Marches and the real-world Alcotts. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322803
- ISBN
- 9780820322803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.41
€ 33.41
Hardback. This edition provides a fully annotated text of Sarah Fielding's The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia based on the 1757 edition. It records Fielding's use of Greek and Roman writers, eighteenth-century historians, and Renaissance and Restoration playwrights. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838752579
- ISBN
- 9780838752579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.92
€ 121.92
hardcover. This work, the first volume of a planned trilogy, is the memoir of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It contains details of people, places, events, family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Columbia and parts of history and incidents that later appeared in his fiction. Translator(s): Grossman, Edith. Num Pages: 500 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162. Weight in Grams: 866. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear, with light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000343
- ISBN
- 9780224072786
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680 (Early Modern Lite...
Adrian, John, M. Adrian, John
Hardcover. Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277717
- ISBN
- 9780230277717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Paperback. A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381168
- ISBN
- 9781781381168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936284
- ISBN
- 9780813936284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.47
€ 82.47
Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936291
- ISBN
- 9780813936291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.81
€ 36.81
hardcover. This book offers an in-depth treatment of Woolf's representations of space and place. Eleven essays contribute not only to Woolf studies but also to emergent debates concerning modernism's relations to empire and geography. They offer innovative and interdisciplinary readings on topics such as London's imperial spaces and the gendering of space. Editor(s): Snaith, Anna; Whitworth, Michael. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500730
- ISBN
- 9780230500730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Mary Shelley was a complex and committed soc ial thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the im pact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. Lodore tells of a woman"s journey to reconciliati on with her mother. ' Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 555 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 555
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551110776
- ISBN
- 9781551110776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.14
€ 43.99
€ 31.14