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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 illustrations, 2 charts, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855317
- ISBN
- 9780807855317
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Condition: New
€ 52.70
€ 52.70
Paperback. Includes chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729. This book offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about Native American leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 535.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856321
- ISBN
- 9780807856321
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Condition: New
€ 46.24
€ 46.24
Paperback. Offering an analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, this book looks at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) and Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who left Cuba, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba. Series: Envisioning Cuba. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856833
- ISBN
- 9780807856833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.58
€ 50.58
paperback. Presenting an analysis of the American literary history, this work offers important insights into the practices, beliefs, and values that shaped the discipline. It reveals the forces, both inside and outside the academy, that propelled the rise of American literary history and persist as influences on the work of practitioners of the field. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807857205
- ISBN
- 9780807857205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.57
€ 39.57
Paperback / so. George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807857274
- ISBN
- 9780807857274
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Condition: New
€ 59.01
€ 59.01
Paperback. During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, this book argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807857670
- ISBN
- 9780807857670
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Condition: New
€ 46.84
€ 46.84
Paperback. A comprehensive study of African American war literature, this title analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the US military in 1948. It argues that the very ambivalence over the use of violence as a political instrument defines African American war writing. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858073
- ISBN
- 9780807858073
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Condition: New
€ 51.15
€ 51.15
paperback. Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of North Carolina, this book directs curious travelers to the historic sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. It features more than 170 writers, including Sequoyah, Fred Chappell, Charles Frazier, Robert Morgan, and Gail Godwin. Num Pages: 432 pages, 83 colour & 21 b&w illustrations, 31 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; DSB; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 871.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780807858332
- ISBN
- 9780807858332
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Condition: New
€ 40.47
€ 40.47
Paperback. Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, this book covers experimental works by politically progressive artists. It argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using "aesthetic of astonishment," focused on graphic images of pain and injury. Series: Cultural Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 336 pages, 29 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AJCR; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858349
- ISBN
- 9780807858349
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Condition: New
€ 45.86
€ 45.86
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation
. Ed(S): Levine, Robert S.; Otter, Samuel
paperback. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; and, the roles of race, gender, and sexuality. This collection of eighteen essays explores the convergences and divergences of these two literary lives. Editor(s): Levine, Robert S.; Otter, Samuel. Num Pages: 480 pages, 11 illustrations, chronology, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858721
- ISBN
- 9780807858721
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Condition: New
€ 52.30
€ 52.30
Paperback. Susanna Rowson - novelist, actress, and playwright - bears resemblance to the character in her creation, Charlotte Temple. This novel shows how an early form of American sentimentalism mediated the shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is key to understanding both Rowson's work and the lives of early American women. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 tables, supplementary readings, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858929
- ISBN
- 9780807858929
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Condition: New
€ 51.01
€ 51.01
Paperback. Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers - including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin, and Fannie Hurst, among others, this work demonstrates that sexualization of American culture was both material and rhetorical. Num Pages: 296 pages, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859063
- ISBN
- 9780807859063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.64
€ 45.64
paperback. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook Num Pages: 464 pages, 83 colour & 18 b&w illustrations, 21 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; DSB; WTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 934.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780807859797
- ISBN
- 9780807859797
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Condition: New
€ 40.75
€ 40.75
Paperback. Contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship. This book offers principles of justice that grant fragmented histories, partial recoveries, and still-unprinted texts the same value as canonized works. Num Pages: 328 pages, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859834
- ISBN
- 9780807859834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.86
€ 45.86
paperback. Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807865965
- ISBN
- 9780807865965
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Condition: New
€ 58.34
€ 58.34
Paperback. Craig discusses the impact of modern thought and invention upon literature's essential business of communication; the continuing vitality of a classic as illustrated by the abiding influence of Lucian; and the significance of the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. Num Pages: 100 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807868584
- ISBN
- 9780807868584
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Condition: New
€ 41.05
€ 41.05
Paperback. Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones Num Pages: 94 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807869536
- ISBN
- 9780807869536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.23
€ 22.23
Paperback. In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian" master and mistress. Num Pages: 60 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 77.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 60
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807869550
- ISBN
- 9780807869550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.23
€ 22.23
Paperback. By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. Num Pages: 110 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DQ; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807869598
- ISBN
- 9780807869598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.88
€ 34.88
Paperback. Caught Image: Figurative Language in the Fiction of Henry James Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807873687
- ISBN
- 9780807873687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.81
€ 58.81