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Hardback. This volume brings together some of the influential work to be published on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger. Covering historical, (auto)biographical, and literary aspects of the Epistles and their reception, the articles offer a wide and representative range of approaches to Pliny. Editor(s): Gibson, Roy; Whitton, Christopher. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199545940
ISBN
9780199545940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Ginway, M; Brown, J. Num Pages: 241 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349448098
ISBN
9781349448098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardback. Editor(s): Giordano, Paolo A.; Tamburri, Anthony Julian. Num Pages: 305 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADT; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838637326
ISBN
9780838637326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.27

Paperback. Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and non fiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a compelling introduction to one of the South's most important writers. Editor(s): Gladney, Margaret Rose; Hodgens, Lisa. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349992
ISBN
9780820349992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.44

paperback. Editor(s): Gladstein, Mimi R.; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penn State University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271018317
ISBN
9780271018317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.64

Hardback. Since its founding, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Volume 41 is a special issue which showcases twelve articles featured at the International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. Editor(s): Glei, Reinhold F.; Goth, Maik. Series: Medievalia et Humanistica Series. Num Pages: 260 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442257955
ISBN
9781442257955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.55

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Volume 38 showcases a broad range of medieval scholarship, including five original articles, one review article, and seven review notices. Editor(s): Glei, Reinhold F.; Polleichtner, Wolfgang. Series: Medievalia et Humanistica Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442220522
ISBN
9781442220522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.61

Paperback. This is a new English translation of a classic work of medieval Islamic learning. In this rich allegorical fable the animals pursue a case against humanity. They rebuke and criticise human weakness, deny man's superiority, and make powerful demands for greater justice and respect for animals. Editor(s): Goodman, Lenn E.; McGregor, Richard. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK; FC; HBLA1; HBLC1; HP; HRHT; JFCX; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199642519
ISBN
9780199642519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Grace, Nancy M.; Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108417
ISBN
9780230108417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardback. This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent. Editor(s): Grace, Nancy M.; Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 575.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108400
ISBN
9780230108400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.75

paperback. This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Editor(s): Graham, Shane; Walters, J. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287499
ISBN
9781349287499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Nabokov's complex multi-lingual, multi-cultural writings offer ever-new delights and present new challenges to their readers. This volume and its companion have been compiled to reflect something of the richness of this artistic world and the variety of responses it evokes. Editor(s): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333964156
ISBN
9780333964156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Green, Mary Jean; etc.; Gould, Karen (Associate Dean, Graduate College and Professor of French, Bowling Green State University, USA); et al. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816626298
ISBN
9780816626298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Editor(s): Greenall, Annjo K.; Mitchell, Domhnall. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DN; 2ADF; DSB; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fagbokforlaget Norway
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9788245017212
ISBN
9788245017212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.16

Paperback. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, R.; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338337
ISBN
9781349338337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Paperback. An examination of the intriguing question: what happens when the ideas of a thinker such as William James, who, despite his originality, was deeply rooted in American traditions, are refracted through a culture that draws on a heritage profoundly different from his own? Editor(s): Grossman, Joan Delaney; Rischin, Ruth. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HPCD; HPCF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739105276
ISBN
9780739105276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.66

Paperback. Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. Editor(s): Hadjiafxendi, K; MacKay, P. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349525362
ISBN
9781349525362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Paperback. Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'.Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts." Editor(s): Haggarty, Sarah; Mee, John. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349364879
ISBN
9781349364879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Haight, Gordon S.; VanArsdel, T. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349059713
ISBN
9781349059713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

Paperback. The primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings together in one volume a wide range of perspectives. Editor(s): Hale, Amy; Payton, Philip. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 2AF; DSB; HBTB; HRKP2; JFHF; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895873
ISBN
9780859895873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.44

Paperback. This volume collects twelve new essays and aims to represent more comprehensively the abundance and variety of both Heaney's writing and scholarship on Heaney's writing. Editor(s): Hall, J; Crowder, A. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349281114
ISBN
9781349281114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe. Editor(s): Hall, Jason David; Murray, Alex. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349467624
ISBN
9781349467624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front, the essays provide new information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during this time. Editor(s): Hammond, M.; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349352876
ISBN
9781349352876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. Presenting twelve essays that explore in depth the publishing and reading practices which were formed and changed by the First World War. This work provides crucial historical information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during a period of international crisis. Editor(s): Hammond, Mary; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230500761
ISBN
9780230500761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

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