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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Hardback. The documents in this volume outline the highs and lows of Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary reputation and the elevation of his first and best-known romance to the rank of masterpiece and classic. Also included is a selective bibliography of modern scholarship. Series: Critical Responses in Arts & Letters. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313275999
ISBN
9780313275999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.57
€ 67.32

Hardcover. Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly reputations rise and fall. Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135919
ISBN
9781571135919
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.94

Paperback. Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. This book demonstrates the influence of these crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press Los Angeles California
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520219175
ISBN
9780520219175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 25.97

Paperback. Sanders sheds fresh light on how drama shapes understandings of space and place in the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107463349
ISBN
9781107463349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.12

Hardcover. This volume explores the influence that well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the US and in England in the years 1870-1920. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295295
ISBN
9780312295295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.83

Paperback. Series: Critical American studies series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639724
ISBN
9780816639724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.86

Hardback. Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures. Editor(s): Folkenflik, Robert. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720472
ISBN
9780804720472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.35

Hardcover. Editor(s): Arseneau, Mary; Harrison, Antony H.; Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen. Num Pages: 373 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
373
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821412435
ISBN
9780821412435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Paperback. This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 48 illustrations (8 colour). BIC Classification: AB; DSB; GT; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 928.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804745055
ISBN
9780804745055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108684
ISBN
9780230108684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.45

hardcover. This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton, this book considers alternative ways that fat was constructed before the introduction of the modern pathologized category of 'obesity'. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230601239
ISBN
9780230601239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Hardcover. The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608238
ISBN
9780230608238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.38

Hardback. The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents and provides innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity. Editor(s): Klekar, Cynthia; Zionkowski, Linda. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608290
ISBN
9780230608290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.45

Hardcover. This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230284036
ISBN
9780230284036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.43

hardcover. This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2010th Edition
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616264
ISBN
9780230616264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437361
ISBN
9780226437361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.81

Hardcover. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Num Pages: 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478. 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243846
ISBN
9781851243846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.61

paperback. The Curse of Caste is the earliest published novel by an African American woman yet to be discovered. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBF; DSK; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 265.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195301601
ISBN
9780195301601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.35

Hardback. "This interesting comparative study of the relationship between blood and gender in medieval literature considers how blood is associated with cultural values and how those values might be understood in light of blood's ubiquity as a metaphor and literal agent.. Recommended."-Choice Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
SKU
V9780812237139
ISBN
9780812237139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.70

Paperback. A reprint of the authoritative second edition published by G.K. Hall in 1981. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Editor(s): Motherwell, Robert. Series: Paperbacks in art history. Num Pages: 464 pages, 117 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 195 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1086.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674185005
ISBN
9780674185005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 41.05

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