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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773621
ISBN
9780804773621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Paperback. Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773676
ISBN
9780804773676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Hardback. Music from a Speeding Train challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 697.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804774437
ISBN
9780804774437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.14

Hardback. This is a revolutionary work in the study of Yiddish literature and post-colonial theory, offering a new methodology for comparative research, a new definition of literary modernism, and an unprecedented juxtaposition of Jewish Studies with African literature. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774765
ISBN
9780804774765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99

Paperback. By systematically linking eighteenth-century European writing to the colonial history of India, The Stillbirth of Capital argues that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question, especially our premise that capitalism is the basis of modernity. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804775236
ISBN
9780804775236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.70

Hardback. This book explores the history of prose fiction in Iran in the context of contemporary legal reforms and examines marriage as a metaphor that unites them. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 383.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804775892
ISBN
9780804775892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.13

Hardback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776349
ISBN
9780804776349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.80

Paperback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776356
ISBN
9780804776356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776868
ISBN
9780804776868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.43

Paperback. This book examines the contributions of queer writers and artists of color to contemporary social theory. Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804783408
ISBN
9780804783408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Hardback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804794459
ISBN
9780804794459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.88

Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; DSK; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804798693
ISBN
9780804798693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.45

paperback. This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's "Book of Laughter and Forgetting," J.M. Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Life and Times of Michael K," selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's "Black Rain," John Hawkes's "Travesty," and others. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812213218
ISBN
9780812213218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. The novels of Paul Auster have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, an international group of scholars provide a rich and insightful examination of Auster's writings. Editor(s): Barone, Dennis. Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812215564
ISBN
9780812215564
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Expanded
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216097
ISBN
9780812216097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216196
ISBN
9780812216196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.87

Paperback. A study of William Bartram's "Travels", Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia", and J Hector St John de Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer" that situates them within two important intellectual traditions: the literature of travel and the science of natural history. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; HBJK; WN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 305.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812216868
ISBN
9780812216868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. "Paul Giles .. describes episodes of literary exchange between Britain and America not as case studies in reproduction or disavowal but as moments of 'transnational convergence.'.. A rich and reasoned understanding of what these influences may be and of the often inspired anxiety the produce." -Modern Language Quarterly Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812217674
ISBN
9780812217674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.82

Paperback. The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, this book presents the arguments and struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 376 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780812219951
ISBN
9780812219951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.87

Paperback. Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812220223
ISBN
9780812220223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.16

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