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Hardcover. In this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HPN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919362
- ISBN
- 9780813919362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.89
€ 97.89
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
€ 71.34
€ 71.34
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
€ 73.79
€ 73.79
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
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
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
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
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
€ 56.52
€ 56.52
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
€ 37.87
€ 37.87
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
€ 37.81
€ 37.81
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
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
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
€ 39.76
€ 39.76
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
€ 35.55
€ 35.55
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
€ 76.86
€ 76.86
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
€ 40.71
€ 40.71
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
€ 59.48
€ 59.48
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
€ 70.57
€ 70.57
Paperback. In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 Num Pages: 309 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469617527
- ISBN
- 9781469617527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.14
€ 45.14
Paperback. A collection of ten carefully selected cases from post-World War II British intelligence history that include: the Malayan Emergency, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Northern Ireland, and the lead up to the Iraq War. Editor(s): Dover, Robert; Goodman, Michael S. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPSH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589017702
- ISBN
- 9781589017702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.51
€ 75.51
Hardback. Renowned as a poet and critic, Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. This volume begins in 1829 with an account of the Arnold children by their father, and closes in 1859, when already a poet and literary critic, Matthew Arnold returned to England after several months in Europe. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916514
- ISBN
- 9780813916514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.69
€ 120.69
Hardback. This volume studies Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men. The author examines classical novels by female authors in relation to each other and to developments in the emerging British women's movement. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DNF; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917726
- ISBN
- 9780813917726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.53
€ 71.53
hardcover. 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 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927794
- ISBN
- 9780813927794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.58
€ 83.58
Hardback. Posits that legal history has become highly specialized, while mainstream political and social historians frequently ignore cases that figure prominently in the legal literature. The author makes a start at remedying the situation with a series of essays that reintegrate legal with political and social history. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928616
- ISBN
- 9780813928616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.17
€ 77.17
hardcover. Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylisation of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the ""condition of Britain"" in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813933818
- ISBN
- 9780813933818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.87
€ 83.87
Hardback. In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. The book establishes similarities and differences between national and regional tastes through case study analysis of cinemagoing in Bolton and Brighton. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; APF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896603
- ISBN
- 9780859896603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.15
€ 145.15