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Literary studies: general
Hardback. This work examines ethical problems raised by a number of key 20th century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even ethical texts frequently depict conflict as an insurmountable aspect of human relations. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333733714
- ISBN
- 9780333733714
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Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. This work examines the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasizing the way in which poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and expanded the range of acceptable occasions. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333733585
- ISBN
- 9780333733585
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€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Hardcover. This study covers Shaw's campaigns and crusades in the first ten years of the century, when his career hung in the balance. By drawing on contemporary documents and highlighting aspects of Shaw's career at this time, Hugo depicts a man who stamped his personality on the age. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333733554
- ISBN
- 9780333733554
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Condition: New
€ 128.48
€ 128.48
Hardback. Responding to historical analyses of post Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. Editor(s): Marotti, Arthur F. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333732182
- ISBN
- 9780333732182
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Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Hardcover. This is a study of how novels by Lawrence, Forster and George Eliot can be read as rewritings of Sophocles's "Antigone": each is presented as a socially and sexually involving argument between two sisters. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AHA; DSBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333731451
- ISBN
- 9780333731451
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Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Hardcover. In 1889, having fathered at least 15 children by various women, Tolstoy suggested in "The Kreutzer Sonata", that people should stop having children. Through psychoanalysis, this text shows that his position was grounded in a sadistic attitude towards women and a punishing one towards himself. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 475.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333730416
- ISBN
- 9780333730416
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Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
paperback. This biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career explores his motives for writing, the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work, his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 169 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780333729878
- ISBN
- 9780333729878
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new wave feminism. She analyzes how writers chose to represent a range of issues, exploring in the process how the their priorities affect their decisions on how to write. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333729533
- ISBN
- 9780333729533
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Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. This collection brings together the many diverse political extents of early 19th-century British feminism, as well as representing the works of literary figures such as Shelley, Tennyson and the Brontes. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DQ; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 213 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333726136
- ISBN
- 9780333726136
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Condition: New
€ 54.35
€ 54.35
Hardback. An examination of drunkenness and the writer in the Romantic age. Areas of focus include: Wordsworth's poems and essays on the drunken career of Robert Burns; Charles Lamb's essays and letters; and Coleridge's drinking songs and essays about drunkenness. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSG; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333725214
- ISBN
- 9780333725214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardback. An analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf and Stevie Smith debated the "justness" of World War II. This book questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 535.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333721957
- ISBN
- 9780333721957
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Condition: New
€ 227.78
€ 227.78
Hardback. This text relates the experiences of a range of Western writers who went to Japan as teachers and lecturers, covering a period of over 100 years. It includes a discussion of East/West cultural differences. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333721742
- ISBN
- 9780333721742
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Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardcover. This work defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the 18th-century cult of sentiment, despite its sometimes surreal manifestations, has led to a positive culture of feeling. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333721100
- ISBN
- 9780333721100
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Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. Attacked for appeasing both Hitler and Stalin, E.H. Carr was not only one of the most productive writers of the 20th century but one of its most provocative as well. In this book 16 internationally respected authors grapple with his complex intellectual legacy. Editor(s): Cox, Michael. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBH; DSK; HBAH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720660
- ISBN
- 9780333720660
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Condition: New
€ 128.89
€ 128.89
Hardcover. This look at romantic fiction seeks to discover the reason for its appeal by combining analysis of the poetics of the genre with a study of the real reader's intervention. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720493
- ISBN
- 9780333720493
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Condition: New
€ 171.18
€ 171.18
Hardback. In this collection of 12 essays on the writings of Bram Stoker, the authors aim to show how he blended the Gothic with discourses on politics, sexuality, medicine and national identity. The text includes an introduction which analyzes how Stoker's writings have been received this century. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720462
- ISBN
- 9780333720462
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Condition: New
€ 194.12
€ 194.12
Hardback. This collection of essays by 12 scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson's texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford text, "Works", and generated a Jonson whose "Works" and career look quite different. Editor(s): Butler, Martin. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333720417
- ISBN
- 9780333720417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.38
€ 194.38
Hardback. An exploration of national identity in Victorian Britain. It draws on travel journals by middle-class British men and women who toured Britain and the Continent, aiming to illustrate the contexts that inspired the collective identities of Britishness, Englishness, Scotsness and Welshness. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333719992
- ISBN
- 9780333719992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardback. An exploration of the relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The text illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed a sublime universe to Emerson, in which matter is boundless electrical force. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718926
- ISBN
- 9780333718926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardback. An interdisciplinary study of William Wordsworth's poetry and prose, combining literature, sociology, and geography, in which the author seeks to demonstrate Wordsworth's participation in the major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718902
- ISBN
- 9780333718902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Hardback. An exploration of the lyrical fragments which construct a new version of the autobiographical I, written by Wordsworth in his letters to Coleridge between 1798 and 1799. The volume is part of the ROMANTICISM IN PERSPECTIVE series which offers a fresh assessment of Romanticism by looking at it from a number of perspectives. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718896
- ISBN
- 9780333718896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardcover. This challenge to critical orthodoxy argues that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age after the French Revolution. He attacked the binary thinking dominating public affairs and questioned the value of the Georgian domestic ideal, using the homeless to bear his message. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFCX; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718872
- ISBN
- 9780333718872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Hardcover. By contrasting Pound's political values with those of Stein and Zukofsky, this study argues that these three different writers share a complex set of attitudes that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of corporate social forms. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714515
- ISBN
- 9780333714515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardback. Examines the complex relationship between Shakespeare and Irish literary and cultural traditions. Addressing Shakespearean representations of Ireland as well as Irish writers' responses to the dramatist, the book ranges from theatrical performances, pedagogical practices to political developments. Editor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714508
- ISBN
- 9780333714508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08