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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. This title argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
206
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032392
ISBN
9780674032392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. It covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. It shows how a range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by this literature. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DNC; 2ACSC; 2ACSX; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631236269
ISBN
9780631236269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 45.90

Hardback. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403941084
ISBN
9781403941084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Hardback. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600447
ISBN
9780230600447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.41

Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADP; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168434
ISBN
9780231168434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168427
ISBN
9780231168427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.89
€ 46.84

Hardcover. Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754337
ISBN
9780838754337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.44

paperback. Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion of female readership in the early modern period. Editor(s): Brayman Hackel, Heidi; Kelly, Catherine E. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812220803
ISBN
9780812220803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442266742
ISBN
9781442266742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; GPFC; HBLL; PBWS; PSAF; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271063843
ISBN
9780271063843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.00

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271063836
ISBN
9780271063836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.43
€ 59.49

Hardcover. Emily Lawless is one of the most important of Ireland's forgotten women writers. From a Protestant ascendancy background, she combined nationalist feelings with unionist sympathies. This book deals with Emily Lawless. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184134
ISBN
9781859184134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.00
€ 38.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271035260
ISBN
9780271035260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.87
€ 83.18

Hardback. A sustained analysis of Transatlantic women's literature of the twentieth century, focusing on narratives of travel and adventure, with an expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to encompass Canada, South America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624454
ISBN
9780748624454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.77
€ 108.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137595140
ISBN
9781137595140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.24

Hardcover. It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFCX; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221635
ISBN
9780230221635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837624885
ISBN
9783837624885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 42.56

Paperback. This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349281855
ISBN
9781349281855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241138
ISBN
9780230241138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.54

Hardcover. This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230005044
ISBN
9780230005044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935096740
ISBN
9781935096740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. A reprint of the J M Dent edition of 1997. Heinrich von Kleist was born and grew up in the Enlightenment and died in a suicide pact in 1811, aged only thirty-four. He left behind him literary works which are among the most disturbing and amusing of any produced in that revolutionary and romantic period. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
442
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872207431
ISBN
9780872207431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.80

Hardback. The Theatre of War surveys more than two hundred plays about the First World War written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Perspectives discussed include: subject matter, technique and evaluation. The result is an understanding of the First World War as a watershed in international history. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2007th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230525580
ISBN
9780230525580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

paperback. This book surveys more than 200 plays about the First World War that were written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSBH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357802
ISBN
9781349357802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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