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paperback. In direct contrast to our modern understanding of incest, Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England seeks to demonstrate that, during the Renaissance, a small number of important women used incest, imagined or actual, to empower their authorship. Num Pages: 296 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 2. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812219050
- ISBN
- 9780812219050
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Condition: New
€ 37.87
€ 37.87
Paperback. Ausonius, the most famous of the learned poets active in the second half of the fourth century, held important public offices. The subjects of many of his poems are typical of the academic world of the time. This work features translations that aim to reflect his unique sense of humor and illustrate the spirit of his times. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Num Pages: 100 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 150.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219531
- ISBN
- 9780812219531
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Condition: New
€ 25.24
€ 25.24
Paperback. Covert Operations brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas-confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse-Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221749
- ISBN
- 9780812221749
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Condition: New
€ 37.27
€ 37.27
Paperback. Ways of Writing is about the making of texts in seventeenth-century New England, whether they were fashioned into printed books or disseminated in handwritten form. David D. Hall explores issues of authority and authenticity, the roles of intermediaries, and the political and social contexts of publication, among other issues. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222081
- ISBN
- 9780812222081
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Condition: New
€ 37.45
€ 37.45
Paperback. A. M. Juster's striking new translation relies on the tools and spirit of the English light verse tradition while taking care to render the original text as accurately as possible. Translator(s): Juster, A. M. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 236.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222098
- ISBN
- 9780812222098
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Condition: New
€ 36.58
€ 36.58
Hardback. In his book Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction since 1960, Marc Chenetier analyzes the developments in recent American fiction, arguing that traditional generic approaches can be misleading. Translator(s): Houlding, Elizabeth A. Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812230598
- ISBN
- 9780812230598
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Condition: New
€ 91.13
€ 91.13
Hardback. This study explores the structure of psychological, social and political exchanges that were negotiated between audiences and plays in Elizabethan public theatres in a period ostensibly dominated by Shakespeare, but strongly rooted in Marlowe. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231021
- ISBN
- 9780812231021
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Condition: New
€ 79.36
€ 79.36
Hardback. This is the first English translation of a 13th-century work which set down the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region of France as it was practiced and understood. The work covers both procedural and substantive law, including the facts and decisions of nearly 100 cases. Translator(s): Akehurst, F. R. P. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 792 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; DNF; HBTB; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 792
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231052
- ISBN
- 9780812231052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.17
€ 133.17
hardcover. This monograph represents an effort to reclaim for literary study certain issues, such as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning and objective value judgements of literary works, which have been largely ignored by post-structuralist literary critics. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 716.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231274
- ISBN
- 9780812231274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.13
€ 91.13
Hardback. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231571
- ISBN
- 9780812231571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.74
€ 104.74
Hardback. Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812232349
- ISBN
- 9780812232349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.36
€ 72.36
Hardback. Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. This title provides a translation of this work. Translator(s): Townsend, David; Townsend, Walter. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812233476
- ISBN
- 9780812233476
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Condition: New
€ 85.93
€ 85.93
hardcover. Editor(s): Coltrane, Robert. Series: The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition. Num Pages: 456 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 39. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812233636
- ISBN
- 9780812233636
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Condition: New
€ 84.59
€ 84.59
Hardback. Editor(s): Justice, Steven; Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 358 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 80.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812233964
- ISBN
- 9780812233964
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Condition: New
€ 85.81
€ 85.81
Hardback. "A provocative study of an intriguing subject.. The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."-Romance Philology Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 348 x 28. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812234329
- ISBN
- 9780812234329
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Condition: New
€ 74.40
€ 74.40
Hardback. With the discovery in 1896 of a papyrus containing Bacchylides' work, 1,382 lines were reassembled and the poems of Bacchylides finally began to take shape for the modern reader. This book argues that, although Bacchylides is often considered a "lesser Pindar," he is a poet who warrants consideration. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812234473
- ISBN
- 9780812234473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.86
€ 43.86
Hardback. Shows the significance, rather than the irrelevance, of medieval dynastic motifs to projects of national unification, arguing that medieval studies can contribute to our understanding of national formations in part by marking the losses produced by union. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236002
- ISBN
- 9780812236002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.05
€ 102.05
Hardback. "A study of the influences of Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun on Heilbrun's own literary development, but the book is far broader than that-really, a history of Columbia University in the turmoil of the sixties and beyond. And this isn't for women only!"-Maxine Kumin, Ploughshares Editor(s): Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Series: Personal Takes. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236323
- ISBN
- 9780812236323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.91
€ 36.99
€ 36.91
Hardback. Addressing the ways alliterative poems share concerns with history and the often-dangerous confrontation of the present with the past, Christine Chism shifts her focus away from the emphases on meter, dialect, and provenance that have routinely marked studies of alliterative poetry. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 356 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 659.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236552
- ISBN
- 9780812236552
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Condition: New
€ 103.22
€ 103.22
Hardback. "An original and elegant work that will make signal contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism, and to the study of British nationalism and colonialism."-Adela Pinch, University of Michigan Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236569
- ISBN
- 9780812236569
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Condition: New
€ 85.19
€ 85.19
Hardback. "Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola."-Adam Gopnik, New Yorker Num Pages: 176 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; DS; HBTB; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236804
- ISBN
- 9780812236804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.05
€ 79.05
Hardback. Provides a feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. This book considers the positions and positioning of female figures and female voices within Jewish male discourse. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237108
- ISBN
- 9780812237108
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Condition: New
€ 91.35
€ 91.35
Hardback. Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, the author examines Henry James' subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237252
- ISBN
- 9780812237252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.94
€ 83.94
The Yard of Wit. Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750.
Stephanson, Raymond (Professor Of English, Un...
Hardback. "Raymond Stephanson configures masculinity and its expressions in male creativity historically, biographically, and in sufficient deep-layer detail to persuade the most rigorous of scholars that this work will be a reliable source of enduring worth."-George Rousseau, De Montfort University Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237580
- ISBN
- 9780812237580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.71
€ 101.71