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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926810
ISBN
9780813926810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.34

Paperback. Staging a dialogue between Maryse Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, this work argues that Conde enacts a strategy of "critical incorporations" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927152
ISBN
9780813927152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.89

Hardcover. Concerned with draft materials, with the manuscripts that constitute text in a state of process, this book draws on an international context - mainly French and German traditions - for approaches to textual criticism. It applies a fresh form of critical analysis to authors in the Anglo-American tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages, 21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927749
ISBN
9780813927749
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.98

Paperback. Novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories. This title recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927800
ISBN
9780813927800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.80

Hardcover. Combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927831
ISBN
9780813927831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.02

Paperback. Exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. This book reveals how various models of queer egalitarianism attempt to reconcile the plantation's regional legacies with national debates about equality and democracy, particularly during the eras of the New Deal, World War II, and the civil rights movement. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927923
ISBN
9780813927923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.98

Hardcover. Tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. This book analyzes William Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta, and Lord Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927954
ISBN
9780813927954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.57

Paperback. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 189 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928401
ISBN
9780813928401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.37

Paperback. Examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of 'primary documents' within their pages. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; 2ADS; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928661
ISBN
9780813928661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.63

Hardcover. With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book is suitable for scholars of book history and reading cultures and also to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928746
ISBN
9780813928746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.30

Hardcover. Examines the attempts of several African American writers and playwrights to explore ruptures in memory after a traumatic experience and to develop creative strategies for understanding the inscription of trauma on the body in a racialized cultural context. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928838
ISBN
9780813928838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.12

Hardcover. Asks how 'reading for the law' as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. This title demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of 'outsider jurisprudence'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928937
ISBN
9780813928937
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.99

Paperback. The first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, this argues that suburban identity is tied to the rise and fall of the British empire. Drawing on postcolonial theory, urban studies, and Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929262
ISBN
9780813929262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.53

Paperback. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929804
ISBN
9780813929804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.04

Paperback. Series: New World Studies (Paperback). Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929828
ISBN
9780813929828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.66

Hardcover. Editor(s): Roos, Bonnie; Hunt, Alex. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813930008
ISBN
9780813930008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.23

Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931210
ISBN
9780813931210
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.73

Hardcover. Editor(s): Goodbody, Axel; Rigby, Kate. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931357
ISBN
9780813931357
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64

Hardcover. Num Pages: 178 pages, figures. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931869
ISBN
9780813931869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1H; 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931876
ISBN
9780813931876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.33

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