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Hardcover. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian theories of sublimation and courtly love to reconfigure this rift in the field of Hopkins criticism. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919409
- ISBN
- 9780813919409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.79
€ 76.79
Hardcover. Sensation novels - characterized by emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots - had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s. Exploring the metaphor of marital violence, the author examines the relationship between the representations of such violence in fiction and in the law. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC; JFFE3; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1061.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919492
- ISBN
- 9780813919492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.00
€ 80.00
Hardcover. This volume examines the ways in which 19th-century novels and texts that portrayed women performing charity helped to make the inclusion of this work in the domestic sphere seem natural. It examines the contradictions this caused within the domestic ideal by making women "public persons". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920887
- ISBN
- 9780813920887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.36
€ 74.36
Hardcover. Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922171
- ISBN
- 9780813922171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.06
€ 72.06
Hardcover. British social critics in the Romantic tradition stigmatized industry as a threat to aesthetic "culture". Bizup argues that early Victorian advocates of industry sought to resist the power inherent in this opposition by portraying automatic manufacture itself as a cultural force or agent. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922461
- ISBN
- 9780813922461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.27
€ 70.27
Hardcover. Examines the legal and moral complexities democracies face when dealing with terrorism. This book is useful to students and teachers of law, political science, and philosophy, as well as to citizens and activists concerned with the impact of terrorism on civil liberties. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FBH; 1KBB; JPHV; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925318
- ISBN
- 9780813925318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.63
€ 61.63
Paperback. Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926131
- ISBN
- 9780813926131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.41
€ 34.41
Paperback. Novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories. This title recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927800
- ISBN
- 9780813927800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.25
€ 41.25
Hardcover. Combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927831
- ISBN
- 9780813927831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.37
€ 68.37
Paperback. The first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, this argues that suburban identity is tied to the rise and fall of the British empire. Drawing on postcolonial theory, urban studies, and Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929262
- ISBN
- 9780813929262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.86
€ 35.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1H; 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813931876
- ISBN
- 9780813931876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.57
€ 38.57
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813933931
- ISBN
- 9780813933931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.15
€ 88.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813933948
- ISBN
- 9780813933948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.65
€ 44.65
Hardcover. "Joyce was a realist, but his reality was not ours," writes John Gordon in his new book. Here, he maintains that the shifting styles and techniques of Joyce's works is a function of two interacting realities - the external reality of a particular time and place and the internal reality of a character's mental state. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630197
- ISBN
- 9780815630197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.11
€ 57.11
Hardcover. Series: History of the Urban Environment. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBT; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822944270
- ISBN
- 9780822944270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Bringing together material from James A. Rawley's three decades of work, this volume depicts the slave trade from 1700 to the American Civil War. It considers the role of London in the trade, and focuses on a number of important figures in the slave industry, including Humphry Morice. Series: Shades of Blue & Gray Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, index, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1H; 1K; 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826214836
- ISBN
- 9780826214836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.00
€ 69.00
Hardcover. Depicts World War II - from its buildup to its aftermath - from the perspective of an average London citizen. This work features accounts of the Blitz and wartime deprivations, then of the postwar austerity programs, in passages that interweave daily terror with talk about theater, clothes, and family outings. Editor(s): Jones, Russell M.; Swanson, John H. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826218506
- ISBN
- 9780826218506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.80
€ 37.99
€ 32.80
Paperback. Documents the lives, careers, and music of three British composers, William Selby of London and Boston (1738-98), Rayner Taylor of London and Philadelphia (1745-1825), and George K Jackson of St Andrews, New York, and Boston (1757-1822) who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the musical life of the American Federal era. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 photographs; 14 maps/graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; AVGC4; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075957
- ISBN
- 9780252075957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.05
€ 38.05
Paperback. An insightful character-study of one of television's most compelling detectives Num Pages: 174 pages, 18 black and white photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 205 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078705
- ISBN
- 9780252078705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.16
€ 36.16
Paperback. Explores the genesis of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". This book offers an archival survey of the manuscripts, and an introduction to genetic criticism. Editor(s): Crispi, Luca; Slote, Sam. Series: Irish Studies in Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 544 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 856.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299218645
- ISBN
- 9780299218645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.05
€ 54.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 173 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879725242
- ISBN
- 9780879725242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.91
€ 17.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879727468
- ISBN
- 9780879727468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.36
€ 20.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879727840
- ISBN
- 9780879727840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.34
€ 17.99
€ 17.34
Paperback. This is a study of the Victorian photographer's photograph "Pasha and Bayadere". It includes information about the life and career of Roger Fenton, best known for his photographs of The Crimean War. Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art. Num Pages: 120 pages, 18 colour and 40 duotone. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AJB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Getty Museum Studies on Art Los Angeles
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892363674
- ISBN
- 9780892363674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.47
€ 27.47