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Paperback. This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740463
- ISBN
- 9780804740463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.22
€ 42.99
€ 38.22
Hardback. Editor(s): Bowers, William; Crumme, Hannah Leah. Num Pages: 241 pages, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545527
- ISBN
- 9781137545527
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403972224
- ISBN
- 9781403972224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.23
€ 139.23
Paperback. This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; AN; DSBB; DSG; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 188 x 16. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119089896
- ISBN
- 9781119089896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.18
€ 52.18
Paperback. Designed to help electronic literature move into the classroom, this book addresses its major genres, the challenges it poses to traditional literary theory, and the complex and compelling issues at stake. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature draws on the print tradition. Series: Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language & Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268030858
- ISBN
- 9780268030858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Paperback. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674780286
- ISBN
- 9780674780286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.15
€ 42.99
€ 36.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027184
- ISBN
- 9781137027184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This collection of William Makepeace Thackeray's letters has been selected according to their ability to convey the essential biographical developments of his life, as well as their ability to represent his characteristic verbal and pictorial expressions. Num Pages: 416 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 818.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333660737
- ISBN
- 9780333660737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.31
€ 130.31
Paperback. This collection of essays by leading and emergent critics of twentieth-century fiction offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. Editor(s): Mackay, M.; Stonebridge, Lyndsey. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349540877
- ISBN
- 9781349540877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Thoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-textof hypertext studies. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 456 pages, 35, 8 black & white halftones, 27 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; UMW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 190 x 31. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- third edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882579
- ISBN
- 9780801882579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.36
€ 40.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Presents a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), and their Hebrew creativity. This book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew poetry written in Babylon at that time, the folktales, journalistic articles, and epistles, research of Hebrew literature, a story and a play. Num Pages: 247 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2CSJ; DSB; HBJF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535146
- ISBN
- 9781557535146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.66
€ 56.66
Paperback. During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349475773
- ISBN
- 9781349475773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover. This study explores how Malory's "Morte D'Arthur" responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions, which the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB; DSK; FQ; HBJD1; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312229986
- ISBN
- 9780312229986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. Introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric. This book explores the role of the orator, especially the two greatest figures of the tradition, Demosthenes and Cicero. It also investigates the place of rhetoric at the center of ancient education. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631235149
- ISBN
- 9780631235149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.38
€ 116.38
Paperback. Editor(s): Rochester, Myrna Bell; Angelini, Eileen M. Series: Focus Student Editions. Num Pages: 164 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585101542
- ISBN
- 9781585101542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.78
€ 21.99
€ 17.78
Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680 (Early Modern Lite...
Adrian, John, M. Adrian, John
Hardcover. Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277717
- ISBN
- 9780230277717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Paperback. In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovative ways to explore aspects of family, place, memory, loss, and meaning. Through these unique prose meditations, readers are led to a dozen unexpected windows on Ireland. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349379170
- ISBN
- 9781349379170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. "When Bhakkiyam falls in love with a Dalit sub-inspector, death is the only punishment that will satisfy her village panchayat. Pazhani, her father, is ordered to kill her. But how can a father murder his own daughter?"--Amazon.com. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 185 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- OUP India India
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199459520
- ISBN
- 9780199459520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.50
€ 30.50
Paperback. Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. This book not only demonstrates the relevance of these poems to contemporary scholarship but also reveals their power and beauty to the modern reader. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSB; DSC; HRHC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222060
- ISBN
- 9780253222060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.78
€ 29.78
Paperback. Editor(s): Savran, David. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559361637
- ISBN
- 9781559361637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.13
€ 20.13
hardcover. Presents a collection of essays that converges around the usually close and intense relationship between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, two of the most important and remarkable American poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This book examines the issues that drew Levertov and Duncan together, and split them apart. Editor(s): Gelpi, Albert; Bertholf, Robert J. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751308
- ISBN
- 9780804751308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.81
€ 118.81
Paperback. In itsanalysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, byshowing how thesewriters complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence." Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBWQ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349300655
- ISBN
- 9781349300655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. Utilizing new historicist, feminist, and cultural studies critiques, this collection of essays provides new perspectives on early children's literary texts and the work of children's literature scholar Mitzi Myers (1939-2001). Editor(s): Ruwe, Donelle. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810851825
- ISBN
- 9780810851825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 113.13
€ 113.13
hardcover. This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers, and mathematicians together developed and shaped the idea of modern probability, both scientifically and aesthetically. Translator(s): Wiggins, Ellwood. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; PBT; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768641
- ISBN
- 9780804768641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.51
€ 192.51