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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Richard Wright's "Native Son" (1940) presents an account of crime and racism which remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this book acts as a guide to this novel and provides a range of perspectives. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415344487
ISBN
9780415344487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.18

Hardback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312176518
ISBN
9780312176518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.88

Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748633470
ISBN
9780748633470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.96
€ 108.80

Paperback. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. Series Editor(s): Thieme, John. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719070518
ISBN
9780719070518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.62

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
York Medieval Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903153390
ISBN
9781903153390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 65 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
65
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560727347
ISBN
9781560727347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.30

Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFCX; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312230425
ISBN
9780312230425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.40

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087868
ISBN
9780719087868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.11

Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Andrew; Barton, Anna. Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784995102
ISBN
9781784995102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.97

Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory, this title offers insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in their field on a specific topic within the Victorian writing, including science, and gender. Editor(s): Smith, Andrew; Hughes, William. Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748691166
ISBN
9780748691166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature, this revised edition includes a chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at new critical developments. It features an updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology. Series Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. 224 pages. Outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature, this revised edition includes a chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at new critical developments. It features an updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight: 342. Series Editor(s) :Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andrew.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748647415
ISBN
9780748647415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

Paperback. Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248. Liu An's Art of War. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. 176 pages. Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 12. Weight: 248. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153331
ISBN
9780231153331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.73

Hardback. Starting with a comparison of Queens Elizabeth I and Victoria, this title examines works by poets and painters, essayists and dramatists, architects and musicians. It explores the literary nature of Victorian history writing, and author reveals the degree to which painters were indebted to written records both fictional and factual. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 244 pages, 80 colour images + 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AB; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 192 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300190427
ISBN
9780300190427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. .
Publisher
Helm Information Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903206140
ISBN
9781903206140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.50

Paperback. Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves. Num Pages: 328 pages, 29, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; DSBF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409658
ISBN
9781421409658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.19

Paperback. BIC Classification: DSBF. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333441619
ISBN
9780333441619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.27

Hardcover. India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBJD1; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230233393
ISBN
9780230233393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Hardback. Editor(s): Radford, Andrew; Walton, Dr. Heather. Num Pages: 281 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; HRLK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137530356
ISBN
9781137530356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.98

Hardcover. Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, this book tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. It shows how many pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226669724
ISBN
9780226669724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 79.61

Paperback. Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated volumes, as well as the communities who made them, this title tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: DSBF; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103518
ISBN
9780226103518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books. The author shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books. From medieval manuscript books to today's interactive urban fictions, he explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read. Num Pages: 208 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103488
ISBN
9780226103488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.49

Paperback. The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Num Pages: 456 pages, 64 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 35. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300212761
ISBN
9780300212761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.81

Paperback. This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349323463
ISBN
9781349323463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230272705
ISBN
9780230272705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

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