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Literary studies: general

Paperback. She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the Bahamas to the Dry Tortugas to the north coast and archipelagos of Cuba. Num Pages: 720 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 53. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099565994
ISBN
9780099565994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.44

Paperback. Paul Hamilton here redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. Through analysis of the aesthetics of Schiller, Rousseau and works by Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and others, Hamilton adds greater clarity to our understanding of romanticism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226314808
ISBN
9780226314808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. First printed in the United States during the American Revolution, the Bible underwent many revisions, translations, and changes in format as different editors and publishers appropriated it to meet a wide range of changing ideological and economic demands. Num Pages: 276 pages, 45 half-tones 4 tables 3 graphs 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804743396
ISBN
9780804743396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. Provides an introduction to literature and its context from 1688-1789. This guide includes: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including the expansion of cultural production and the growth of 'print culture'; major writers, genres and groups; and explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism. Series: Introductions to British Literature and Culture S. Num Pages: 170 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826485656
ISBN
9780826485656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.11

hardcover. Focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. This work moves between historical and cultural analysis and close textual reading, aiming to challenge readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761239
ISBN
9780804761239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.69

Paperback. "Paul Giles .. describes episodes of literary exchange between Britain and America not as case studies in reproduction or disavowal but as moments of 'transnational convergence.'.. A rich and reasoned understanding of what these influences may be and of the often inspired anxiety the produce." -Modern Language Quarterly Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812217674
ISBN
9780812217674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardback. Charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U S Civil War, this title identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136134
ISBN
9780691136134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.82

Hardback. This study presents the universal myth of the lost paradise in the first seven novels of Jacques Poulin and examines the way in which Poulin has adapted the myth for his own purposes. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838635131
ISBN
9780838635131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.78

paperback. A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s. Num Pages: 256 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195030686
ISBN
9780195030686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.42

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Usa
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199971954
ISBN
9780199971954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.07

hardcover. Exemplarity and Mediocrity explores the strategies modern German literature employed to increasingly attune itself to quotidian life-common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events-while at the same time avoiding all notions of mediocre quality. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758901
ISBN
9780804758901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.27

Hardback. The first full-length study of the poetry of Wen Tingyun (ca. 812-ca. 866), a major writer of the late Tang, this book contains translations of more than 60 of Wen's poems, most of which appear in English for the first time. It also examines the world of other poets in his milieu. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721653
ISBN
9780804721653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
386
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411029
ISBN
9781572411029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.07

Hardcover. How did Byron become "Byron"? The author of this text locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations he performed at Harrow School, in this examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience. Throughout, the poet is recognized in the boy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801863431
ISBN
9780801863431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Viking Society for Northern Research United Kingdom
Edition
First
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780903521345
ISBN
9780903521345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Translator(s): Finlay, Alison; Faulkes, Anthony. Series: Heimskringla. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 25. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Viking Society for Northern Research
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780903521932
ISBN
9780903521932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.39

Paperback. An essential exploration of our greatest writer Series: Ideas in Profile. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781253373
ISBN
9781781253373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; DSBD; DSG; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472583413
ISBN
9781472583413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. Series: MIP Richard Rawlinson Center Series. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 2ADL; 2AF; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 252 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580441827
ISBN
9781580441827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.40

Paperback. First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Editor(s): Szarmach, Paul E. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138883635
ISBN
9781138883635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 50.90

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