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Hardback. This volume traces the interrelations and reciprocal influence between Florence Nightingale and important novelists of her time such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615953
- ISBN
- 9780230615953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333189
- ISBN
- 9781349333189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
paperback. Editor(s): Julavits, Heidi; Leland, Andrew; Vida, Vendela. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Believer Magazine
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781940450117
- ISBN
- 9781940450117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.51
€ 10.99
€ 9.51
Hardcover. Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. * An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226215
- ISBN
- 9780631226215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.33
€ 134.33
Hardcover. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333294017
- ISBN
- 9780333294017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Paperback. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813932323
- ISBN
- 9780813932323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.42
€ 44.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157568
- ISBN
- 9780231157568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.64€ 80.25
€ 103.64
€ 80.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349188703
- ISBN
- 9781349188703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.05
€ 38.05
Hardcover. Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337381
- ISBN
- 9780230337381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993492
- ISBN
- 9780295993492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.84
€ 140.84
Hardcover. A cultural history of utopian writing in early modern England, this work traces the development of the genre from the publication of Thomas More's "Utopia" (1516) through Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko" (1688). Amy Boesky sees utopian literature rising alongside new social institutions that shaped England. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 b&w photographs, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820318325
- ISBN
- 9780820318325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
paperback. Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221087
- ISBN
- 9780253221087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Hardback. College-mystery novels, a subgenre known for settings within universities and college towns, draw a reading audience comprised of both academics and the general mystery fan. Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction promises to be an invaluable resource suited for scholarly inquiry and the lay mystery reader. Num Pages: 448 pages, index, references. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; DSR; FF; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810838413
- ISBN
- 9780810838413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.23
€ 170.23
Paperback. Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Penguin Edition
- SKU
- KSS0000121
- ISBN
- 9780140063837
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 38.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107438163
- ISBN
- 9781107438163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.84
€ 52.84
Hardcover. What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information - a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? This title explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of 'unoriginal' writing. Num Pages: 244 pages, 2 colour plates, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226660615
- ISBN
- 9780226660615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.22€ 79.45
€ 94.22
€ 79.45
Hardcover. Non-fiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" of the 1960s, but this volume identifies 11 major works not usually thought of as nonficiton novels, such as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" to create a new definition of the genre. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322025
- ISBN
- 9780820322025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.78
€ 63.78
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662179
- ISBN
- 9781855662179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.01
€ 33.99
€ 33.01
Hardcover. Editor(s): Claeys, Gregory; Sargent, Lyman Tower. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 957.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479864652
- ISBN
- 9781479864652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Monstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407371
- ISBN
- 9781421407371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.08
€ 73.08
Hardcover. This book uses the theme of 'debatable lands', to explore aspects of writing in the Romantic period. Walter Scott brought it to a wider public, and the phrase came to be applied to debates which were intellectual, political or artistic. These debates are pursued in a collection of essays grouped under the headings such as 'Britain and Ireland'. Editor(s): Lamont, Claire; Rossington, Michael. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 139 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507852
- ISBN
- 9780230507852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216196
- ISBN
- 9780812216196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Macnaughton, Jane; Saunders, Corinne. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; JFC; JMS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349726462
- ISBN
- 9781349726462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardback. This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics. Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception. Editor(s): Martindale, Charles; Thomas, Richard F. Series: Classical Receptions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405131469
- ISBN
- 9781405131469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.70
€ 140.70