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Literary studies: general
hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643178
- ISBN
- 9781442643178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37
Paperback. An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. 304 pages. An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight: 440.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748625079
- ISBN
- 9780748625079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.83
€ 33.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya. Editor(s): Jeyifo, Biodun. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 672 pages, chronology, bibliog. BIC Classification: 1H; 2H; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 174 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393975291
- ISBN
- 9780393975291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.85
€ 26.99
€ 23.85
Hardback. What did it mean to be a woman in sixteenth-century Venice? This volume explores the role of Venetian women in sixteenth-century culture as well as the contribution of the writer Moderata Fonte to the centuries-old Owar of the sexes.O Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3JB; DSB; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472646
- ISBN
- 9781611472646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.11
€ 117.11
Hardcover. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGZ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336802
- ISBN
- 9780880336802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Paperback. In fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their "model minority" status and the contested nature of citizenship. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439903186
- ISBN
- 9781439903186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. In fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their "model minority" status and the contested nature of citizenship Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- American Literatures Initiative
- SKU
- V9781439903179
- ISBN
- 9781439903179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.34
€ 78.34
Hardback. Tragedies of overliving remain disturbing because they remind us that life is rarely as neat as we expect and hope it be and that endings often come too late. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879647
- ISBN
- 9780801879647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.42€ 52.74
€ 56.42
€ 52.74
paperback. From the foreword to the selected bibliography this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for the study of Moby-Dick. Editor(s): Parker, Hershel. Series: Norton Critical Editions. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Norton
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393285000
- ISBN
- 9780393285000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.65
€ 17.99
€ 16.65
Hardcover. Includes illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, that are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. Num Pages: 600 pages, 100 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 263 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1224.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520043541
- ISBN
- 9780520043541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Hardcover. Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create the place of the nation within a changing global landscape. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545466
- ISBN
- 9781137545466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.62
€ 160.62
Hardcover. Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525429
- ISBN
- 9780230525429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357635
- ISBN
- 9781349357635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Paperback. This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction that provides critical apparatus to appropriately place "Mizora" and author Mary Bradley Lane in the cultural and historical context of the 19th century. Series: Writing American Women. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815628392
- ISBN
- 9780815628392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.63
€ 19.63
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations (Paperback). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; JFFE; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816696086
- ISBN
- 9780816696086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization. Num Pages: 195 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473601
- ISBN
- 9781349473601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
Paperback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501704970
- ISBN
- 9781501704970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.25
€ 35.99
€ 33.25
Hardback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501704963
- ISBN
- 9781501704963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Hardback. One of our most acclaimed translators of Chinese drama and a specialist of Ming period literature translates one of the greatest Chinese tragedies of the first half of the seventeenth century, available for the first time in English. Translator(s): Birch, Cyril. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227798
- ISBN
- 9780231121682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209817
- ISBN
- 9780872209817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.80
€ 25.99
€ 19.80
Hardback. Using the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, this book probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is intended for those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986111
- ISBN
- 9780295986111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724647
- ISBN
- 9780804724647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724630
- ISBN
- 9780804724630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.99
€ 144.99
Offering a previously unexplored view of derogatory representations of women, this text demonstrates the ways in which a range of authors used misogyny to promote, resist and critique new capitalist forms. The book also reveals how feminist critics could have misunderstood misogyny's function. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813121161
- ISBN
- 9780813121161
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.55
€ 49.55