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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. This text concerns a particular area in the history of the book. It demonstrates developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism relating to 19th-century literature. Editor(s): Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Number of pages
349
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333606599
ISBN
9780333606599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.68

Paperback. John Burroughs combined scientific observation with poetic spirit in his nature writing. This collection of essays explores Burrough's life and character, as well as his role as a writer and his relationships with contemporaries including Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and Muir. Editor(s): Walker, Charlotte Zoe. Num Pages: 344 pages, 21 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815606376
ISBN
9780815606376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.20

Paperback. Presents issue 19 of Aarhus University Press' arts and humanities journal "The Dolphin", analysing the impact of the French Revolution on English literature. This work covers topics such as Burke and the debate on the Revolution, Jane Austen's political silence, and William Blake's revolutionary rhetoric. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 148 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772883694
ISBN
9788772883694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.16

Paperback. The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. Editor(s): Mohanty, Satya P. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619081
ISBN
9780230619081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403942326
ISBN
9781403942326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.13

Paperback. The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470657041
ISBN
9780470657041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.58

Hardcover. Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood. Editor(s): Moruzi, Kristine; Smith, Michelle J. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137356345
ISBN
9781137356345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.47

paperback. Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532172
ISBN
9780226532172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.89

Hardcover. This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115774
ISBN
9780230115774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

Paperback. Editor(s): Meyers, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349083107
ISBN
9781349083107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

Paperback. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486281
ISBN
9781349486281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.53

Hardback. Unavailable until now, these eight lectures delivered by Stuart Hall in 1983 at the University of Illinois introduced North American audiences to the intellectual history of British cultural studies while simultaneously presenting Hall's original engagements with the theoretical positions that contributed to the formation of cultural studies. Editor(s): Slack, Jennifer Daryl; Grossberg, Lawrence. Series: Stuart Hall: Selected Writings. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJPN; DSBH5; JFC; JFD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362487
ISBN
9780822362487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. This volume presents the fully annotated text of James Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae" (1791), with an extensive editor's introduction, and an appendix that includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to "Vindiciae Gallicae" in the late summer of 1791." Editor(s): Garratt, Edmund. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
A Critical ed
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357598
ISBN
9781349357598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.96

Hardback. Editor(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M.; Brunet, Stephen. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 976.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624664984
ISBN
9781624664984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.65
€ 55.71

Paperback. Editor(s): Grantley, Darryll (University of Kent, Canterbury). BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138263352
ISBN
9781138263352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardcover. New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137362582
ISBN
9781137362582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. An overview of how the legend of Arthur and his Knights evolved from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot. Editor(s): Archibald, Elizabeth; Putter, Ad. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; JFHF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 288 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map. Editor(s): Archibald, Elizabeth; Putter, Ad. An overview of how the legend of Arthur and his Knights evolved from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; JFHF. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521677882
ISBN
9780521677882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.29

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135506
ISBN
9781571135506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. Rereads the works of Colette, Gide, and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822338970
ISBN
9780822338970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.79

hardcover. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929798
ISBN
9780813929798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286997
ISBN
9781349286997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of multicultural society. Series: Studies in Antisemitism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803245037
ISBN
9780803245037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555976941
ISBN
9781555976941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.70

The author argues that in "Great Expectations", Charles Dickens updated "David Copperfield" and rewrote novels by various contemporaries. He parodically revised his competitor's themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their novels as unrealistic and imbued with Cinderella motifs. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122281
ISBN
9780813122281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.96

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