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Paperback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780822346449
ISBN
9780822346449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346524
ISBN
9780822346524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Hardback. Empire of Pleasures presents an evocative and picturesque analysis of the Romans' extraordinary desire for food and wine and how this quest for the luxurious is woven into the literature, art, language and culture. Num Pages: 346 pages, 40 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AB; 3D; ACG; CFF; DSBB; JFC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 725.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415186247
ISBN
9780415186247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.88
€ 141.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, 80 illustrations (b/w) with possible 16 page colour section. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781256343
ISBN
9781781256343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Series: Texts and Contexts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826436962
ISBN
9780826436962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.94

Hardback. Editor(s): Dix, Andrew; Taylor, Jonathan. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845190262
ISBN
9781845190262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.16

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773621
ISBN
9780804773621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Public spectacle formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. This text presents a description of Rome's early history, by the historian Livy (16 BCE-17 CE). He presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as a visual monument and public spectacle. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210271
ISBN
9780520210271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.19

Hardback. Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138145
ISBN
9780691138145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 59.46

Hardback. The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239225
ISBN
9780812239225
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.12

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644547
ISBN
9780691644547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.14

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1028.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
612
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691628202
ISBN
9780691628202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.69
€ 70.74

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; DSK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1257.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
612
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691653853
ISBN
9780691653853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 304.35

Paperback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691609928
ISBN
9780691609928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Hardback. A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. Num Pages: 408 pages, 5 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS; HBLH. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198789468
ISBN
9780198789468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.36

Paperback. This lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth-- and early seventeenth--century English literature. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220244
ISBN
9780631220244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.85

Hardcover. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721172
ISBN
9780804721172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Paperback. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 287.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804726979
ISBN
9780804726979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 243 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691121468
ISBN
9780691121468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

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