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Paperback. This book, now with a new preface, offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361492
- ISBN
- 9780230361492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Paperback. This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)--that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741675
- ISBN
- 9780804741675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.83
€ 26.99
€ 26.83
Hardcover. This book investigates how four South Asian writers of Muslim background (Salman Rushdie, Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam, and Kamila Shamsie) have responded in English to the challenge of writing about Islamic faith ties in the aftermath of the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks and the ensuing 'War on Terror'. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554376
- ISBN
- 9781137554376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.01
€ 101.01
Hardback. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory's most engaged thinkers. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894633
- ISBN
- 9780801894633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.75
€ 76.75
Paperback. Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in "The Crisis" and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection presents a road map of African American life in the Southwest and West during the movements glory days. Editor(s): Champion, Laurie. Num Pages: 189 pages, 1 b/w photo. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726291
- ISBN
- 9780896726291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.34
€ 24.99
€ 21.34
Hardback. This volume contains a collection of critical responses to the works of Bram Stoker, best known as the author of "Dracula". However, he emerges here as a writer also concerned with the role of women in society, the social impact of science and technology, and that of racial and ethnic issues. Series: Critical Responses in Arts & Letters. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313285271
- ISBN
- 9780313285271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.12€ 80.36
€ 89.12
€ 80.36
Hardback. In this critical work, the author spotlights some of the autobiographical kernels in Morrison's novels and a study of the novels, demonstrating that each is a thematic and structural offshoot of the preceding one, evidencing a pattern of growth in Morrison's consciousness of the exploitation and oppression of people of African descent. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910680
- ISBN
- 9781575910680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.58
€ 120.58
Hardback. This is a a collection of essays by Maurice Blanchot, a key figure in the exploration of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Recurring themes in the essays include:the relation of literature and language to death and the historical, personal, and social function of literature. Translator(s): Mandel, Charlotte. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724326
- ISBN
- 9780804724326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.90
€ 164.90
Hardcover. This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001009
- ISBN
- 9781137001009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Hardcover. This book offers a post-structuralist inspired explication of Conrad's literary vision and its defining feature, the aesthetic principle. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609860
- ISBN
- 9780230609860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816641819
- ISBN
- 9780816641819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.93
€ 30.99
€ 27.93
Paperback. Editor(s): Anatol, Giselle Liza. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; DSY; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110687
- ISBN
- 9780230110687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; FL; FM; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823271887
- ISBN
- 9780823271887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFCK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537256
- ISBN
- 9781557537256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.45
€ 57.45
hardcover. This volume covers letters written in the three years from March 1924 to March 1927. Editor(s): Boulton, James T.; Vasey, Lindeth. Series: Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Num Pages: 736 pages, 27 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1046.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780521231145
- ISBN
- 9780521231145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.05
€ 168.05
Hardback. An almanac that deals with the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Editor(s): Leving, Yuri. Num Pages: 326 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235193
- ISBN
- 9781936235193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.22
€ 152.22
Hardback. No descriptive material is available for this title. Num Pages: 1 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810824447
- ISBN
- 9780810824447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.76
€ 94.76
Hardcover. This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336248
- ISBN
- 9781137336248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. This text investigates a transitional moment in the history of US women's writing - the uneasy shift from the 19th century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. It shows how the complexities of literary and social politics shaped the world of Wharton, Cather, and Gale. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312229214
- ISBN
- 9780312229214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363224
- ISBN
- 9780822363224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.10
€ 32.99
€ 30.10
Hardcover. This collection of essays on novels and short stories ranges from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the 19th century. The essays represent a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints on fiction, and take in some of the lesser-known authors. Editor(s): Jenkins, Alice; John, Juliet. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714454
- ISBN
- 9780333714454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.59
€ 122.59
Hardcover. This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist. Comprises original essays written by leading scholars. Editor(s): Moreland, Richard C. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 552 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 180 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1104.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405122245
- ISBN
- 9781405122245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 214.45
€ 214.45
paperback. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813934440
- ISBN
- 9780813934440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.49
€ 31.49
paperback. An original study of Dickens' early career and the way he constructed his literary reputation. Num Pages: 426 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781107470316
- ISBN
- 9781107470316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.10
€ 51.10