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"At Zero Point" presents a new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the 18th century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the 17th century. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813120393
- ISBN
- 9780813120393
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardback. A new edition of The Talisman, the second of Tales of the Crusaders, which is set in Palestine during the Third Crusade (1189-92) Editor(s): Ellis, J. B.; Alexander, J.H. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 448 pages, glossaries. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 32. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748605828
- ISBN
- 9780748605828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.15
€ 152.15
Paperback. The hilarious new book from a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780446552431
- ISBN
- 9780446552431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.10
€ 20.99
€ 18.10
Hardcover. This volume disputes the assumption that Rossetti was a follower of Keble and Pusey, and shows how her dissatisfaction with the male-dominated call to celibacy led her to reject their notions of worldliness, and to form a closer bond with the physical world and the body. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333920336
- ISBN
- 9780333920336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.25
€ 127.25
Paperback. What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Series: Crime File S. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DNF; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333776698
- ISBN
- 9780333776698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This work examines the outbreak of print in late-Victorian Britain. Chapters focus on authorship, production, and gender in relation to Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James and and serials such as "Master Humphrey's Clock", the "Westminster Review", and "Artist". Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333770474
- ISBN
- 9780333770474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
Hardback. Of all the wide-ranging interests Coleridge showed in his career, religion was the deepest and most long-lasting, and John Beer demonstrates in this book how none of this work can be fully understood without taking this into account. Series: Coleridge's Writings. Num Pages: 287 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; DSC; HPM; HRAB; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333734902
- ISBN
- 9780333734902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780333729878
- ISBN
- 9780333729878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333726136
- ISBN
- 9780333726136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.35
€ 54.35
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
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Hardcover. This is a translation by Alfred Smyth of the medieval "Life" of King Alfred. He argues that the "Life" is a forgery which has profound implications not only for our understanding of the early English and medieval past but also for the nature of biography and history. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; DNF; DSBB; DSK; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 697.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- AIAA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333699171
- ISBN
- 9780333699171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.84
€ 128.84
Hardback. In this work, Canon Sheehan's writings provide an insight into Ireland's process of cultural reconstruction after independence. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; DNF; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC7; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333689431
- ISBN
- 9780333689431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardback. A study of the relationship between walking and writing which argues that much Romantic literature has its source in the rise of pedestrian touring in the late 18th century. Discusses the impact of this cultural revolution on the creativity of Romantic writers, including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats, Hazlitt and Hunt. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 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: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333658147
- ISBN
- 9780333658147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.22
€ 194.22
Hardcover. A discussion of Bolingbroke's political writings in the context of contemporary thought in England and France. Cottret provides an analysis of both "A Dissertation upon Parties" and "The Idea of a Patriot King", supported by a full reprint of these texts. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 447 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBG; HBLH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 705.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333598870
- ISBN
- 9780333598870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.85
€ 195.85
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333597927
- ISBN
- 9780333597927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.41
€ 194.41
Hardback. This volume of essays, written by an eminent group of diplomatic historians, are designed as a tribute to the work of Dean Acheson. As President Truman's Secretary of State between 1949 and 1953, Acheson was a crucial figure in the shaping of the post-war world. Editor(s): Brinkley, Douglas. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 1. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333567357
- ISBN
- 9780333567357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardcover. "John Sherman" is the only work of realistic fiction Yeats ever completed. The novelette contains biographical elements and is of interest for its treatment of Yeats's recurring themes. "Dhoya" depicts a liaison between a mortal and a fairy, a motif that recurs in Yeats's poetry and other works Editor(s): Finneran, Richard J.; Finnerman, Richard J. Series: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333563489
- ISBN
- 9780333563489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardback. A collection of Coleridge's writings, with commentary, that demonstrate his continuing study of human nature and his work toward developing a philosophy of human freedom. The excerpts cover Coleridge's inquiries into the workings of consciousness and the soul and many other topics. Series: Coleridge's Writings. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333548516
- ISBN
- 9780333548516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.56
€ 194.56
Hardback. Examines such topics as the autobiographical basis of Gordimer's fiction, her relationship to feminism, the place of the white woman in black Africa, the ambiguity of revolutionary politics, her ambivalent relationship to Judaism, her use of irony, the symbolism of landscape, and other topics. Editor(s): King, Bruce. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333534168
- ISBN
- 9780333534168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.22
€ 194.22
Paperback. A revised and expanded version of the 1989 BBC Reith lectures. Other work by the author includes "Arpentage de la poesie contemporaine", and "Conrad and the West". Other work by the editor includes "America since 1920" and "Kissing cousins: an interpretation of British and American culture". Editor(s): Snowman, Daniel (Chief Producer, BBC, Features, Radio). Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 187.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 131
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333533284
- ISBN
- 9780333533284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.64
€ 59.64