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Hardcover. Referred to long ago as a "disease" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. This book traces the development of nostalgia from a memory disorder in the eighteenth century to its modern formulation as a pleasant recreational distraction. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925981
ISBN
9780813925981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.87

Paperback. Providing a literary history of the twentieth century in England, this work studies the problematic terms of national identity during England's transition from an imperial power to its integration in the global cultural marketplace. It suggests that it is largely one city - London - through which national identity has been reframed. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 b & w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925745
ISBN
9780813925745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.50

Hardcover. What constitutes reading? This work seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of ""Religion and Literature"" into ""Reading and Religion,"" emphasizing both the material and the institutional contexts for each. It aims to make a contribution to various models for understanding change in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925714
ISBN
9780813925714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.96

Paperback. Examines the post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, this book reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. It shows how their accomplishments were silenced in official Cuban history and culture. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925264
ISBN
9780813925264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.32

Hardcover. Reveals how autobiographies are able to confront readers with the moral complexities of life. The author shows how Rousseau's doubts about the possibility of ethical behavior shadows the first-person narratives of five canonic works: Wordsworth's "Prelude", Bronte's "Jane Eyre" and "Villette", Shelley's "Frankenstein", and Nabokov's "Lolita". Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925127
ISBN
9780813925127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.79

Paperback. With inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, this study shows how the "peripheral" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models, and addresses issues that many post colonial theorists have struggled with. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KLSB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923765
ISBN
9780813923765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.10

Paperback. Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of Black women writers and filmmakers, the author proposes that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing "life-force" to sustain the community of people who read and view their work. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923703
ISBN
9780813923703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.46

Hardcover. A definitive study of an author who in celebrating one era helped usher in the next. In this critical examination, the author sees Mary Arnold Ward as being "behind her times" in two senses - in her tireless defense of her evolving era's achievements and intentions, but also in her wariness of the advance of time and of the violence of change. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923673
ISBN
9780813923673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.40

Paperback. Examines the novels of four Caribbean women writers who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies represents difference. This book represents a phase in postcolonial studies that calls for a fundamental rethinking of the terminology and assumptions. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923475
ISBN
9780813923475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.62

Hardcover. Christina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets. "The Letters of Christina Rossetti" makes available all of her extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never before been published. These letters come from over 100 private and institutional collections. The fourth and final volume covers the last eight years of her life. Editor(s): Harrison, Antony H. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 975.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922959
ISBN
9780813922959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.24

Hardcover. In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman. This is Hannah Adam's biography, which focuses primarily on the intimate connection between Adams's reading and her own literary work. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 803.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press Virginia
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922720
ISBN
9780813922720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.55

Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922553
ISBN
9780813922553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.44

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

€ 63.34

Hardcover. Part guidebook and part exploration into literary history, this book explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. The author examines how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JM; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921679
ISBN
9780813921679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.85

Paperback. Aiming to help readers overcome the difficulties of approaching poetry, this study provides a historical overview of theories of interpretation as they apply to symbol and allegory. Beginning with the Greeks, Brittan moves from classical theory through to Romantics and Modern ideas. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921570
ISBN
9780813921570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.02

Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921457
ISBN
9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.52

Paperback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921433
ISBN
9780813921433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.23

Hardcover. In this study, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the 19th century and early 20th century novel. The author examines flirtation in major English, French and American texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921006
ISBN
9780813921006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.04

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

€ 64.90

Paperback. This volume asserts that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American literary voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. The book provides evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920672
ISBN
9780813920672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.49

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