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Literary studies: general

Paperback. This volume, now available in paperback, represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during the seventeenth century. Editor(s): Suzuki, Mihoko. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137517968
ISBN
9781137517968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.87

Paperback. Christiana Gregoriou's book, now available in paperback, attempts to redefine the boundaries of an endlessly fascinating genre by exploring three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Includes detailed case studies on James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594630
ISBN
9780230594630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.60

Paperback. Editor(s): Motte, Warren F., Jr. Series: The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564786159
ISBN
9781564786159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.18

Hardback. This collection offers a critical reexamination of the development and current status of comparative literature studies that engage the literary practices of both China and the West. In so doing, it attempts to refashion literary methodologies and cultural theories in Chinese studies. Editor(s): Zhang, Yingjin. Num Pages: 324 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731867
ISBN
9780804731867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.21

Paperback. This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485086
ISBN
9781349485086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.20

Hardcover. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663272
ISBN
9780745663272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

hardcover. "Essays .. initially presented in less formal versions as independent papers .. at the James Joyce Conference, held in Philadelphia in June 1985"--Introd. Editor(s): Scott, Bonnie K. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874133288
ISBN
9780874133288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.57

Paperback. The first part of this book contains background information relevant to the 18th century English novel. The second part focuses upon seven diverse, yet representative, novels of the period, paying particular attention to the presentation of class, women and religion in the works examined. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture & Society. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349122974
ISBN
9781349122974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.67

Hardcover. This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like gender and disability get coded as deviant. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230105119
ISBN
9780230105119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 299 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACD; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 220 x 2. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319332215
ISBN
9783319332215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.96

Paperback. This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with introductions and annotations. Editor(s): Fabricant, Carole; Mahony, Robert. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 451.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349385911
ISBN
9781349385911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.01

Hardback. A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, medieval texts are presented in their original language with translations. Essential for those who wish to delve deeper into the background to Tolkien's mythology. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137454683
ISBN
9781137454683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.75

Paperback. Deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. This title revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, and fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046283
ISBN
9780674046283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349313426
ISBN
9781349313426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Hardback. The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. * Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the Victorian period. Editor(s): Brantlinger, Patrick; Thesing, William B. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 528 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 266 x 189 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1104.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220640
ISBN
9780631220640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 219.59

Paperback. Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248. Liu An's Art of War. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. 176 pages. Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 12. Weight: 248. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153331
ISBN
9780231153331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.73

hardcover. Bringing together memory theory, medieval cognition of images, and the English Corpus Christ drama in an innovative way, this study argues that the relationship of frames or backgrounds to the image has been misunderstood in the study of drama. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603219
ISBN
9780230603219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Hardcover. The study and the understanding of Anglo-Saxon history, literature and culture depends on the presentation of unique manuscripts as modern printed editions. This book addresses the questions raised by this transformation and provides a critical and practical account of possible solutions to them. Num Pages: 320 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABA; CBW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557864383
ISBN
9781557864383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Paperback. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822314691
ISBN
9780822314691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349178070
ISBN
9781349178070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.86

Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922553
ISBN
9780813922553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801453649
ISBN
9780801453649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.37

paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780940322127
ISBN
9780940322127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.29

Hardcover. Blake has maintained an enduring popularity amongst a large and diverse audience as a poet, artist and engraver. This volume traces his influence and afterlife across a range of major themes such as metropolitan Blake, Blake and nationalism and Blake and women. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333986455
ISBN
9780333986455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.88

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