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Hardback. This study, spanning the years 1520--1570, explores the rhetoric of martyrdom in the historical context of Reformation France. The focal points include questions of authority, gender, and community. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460407
- ISBN
- 9781611460407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.57
€ 119.57
Hardback. This book explores the origins of Harris's scientific interests, his struggle to find a professional position and research resources, and his entomological investigations and library career. It also examines his development of strategies for publishing scientific and popular work. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460445
- ISBN
- 9781611460445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.34
€ 145.34
Hardback. Num Pages: 429 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 28. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 429
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460469
- ISBN
- 9781611460469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.52
€ 161.52
Hardback. The early works of Herve Guibert explored every aspect of the body and its desires. He was influenced by the works of the Marquis de Sade, and this book discusses how both authors manipulate their identities; theatrical aspects of both authors' works; how story telling brings freedom to both authors; and disintegrating and disappearing bodies. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460506
- ISBN
- 9781611460506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Hardback. This is the first biography of the first American consul to serve the United States abroad and the first representative to successfully negotiate for America in North Africa. Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 407 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 26. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 407
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460513
- ISBN
- 9781611460513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.09
€ 161.09
Hardback. This book examines the ways six contemporary American novels (October Light; American Psycho; Vineland; Et Tu, Babe; In Country; and White Noise) formulate critiques of a late-capitalist consumer culture proclaimed to be all but unassailable. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460544
- ISBN
- 9781611460544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.25
€ 128.25
Hardback. The specter of psychological dysfunction has marched beside all soldiers in all wars. This book presents the true story of one young Pennsylvanian who marched into war with a patriotic chip on his shoulder only to stagger home under the burden of a two-year life-and-death struggle. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460551
- ISBN
- 9781611460551
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Hardback. This book traces Moravian communal and educational practices and the techniques of the self. The focus is not a nation-state but a community that was cosmopolitan by the very standards of the eighteenth-century world. Editor(s): Lempa, Heikki; Peucker, Paul. Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460582
- ISBN
- 9781611460582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.06
€ 145.06
Hardback. This volume is the first study of the mode of the fragmentary in eighteenth-century poetry. Revisiting traditional literary historiography, it offers a fresh account of the "Pindaric" impulse, a mode informing deliberate fragmentation. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460629
- ISBN
- 9781611460629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardback. This study draws upon Thomas BartonOs Forbes expedition journal, and a vast collection of manuscript letters, sermons, and other contemporary documents to illuminate his career and help readers appreciate the complex world of the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania frontier and more generally of the colonial American backcountry. Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460636
- ISBN
- 9781611460636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.27
€ 136.27
Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460698
- ISBN
- 9781611460698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Hardback. This work focuses on reportorial writers in the French Eighteenth and earl Nineteenth Century who wrote in the Addisonian tradition-a tradition that had to do with dispassionate observation of individuals and society. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470918
- ISBN
- 9781611470918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.60
€ 123.60
Hardback. This study presents material from the Talmud and Midrash which have one characteristic in common: they reflect an anthropocentric, rather than a theocentric, view of the world. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471021
- ISBN
- 9781611471021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.99
€ 101.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471052
- ISBN
- 9781611471052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.57
€ 112.57
Hardback. This book is the first comprehensive examination of the remarkable singing groupsmale and femaleknown as barbershoppers. In a capella quartets and choruses, barbershoppers concentrate on a song literature that was popular in the period 1860 - 1930. Illustrated. Editor(s): Kaplan, Max. Num Pages: 149 pages. BIC Classification: AV; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471083
- ISBN
- 9781611471083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.88
€ 101.88
Hardback. The city has been the main setting for modern African-American literature, and the fifteen essays in this collection show that this body of writing has been remarkable for the variety of ways in which it has made significant affirmations about urban society in America. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu; Butler, Robert. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471151
- ISBN
- 9781611471151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.40
€ 123.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 586 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1007.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 586
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471243
- ISBN
- 9781611471243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.97
€ 176.97
Hardback. This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyre, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier living writer. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471250
- ISBN
- 9781611471250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.96
€ 101.96
Hardback. This book is a comparative approach that treats the formidable psychosexual and gothic content, as phrased through a rhetoric of rebellion, death, and illness, in the works of Ugo Tarchetti and others. Del PrincipeOs psychoanalytic-feminist reinterpretation illuminates the scapigliati as precursors to modernism and the avant-garde. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471274
- ISBN
- 9781611471274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.70
€ 109.70
Hardback. This work rescues from undeserved neglect the American-born English author Pearl Craigie, who published as John Oliver Hobbes. It traces Craigies crowded external and inner lives and her connections with many well-known people. Num Pages: 541 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 35. Weight in Grams: 921.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 541
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471281
- ISBN
- 9781611471281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.49
€ 173.49