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Hardback. This volume includes over 4000 citations, as well as 15 major new critical studies and 2 new biographies. It includes citations for works published in languages other than English and provides English translations of their titles for quick assessment of their scholarly value. Series: The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies Series. Num Pages: 596 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 38. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 596
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834828
- ISBN
- 9780810834828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.74
€ 177.74
Hardcover. Centuries before W.B. Yeats wove Indian, Japanese and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage. Num Pages: 478 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630449
- ISBN
- 9780815630449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Paperback. Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. This book demonstrates the influence of these crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press Los Angeles California
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520219175
- ISBN
- 9780520219175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.88
€ 35.99
€ 26.88
Hardcover. Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very development. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219861
- ISBN
- 9780230219861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.70
€ 116.70
Paperback. An account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", interpreting the text as displaying the human need to pursue an ideal of expressive freedom within the limits set by culture. The author sees Wittgenstein as a Romantic protagonist pondering on the nature of intentional consciousness. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ACG; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226203133
- ISBN
- 9780226203133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardback. This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated within the language of a far-off European country. It explores the work of writers from Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Ghandhi to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333467053
- ISBN
- 9780333467053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.90
€ 193.90
Offers an analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century. This book covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels. It features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405192323
- ISBN
- 9781405192323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.38
€ 157.38
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 370 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636832
- ISBN
- 9780691636832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.08
€ 195.08
Paperback. Translator(s): Johnston, Ian. Series: Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554812240
- ISBN
- 9781554812240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.91
€ 23.99
€ 22.91
Hardcover. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis. Editor(s): Fludernik, Monika; Nandi, Miriam. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403995
- ISBN
- 9781137403995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349702763
- ISBN
- 9781349702763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This dictionary provides explanations of references and words used with rare meanings, sources of quotations and allusions, identifications of fictional places and people, major symbols and important influences with critical comments on all Hardy's novels, short stories and poetry. Editor(s): Pinion, F. B. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349091386
- ISBN
- 9781349091386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Race, domesticity, and consumerism in the Cold War era Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Dartmouth College Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611688634
- ISBN
- 9781611688634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.30
€ 54.99
€ 43.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 30. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823240128
- ISBN
- 9780823240128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Hardcover. A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication. Num Pages: 226 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336. Fine in good illustrated cloth covers. Covers showing some shelf wear and previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise clean and remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- The Athlone Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0020700
- ISBN
- 9780485610062
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSB; DSC. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458516
- ISBN
- 9781349458516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. This analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723459
- ISBN
- 9780804723459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. A new perspective on the disjunction between book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century that shaped the contours of the modern literary sphere. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137367594
- ISBN
- 9781137367594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312214982
- ISBN
- 9780312214982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Paperback. Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338573
- ISBN
- 9781349338573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. Tells the story of three generations of the Rackrent family from the perspective of their servant, Thady Quirk, during the middle of the eighteenth century in Ireland. This book contains annotations, an introduction and a bibliography. Editor(s): Howard, Susan Kubica. Num Pages: 984 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; FC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 87
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208773
- ISBN
- 9780872208773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.42
€ 18.99
€ 15.42
Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336833
- ISBN
- 9780880336833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Hardback. Traces the uses of "Hamlet" in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. This title identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic "Hamlet". Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691137803
- ISBN
- 9780691137803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 42.58
€ 53.00
€ 42.58
Paperback. Introduces the art of extra-illustration and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading. This work includes an introduction to the concept of designing and creating a unique book by adding external material and an overview of the phenomenon's history and its heyday in the later 18th and 19th centuries. Num Pages: 40 pages, 20 color illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; AKLB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 296 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 40
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295990231
- ISBN
- 9780295990231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.13
€ 21.13