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Hardcover. This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century - Gustave Flaubert and Emile Zola - incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137297532
ISBN
9781137297532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Hardcover. Turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. This title explores how the authoritative status of Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 2AHA; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226591483
ISBN
9780226591483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.26
€ 50.42

Paperback. Pairing close readings of Moliere's comedies with accounts of French social history and aesthetics, this book aims to show how Moliere perceived satire as a "public mirror" provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226591520
ISBN
9780226591520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Hardcover. New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139405
ISBN
9781571139405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.58

Hardcover. Romanticism and the Object explores ways in which European Romantic culture and its artifacts were shaped by 'object aesthetics,' a new and often disruptive use of objects in literary expression. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617384
ISBN
9780230617384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.97

Hardback. This work lists and highlights the over 2200 names and close to 250 similes referred to in each book of Milton's "Paradise Lost". Divided into three sections, it offers readers a comprehensive overview of the names and similes, including the number and percentages for each type of name and simile. Num Pages: 480 pages, index, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 803.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810843042
ISBN
9780810843042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.60

Paperback. A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 314 pages. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry. A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight: 512.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
314
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521602587
ISBN
9780521602587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.09

Hardcover. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry (Rutgers University, New Jersey). Series: Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Num Pages: 671 pages, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1202.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rutgers, SUNY
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784239
ISBN
9780933784239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. Studying Shakespeare s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to the non-Shakespearian drama of Renaissance England that can be read as complete subject overview or used as an indexed reference resource. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 221 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405132442
ISBN
9781405132442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.50

Hardback. Studying Shakespeare s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to the non-Shakespearian drama of Renaissance England that can be read as complete subject overview or used as an indexed reference resource. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781405132435
ISBN
9781405132435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.83

Paperback. Metafact: Essayistic Science in Eighteenth-Century France Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3J; DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0228107
ISBN
9780807892824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. With the canon debate, prominent in literary criticism since the early 1970s, as the sounding board, this study aims at investigating and discussing in critical perspective, the function of considerations to do with canon for literary criticism at the formation stage. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333564745
ISBN
9780333564745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.84

Hardcover. Overviewing the legal thriller, where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges, this book takes a gender focused approach to analyzing recent titles and argues for the genre both in the way its narrative pattern parallels that of an actual court trial, and how it reflects the concerns of contemporary society. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137407290
ISBN
9781137407290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349250325
ISBN
9781349250325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 132.13

Hardcover. During the last decades of the 20th century it became increasingly difficult to consider British literature as "national" or "mainstream". This book investigates contemporary fiction and poetry written in, or relating to, Britain and uncovers a distinct sense of a new reality. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333801703
ISBN
9780333801703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Paperback. Editor(s): Saetre, Lars; Lombardo, Patrizia; Zanetta, Julien. Num Pages: 451 pages, illustrations (colour). BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 145 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aarhus University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9788779345584
ISBN
9788779345584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.00

Hardback. Offering an intriguing new approach to American cultural history through one of its enduring icons, Larzer Ziff traces the rise and flourishing of an ideal type once represented by such figures as George Washington and Tom Sawyer - a type immensely popular before antiheroes like Holden Caulfield captured our imagination Series: Discovering America. Num Pages: 154 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780292738928
ISBN
9780292738928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.23

Hardback. At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
139
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137401557
ISBN
9781137401557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.47

Hardback. The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. This volume explores the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Series: Oxford English Literary History. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199575381
ISBN
9780199575381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.22

Hardcover. Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity. Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook. 250 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Bradley, Laura; Leeder, Karen. Brecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses in the GDR and after. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; GBCY; JFC. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134929
ISBN
9781571134929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. This book asks us to rethink such a way of understanding Pope. Refusing to accept Popea s version of reality, Laura Brown reads his poems not for what they claim to say, but for what they rationalize away or fail to recognize. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631135036
ISBN
9780631135036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.81

Hardback. A searching critique of the popular Elizabethan literature that praised merchants, industrialists and craftsmen. Series: Past and Present Publications. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 421. Clean copy with some shelf wear fine in dustjacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001722
ISBN
9780521265065
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350028418
ISBN
9781350028418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 29.14

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801440441
ISBN
9780801440441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.57

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