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Hardback. An analysis of the ways in which Chaucer uses details of costume, clothing and fabric, enhancing our understanding of and shedding fresh insights into his work. Series: Chaucer Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 11 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843689
- ISBN
- 9781843843689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Hardback. Series: Asian American History & Culture. Num Pages: 222 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781439912263
- ISBN
- 9781439912263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.62
€ 93.62
Hardcover. Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies, media theory, and Derrida's work, the "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary and mediatized presence that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338753
- ISBN
- 9780230338753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose. Editor(s): Hudson, B. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298921
- ISBN
- 9781349298921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747448
- ISBN
- 9780804747448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Paperback. A quick fix of fiction in this age of speed and technology. Translator(s): Dahl Buchanan, Rhona. Series: Secret Weavers Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CJB; DCF; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781893996915
- ISBN
- 9781893996915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.16
€ 18.99
€ 18.16
Hardcover. This book introduces students to the chief disciplines, methods and sources employed in "doing" ancient history, as opposed to "reading" it. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405106573
- ISBN
- 9781405106573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.94
€ 113.94
hardcover. Analysing works by Lessing, Goethe, and Karamzin, among others, Literature on Trial brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the links between genre as a discursive strategy and socio-political life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AGP; 2AGR; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643567
- ISBN
- 9781442643567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.42
€ 69.42
Hardcover. Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289759
- ISBN
- 9781137289759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks, our ancestors but their legacy reaches further than we could ever imagine. Their influence stretches from the Japanese to the Cossacks, from Ancient Rome to Indonesia. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white plates, colour plates. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745639017
- ISBN
- 9780745639017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.53
€ 23.53
Hardback. How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? Presenting the portraits of places seen from within, the author contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; WTL; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113654
- ISBN
- 9780691113654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.53€ 45.21
€ 56.53
€ 45.21
hardcover. Series: Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music. Num Pages: 447 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSB; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 34. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 447
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780914913214
- ISBN
- 9780914913214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.30
€ 202.30
Hardback. A collection of essays, representing research in the archives at the British Library, examining Macmillan's astute business strategy during the 19th century, its successful expansion into overseas markets, and its complex and intriguing relations with authors such as W.B. Yeats. Editor(s): James, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; BGH; DSB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 591.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333735176
- ISBN
- 9780333735176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
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
€ 221.11
€ 221.11
Hardback. Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated form--the preface. He shows how the notion of authorship changed in the shifts to the modern public sphere and from religion to science as legitimizing authorship. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722841
- ISBN
- 9780804722841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.88
€ 86.88
Hardcover. This work includes an analysis of Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation and considers Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240141
- ISBN
- 9780312240141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardback. Illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work between 1660 and 1710. This book examines well known genres such as Restoration sex comedy, and explores other genres such as heroic plays, satirical comedy, sentimental 'she-tragedy', tragi-comedy and political tragedy. Its three sections address the diverse aspects of Restoration Drama. Editor(s): Owen, Susan J. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 472 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 189 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1022.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631219231
- ISBN
- 9780631219231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 229.67
€ 229.67
hardcover. Offering a revisionist account of the genre of the epyllion, Ellis transforms theories of sexuality, literature, and politics of the Elizabethan age, making an erudite and intriguing contribution to the field. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780802087355
- ISBN
- 9780802087355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 520 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 37. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231148160
- ISBN
- 9780231148160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.93€ 76.74
€ 98.93
€ 76.74
hardcover. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976451
- ISBN
- 9781403976451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.03
€ 117.03
Hardcover. Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5, 4 black & white tables, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293007
- ISBN
- 9780230293007
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic. Editor(s): Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,Revised Edition,2nd edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008533
- ISBN
- 9780230008533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.61
€ 140.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Larsen, K. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349534999
- ISBN
- 9781349534999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): DeGregorio, Scott. Series: Medieval European Studies. Num Pages: 299 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- West Virginia University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933202099
- ISBN
- 9781933202099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59