Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardcover. Examines the whole of Flora Thompson's oeuvre including the poetry, short fiction, and essays that she published in women's periodicals before World War II, her book of poetry, "Bog Myrtle and Peat" (1921), and two posthumously published works, "Still Glides the Stream" (1947) and "Heatherley" (1979). Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838642061
- ISBN
- 9780838642061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754146
- ISBN
- 9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.14
€ 117.14
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562. The Dynamics of a Critical Rivalry. 264 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 21. Weight: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754191
- ISBN
- 9780838754191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.83
€ 131.83
Hardcover. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857282965
- ISBN
- 9780857282965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.21
€ 139.21
Hardcover. The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; APFA; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458834
- ISBN
- 9780857458834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.40
€ 162.40
The Piozzi Letters V4: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-182...
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, Bloom, Lillian D.
Hardcover. Volume 4 describes one of the most traumatic periods of Hester Lynch Piozzi's life, when she could no longer believe that Gabriel Piozzi's attacks of gout were to be endured as a typically gentrified English condition. Editor(s): Bloom, Edward A. Num Pages: 358 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133936
- ISBN
- 9780874133936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.42
€ 153.42
Hardcover. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874134889
- ISBN
- 9780874134889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.07
€ 122.07
Hardcover. Conrad's relationship to Poland - the evolution of his attitude toward his homeland, the influence of Polish literature on his work, his reception by Polish audiences - and to Russian literature, particularly Dostoevsky and Turgenev, is discussed in fourteen papers written by scholars from the United States, Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Krajka, Wieslaw. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335577
- ISBN
- 9780880335577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Hardcover. A collection of essays written by eminent and emerging Conrad scholars from all corners of the world, this book deals with (1) Joseph Conrad's East European and Polish contexts and (2) Joseph Conrad's imperial and American contexts, as well as selected ethical-philosophical and textological-narrative issues. Editor(s): Krajka, Wieslaw. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336512
- ISBN
- 9780880336512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Hardcover. Focuses on the relationship between British novelist Joseph Conrad's work and French culture and criticism. This book presents readings of Conrad's major texts by critics such as Andre Gide, Andre Maurois, and Ramon Fernandez, who approach his works from a variety of angles. Editor(s): Paccaud-Huguet, Josiane. Series: EEM Social Science Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- East European Monographs
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880339490
- ISBN
- 9780880339490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.50
€ 30.50
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956930705
- ISBN
- 9780956930705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.88
€ 35.99
€ 31.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 66 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970610645
- ISBN
- 9780970610645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.64
€ 26.64
Paperback. This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. Editor(s): Matthews, John T. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118492086
- ISBN
- 9781118492086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Hardcover. This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001009
- ISBN
- 9781137001009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001122
- ISBN
- 9781137001122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, identity as representationally performative, and post-memory and geopolitical continuity of loss of place in the everyday. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001375
- ISBN
- 9781137001375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (Cogn...
Carroll, Joseph, Gottschall, Jonathan, Johnso...
Hardcover. This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002402
- ISBN
- 9781137002402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008176
- ISBN
- 9781137008176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008473
- ISBN
- 9781137008473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. This book, now in paperback with a new preface, explores the false starts of Romantic writing in Britain - misfits and misfittings - as a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself and the culture of Dissent. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 212 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018526
- ISBN
- 9781137018526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20