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Hardback. While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272866
- ISBN
- 9780230272866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFF; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297078
- ISBN
- 9781349297078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social norms. Num Pages: 408 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Anniversary ed.
- SKU
- V9780804741880
- ISBN
- 9780804741880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 46.53
€ 50.99
€ 46.53
Hardback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493528
- ISBN
- 9781611493528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.40
€ 156.40
Hardcover. Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137271860
- ISBN
- 9781137271860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Presents an introduction to the process and art of literature-to-film adaptations. This work provides a written account of key moments in the history of the novel from "Don Quixote" and "Robinson Crusoe" up to "Lolita" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It examines numerous literary trends - from the self-conscious novel to magic realism. Num Pages: 408 pages, 0. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405102872
- ISBN
- 9781405102872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.79
€ 131.79
Hardback. A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors. Editor(s): Metcalfe, Jean LeDrew. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802046949
- ISBN
- 9780802046949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Through analysis of both major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to 20th century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633428
- ISBN
- 9780745633428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.09
€ 73.09
Hardcover. Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, thsi book investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; LA; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691011998
- ISBN
- 9780691011998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.35€ 83.75
€ 108.35
€ 83.75
Hardback. Examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. This book traces the history of the nostalgia poem. Num Pages: 221 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874139457
- ISBN
- 9780874139457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.28
€ 117.28
Hardcover. In 1889, having fathered at least 15 children by various women, Tolstoy suggested in "The Kreutzer Sonata", that people should stop having children. Through psychoanalysis, this text shows that his position was grounded in a sadistic attitude towards women and a punishing one towards himself. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333730416
- ISBN
- 9780333730416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
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
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720434
- ISBN
- 9780804720434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Hardcover. Attending to the dialogue between the comic events in plays by female writers of the 18th century and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political and legal arguements about women and marrige that fascinated the playwrights and the theatre-going public. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239381
- ISBN
- 9780312239381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Baumana s writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz. Editor(s): Beilharz, Peter. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 376 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631214922
- ISBN
- 9780631214922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.71
€ 61.71
Hardback. Quitslund argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 695.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802035059
- ISBN
- 9780802035059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.20
€ 97.20
Paperback. Focuses on the early modern period in Japanese literature. This anthology introduces English readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon (satiric sermons), kibyoshi (satiric and didactic picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), and gokan (bound books). Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 552 pages, Numerous woodcut prints to be reproduced from previous edition. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Abridged
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231144155
- ISBN
- 9780231144155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.92
€ 46.99
€ 33.92
Hardcover. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACY; 3JB; 3JD; CFF; DSBB; HRC; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403975478
- ISBN
- 9781403975478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between 'high' and popular art forms. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230283947
- ISBN
- 9780230283947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349564477
- ISBN
- 9781349564477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. A revisionist reading of Ernest Hemingway's work with respect to race. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533381
- ISBN
- 9781349533381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Editor(s): Pease, Donald E. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822314936
- ISBN
- 9780822314936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.83
€ 41.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Throughout, the work takes full account of developments in stage history which have altered thinking about Shakespeare's stage. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Weight in Grams: 47. Fine in fine cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing age and shelfwear. Previous owner's name on ffep. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0029147
- ISBN
- 9780521212557
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482174
- ISBN
- 9781137482174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56