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Hardback. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810858022
ISBN
9780810858022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.73

Paperback. Presents a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. This book shows how women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction. It focuses on the narrative qualities of the domestic novel tradition and the ways in which it reflected ideologies of domesticity and gender. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322719
ISBN
9780822322719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardback. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803269637
ISBN
9780803269637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.06

Paperback. Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. This title explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691115269
ISBN
9780691115269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Hardback. This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSG; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780719065446
ISBN
9780719065446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. A diverse and moving collection of women's poetry and verse of the First World War. Editor(s): Reilly, Catherine W. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844082254
ISBN
9781844082254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. This unusual philosophy book asks the reader to reconsider the received view that animal rights have no place in ancient thought. Catherine Osborne argues that by reflecting on the work of the ancient philosophers and poets, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199568277
ISBN
9780199568277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.64

Hardback. An investigation into the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843245
ISBN
9781843843245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.65

Paperback. An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. 304 pages. An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight: 440.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625079
ISBN
9780748625079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures. Editor(s): Golden, Catherine J. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415263580
ISBN
9780415263580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.88

Paperback. Revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136301
ISBN
9780691136301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.03

Paperback. This work focuses on five aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology. Num Pages: 250 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: ACND; ACV; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226279350
ISBN
9780226279350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.76

Hardcover. BIC Classification: 1DDB; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Legenda
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909662308
ISBN
9781909662308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.86

Paperback. An autobiography which presents a story that revolves around the author's mother. It offers an account of living with hardship and poverty as seen through the eyes of a sensitive child and woman. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109 x 25. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552140935
ISBN
9780552140935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801435348
ISBN
9780801435348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.35

Paperback.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780862412920
ISBN
9780862412920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.73

Hardback. This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the European Middle Ages. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730099
ISBN
9780804730099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.67

Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631168140
ISBN
9780631168140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

paperback. Shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, rooted in pre-colonial African cultures and disseminated in a rich oral tradition, has served diasporic communities by creating structures of feeling linking those of African descent across centuries and continents. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332220
ISBN
9780822332220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Hardcover. Explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. This study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; AV; DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748684618
ISBN
9780748684618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.99

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