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Paperback. Where did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. This title overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase. Num Pages: 213 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 2ABM; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press California
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520231856
- ISBN
- 9780520231856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
paperback. This study interprets Flannery O'Connor's fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, the author turns to the short stories and novels themselves and forms an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823219117
- ISBN
- 9780823219117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 229 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 12 colour illustrations, 12 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137597700
- ISBN
- 9781137597700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.04
€ 95.04
Paperback. This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349461028
- ISBN
- 9781349461028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929-2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. This book surveys Gunn's career from his youth in 1930s Britain to his final years in California, from his earliest publications to his later unpublished notebooks. Editor(s): Weiner, Joshua. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226890449
- ISBN
- 9780226890449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Thai poets produced epics depicting elaborate myths and legends which intermingled the human, natural, and supernatural worlds. Translated with poetic imagery, this title relates the adventures of Prince Samuttakote and his princess as they tour the heavenly realms with a magic sword. Translator(s): Hudak, Thomas. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2G; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896801745
- ISBN
- 9780896801745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. This book guides us through the world of fairy tales and their criticism and looks at the romantic's mythology of the wandering brothers. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSBD; DSK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293802
- ISBN
- 9780312293802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.45
€ 72.45
Paperback. This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English Literature between the late eighteenth century and the present day, offering a reconceptualisation of the relationship between English Literature and the formation of English cultural identity. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340019
- ISBN
- 9781349340019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Offers translations of Chekhov's major plays and one-acts along with an introduction focused on the plays' power to elicit the widely divergent of responses, the life of the playwright in its historical and aesthetic contexts, suggestions for reading the plays 'under a microscope', and notes designed to bring Chekhov's world into focus. Translator(s): Carnicke, Sharon Marie. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209985
- ISBN
- 9780872209985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.31
€ 47.99
€ 34.31
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199568369
- ISBN
- 9780199568369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2ill. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816644049
- ISBN
- 9780816644049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardcover. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813937243
- ISBN
- 9780813937243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.98
€ 89.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349206223
- ISBN
- 9781349206223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Victor Kiernan provides a rich and insightful analysis of eight of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, revealing how they were shaped by the social and political upheavals of his age. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783606887
- ISBN
- 9781783606887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.22
€ 24.99
€ 23.22
Paperback. Series: MIP Richard Rawlinson Center Series. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 2ADL; 2AF; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 252 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 161
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580441827
- ISBN
- 9781580441827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.68
€ 35.68
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842156
- ISBN
- 9781843842156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.57
€ 97.57
hardcover. This project offers a critical guide to over a million words of vintage Dickens. It provides both a biographical and socio-historical account of the main phases of Dickens's career as a journalist, and a critical assessment of the thematic and stylistic development of his work. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 447.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333987735
- ISBN
- 9780333987735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years of James's writing life, focussing on the rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction which he began to produce in the 1890s Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198734802
- ISBN
- 9780198734802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.63
€ 179.63
Hardback. This study of fantasy author Robin McKinley is the first full-length, in-depth analysis of the author's works, including her award-winning books The Blue Sword (Newbery Honor, 1983) and The Hero and the Crown (Newbery Medal, 1985). Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810858190
- ISBN
- 9780810858190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.47
€ 101.47
Hardback. This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media. Editor(s): Ferris, David S. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 507.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725699
- ISBN
- 9780804725699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.97
€ 128.97
Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Series: Stud. Age Chaucer Ye. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933784277
- ISBN
- 9780933784277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This chronology traces the progress of Lawrence's life from its beginnings in the English Midlands through his world-wide travelling until his death in 1930. Details of the composition of his works in many forms and of the controversies that often followed their publication are included. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333531334
- ISBN
- 9780333531334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Peterson, Linda (Yale University Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University Yale University Yale University, Connecticut). Series: Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies. Num Pages: 744 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA; BGHA; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 759.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 741
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551115559
- ISBN
- 9781551115559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.78
€ 42.99
€ 38.78
Hardback. This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Series: Studies in Text & Print Culture. Num Pages: 318 pages, 109 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AFH; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611461916
- ISBN
- 9781611461916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.33
€ 138.33