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Hardback. Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century BCE, Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. This work considers the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. Translator(s): Hunter, Richard. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235601
- ISBN
- 9780520235601
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Condition: New
€ 83.62€ 64.59
€ 83.62
€ 64.59
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ashton, Gail; Sylvester, Louise. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; JNT; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403988263
- ISBN
- 9781403988263
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
paperback. In examining the principles governing Gothic literature, this book proposes three new premises: that Gothic is poetic, not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions - Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 half-tones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226899077
- ISBN
- 9780226899077
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.01
€ 36.99
€ 30.01
Hardcover. The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222694
- ISBN
- 9780230222694
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Condition: New
€ 139.77
€ 139.77
Paperback. Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers. The essays in this volume focus on questions such as the writers' relationship to political parties and ideology, their treatment of the legacy of World War I, and their response to the rise of fascism. Editor(s): Dove, Richard; Mallett, Michael; Lamb, Stephen. Series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349118175
- ISBN
- 9781349118175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349499823
- ISBN
- 9781349499823
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Centred on the relationship between the personal lives of the writers John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and D. H. Lawrence and the works they produced this intriguing study develops a portrait of a circle of writers who significantly influenced the development of modernism in Britain. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780748641482
- ISBN
- 9780748641482
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Condition: New
€ 117.77€ 108.80
€ 117.77
€ 108.80
Paperback. This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371563
- ISBN
- 9781349371563
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. This edition of the letters between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson has been expanded and revised to include 59 letters discovered after the book's original publication in 1979. The additional letters and new annotations clarify the correspondence and illuminate the writers' friendship. Editor(s): Karlinsky, Simon. Num Pages: 398 pages, 26 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220805
- ISBN
- 9780520220805
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.75
€ 35.99
€ 26.75
Hardcover. Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406309
- ISBN
- 9781137406309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors. Editor(s): Pite, Ralph; Hubbard, Tom; Rooksby, Rikky. Series: Lives of Victorian Literary Figures. Num Pages: 1360 pages, Illustrations, ports, facsims. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 2494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781851969050
- ISBN
- 9781851969050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 500.53€ 318.03
€ 500.53
€ 318.03
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842200
- ISBN
- 9781843842200
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Condition: New
€ 97.57
€ 97.57
Hardback. This collection takes its point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, a concept which puts "contemporary" as well as "Romanticism" in play as period designations and critical paradigms. The book regards Romanticism as a thought experiment that poses questions for our own "now" time. Editor(s): Khalip, Jacques; Pyle, Forest. Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 344 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 20 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSBH5; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823271030
- ISBN
- 9780823271030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
Hardback. A critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the 'New American' collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson's work in relation to wider questions concerning literary chronologies. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 270 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108691
- ISBN
- 9780230108691
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Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291908
- ISBN
- 9781349291908
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Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships--their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725910
- ISBN
- 9780804725910
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Includes the individual-soteric-microcosmic level or ordo salutis unfolding analogous to the redemptive-historical-macrocosmic level or historia salutis. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783525569399
- ISBN
- 9783525569399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.80€ 119.11
€ 157.80
€ 119.11
Paperback. An amsusing, energetic, and engaging book of prose poetry. Series: MVP. Num Pages: 76 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- New Rivers Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 76
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780898231915
- ISBN
- 9780898231915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.67
€ 16.99
€ 15.67
Paperback. This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialist reader. All quotations are fully translated. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898454
- ISBN
- 9780859898454
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Condition: New
€ 42.79
€ 42.79
Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Series: Stud. Age Chaucer Ye. Num Pages: 549 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933784284
- ISBN
- 9780933784284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Series: Opuscula Graecolatina S. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 134 x 6. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788788073133
- ISBN
- 9788788073133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.79
€ 14.99
€ 12.79
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Journal. 1851-1852
Thoreau, Henry David. Ed(S): Neufeldt, Leonar...
From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This volume presents nearly eight hundred manuscript pages of this Journal. Editor(s): Neufeldt, Leonard N.; Simmons, Nancy Craig. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 800 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; BGA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 215 x 52. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691065359
- ISBN
- 9780691065359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 143.68€ 110.03
€ 143.68
€ 110.03
Paperback. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw 'the Indian Mutiny' of 1857-59 as an epochal event. This book seeks to discover why. It offers a view of this episode - and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally - at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTQ; HBTV; JWXT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143309
- ISBN
- 9780691143309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.92
€ 46.99
€ 33.92
Hardcover. "The range of Manas performance traditions captured here is immense. What is wonderful and remarkable is that each is presented vividly, with careful ethnographic detail, so that they become living traditions to the reader."--Susan Wadley, Syracuse University Series: Philip E.Lilienthal Books. Num Pages: 450 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BM; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 900.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520066908
- ISBN
- 9780520066908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.02€ 57.47
€ 73.02
€ 57.47