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Hardback. Examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. This book argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Series: Literature in History. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HPCA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691090283
- ISBN
- 9780691090283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.77€ 104.08
€ 138.77
€ 104.08
Hardback. Series: Global Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black and white photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252039751
- ISBN
- 9780252039751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; 2ACS; AN; DSB; GBC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810855632
- ISBN
- 9780810855632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.56
€ 174.56
Paperback. Examines the changing representations of "home" in 20th-century English literature. The text argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home". Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220126
- ISBN
- 9780520220126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.13
€ 35.99
€ 26.13
Paperback. A survey of the roots and origins of Isaac Bashevis-Singer's works. Biletzky also explores the relationship between Singer and Shalom Aleichem and I.L. Peretz, offering an analysis which synthesizes the Jewish and the Yiddish in Singer's thought and writing. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819198297
- ISBN
- 9780819198297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.98
€ 79.98
Hardback. Compiling in one volume the basic writings of these three seminal thinkers of ancient China, each from a different philosophical school, this book reveals the richness and diversity of the ancient Chinese intellectual world. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Num Pages: 480 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- n
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231025157
- ISBN
- 9780231025157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.92€ 56.44
€ 72.92
€ 56.44
Hardcover. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press (An Dublin, Ireland
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133912
- ISBN
- 9780874133912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.06
€ 111.06
Hardback. Focusing on the period from about 1690 to 1890, these essays depict an age of sensibility that was in transformation. New connections are revealed between sensibility and other key preoccupations of the age, including the feminine ideal and the poetic imagination. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838633526
- ISBN
- 9780838633526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.69
€ 115.69
Hardback. Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. This book deals with his life and work. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 black and white. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGH; DSBH; DSC; HREZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247468
- ISBN
- 9780520247468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Paperback. Aimed at the general reader, this introduction to Japanese literature assumes no previous knowledge of Japanese culture. The author presents a series of essays which provide an overview of pre-modern Japanese poetry and fiction, as well as theatre and aesthetics. Series: Companions to Asian Studies Series. Num Pages: 133 pages, further reading list, index. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 133
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231067379
- ISBN
- 9780231067379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 66 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970610645
- ISBN
- 9780970610645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.10
€ 25.10
Hardback. 18 July 1898. World-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola flees to England with no idea when he will return. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 250 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571312016
- ISBN
- 9780571312016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.16
€ 19.99
€ 15.16
paperback. The pseudo-Virgilian Aetna poem has fascinated textual critics for centuries on account of its badly corrupted state. But it is fascinating for its content as well. A vigorous and enthusiastic poem, this title repays further study within the didactic tradition. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 388 pages, 2-colour cover. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904675389
- ISBN
- 9781904675389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.98
€ 48.98
Hardcover. A leading literary critic's innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393246872
- ISBN
- 9780393246872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.01
€ 47.99
€ 40.01
Paperback. First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 38. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753825778
- ISBN
- 9780753825778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.43
€ 21.99
€ 16.43
Paperback. A survey of the critical reception of George Eliot's fiction in Victorian periodicals. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463775
- ISBN
- 9781580463775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.70
€ 36.99
€ 31.70
Hardcover. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875801964
- ISBN
- 9780875801964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.88
€ 47.88
Hardback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926704
- ISBN
- 9780813926704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.53
€ 81.53
Hardback. This book develops a new context and methodology for reading Romantic literature by exploring philosophies of language from the period 1785-1835. It explores the moral, political, and legal philosophy of Reid, Bentham, Kant and the German Idealists, Humboldt, and Coleridge, and literary texts by Coleridge, Godwin, Holderlin, and Kleist. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739146
- ISBN
- 9780804739146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.43
€ 103.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 205 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772896595
- ISBN
- 9788772896595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16
Hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336437
- ISBN
- 9780880336437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.48
€ 49.99
€ 35.48
Paperback. Identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. This book traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, and cross-cultural translations. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 2ACY; 2CSJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138442
- ISBN
- 9780691138442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.00
€ 40.99
€ 29.00
Paperback. Contains nine short stories painting an array of locals caught up in failed dreams of financial success and romantic fulfilment. Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985275
- ISBN
- 9780295985275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.54
€ 21.54
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC United States
- Edition
- Large Print
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935096092
- ISBN
- 9781935096092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.35
€ 17.99
€ 16.35