Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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
€ 38.99
€ 28.04
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
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Condition: New
€ 65.70
€ 65.70
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
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Condition: New
€ 58.79€ 53.97
€ 58.79
€ 53.97
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
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.14
€ 40.99
€ 39.14
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
€ 74.76
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
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.49
€ 32.99
€ 32.49
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
€ 46.92
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
€ 33.99
€ 22.68
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
€ 103.49
€ 78.05
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
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
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
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Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30
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
€ 113.41
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
€ 129.35
€ 127.24
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
€ 41.64
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
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
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
€ 52.99
€ 40.25
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
€ 107.02
€ 87.95
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
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
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
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Hardcover. A book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520072800
- ISBN
- 9780520072800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.33€ 48.24
€ 62.33
€ 48.24