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Literary studies: general
Hardback. A study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. It examines how stereotypes are used to further the very different artistic, cultural, and ideological agendas of each writer. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759526
- ISBN
- 9780804759526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.19
€ 83.19
Hardback. The significance of Rainer Maria Rilke's work rests with the poet's insistence that everything needed for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. This book examines both the lesser-known and the overlooked and controversial aspects of Rilke's poetry and life. Translator(s): Hamilton, Andrew. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256280
- ISBN
- 9780823256280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Paperback. Tells the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Pole told by the sole survivor, the bright-eyed ancient mariner whose wanton killing of an albatross, a bird of good omen, brought misfortune on the ship and all its crew. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 5. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561538
- ISBN
- 9780099561538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.72
€ 9.99
€ 8.72
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199568369
- ISBN
- 9780199568369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
paperback. Uncovering the unexplored archive in the history of poetics, the author shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155128
- ISBN
- 9780691155128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.85
€ 54.99
€ 39.85
Hardback. Editor(s): Donner, Fred M. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 2CSR; DSA; DSB; HBAH; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691640877
- ISBN
- 9780691640877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.62
€ 111.62
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
€ 66.77
Paperback. In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers - Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding - invented an entirely new genre of writing: the novel. This book explains why these authors wrote in the way that they did, and how the complex changes in society - the emergence of the middle-class and more. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847923851
- ISBN
- 9781847923851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.69
€ 21.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights into a previously neglected area of social and book history, and explores key works by George Gissing, Forster and JB Priestley. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349522897
- ISBN
- 9781349522897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A major new edition which brings a modern approach to the Introduction and text. Editor(s): Stern, Tiffany. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713667653
- ISBN
- 9780713667653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.10
€ 15.10
Paperback. This peerless edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study and is widely regarded as the standard text. Edited and annotated to a high standard, and with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon, the Riverside Chaucer is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer. Num Pages: 1392 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 148 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1166.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199552092
- ISBN
- 9780199552092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.91
€ 40.99
€ 40.91
Hardcover. In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays, with accompanying illustrations. Editor(s): DePastino, Todd. Series: Subterranean Lives Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 48 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Edition
- None ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813538068
- ISBN
- 9780813538068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and often transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017566
- ISBN
- 9780674017566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
€ 44.99
€ 38.32
hardcover. Here, the author aims to show how the poet Su Shi's complex personality was embodied in his work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 30. Weight in Grams: 629.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804715874
- ISBN
- 9780804715874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.20
€ 97.20
Paperback. A celebration of George Eliot's life, work and greatest novel, exploring through a mixture of literary biography, deep reading and personal memoir how Middlemarch answers fundamental questions about life and love Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847085160
- ISBN
- 9781847085160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. This volume covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the "golden age" of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Star Wars", and "E.T.") would soon dominate box offices. Editor(s): Gunn, James E. Num Pages: 576 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810842458
- ISBN
- 9780810842458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.46
€ 38.46
paperback. A beautifully written memoir of nature, community, and poetry Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781584657040
- ISBN
- 9781584657040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.45
€ 20.99
€ 18.45
Hardback. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSB; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403980786
- ISBN
- 9781403980786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of Roman 'literature' to mass public audiences. Num Pages: 352 pages, 27 illustrations, including a four-page colour plates section. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 247 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198718352
- ISBN
- 9780198718352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.92
€ 196.92
Hardback. It seeks to restore poetry to its rightful place as a crucial source for interpreting the rich cultural and intellectual life of the era. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887222
- ISBN
- 9780801887222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.52€ 65.46
€ 70.52
€ 65.46
Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922553
- ISBN
- 9780813922553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.08
€ 36.08
Paperback. "Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks"-- Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326624
- ISBN
- 9781349326624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278875
- ISBN
- 9780230278875
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Num Pages: 260 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 181 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493917
- ISBN
- 9781611493917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.54
€ 145.54