Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Results 1753 - 1776 of 2829
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardcover. In developing a gender theory for analysing Samuel Richardson's three novels - "Pamela", "Clarissa", and "Sir Charles Grandison" - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat sometimes expose the extraordinary labour required to construct and maintain the 18th-century ideology of gender. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721165
- ISBN
- 9780804721165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.57
€ 140.57
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642093
- ISBN
- 9780691642093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.66
€ 194.66
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746309742
- ISBN
- 9780746309742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.91
€ 24.99
€ 23.91
Paperback. This volume offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut's works from "Player Piano" to "Hocus Pocus". It explores how Vonnegut incorporates his personal experiences into an art that is not defeatist, but rather creatively therapeutic and life-affirming. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817307523
- ISBN
- 9780817307523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.22
€ 37.22
Paperback. Leading scholars explore the work of Sarah Waters from a full range of critical perspectives. Includes a new interview with the author. Editor(s): Mitchell, Kaye. Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441199416
- ISBN
- 9781441199416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.19
€ 35.99
€ 33.19
Hardback. Saramago's labyrinths focuses on both the form and the content of Saramago's writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). Series: Durham Modern Language Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 black & white line drawings, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719086304
- ISBN
- 9780719086304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.00
€ 155.00
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 327
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841952789
- ISBN
- 9781841952789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.36
€ 16.99
€ 12.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022372
- ISBN
- 9780268022372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.54
€ 38.99
€ 35.54
Hardcover. Susan Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths in the 1980s. This book provides a way into Howatch's new world by presenting many of her own considerations of her work, and by allowing a group of scholars to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of Howatch's art. Editor(s): Howatch, Susan; Johnson, Bruce; Huttar, Charles A. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910963
- ISBN
- 9781575910963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.79
€ 135.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; FL; FM; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823271887
- ISBN
- 9780823271887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.60
€ 29.99
€ 27.60
Hardback. Identifies an overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. This title analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229857
- ISBN
- 9780823229857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.13
€ 87.13
Paperback. Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors, this book focuses on the many ways that setting and place figure in modern crime and mystery novels. It also explores topics such as: the afro-centric urban Los Angeles environment in Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", and the gritty South African setting of James McClure's "The Steam Pig". Num Pages: 217 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786432981
- ISBN
- 9780786432981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.44
€ 53.44
Hardback. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. Num Pages: 422 pages, 18 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072069
- ISBN
- 9780231072069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.61€ 90.70
€ 117.61
€ 90.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; DSK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879725549
- ISBN
- 9780879725549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.67
€ 14.99
€ 14.67
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817319168
- ISBN
- 9780817319168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.83
€ 91.83
Paperback. This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228146
- ISBN
- 9780230228146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.61
€ 39.61
Hardback. * This is the first volume to cover science fiction right up to the present day and includes a substantial last chapter on the rejuvenation of science fiction in the 1990s. * Written specifically for students and non-specialists, in an accessible style throughout. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628929
- ISBN
- 9780745628929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.50
€ 79.50
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474248617
- ISBN
- 9781474248617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.33
€ 53.33
Hardcover. An exploration of science fiction literature, cinema, theater, and comics from Argentina over the last 140 years. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472073108
- ISBN
- 9780472073108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.13
€ 82.13
Paperback. David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 172 x 117 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199557455
- ISBN
- 9780199557455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.77
€ 13.99
€ 11.77
Hardback. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483741
- ISBN
- 9781611483741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Hardback. Written from various critical standpoints by international scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mideighteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Davison, Carol Margaret; Germana, Dr. Monica. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 black and white illustrations, 1 line art. BIC Classification: DS; DSA; DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474408196
- ISBN
- 9781474408196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.61€ 114.39
€ 117.61
€ 114.39
Paperback. Series: Literature in History. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144269
- ISBN
- 9780691144269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.65
€ 36.99
€ 27.65
Paperback. A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel and the subsequent multiple Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List Num Pages: 336 pages, 16pp B&W photos. BIC Classification: BM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Edition
- 9th Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340963265
- ISBN
- 9780340963265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.93
€ 14.99
€ 11.93