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Hardback. A provocative and historical reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism that challenges critical assumptions concerning liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237542
ISBN
9780812237542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.78

paperback. This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Editor(s): Fulton, Helen. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 586 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Condition
New
SKU
9780470672372
ISBN
9780470672372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.99
€ 42.31

Paperback. Within a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Persianate societies. Editor(s): Marlow, L. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060661
ISBN
9780674060661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.67

Hardcover. This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137550637
ISBN
9781137550637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Paperback. This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341993
ISBN
9781349341993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Hardcover. In this book, Parent puts together a history of representations of the 1944 mutiny in Senegal. Combining firsthand analysis of the works and their intertextual interactions as well an external perspective, Parent engages with history, literature, film, poetics, and politics and highlights the importance of remembering the past. Num Pages: 222 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1HFDS; DSB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137274960
ISBN
9781137274960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Paperback. The study places Ukrainian Futurism within the context of other major Ukrainian literary movements of the time, and examines its relationship to Russian and West European Futurism. It includes critical analyses on the major works of the leading figures within the Ukrainian movement. Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 11 halftones, 11 colour illustrations, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 2AGR; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916458591
ISBN
9780916458591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1997
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349254668
ISBN
9781349254668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

Paperback. Argues that the emergence of historiography and romance was linked to large-scale transformations in the structure of power attendant on Capetian and Anglo-Norman state-making. This book provides a different understanding of the large variety of overlapping institutional, epistemological, and practical structures of power. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 176 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041205
ISBN
9780268041205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. One of the major cultural philosophers of our time addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art and literature. The result tells us as much about Lyotard as it does about Malraux. Translator(s): Harvey, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804737500
ISBN
9780804737500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.05

Hardback. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 431 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 747.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
431
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725682
ISBN
9780804725682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.44

Paperback. The third and fourth books of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations" deal with the nature and management of emotion. He presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicurians and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position. Translator(s): Graver, Margaret (Assistant Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College, USA). Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226305783
ISBN
9780226305783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.54

Hardcover. American literature offers exceptional resources for understanding the complex role religion has played in the life of the culture and in the experience of its people. This title deals with the vital role that religion has played in the literature of the United States. Editor(s): Lundin, Professor Roger. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602581470
ISBN
9781602581470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Hardcover. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Anthem Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857282965
ISBN
9780857282965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.81

Features prose translations that remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a language that echoes the effect created by Moliere's verse. This title discusses Moliere's life; Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and the comic tradition; and, the setting, casting, and style of the plays. Translator(s): Steiner, Prudence L. Num Pages: 274 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841283
ISBN
9781603841283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.45

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379374
ISBN
9780674379374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.29
€ 65.17

Paperback. The latest volume of the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter's notebooks. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APFB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771407
ISBN
9781847771407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.59

hardcover. Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view. Editor(s): Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Pelling, Christopher; Isaksen, Leif. Num Pages: 416 pages, 48 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HBTP; JFCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 277 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780199664139
ISBN
9780199664139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.73

Hardback. Explores representations of "monstrous" women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing male responses to the feminist movement of the era. This text argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions. Num Pages: 245 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333655771
ISBN
9780333655771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.84

Paperback. This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405161923
ISBN
9781405161923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.32

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403942821
ISBN
9781403942821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.31

Paperback. "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" -Jeremy Adler, Times Literary Supplement Translator(s): Corngold, Stanley. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393343571
ISBN
9780393343571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.50

Hardback. A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Editor(s): Hose, Martin; Schenker, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 181 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444339420
ISBN
9781444339420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 214.70

Hardback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JMH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845450076
ISBN
9781845450076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.09

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