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Paperback. The first book written on Alan Bennett's work for television, including his plays, series, documentaries and biographical pieces. Series Editor(s): Bignell, Jonathan; Cardwell, Sarah; Peacock, Steven. Series: The Television Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; APT; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719068065
- ISBN
- 9780719068065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.52
€ 31.52
Paperback. This study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to produce his distinctive postcolonial fictions. Series Editor(s): Thieme, John. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719067150
- ISBN
- 9780719067150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.78
€ 25.78
paperback. The first account of the television drama of Lynda La Plante, Britain's most successful and well known screenwriter, whose work is central to understanding changes that shook the UK television industry in the late twentieth century Series Editor(s): Bignell, Jonathan; Cardwell, Sarah; Peacock, Steven. Series: The Television Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; APT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New in paperback
- SKU
- V9780719065491
- ISBN
- 9780719065491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.62
€ 45.62
Paperback. Back in print after a lengthy absence, this is one of the most enduring plays of its time, edited by scholar and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. It joins the roster of "The Revels Plays", almost 30 of which are now in print. Series Editor(s): Bevington, David; Dutton, Richard; Findlay, Alison; Ostovich, Dr. Helen. Series: Revels Plays. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719064852
- ISBN
- 9780719064852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.10
€ 26.10
Paperback. 'Popular Victorian women writers' is a collection of essays on a variety of women writers working within the Victorian literary marketplace. Diverse and inclusive, the great strength of this book is that its emphasis on neglected writers and refreshing new angles on more widely known authors sends its readers back eagerly to the primary texts. Editor(s): Boardman, Kay; Jones, Shirley. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719064517
- ISBN
- 9780719064517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.01
€ 33.01
Paperback. Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world. Editor(s): Wood, David. Series Editor(s): Davies, Catherine. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719064135
- ISBN
- 9780719064135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.57
€ 24.57
Paperback. This book is a collection of essays on the most important figures associated with the Bakhtin Circle. It offers new biographical material, valuable translations of important Russian texts, a timeline and extensive bibliographical references. Editor(s): Brandist, Craig; Shepherd, David; Tihanov, Galin. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719064098
- ISBN
- 9780719064098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.65
€ 36.65
paperback. Since the 1940s Edwin Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. This book studies his work. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2842.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063619
- ISBN
- 9780719063619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.55
€ 39.55
Paperback. Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England. Editor(s): McDonald, Nicola (Lecturer in English and Medieval Studies,, University of York). Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063190
- ISBN
- 9780719063190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.96
€ 32.96
Paperback. An up-to-date introduction to an analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France, including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counter-parts Editor(s): Rye, Gill; Worton, Michael. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719062278
- ISBN
- 9780719062278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.51
€ 33.51
Paperback. The second edition of this historical survey and analysis of productions of Shakespeare's most enchanting comedy contains three additional chapters on Adrian Noble's RSC production and film, Michael Hoffman's film, and the "Dream" in China. Series Editor(s): Bulman, Jim; Rutter, Carol Chillington. Series: Shakespeare in Performance. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; APFA; APT; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719062216
- ISBN
- 9780719062216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.42
€ 29.42
Paperback. Reading literary texts through the lens of material culture, this study argues that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent and complicated relation to British imperial history. The work of Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf is examined. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719061646
- ISBN
- 9780719061646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.74
€ 36.74
Paperback. A work about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. This book also debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism. It discusses the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing. Num Pages: 241 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719060564
- ISBN
- 9780719060564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.84
€ 32.84
Paperback. This volume of essays on Bacon's "The New Atlantis" provides a dialogue between a range of critical perspectives, encompassing cultural history, history of science, literature and politics of early modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. Editor(s): Price, Bronwen. Series Editor(s): Wallace, Jeff; Whale, John. Series: Texts in Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; GT; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719060526
- ISBN
- 9780719060526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.24
€ 29.24
Paperback. A lively and ambitious satire in which Ben Jonson takes a stand on various developments in later Jacobean society. It offers a modernised text based on a collation of the 1631-40 folio, together with an introduction and a commentary which sets Jonson's art in its social and intellectual context. Editor(s): Parr, Tony. Series Editor(s): Bevington, David; Dutton, Richard; Findlay, Alison; Ostovich, Dr. Helen. Series: Revels Plays. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719059063
- ISBN
- 9780719059063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.87
€ 29.87
Paperback. Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFH1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719055997
- ISBN
- 9780719055997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.62
€ 31.62
Paperback. An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformations. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719055638
- ISBN
- 9780719055638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.61
€ 31.61
Paperback. This study of the work of Angela Carter deals with a range of her writings, including "Shadow Dance", "The Magic Toyshop", "The Passion of Eve", "Nights at the Circus", "Wise Children", "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman" and "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories". Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719053160
- ISBN
- 9780719053160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.98
€ 34.98
Paperback. A critical examination of the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. It is historically wide-ranging, encompassing novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje. Editor(s): Giddings, Robert; Sheen, Erica. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; APT; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719052316
- ISBN
- 9780719052316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.78
€ 31.78
Paperback. This collection spans Cortazar's writing career, from "La Noche Boca Arriba" and "Final del Juego" (1956), to "Recortes de Prensa" and "Queremos Tanto a Glenda" (1981) and "Botella al Mar" (1982). This edition contains an introduction, notes, a selected vocabulary and a discussion section. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; FA; FYB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719039232
- ISBN
- 9780719039232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.90
€ 21.90
The Maid's Tragedy. Beaumont and Fletche Theatre, History and Power in...
Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John. Ed(S): Cra...
Paperback. Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays Editor(s): Craik, T. W. Series Editor(s): Bevington, David; Dutton, Richard; Findlay, Alison; Ostovich, Dr. Helen. Series: Revels Plays. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719030987
- ISBN
- 9780719030987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.44
€ 29.44
Paperback. An examination of the hero figure in the stories of two major Victorian authors of children's literature and the complex way in which they engaged with the dominant ideologies of the time. Num Pages: 254 pages, 3 B&W illustraions, 2 diagrams. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718893590
- ISBN
- 9780718893590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.02
€ 50.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Howard, Tony. Translator(s): Plebanek, Barbara; Howard, Tony; Czerniawski, Adam. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530376
- ISBN
- 9780714530376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.73
€ 19.99
€ 19.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Edwards, Gwynne. Translator(s): Edwards, Gwynne. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530093
- ISBN
- 9780714530093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.88
€ 19.99
€ 19.88