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Paperback. Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444670
- ISBN
- 9781349444670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Editor(s): Pastor, Brigida M.; Davies, Lloyd Hughes. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. 260 pages. Editor(s): Pastor, Brigida M.; Davies, Lloyd Hughes. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 27. Weight: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662360
- ISBN
- 9781855662360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Paperback. The first comprehensive study of literary works created both orally and in writing by immigrants to the United States from the Hispanic world since the early nineteenth century Num Pages: 211 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 1 chart/graph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292743946
- ISBN
- 9780292743946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604766
- ISBN
- 9780230604766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. "Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"-- Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349325610
- ISBN
- 9781349325610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220223
- ISBN
- 9780812220223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Edition
- 14th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998318
- ISBN
- 9781906998318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.65
€ 19.99
€ 18.65
Paperback. This reference guide to Yeats' work, uses Yeats' non-poetic writing, the principle Yeats criticism and the writings of his friends and critics to reveal the depth of his meanings. It identifies geographical, historical and literary references from classical antiquity to Irish culture. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815627708
- ISBN
- 9780815627708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.70
€ 28.70
Paperback. This is the first book systematically to analyze Kirk Douglas' and Stanley Kubrick's depiction of the slave revolt led by Spartacus from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. Editor(s): Winkler, Martin M. Num Pages: 280 pages, 23. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405131810
- ISBN
- 9781405131810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.89
€ 45.89
Hardback. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231441
- ISBN
- 9780812231441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
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
€ 63.39
€ 63.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1981
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349165421
- ISBN
- 9781349165421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.98
€ 29.98
Paperback. Peterson, University of Maryland; Francesca Sawaya, University of Oklahoma; Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY; Alpana Sharma, Wright State University; Lynn Thiesmeyer, Keio University; Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck College, University of London; and Julian Yates, University of Delaware. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801869358
- ISBN
- 9780801869358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.65
€ 34.99
€ 29.65
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691612737
- ISBN
- 9780691612737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. Details how this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DN; DSB; GTB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295990835
- ISBN
- 9780295990835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.91
€ 61.91
Hardback. Censorship is one of the key controversies debated by Renaissance historians and literary critics. Was there once a concerted plan to censor all material hostile to the status quo? Or did authorities only intervene in periods of acute crisis? These issues are discussed in this collection of essays. Editor(s): Hadfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333794104
- ISBN
- 9780333794104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Paperback. Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies about Women is the first text that uses a literary genre-comedy-as a vehicle to explore another field (women/gender/sexuality). The results are immensely creative and open up new learning avenues for instructors and students. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DD; DQ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199797448
- ISBN
- 9780199797448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.71
€ 60.71
Hardback. Poetry by American women has been neglected by critics as well as publishers. Thus, this bibliography is a significant contribution to American literary history. Highly recommended. Num Pages: 242 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810823662
- ISBN
- 9780810823662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.15
€ 125.15
Hardcover. This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period. Series: Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233213
- ISBN
- 9780631233213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.50
€ 116.50
Hardback. This study examines the relationship between tragicomedy in modernist theatre and the consumerist culture in which the genre has risen. In the plays of Beckett, Shepard and Pinter, Orr argues, playfulness and confusion overlay a black vision of nuclear apocalypse. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture & Society. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333448793
- ISBN
- 9780333448793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.61
€ 193.61
hardcover. Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099570
- ISBN
- 9780802099570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252062025
- ISBN
- 9780252062025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.27
€ 24.99
€ 23.27
Hardback. Editor(s): Spiers, John. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403997722
- ISBN
- 9781403997722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230362246
- ISBN
- 9780230362246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74