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Hardback. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407401
- ISBN
- 9781421407401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70€ 57.45
€ 62.70
€ 57.45
Hardcover. An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393050943
- ISBN
- 9780393050943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.28
€ 31.99
€ 27.28
Paperback. Tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. This book traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496804
- ISBN
- 9781558496804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.60
€ 40.99
€ 34.60
Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935492
- ISBN
- 9780813935492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.22€ 54.83
€ 59.22
€ 54.83
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746308394
- ISBN
- 9780746308394
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.39
€ 24.99
€ 23.39
Paperback. This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719068393
- ISBN
- 9780719068393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.92
€ 38.92
Hardback. Satire, written in the verse of heroic epic but focused on the evils of contemporary society, was ancient Rome's original contribution to world literature. Two great practitioners of this art, Persius and Juvenal, wrote under the early emperors. Inspired by their Republican predecessors, both radically reinvented the genre. Editor(s): Braund, Professor Susanna; Osgood, Josiah. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 628 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 254 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 628
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405199650
- ISBN
- 9781405199650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.42
€ 192.42
Hardback. Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis. Editor(s): Monta, Susannah Brietz. Series Editor(s): Lethbridge, J. B. Series: The Manchester Spenser. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719086977
- ISBN
- 9780719086977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.52
€ 163.52
Paperback. Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of 'the female pen,' and to pay as much attention to the playwright's marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551110219
- ISBN
- 9781551110219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.38
€ 29.99
€ 24.38
Paperback. An impressionistic study of Bruce Chatwin's life and work by one of his friends. It is not a biography, but a collection of Clapp's own memories of Chatwin and those of his friends and colleagues. Both a solitary and a socialite, he has been described as the person who reinvented travel-writing. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 175. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KRA0010579
- ISBN
- 9780099733713
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.00
€ 10.00
Hardback. W.H. Auden and Hannah Arendt belonged to a generation that experienced the catastrophic events of the mid-20th century, and they both sought to respond to the enormity of the novel phenomena they witnessed. "Regions of Sorrow" explores the remarkable affinity between their works. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 320 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; DSK; HBJD; HBTZ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745109
- ISBN
- 9780804745109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.63
€ 163.63
Hardcover. How does irony affect the evaluation and perception of the First World War both then and now? Irony and the Poetry of the First World War traces one of the major features of war poetry from the author's application as a means of disguise, criticism or psychological therapy to its perception and interpretation by the reader. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576933
- ISBN
- 9780230576933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 225 x 33. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837628104
- ISBN
- 9783837628104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.01€ 51.09
€ 65.01
€ 51.09
Hardcover. The essays in this collection range widely not only over Karolina Pavlova's oeuvre but also in their analytical stances. The volume includes close poetic and prosodic analysis, literary history, gender studies, intertextual comparison and biography. Editor(s): Fusso, Ms. Susanne; Lehrman, Alexander. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BG; DNF; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press,U.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810115446
- ISBN
- 9780810115446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.34€ 93.58
€ 103.34
€ 93.58
Paperback. Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. This book looks at the views of human sexual development that were available in Dostoevsky's time. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810151901
- ISBN
- 9780810151901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.51
€ 38.99
€ 33.51
Paperback. Juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century culture-pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spider-man, and Hester Prynne with Madonna - to investigate how the "Americanness" of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of cultural imaginary and performance. Series: North American Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 13 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Campus Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783593398723
- ISBN
- 9783593398723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.68
€ 80.68
Hardcover. This text examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epics figurative economy. Num Pages: 496 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 38. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719179
- ISBN
- 9780804719179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.51
€ 103.51
Hardback. Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382. Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. 180 pages. Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 15. Weight: 382.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457547
- ISBN
- 9780857457547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.71
€ 157.71
Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537532
- ISBN
- 9781349537532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110656
- ISBN
- 9780230110656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977502
- ISBN
- 9781403977502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- SKU
- V9780312227838
- ISBN
- 9780312227838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.77
€ 122.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837624168
- ISBN
- 9783837624168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.22
€ 51.99
€ 37.22
Paperback. Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349352012
- ISBN
- 9781349352012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.42
€ 63.42