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Literary studies: general

The work explores the ways in which providentialism infiltrates various kinds of discourse, ranging from military to medical, and from political to philosophical. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 686.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643420
ISBN
9781442643420
Condition: New

€ 74.51

Paperback. Exploring the place of poetry in American culture and in the university, this text addresses issues such as: the role of the public intellectual; the poetics of scholarly prose; vernacular modernism; idiosyncratic postmodernism; identity politics; aesthetics; and poetry as a performance art. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044101
ISBN
9780226044101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.48

paperback. This work looks at the changing concept of the purity of women brought about by the rise of Christianity. Rejecting Roman feminine virtue in its pure, but fertile form, Christianity claimed a moral superiority in its ideals of romance, and portrayed women seeking more spiritual goals. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HRCC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674939509
ISBN
9780674939509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.24

Paperback. Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in recent young-adult fiction. Yet this bleakness needs not translate into depression and fear for vulnerable adolescents. Westwater reads six young-adult novels through Kristevan theory to find a glimmer of hope amidst our cultural crises. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643209
ISBN
9780888643209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.53

Paperback. "Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection, with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain through the optic of the twin concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylor, Jenny Bourne. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349366392
ISBN
9781349366392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.69

paperback. Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
American Literatures Initiative United States
Edition
American Literatures Initiative
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439909430
ISBN
9781439909430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.90

Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duquesne Univ Pr
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820704234
ISBN
9780820704234
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.48
€ 63.50

Hardback. Editor(s): Williams, Daniel G. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854114624
ISBN
9781854114624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.79

Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; HRAX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349293414
ISBN
9781349293414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CB; DCF; DSB; JF; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531120430
ISBN
9783531120430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.44

hardcover. Lists references to critical and interpretive studies os the literary output of 169 major and minor Hispanic South American women writers active from the turn of the twentieth century to 1989. Num Pages: 156 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810822634
ISBN
9780810822634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.98

Hardcover. An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Editor(s): Connell, Philip; Leask, Nigel. Num Pages: 332 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; ACV; DSBD; DSBF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 61.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521880121
ISBN
9780521880121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.83

Hardback. This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405160230
ISBN
9781405160230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.05

Paperback. A political history of African American literature Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814743393
ISBN
9780814743393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.43

Paperback. Tangier, 'the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world', in the author's mind, was a haven for many Western writers in the early twentieth century. This book presents his recollections of his encounters in Tangier with Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams; offering a fresh insight into the lives of these cult figures. BIC Classification: 1HBM; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 774.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Telegram Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846590504
ISBN
9781846590504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.26
€ 53.65

Hardcover. This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137326539
ISBN
9781137326539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.26

Hardcover. This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. It charts the most important developments in the field since the turn towards cultural and ideological features of the Renaissance imagination. Editor(s): Barkan, Leonard; Cormack, Bradin; Keilen, Sean (Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania). Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008984
ISBN
9780230008984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

Hardback. This fresh, informative account of key writers, important texts, and complex cultural currents promises keen interest for students and scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894732
ISBN
9780801894732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.62
€ 65.03

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691630632
ISBN
9780691630632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.06

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638829
ISBN
9780691638829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.42

Hardback. This work examines the outbreak of print in late-Victorian Britain. Chapters focus on authorship, production, and gender in relation to Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James and and serials such as "Master Humphrey's Clock", the "Westminster Review", and "Artist". Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333770474
ISBN
9780333770474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.60

Hardcover. This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137528094
ISBN
9781137528094
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.53

Hardback. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403969668
ISBN
9781403969668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.74

Hardback. Effective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801897214
ISBN
9780801897214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.70
€ 62.47

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