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Literary studies: general

Hardback. This volume provides new insights into some of the best examples of this form of writing in the twentieth century and also includes a chapter which explores ways in which the genre is evolving as the century draws to a close. Editor(s): Flower, John; Flower, J.E. Num Pages: 184 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895699
ISBN
9780859895699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.33

Hardcover. Maffeo Vegio was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the 15th century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's "Aeneid", Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic. Editor(s): Putnam, Michael C. J.; Hankins, James. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674014831
ISBN
9780674014831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.09

paperback. A catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind. Editor(s): Griffin, Nigel. Translator(s): Griffin, Nigel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 2ADS; 3JB; DSBB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140445626
ISBN
9780140445626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

paperback. What qualities helped Primo Levi survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz? What does Milan Kundera make of being denounced as a subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia? What does Edna O'Brien think drove generations of Irish writers into exile? This book explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Condition
New
SKU
9780099428435
ISBN
9780099428435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; JFFS; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816691036
ISBN
9780816691036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; JFFS; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. .
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816691067
ISBN
9780816691067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 18. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801442964
ISBN
9780801442964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99

Hardcover. Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, thsi book investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; LA; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691011998
ISBN
9780691011998
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.78
€ 83.75

Hardback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490305
ISBN
9781611490305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.22

Hardcover. Sarah M. Allen explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how written tales of the Tang canon we know today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay in elite society. The book focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674417205
ISBN
9780674417205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.70

Hardback. This now classic work is the only definitive collection available of interviews with leading French women intellectuals. Editor(s): Jardine, Alice A.; Menke, Anne M. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231067720
ISBN
9780231067720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.09
€ 78.92

Paperback. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 178 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555406202
ISBN
9781555406202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.38

Hardback. Editor(s): Naidu, Sam. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 206 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137555946
ISBN
9781137555946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.48

hardcover. Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands. His prediction was right on the mark: so it was then, and so it remains more than a century later. Num Pages: 421 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
421
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823212217
ISBN
9780823212217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.75

Hardcover. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity. Editor(s): Vanacker, Sabine; Wynne, Catherine. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230300507
ISBN
9780230300507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity. Editor(s): Vanacker, Sabine; Wynne, Catherine. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336227
ISBN
9781349336227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.96

Hardback. Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674806252
ISBN
9780674806252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.80
€ 79.41

Hardback. This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet's art and life. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786940247
ISBN
9781786940247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.97

Hardback. Editor(s): Baker, Carlos. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650647
ISBN
9780691650647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.37

Paperback. Editor(s): Baker, Carlos. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691624037
ISBN
9780691624037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.78

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691600376
ISBN
9780691600376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.98

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 571.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691630311
ISBN
9780691630311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.19

Paperback. A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Num Pages: 848 pages, 24 b/w plates (24pp). BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 54. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
848
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007204588
ISBN
9780007204588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.26

hardcover. Editor(s): Donovan, Jack; Everest, Kelvin; Rognoni, Francesco; Rossington, Michael. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 952 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
952
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415746076
ISBN
9780415746076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.43

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