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paperback. This volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Num Pages: 358 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QSPS; 1QSS; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; HBJD1; HBJM; HBLL; JFC; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226468495
- ISBN
- 9780226468495
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.50
€ 40.99
€ 31.50
Paperback. Showing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780226468600
- ISBN
- 9780226468600
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
€ 31.64
Paperback. Combining literary biography with reporting and moral insight, in this text David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the "Partisan Review" writers. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2ABM; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Univ of Chicago PR ed.
- SKU
- V9780226468938
- ISBN
- 9780226468938
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
Paperback. An account of blasphemy in Victorian England, retelling the forgotten stories of more than 200 working-class blasphemers, such as G.W. Foote, who stood trial three times for the crime of blasphemy. Foote's "martyrdom" transformed blasphemy from a religious offence into a class and cultural crime. Num Pages: 442 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; HBTB; HRAM7; HRCC2; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226506913
- ISBN
- 9780226506913
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.64
€ 42.99
€ 33.64
Paperback. This work presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology. It illuminates contradictions in Emerson's political outlook, and the conjunctions of liberal and authoritarian ideology they produced. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; HPC; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780226577005
- ISBN
- 9780226577005
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.53
€ 42.99
€ 33.53
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 141.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226677071
- ISBN
- 9780226677071
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.11
€ 27.99
€ 23.11
Hardback. For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226789637
- ISBN
- 9780226789637
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Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 79.37
€ 94.64
€ 79.37
Paperback. In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity. Num Pages: 358 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; JFC; JHM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226805566
- ISBN
- 9780226805566
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.64
€ 42.99
€ 33.64
Paperback. This work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226815350
- ISBN
- 9780226815350
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.74
€ 37.99
€ 29.74
Paperback. Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 319. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226873800
- ISBN
- 9780226873800
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
Hardback. Shakespeare used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the sixteenth century, when the word was rarely used. The author reveals that the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes' formulation that reason sets humans above other species: 'I think, therefore I am'. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 colour plates, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226924168
- ISBN
- 9780226924168
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Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 79.17
€ 94.64
€ 79.17
Hardback. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780231041188
- ISBN
- 9780231041188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.44€ 62.54
€ 80.44
€ 62.54
Hardback. This juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231066426
- ISBN
- 9780231066426
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Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 72.77
€ 94.64
€ 72.77
Paperback. Examines the feminist, African-American and avant-garde counter-cultures that flourished in the USA between the two World Wars. It discusses such topics as public art in the Depression, the proletarian subculture and the social poetics of Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 316 pages, 128 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231082792
- ISBN
- 9780231082792
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.10
€ 42.99
€ 31.10
Hardback. Num Pages: 535 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 41. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 535
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231088268
- ISBN
- 9780231088268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.39€ 86.12
€ 112.39
€ 86.12
Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231107532
- ISBN
- 9780231107532
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.61
€ 37.99
€ 27.61
Paperback. Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best writings-both classic and previously unpublished works-on topics ranging from baseball to Frost and Emerson to the culture of creative writing. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780231110716
- ISBN
- 9780231110716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.61
€ 37.99
€ 27.61
Hardback. One of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical--and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231111720
- ISBN
- 9780231111720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 79.73
€ 104.11
€ 79.73
Paperback. A study of post-Vietnam American literature and culture focusing on narratives of bodily trauma evident in a wide range of texts by and about other white men. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231112932
- ISBN
- 9780231112932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.60
€ 37.99
€ 27.60
Hardback. A memoir of a life in exile. Anca Vlasopolos recounts her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States. She writes about the peculiar attributes of displacement in the comtemporary world; the ambiguous identities, and the nostalgia for places dimly recalled. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121309
- ISBN
- 9780231121309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 46.67
€ 59.15
€ 46.67