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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Bringing together advice and information from a group of eminent scholars, this title aims to develop in the reader an informed and realistic approach to the mechanisms for accessing and handling manuscripts in what may be limited time. It is suitable for students and fledgling researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature. Editor(s): Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, c. 50 b&w, c. 70 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; ACK; CFL; DSBB; HBLC; HDDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 846.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898416
ISBN
9780859898416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.04

Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work S. Num Pages: 96 pages, Fr. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746307809
ISBN
9780746307809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.67

Hardback. This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
218
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248175
ISBN
9780230248175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.95
€ 58.29

Hardback. Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230337367
ISBN
9780230337367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.38

Paperback. Demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings. Num Pages: 208 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: AJ; DSA; DSBH; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691002682
ISBN
9780691002682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.81

Hardback. The Third in our Classic Collection from famous essayists Especially relevant today in confronting the future of Israel and Palestine Showcasing a major literary figure - an original thinker BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 192 x 16. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910749029
ISBN
9781910749029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.84

Paperback. This book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC; HPCF3; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272846
ISBN
9780823272846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.02

Paperback. During the Harlem Renaissance African Americans used written and visual texts to shape ideas about themselves and to redefine African American identity. The author argues that these collaborative volumes show how participants engaged in the processes of representation and identity formation in sophisticated and largely successful ways. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, 60 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253219190
ISBN
9780253219190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.80

Paperback. "To the Lighthouse" is one of Virginia Woolf's most widely read and commonly studied novels. This guide introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife. It is suitable for undergraduate students. Series: A Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826495839
ISBN
9780826495839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.17

Paperback. Touching on the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Proust, and Plato, among others, this title outlines the problem of duality in modern thought - the separation of the mind and body, word and referent, intelligence and mystery, human and natural - and makes the case for a fuller kind of nature poetry, one that strives to overcome this false separation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571313270
ISBN
9781571313270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.77

Hardback. This multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period. Editor(s): Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie. Series: Women's Writing Anthologies. Num Pages: 352 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DQ; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 889.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748610969
ISBN
9780748610969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.94
€ 154.30

Paperback. This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623068
ISBN
9780748623068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623051
ISBN
9780748623051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.71
€ 94.93

Hardback. Speaking to the range of female experience during Early America, this rich collection conveys the acts of bravery, protest, and survival of women that contributed to the formation of an empire. Letters, diaries, and narratives, among other texts, serve as the point of entry into the overlooked topic of the female body as a site of contestation. Editor(s): Balkun, Mary McAleer; Imbarrato, Susan Clair. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 613.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137559906
ISBN
9781137559906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.19

Hardback. Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137435989
ISBN
9781137435989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.34

Hardback. Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women's writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. This book examines the female pursuit of privacy, particularly of the spatial kind, as women began to claim privacy as an entitlement of the modern, middle-class woman. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
194
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230535855
ISBN
9780230535855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.33

Paperback.
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746311448
ISBN
9780746311448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.93

Hardcover. Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010 presents the history and current state of a critically neglected, significant body of contemporary writing and places it within the wider social and political contexts of the period. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319778
ISBN
9781846319778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Hardback. Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sheik, and the novels of Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137426970
ISBN
9781137426970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.91

Hardback. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, 2, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887055
ISBN
9780801887055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.20
€ 54.59

Paperback. A collection of stories, which examine society through the eyes of the woman, as she encountered choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love. It tells the stories of competing voices - of the men and women who entered into the fray of the fin de siecle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge or delight in the irrepressible New. Editor(s): Richardson, Angelique. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441566
ISBN
9780141441566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.55

Paperback. Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Editor(s): Thompson, Ann; Roberts, Sasha. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSGS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719047046
ISBN
9780719047046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.20

Paperback. Presents an exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early years. Num Pages: 566 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 896.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292790407
ISBN
9780292790407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.73
€ 51.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 37 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ACX; BG; DN; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 177 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Conari Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573241380
ISBN
9781573241380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.97

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