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Paperback. Although the events of Selma and Birmingham are burned into the nation's consciousness, little has been written about the civil rights events in the surrounding counties, the vast sections of the rural south. Cynthia Fleming addresses this gap by bringing to light the struggle for equality of the citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSW; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508118
- ISBN
- 9780742508118
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Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Paperback. This up-to-date account of the composition, structure, and achievement of Balzac's novel provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing 19th-century expectations of what novels should be like. Series Editor(s): Stern, J. P. Series: Landmarks of World Literature. Num Pages: 116 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003900
- ISBN
- 9780521316347
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. An exploration of why humans are drawn to fictional stories through the application of evolution theory and cognitive science Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803230262
- ISBN
- 9780803230262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.85
€ 46.99
€ 46.85
Paperback. "This volume includes interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on lesser known examples of the genre"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Aljoe, Nicole N.; Finseth, Ian Frederick. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936383
- ISBN
- 9780813936383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.93
€ 40.93
Paperback. * An inspiring student guide, free of critical jargon, which challenges conventional ways of seeing Victorian novel. * Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. * Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226284
- ISBN
- 9780631226284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.15
€ 44.15
Hardback. Featuring over 75 fascinating personal profiles of romance writers, this popular reference work also lists every book in every romance series and provides an index of author pseudonyms. Num Pages: 928 pages, 60 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1383.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 928
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810830028
- ISBN
- 9780810830028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.57
€ 182.57
Paperback. Includes essays that explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works). Num Pages: 348 pages, 9 music exx., 3 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253012555
- ISBN
- 9780253012555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.75
€ 36.99
€ 35.75
Paperback. The author reads four 18th-century satiric novels-Joseph Andrews, A Sentimental Journey, Humphrey Clinker, and Cecilia -"from below," exploring how the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally. Num Pages: 248 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- [ ed.
- SKU
- V9780804741897
- ISBN
- 9780804741897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
Paperback. Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of "pure" nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work--how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire, and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely. Editor(s): Specq, Francois; Walls, Laura Dassow; Granger, Michele. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820344294
- ISBN
- 9780820344294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.61
€ 43.61
Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 243 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121468
- ISBN
- 9780691121468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
Hardback. Num Pages: 602 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 39. Weight in Grams: 917.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 602
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810867413
- ISBN
- 9780810867413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.44
€ 203.44
Paperback. An examination of Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers, and a study of his life in relation to his four great books: "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". Photographs of Joyce, his family and his surroundings cover all phases of his life. Series: Thames & Hudson Literary Lives. Num Pages: 144 pages, 124 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 182 x 9. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500260180
- ISBN
- 9780500260180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.42
€ 9.99
€ 9.42
Hardback. Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." This book offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes fresh readings of this story. Editor(s): St.Jean, Shawn. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821416532
- ISBN
- 9780821416532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
paperback. William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise. Editor(s): Wilmer, Clive. Num Pages: 480 pages, chronology, bibliographical notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140433302
- ISBN
- 9780140433302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.07
€ 13.99
€ 11.07
Hardback. Considered together, these six intellectuals serve as sobering reminders that political commitments are never as simple or straightforward as they seem and that admirable motives for political involvement can have dangerous and destructive consequences in historical practice. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882586
- ISBN
- 9780801882586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.57€ 55.40
€ 60.57
€ 55.40
Hardback. Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 234 x 38. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895378
- ISBN
- 9780859895378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.73
€ 132.73
Paperback. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this volume demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. It contains more than one hundred essays by critics from around the world. Editor(s): Moretti, Franco. Num Pages: 928 pages, 7 halftones. 29 line illus. 23 tables. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 928
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127187
- ISBN
- 9780691127187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 46.37
€ 58.80
€ 46.37
Paperback. One of America s finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place." Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780874514322
- ISBN
- 9780874514322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.93
€ 24.99
€ 19.93
Hardback. Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen: the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. Volume IV contains the facsimiles and transcriptions of The Watsons, Persuasion, Susan, Opinions of Mansfield Park and Opinions of Emma, Plan of a Novel, Profits of my Novels. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrated with facsimile pages of Austen's manuscript throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199680955
- ISBN
- 9780199680955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 208.10
€ 208.10
Paperback. Records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231799
- ISBN
- 9780823231799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.75
€ 36.99
€ 35.75
Paperback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Editor(s): Zalloua, Zahi. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988917
- ISBN
- 9780295988917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.87
€ 36.87
Paperback. Translator(s): Leslie, Tanya. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583225745
- ISBN
- 9781583225745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.11
€ 13.99
€ 13.11
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609836
- ISBN
- 9780691609836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.05
€ 46.99
€ 33.05
Paperback. An analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. Editor(s): Whited, Lana A. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826215499
- ISBN
- 9780826215499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.00
€ 46.00