Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardback. Satire, written in the verse of heroic epic but focused on the evils of contemporary society, was ancient Rome's original contribution to world literature. Two great practitioners of this art, Persius and Juvenal, wrote under the early emperors. Inspired by their Republican predecessors, both radically reinvented the genre. Editor(s): Braund, Professor Susanna; Osgood, Josiah. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 628 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 254 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1114.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 628
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405199650
- ISBN
- 9781405199650
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Condition: New
€ 192.49
€ 192.49
Hardback. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed. Num Pages: 472 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 778.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400327
- ISBN
- 9781421400327
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Condition: New
€ 73.12
€ 73.12
Paperback. Confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative. It is of interest to students across a range of historical fields. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400426
- ISBN
- 9781421400426
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Condition: New
€ 42.50
€ 42.50
Hardback. Explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400662
- ISBN
- 9781421400662
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€ 78.21€ 69.96
€ 78.21
€ 69.96
Hardback. Michie's fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421401867
- ISBN
- 9781421401867
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Condition: New
€ 73.50€ 66.02
€ 73.50
€ 66.02
Hardback. Part of a new wave of cross-disciplinary scholarship, where Chinese studies meets the British eighteenth century, this novel work will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including performance studies, East Asian studies, British literature, cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402161
- ISBN
- 9781421402161
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Condition: New
€ 83.71
€ 83.71
Hardback. Her book is a history of the literary act, a history of words, a history of ideas and works-monuments rather than documents-that calls into question modern concepts of literature. Translator(s): Preisig, Sara L. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421403038
- ISBN
- 9781421403038
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Condition: New
€ 68.21€ 61.41
€ 68.21
€ 61.41
Hardback. Scholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century's foremost writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404585
- ISBN
- 9781421404585
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Condition: New
€ 63.51€ 57.47
€ 63.51
€ 57.47
Hardback. Reconnecting Cleland's writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404905
- ISBN
- 9781421404905
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Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 53.45
€ 58.80
€ 53.45
Hardback. Anderson's carefully considered work makes a persuasive case for revisiting this celebrated book with a keener appreciation for the subtlety and beauty of Franklin's performance. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; DSBD; DSK; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405230
- ISBN
- 9781421405230
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Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 53.45
€ 58.80
€ 53.45
Hardback. Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children's literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405346
- ISBN
- 9781421405346
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€ 53.51€ 48.92
€ 53.51
€ 48.92
Hardback. Focuses on the relationships between texts and readers, images and viewers, performance and audience during the Enlightenment in France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and North America. Exploring the effects of rococo space on religious experience, this title analyzes the transmission of texts across national and temporal boundaries. Editor(s): Cody, Dr. Lisa Forman; Ledbury, Mark. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405629
- ISBN
- 9781421405629
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Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.39
€ 50.99
€ 42.39
Paperback. Through its examination of the nature of propaganda and early modern reading practices, and of the central role women played in Protestant reform, Marvelous Protestantism establishes a new approach to interpreting post-Reformation English culture. Num Pages: 282 pages, 44, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 165 x 12. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405865
- ISBN
- 9781421405865
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.51
€ 43.99
€ 36.51
Hardback. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407401
- ISBN
- 9781421407401
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Condition: New
€ 63.51€ 57.47
€ 63.51
€ 57.47
Hardback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407524
- ISBN
- 9781421407524
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.90
€ 53.99
€ 44.90
Hardback. The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408262
- ISBN
- 9781421408262
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Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 53.37
€ 58.80
€ 53.37
Hardback. Sounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry's unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive. Num Pages: 232 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408545
- ISBN
- 9781421408545
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Condition: New
€ 78.29
€ 78.29
Hardback. Pomeroy sets the Pythagorean and Neopythagorean women vividly in their historical, ecological, and intellectual contexts, illustrated with original photographs of sites and artifacts known to these women. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12, 9 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409566
- ISBN
- 9781421409566
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Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardback. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content." Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409580
- ISBN
- 9781421409580
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Condition: New
€ 52.62
€ 52.62
Paperback. Penetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves. Num Pages: 328 pages, 29, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; DSBF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409658
- ISBN
- 9781421409658
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.60
€ 38.99
€ 32.60
Hardback. It will interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature. Translator(s): Curley, Michael J.; Rendall, Steven. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 568 pages, 14, 12 black & white line drawings, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 904.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411248
- ISBN
- 9781421411248
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Condition: New
€ 82.91€ 73.97
€ 82.91
€ 73.97
Hardback. Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until his own lifetime. This book represents an important bridge between Homer's works in Greek and Vergil's Aeneid. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411293
- ISBN
- 9781421411293
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Condition: New
€ 70.56€ 64.35
€ 70.56
€ 64.35
Hardback. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411453
- ISBN
- 9781421411453
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Condition: New
€ 58.33
€ 58.33
Hardback. By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412085
- ISBN
- 9781421412085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 49.31
€ 53.51
€ 49.31