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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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

€ 41.11

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

€ 71.14

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
€ 29.51

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 382 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646404
ISBN
9780691646404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.46

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.35

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

€ 104.43
€ 79.12

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

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

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

€ 114.97

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

€ 130.52
€ 124.46

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

€ 42.20

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
€ 24.86

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
€ 40.92

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

€ 107.99
€ 88.84

Hardback. Charting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to 1940, and studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist fields of study to show how the 19th-century European hypothesis of culture haunts the 20th-century fiction of geopolitics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 line diagrams 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804737265
ISBN
9780804737265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.00

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636481
ISBN
9780691636481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.61

Hardcover. After discussing assessments of Brookner and attempts to relate her to various classics and contemporaries, the author combines insights from recent narrative theory with analyses of nine novels. Num Pages: 206 pages, bilbiography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1992nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333564844
ISBN
9780333564844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.96

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

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

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

€ 62.89
€ 49.23

Hardcover. In this study, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the 19th century and early 20th century novel. The author examines flirtation in major English, French and American texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921006
ISBN
9780813921006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.04

Hardcover. In this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HPN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919362
ISBN
9780813919362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.17

Paperback. As a wave of open misogyny swept through French literature and society, a new generation of professional women writers took up pen to redress the situation. This book analyzes and challenges the way in which these women writers have been marginalized and offers reappraisals of their thematically and aesthetically innovative works. Series: Berg French Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298. An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Berg Publishers Oxford
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KRS0018107
ISBN
9781859731185
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633695
ISBN
9780691633695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.37

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