Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Renowned as a poet and critic, Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. This volume begins in 1829 with an account of the Arnold children by their father, and closes in 1859, when already a poet and literary critic, Matthew Arnold returned to England after several months in Europe. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916514
- ISBN
- 9780813916514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.82
€ 106.82
hardcover. Louisa McCord was a remarkable figure in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles by owning and managing her own plantation, being politically active in the 1850s, involved in Civil War work, and more. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, geneal. tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1080.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916538
- ISBN
- 9780813916538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.05
€ 91.05
Hardback. By providing close readings of a variety of texts, this study aims to answer such questions as why the medievalist impulse has been ignored or marginalised in the context of American literature, especially given its prominence in studies of British literature. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 684.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916583
- ISBN
- 9780813916583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.38
€ 77.38
Paperback. This work examines African-American fiction, discussing how African-American novelists worked with the same mythic materials as their white counterparts, but inverted Anglo-American constructions. Relating the novel to history, it shows how they refuted Anglo-Americans' record of history. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916712
- ISBN
- 9780813916712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.74
€ 37.74
hardcover. Volume 2 of this six volume set covers the years 1860-65, when Arnold emerged as a critic and went on to consolidate his reputation. His letters record his impressions of Europe on an official school study, with observations of nature within and nature without. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917061
- ISBN
- 9780813917061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.47
€ 109.47
paperback. Brings together some of the most highly regarded historians and literary critics of the American South to consider race, gender and texts through three centuries and from different vantage points. Editor(s): Jones, Anne Goodwyn; Donaldson, Susan V. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Univ of Virginia Pr United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780813917269
- ISBN
- 9780813917269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.78
€ 57.78
Hardback. This volume studies Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men. The author examines classical novels by female authors in relation to each other and to developments in the emerging British women's movement. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DNF; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917726
- ISBN
- 9780813917726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.65
€ 64.65
Hardback. The letters in this volume show the woman Rossetti was at this time in her life. By 1874 she was an established poet with a literary reputation among her contemporaries. But her personal life was overshadowed by the deaths and illness of close friends, and her own affliction with Graves' disease. In the VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE series. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 875.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917832
- ISBN
- 9780813917832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.00
€ 102.00
Hardback. Marshall weaves stories of his own hiking adventures together with reflective explorations of some of the literary works written - from the earliest days of European settlement to the present - on this mountain chain which has been the inspiration for some of America's greatest nature writing. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSB; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917979
- ISBN
- 9780813917979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.32
€ 83.32
Paperback. Examines the ways in which the "romance" trope is employed within contemporary Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the newly independent postcolonial societies of the region. These essays situate this discourse of idealization within its historical and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Edmondson, Belinda. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918228
- ISBN
- 9780813918228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.38
€ 46.38
Paperback. Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation according to cross-cultural, trans-national and transtemporal paradigms. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSBF; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918365
- ISBN
- 9780813918365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.60
€ 32.60
paperback. This collection of essays and six interviews, from the Furious Flower Conference of 1994, provides a mosaic of the major critical and aesthetic issues emerging from African-American poetry and its literary milieu. They address the main points for assessing the work of black poets. Editor(s): Gabbin, Joanne V. (Professor of English, James Madison University, USA). Num Pages: 400 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918419
- ISBN
- 9780813918419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99
€ 35.99
Paperback. This volume brings together Melvin B. Tolson's three book of poetry - "Rendezvouz with America", "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia", and "Harlem Gallery" - as well as fugitive poems after 1944. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 31. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918655
- ISBN
- 9780813918655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.66
€ 45.66
Hardback. This text portrays an elusive and self-aware writer whose refusal to grant authority to a single perspective, even while she recirculated the fundamental assumptions and debates of her era, enabled her simultaneously to fulfill and deflect the expectations of the literary marketplace. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918754
- ISBN
- 9780813918754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.42
€ 75.42
hardcover. The fourth of six volumes collecting the letters of Matthew Arnold. The letters chronicle Arnold's personal life in the characteristically intimate note of all his correspondence. He loses a son, a brother and his mother, and travels to France, Switzerland and Italy, recording his impressions. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1039.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918969
- ISBN
- 9780813918969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.87
€ 108.87
Hardback. In the 1990s the field of ecocentrism began to establish and define itself. Arguing that the field has matured to the point where it requires a thorough critique and new theoretical underpinnings, this text suggests ways ecocentrism can become more sophisticated in its methodologies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919058
- ISBN
- 9780813919058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.52
€ 82.52
Hardback. Traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919096
- ISBN
- 9780813919096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.42
€ 75.42
Hardback. The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music and "yard" theatre to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Editor(s): Dawes, Kwame. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919454
- ISBN
- 9780813919454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.32
€ 82.32
paperback. The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music and "yard" theatre to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Editor(s): Dawes, Kwame. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919461
- ISBN
- 9780813919461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.97
€ 32.97
Hardback. An examination of postwar nature poetry. It addresses the work of Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Roethke, demonstrating that poets have begun to identify and direct their writing to audiences interested in and dedicated to the work's subject matter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919539
- ISBN
- 9780813919539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.80
€ 75.80