Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Paperback. Arguing that every one of Woolf's books was quite different in technique from every other, this study argues that the author never settled on one way of writing because she never settled on one view of life. Aspects of Woolf's work are examined against various historical contexts. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333665497
- ISBN
- 9780333665497
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardcover. The novelist Meredith is renowned for his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. This work examines Meredith's novels in the light of 20th-century literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 473.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333675946
- ISBN
- 9780333675946
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Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardback. This study explores the relations between reader and text across the span of Sheridan Le Fanu's career, placing his early work of the 1830s in context. Victor Sage concentrates on the development in Le Fanu of hybrid forms, which mingle satire and comedy with Gothic horror. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333677551
- ISBN
- 9780333677551
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. "Sold, a legal prostitute" in marriage at 15, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support their children as a novelist. A radical author at the time when the French Revolution raised hopes of reform, she had an influence on the young Jane Austen. This biography traces Smith's life. Num Pages: 412 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 36. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333678459
- ISBN
- 9780333678459
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Condition: New
€ 195.61
€ 195.61
Paperback. H.G. Wells's view of the world - and hence his writing - was strongly influenced by his biologist's training. This book traces biological themes through Wells's work, showing the pattern of his thought and bringing to light the workings of his imagination. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333678930
- ISBN
- 9780333678930
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Condition: New
€ 60.52
€ 60.52
Paperback. Virginia Woolf's search, in "The Common Reader" and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women is explored in this text. The book also discusses writers such as Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333681046
- ISBN
- 9780333681046
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Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardcover. O'Toole uncovers Hardy's fascination with the points of intersection between genealogy and fiction and argues that this relationship fuels much of his writing. This volume also revisits existing accounts of genealogical narrative and considers the presence in other nineteenth and twentieth century novels of motifs foregrounded in Hardy's work. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 383.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333681633
- ISBN
- 9780333681633
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Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
hardcover. This collection intervenes in current debates about Joyce's work and the place of Joyce in the academy, whilst addressing principal areas of Joycean scholarship. In addition to this, the volume raises issues relevant to the study of Joyce in the context of modernism. Editor(s): Brannigan, John; Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1998th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333683828
- ISBN
- 9780333683828
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Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
Paperback. Exploring the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures, this text focuses on the bourgeois 19th century as the high age of representations of adultery. It also offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts like "Fatal Attraction" and "The Piano". Editor(s): White, Nicholas; Segal, Naomi. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333684306
- ISBN
- 9780333684306
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Condition: New
€ 71.58
€ 71.58
Paperback. This work gives an overview of trends in American crime fiction. It focuses on the work of popular and award-winning authors since 1985. Attention is given to writers who have re-worked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 323.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333684658
- ISBN
- 9780333684658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.85
€ 126.85
Hardback. This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333695814
- ISBN
- 9780333695814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333695821
- ISBN
- 9780333695821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This is a translation by Alfred Smyth of the medieval "Life" of King Alfred. He argues that the "Life" is a forgery which has profound implications not only for our understanding of the early English and medieval past but also for the nature of biography and history. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; DNF; DSBB; DSK; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 697.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- AIAA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333699171
- ISBN
- 9780333699171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.80
€ 128.80
Hardback. Harold Fisch explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of landmark works by Fielding, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Whilst the great novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time 'it would not do'. The book concludes with two chapters on the Israeli novelists S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HRA; HRLB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714096
- ISBN
- 9780333714096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardcover. By contrasting Pound's political values with those of Stein and Zukofsky, this study argues that these three different writers share a complex set of attitudes that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of corporate social forms. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714515
- ISBN
- 9780333714515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardcover. This work deals with the fundamentals of novel writing and the execution of such. Though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333716861
- ISBN
- 9780333716861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardback. In this collection of 12 essays on the writings of Bram Stoker, the authors aim to show how he blended the Gothic with discourses on politics, sexuality, medicine and national identity. The text includes an introduction which analyzes how Stoker's writings have been received this century. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720462
- ISBN
- 9780333720462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.12
€ 194.12
Hardcover. This look at romantic fiction seeks to discover the reason for its appeal by combining analysis of the poetics of the genre with a study of the real reader's intervention. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720493
- ISBN
- 9780333720493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.18
€ 171.18
Hardback. Attacked for appeasing both Hitler and Stalin, E.H. Carr was not only one of the most productive writers of the 20th century but one of its most provocative as well. In this book 16 internationally respected authors grapple with his complex intellectual legacy. Editor(s): Cox, Michael. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBH; DSK; HBAH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720660
- ISBN
- 9780333720660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.89
€ 128.89
Hardback. An analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf and Stevie Smith debated the "justness" of World War II. This book questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333721957
- ISBN
- 9780333721957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 227.78
€ 227.78