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paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403911780
- ISBN
- 9781403911780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Hardcover. This book publishes, for the first time, some 400 letters between Edith Wharton and her chief London publisher, Macmillan. The correspondence highlights Wharton's well developed understanding of the 'sociology of text' in the early twentieth century, casting new light on Wharton's working practices which will be of crucial importance for scholars. Editor(s): Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008434
- ISBN
- 9780230008434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.78
€ 64.78
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935096160
- ISBN
- 9781935096160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.68
€ 15.99
€ 15.68
Hardback. An annotated bibliography to the criticism of the work of James Fenimore Cooper, regarded as a pioneer in the development of the American social and political novel. The material is divided into broad subject categories and, where appropriate, subdivided by the Cooper work in question. Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; GBCR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313279195
- ISBN
- 9780313279195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.26
€ 93.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349425624
- ISBN
- 9781349425624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardcover. During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541307
- ISBN
- 9781137541307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.62
€ 111.62
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441157706
- ISBN
- 9781441157706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.31
€ 36.99
€ 31.31
Hardback. Examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. This book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG; JFC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115832
- ISBN
- 9780691115832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.93€ 64.49
€ 83.93
€ 64.49
Hardback. Charts new scholarly ground at the nexus between fashion, textiles, and literature, appealing to a broad interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students. This collection of essays demonstrates that fashion history and literary history, when examined together, prompt fresh understandings of the complexities of race, class, and sexual identity. Editor(s): Joslin, Katherine; Wardrop, Daneen. Num Pages: 296 pages, 42 illus., 16 colour. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 188 x 29. Weight in Grams: 906.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611686425
- ISBN
- 9781611686425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.13
€ 54.13
Paperback. A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work. Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333486559
- ISBN
- 9780333486559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.70
€ 64.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349505425
- ISBN
- 9781349505425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.14
€ 63.14
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662605
- ISBN
- 9781855662605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.88
€ 101.88
Hardback. Describes modernist 'choran community' as a previously understudied key counternarrative to Modernism's engagement with early 20th-century master narratives. This book uses the term choran community to emphasize the almost sacred nature of experience represented in common by select modernist texts and phototexts produced in the interwar period. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911304
- ISBN
- 9781575911304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.98
€ 130.98
Realism and Regionalism, 1860-1910 (Backgrounds to American Literature...
Lathbury, Roger, Meyers, Karen
Now in full color for the first time, this updated and expanded edition discusses sectionalism, industrialism, and literary regionalism; slave narratives and race relations; the life and works of Mark Twain; urban writers and internationalism; regionalism; and naturalism, determinism, and social reform.Topics include: Editor(s): Phillips, Jerry. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 236 x 188 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Pub (L)
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604134872
- ISBN
- 9781604134872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.75
€ 51.99
€ 43.75
Hardcover. This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of knowledge as centered on the subject of travel. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602984
- ISBN
- 9780230602984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Paperback. By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical contextualization of the woman-as-doll, muse and femme fatale, Tonkin tests Carter's own description of her fiction as a form of literary criticism. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329281
- ISBN
- 9781349329281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardback. Explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; and, more. Num Pages: 628 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; PGZ; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 147 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1098.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 1999. Corr. 2nd printing 2001
- Number of pages
- 628
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387985718
- ISBN
- 9780387985718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.76
€ 94.76
Paperback. Translator(s): Lehman, J.Lee. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSBH; VXFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Red Wheel/Weiser United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877288947
- ISBN
- 9780877288947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.53
€ 17.99
€ 16.53
Paperback. An insightful argument about Sylvia Plath, feminism, and the marginalization of women readers Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558498969
- ISBN
- 9781558498969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.43
€ 31.99
€ 27.43
Paperback. This new study of Shakespeare's life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works, combines an accessible fully historicized treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470658475
- ISBN
- 9780470658475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.81
€ 33.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407524
- ISBN
- 9781421407524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.89
€ 53.99
€ 44.89
Rebecca Biron breaks new ground in this study of masculinity, violence, and the strategic construction of collective political identities in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. By engaging current sociological, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories, Murder and Masculinity analyzes the cliche of proving virility through violence against women. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; 3JJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230. .
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826513427
- ISBN
- 9780826513427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.43€ 73.26
€ 80.43
€ 73.26
Hardcover. Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109407
- ISBN
- 9780230109407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.21
€ 133.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Propp, V.IA. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University Of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816611829
- ISBN
- 9780816611829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.96
€ 29.99
€ 26.96