Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. An attempt to understand the complexity of the vision and contributions of the African-American writer, James Baldwin, without needing to name him as exclusively homosexual, expatriate, black or activist. A group of scholars discuss Baldwin's life, his presence and his political thought and work. Editor(s): McBride, Dwight A. Num Pages: 356 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780814756188
- ISBN
- 9780814756188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Hardcover. In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors. Editor(s): Pite, Ralph; Hubbard, Tom; Rooksby, Rikky. Series: Lives of Victorian Literary Figures. Num Pages: 1360 pages, Illustrations, ports, facsims. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 2494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781851969050
- ISBN
- 9781851969050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 599.12
€ 599.12
Paperback. Series: Literature and Culture Handbooks. 256 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Kline, Daniel T. A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826494092
- ISBN
- 9780826494092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.46
€ 39.46
Paperback. This book explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. Series: Gothic Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780708324653
- ISBN
- 9780708324653
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Condition: New
€ 24.33
€ 24.33
Paperback. The Prince embodies a series of vital issues, including power and morality, history and human nature, language and meaning, gender and government. It is these issues which the essays in this volume debate and explore from a variety of perspectives, from the original responses through to feminist and deconstructive approaches. Editor(s): Coyle, Martin. Series: Texts in Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBD; JFC; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719041969
- ISBN
- 9780719041969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.66
€ 32.66
Paperback. A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. Editor(s): William, Hughes; Andrew, Smith. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719086434
- ISBN
- 9780719086434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.44
€ 22.44
Paperback. The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n roll' lifestyle as his artistic work Num Pages: 544 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753817872
- ISBN
- 9780753817872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.52
€ 19.99
€ 14.52
Paperback. Basilus, a foolish old Duke, consults an oracle, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies, he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all manner of complications ensue. Editor(s): Evans, Maurice. Num Pages: 880 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 526. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0009615
- ISBN
- 9780140431117
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Num Pages: 400 pages, 28 b/w plates (12pp). BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780006388890
- ISBN
- 9780006388890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 5.70
€ 13.99
€ 5.70
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- SKU
- KKD0009969
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226401393
- ISBN
- 9780226401393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.94
€ 31.99
€ 24.94
Paperback. At last-an illuminating and accessible edition of Isaac Newton's writings, intended for nonspecialist readers. I. Bernard Cohen and Richard S. Westfall have meticulously collected representative works from every major aspect of Newton's intellectual life. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 434 pages, illustrations, glossaries. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393959024
- ISBN
- 9780393959024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.83
€ 24.99
€ 21.83
Hardback. The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 532 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725423
- ISBN
- 9780674725423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.62
€ 38.99
€ 32.62
Paperback. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878300921
- ISBN
- 9780878300921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99
€ 36.99
Paperback. "Joyce and the G-Men" explores Hoover's suspicions that James Joyce was a Communist. In his FBI file, Culleton tracks the evidence of the FBI's surveillance of Joyce to show the culture of the FBI under Hoover and the resurgence of American anti-intellectualism. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349386420
- ISBN
- 9781349386420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.28€ 63.07
€ 63.28
€ 63.07
Paperback. This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates readers through various theoretical approaches, including Russian Formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, gender studies, and New Historicism. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153744
- ISBN
- 9781405153744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99
€ 42.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 133
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564788528
- ISBN
- 9781564788528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.32
€ 15.99
€ 14.32
Hardback. The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first full study of the subject. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842217
- ISBN
- 9781843842217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.62
€ 99.62
Hardcover. Num Pages: 754 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 185 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1960.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 754
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763505321
- ISBN
- 9788763505321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.50€ 76.24
€ 95.50
€ 76.24
Paperback. Simon Weinberg is dead. On a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - siblings, lovers and in-laws. Mourning allows them special privilege and, for a few hours, they are isolated in another world under a lingering sun, in the shadow of the deceased. Translator(s): Hampton, Christopher. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571221912
- ISBN
- 9780571221912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.78
€ 21.99
€ 15.78
Paperback. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. This work gives us a portrait of the whole man. Num Pages: 684 pages, 26 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBF; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1004.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 684
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206892
- ISBN
- 9780520206892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.29
€ 37.99
€ 27.29
Hardback. A world-renowned historian presents a series of four brilliant forays into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. Series: Italian Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dustwrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KSS0009520
- ISBN
- 9780231116282
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783898215718
- ISBN
- 9783898215718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.97
€ 32.99
€ 23.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 74 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853995897
- ISBN
- 9781853995897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.83
€ 28.83