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Hardback. Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753-1821) was a leading literary figure of the late 18th century - an actress, playwright and editor of several plays and novels. This work covers her life story, but also provides a look at the society and politics of London in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Num Pages: 632 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; BGH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 966.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122366
ISBN
9780813122366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.77

Hardback. This work offers the perspectives of poets, journalists, and scholars as they discuss their views on creativity, the teaching of writing, and the importance of a sense of place in their work. Editor(s): Beattie, L.Elisabeth. Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Edition
11
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813121246
ISBN
9780813121246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813118888
ISBN
9780813118888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.33

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813114941
ISBN
9780813114941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813101682
ISBN
9780813101682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.01

Hardback. Editor(s): Riggio, Thomas P.; West, James L. W., III. Series: The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2ABM; 3JJG; BG; DSBH; DSK; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 259 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812280913
ISBN
9780812280913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.03

Hardback. Translated shortly before 1400, the Bible became the most popular medieval book in English. Scholars call it the Wycliffite Bible, attributing it to followers of the heretic John Wyclif, and say that it was banned in 1407. Henry Ansgar Kelly disagrees, arguing that it was a nonpartisan effort, and never the object of any prohibition. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248340
ISBN
9780812248340
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.81

Hardback. In late medieval and early modern Spain, physicians began to translate and refashion medical information for lay readers. This book explores the concept of the sickly reader, a highly motivated individual whom medical writers encouraged to seek out useful remedies and efficacious hygienic practices in various vernacular health guides. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242553
ISBN
9780812242553
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.46

Hardback. Animal Characters follows five species through the literature of early modern Europe. The horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheep all undergo a dramatic change in character as European writers begin to develop a new interest in-and understanding of-human character in its relation to literature. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242492
ISBN
9780812242492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.65

Hardback. Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; HRKT; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240344
ISBN
9780812240344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.42

Hardback. Alastair Minnis reveals Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath as interconnected aspects of a radical literary experiment, wherein the relationship between objective authority and subjective fallibility is confronted as never before. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 926.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240306
ISBN
9780812240306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.28

Hardback. Were the Romantic poets plagiarists, and did plagiarism have the same meaning two hundred years ago as it has today? Tilar J. Mazzeo offers a major reassessment of the role of borrowing, textual appropriation, and narrative mastery in British Romantic literature and provides a new picture of the period and its central aesthetic contests. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 527.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239676
ISBN
9780812239676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.68

Hardback. In its innovative methodology and its unprecedented attention to the productive interplay of audience and text, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 offers a compelling new approach to eighteenth-century studies, the history of the book, and the very idea of character itself. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812238648
ISBN
9780812238648
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.24

Hardback. In this series of essays Betsy Erkkila considers the historical and psychological dramas of blood-as marker of violence, race, sex, kinship-that have stood near the center of American literature, culture, and politics since the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812238440
ISBN
9780812238440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.11

hardcover. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812238259
ISBN
9780812238259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.26

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

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

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

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812234329
ISBN
9780812234329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.40

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812233964
ISBN
9780812233964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.81

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.
Format
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

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. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812231571
ISBN
9780812231571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.26

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222081
ISBN
9780812222081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.45

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221749
ISBN
9780812221749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.27

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