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Hardcover. This book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late 15th to the early 18th century. The essays, contributed by many researchers active in the field, illustrate women's engagement in various activities, both literary and political, social and religious. Editor(s): Daybell, Professor James; etc. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; DSBB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2001st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333945797
ISBN
9780333945797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.23

Paperback. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this title offers a definitive account by an American in Paris. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185361
ISBN
9780141185361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. A book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 513.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520072800
ISBN
9780520072800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.89
€ 49.23

Hardcover. This volume explores how issues of women and gender were addressed in medieval culture from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 15th century. It pays attention to the form in which these questions were addressed (which varies significantly from period to period and from culture to culture). Editor(s): Fenster, Thelma; Lees, Claire. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312232443
ISBN
9780312232443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.99
€ 56.32

Paperback. Disraeli vividly depicts the appalling conditions of the poor-their pitiful wages, their miserably overcrowded tenements, and their exploitation by the new breed of powerful industrialists-as an indirect plea for social and political reform and for the fulfilment of his dream of a new, more democratic England. Editor(s): Shrimpton, Nicholas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198759898
ISBN
9780198759898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.34

Hardback. Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474222327
ISBN
9781474222327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.27
€ 137.06

Hardcover. This is a six chapter study of the image of the female in Ni Chuilleanain's poetry emphasizing the ways in which she revises conventional cultural images of women in order to challenge stereotypical images and create a more multidimensional perspective on women's lives and achievements. Num Pages: 204 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
204
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184981
ISBN
9781859184981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages, 50. BIC Classification: DQ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 181 x 28. Weight in Grams: 924.
Publisher
Booth-Clibborn Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861543592
ISBN
9781861543592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.49

Paperback. This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up. It makes use of recent research into background and reading matter to investigate the development of the authors' poetry and novels. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 152 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
1989th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333421987
ISBN
9780333421987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.63

Paperback. Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. Newly available in paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBH; TTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643196
ISBN
9780748643196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Showing the two contrary states of the Human Soul. With an introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Num Pages: 156 pages, 54 colour plates, 1 black and white illustration. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192810892
ISBN
9780192810892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.53

Hardback. Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a writing woman. Marion Dell identifies significant lines of descent from the lives and works of Woolf's great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the writer she called aunt, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and her mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497277
ISBN
9781137497277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.83

Paperback. BIC Classification: DSK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784536992
ISBN
9781784536992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780525434696
ISBN
9780525434696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.47

Paperback. William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca, where he lived from the age of five in the household of his father, the poet Robert Graves. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his "Muses" and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712601160
ISBN
9780712601160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571148189
ISBN
9780571148189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813571393
ISBN
9780813571393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.72

Paperback. Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces. Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W. Translator(s): Jephcott, Edmund. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052291
ISBN
9780674052291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.48

Paperback. 'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, 'York Notes Advanced' introduce students to sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSGS. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582823037
ISBN
9780582823037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Hardcover. Includes essays that examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Editor(s): Booth, Joan. Num Pages: 220 pages, 220. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125197
ISBN
9781905125197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.67

Paperback. Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 96 pages, notes, vocabulary, music, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719007644
ISBN
9780719007644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; FYB; FYT; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 12.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691172637
ISBN
9780691172637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 b/w illus, 11 b/w plates (8pp), With index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007119530
ISBN
9780007119530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.37

Paperback. * This companion to the work of one of Britain's best-loved novelists celebrates the centenary of her birth. Editor(s): Taylor, Helen. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group London
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844082353
ISBN
9781844082353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.28

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