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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. "Slow violence" from climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. The author focuses on the inattention we have paid to the lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism. Num Pages: 370 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Gld
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072343
ISBN
9780674072343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.64

Hardback. James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well, and after Scott's death in 1832 he wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Editor(s): Rubenstein, Jill. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 224 pages, music. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748609338
ISBN
9780748609338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.64
€ 107.52

Hardback. In each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural power enacted in these texts. Series: Animals, History, Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801880711
ISBN
9780801880711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.52

Paperback. Coming to prominence with the 19th-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. This volume offers a clear, reader-friendly guide to debates around realism. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415229395
ISBN
9780415229395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.93

hardcover. Ossian is a collection of epic poems that bring out the figure of the hero, Fingal.The Poems of Ossian achieved international success and have been compared with Homer's Iliad, inspiring many later writers such as Walter Scott and Goethe. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AFS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906817558
ISBN
9781906817558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.98

Paperback.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125333
ISBN
9781905125333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477560
ISBN
9780801477560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. Translator(s): Cary, H. F.; Griffith, Tom. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853267871
ISBN
9781853267871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.09

Paperback. Recalls the author's schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from "The Times" when his first novel, "The Man Within" was published in 1929. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
VINTAGE (RAND) London
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282570
ISBN
9780099282570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Edition
1988th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333407110
ISBN
9780333407110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.54
€ 85.60

paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
twentieth anniversary edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231178679
ISBN
9780231178679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. A literary, cultural and historical study of journalism and journalists in British fiction and film. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; APF; DSBH; KNTJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474220545
ISBN
9781474220545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.00
€ 30.57

Paperback. If you have ever been stuck trying to identify a Shakespearean quote then this is the book for you! With over 3,000 quotes from single lines to quite long extracts organized by topic and by play, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare. Editor(s): Armstrong, Jane. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; GBCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408125076
ISBN
9781408125076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 bw illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350038462
ISBN
9781350038462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets-caught between a reductive scientific view and naive literary metaphors-struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DS; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674545120
ISBN
9780674545120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.85

Paperback. This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; DSA; HBJD; HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415604
ISBN
9781421415604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.30

Paperback. A critical edition of Carlos Fuentes' 1962 novel, *Aura*, accompanied by an introduction and notes on the text. Editor(s): Standish, Peter. Series: Durham Modern Language Series. Num Pages: 52 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 4. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
52
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719081835
ISBN
9780719081835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.73

Paperback. William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect" (1844) and "Hwomely Rhymes" (1859). Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 120 x 11. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236657
ISBN
9780571236657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 color plates. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226458922
ISBN
9780226458922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 39.88

Paperback. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E.; Jagose, Annamarie. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Publisher
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415564113
ISBN
9780415564113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.38

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