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Paperback. The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include Oprah's Book Club, the Man Booker Prize and the Harry Potter phenomenon. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486847
- ISBN
- 9781349486847
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. A full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 2AFS; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scottish Text Society United Kingdom
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897976340
- ISBN
- 9781897976340
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.14
€ 34.99
€ 30.14
Paperback. This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358441
- ISBN
- 9781349358441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Greenall, Annjo K.; Mitchell, Domhnall. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DN; 2ADF; DSB; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fagbokforlaget Norway
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788245017212
- ISBN
- 9788245017212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.73
€ 52.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 816 pages, 5 illustrations, index, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393977523
- ISBN
- 9780393977523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.82
€ 25.99
€ 22.82
Hardcover. The first book-length treatment of James Joyce's work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This intersection raises questions of epistemology, aesthetics, and the construction of the 'Modern' and will appeal to literary and philosophy scholars. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366221
- ISBN
- 9781137366221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
paperback. An overview of how the legend of Arthur and his Knights evolved from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot. Editor(s): Archibald, Elizabeth; Putter, Ad. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; JFHF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 288 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map. Editor(s): Archibald, Elizabeth; Putter, Ad. An overview of how the legend of Arthur and his Knights evolved from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; JFHF. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521677882
- ISBN
- 9780521677882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.29
€ 33.29
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135568
- ISBN
- 9781571135568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
paperback. An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellison s move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348290
- ISBN
- 9780822348290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.13
€ 41.99
€ 32.13
hardcover. Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylisation of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the ""condition of Britain"" in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813933818
- ISBN
- 9780813933818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.87
€ 83.87
Paperback. This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287437
- ISBN
- 9781349287437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. A novel that describes life on the Nebraska frontier. It presents a range of biographical, historical, and textual information. Editor(s): Rosowski, Susan J.; Mignon, Charles W.; Danker, Kathleen. Series: Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Num Pages: 392 pages, Map, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Scholarly
- SKU
- V9780803264373
- ISBN
- 9780803264373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Suitable for readers and critics alike, this title unravels the mystery of George Eliot's final creation - "Daniel Deronda" - and of Eliot herself. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Encounter Books,USA United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594035968
- ISBN
- 9781594035968
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.99
€ 17.99
€ 16.99
James S. Patty analyzes Rosa's influence on French writers, chiefly those of the 19th century, such as Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Gautier. With quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works,it forms an account of the reception of Rosa's life and work. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ACQB; AGB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813123301
- ISBN
- 9780813123301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.49
€ 34.49
Paperback. Peter S. Field contends that Ralph Waldo Emerson was America's first democratic intellectual and a democrat in two senses: his writings are imbued with an optimistic, confident ethos; and, more importantly, he acted the part of the democrat by bringing culture to all Americans. Series: American Intellectual Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; GTB; JFCX; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847688432
- ISBN
- 9780847688432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. The Tears of Sovereignty is a comparative study of the representation of the concept of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modern English and Spanish drama. It argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251308
- ISBN
- 9780823251308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.25
€ 52.25
paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138261129
- ISBN
- 9781138261129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Paperback. In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues. Num Pages: 384 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; ACG; AFKB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691094885
- ISBN
- 9780691094885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.31€ 54.12
€ 68.31
€ 54.12
Hardback. Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies Editor(s): King, Lovalerie; Moody-Turner, Shirley. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006257
- ISBN
- 9780253006257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Hardback. This examination of his fiction and non-fiction reveals Huxley's significance for cross-disciplinary debates between religion, science and literature, and provides examples of the transmission or refraction of knowledge from one discourse to another. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333637678
- ISBN
- 9780333637678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
hardcover. Previous ed. published under title: Key concepts in post-colonial studies. Series: Routledge Key Guides. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; GBC; HBTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415661904
- ISBN
- 9780415661904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.95
€ 136.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 145 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 145
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739139912
- ISBN
- 9780739139912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.72
€ 137.72
Hardback. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312122065
- ISBN
- 9780312122065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403961082
- ISBN
- 9781403961082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.95
€ 138.95