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Hardback. The painting and poetry of the Renaissance shared the same goal of imitating nature. This study is concerned with the various kinds of allusions and what they can tell us not only about the poets' attitudes to the visual arts but also their attitudes to their own art of representation. Illustrated. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: AB; AFC; DCF; DSBD; DSC; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874134599
- ISBN
- 9780874134599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.07
€ 129.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349194957
- ISBN
- 9781349194957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.47
€ 47.47
Paperback. Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925608
- ISBN
- 9780813925608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.54
€ 30.54
Hardback. This work analyzes the conflict between the higher education movement's emphasis on intellectual achievement and the Victorian novel's continuing dedication to a narrative in which women's success is measured by the achievement of emotional rather than intellectual goals. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 458. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821414026
- ISBN
- 9780821414026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.90
€ 49.99
€ 49.90
Macpherson's original insights will have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the 18th-century novel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801893841
- ISBN
- 9780801893841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.84
€ 73.84
Paperback. Translator(s): Joyce, Jane Wilson. Series: Masters of Latin Literature. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1900
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801481376
- ISBN
- 9780801481376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.33
€ 36.99
€ 33.33
Hardback. No descriptive material is available for this title. Num Pages: 137 pages, Plans transparencies :Includes index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 137
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810819634
- ISBN
- 9780810819634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.06
€ 111.06
Hardback. Gore Vidal has been entertaining - and occasionally outraging - the American public for 50 years. This study examines Vidal's recent and early novels, and considers the recurring theme of the decline of the United States. Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313295799
- ISBN
- 9780313295799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Hardcover. This text aims to redefine the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from "Romantic" to "Victorian". Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729710
- ISBN
- 9780804729710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.74
€ 85.74
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
€ 71.57
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780801449871
- ISBN
- 9780801449871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.99
€ 55.99
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1028.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642390
- ISBN
- 9780691642390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.74
€ 158.74
Paperback. A sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. This study aims to demonstrate that "modernism" and "postmodernism" are academic inventions. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 333.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333641804
- ISBN
- 9780333641804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489655
- ISBN
- 9780801489655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.91
€ 53.91
Hardback. One of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical--and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231111720
- ISBN
- 9780231111720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.01€ 77.70
€ 102.01
€ 77.70
Hardback. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. Num Pages: 424 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; HBLH; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649378
- ISBN
- 9781442649378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.78
€ 90.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312220570
- ISBN
- 9780312220570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.03
€ 123.03
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 252ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBR; AJCR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 177 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1120.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781843510505
- ISBN
- 9781843510505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.00€ 23.89
€ 30.00
€ 23.89
This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years. Editor(s): Messent, Peter; Budd, Louis. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 592 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1165.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405123792
- ISBN
- 9781405123792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 266.94
€ 266.94
Hardcover. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation. Editor(s): Schaub, Danielle. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 285 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2300.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644596
- ISBN
- 9780888644596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.97€ 49.17
€ 57.97
€ 49.17
Hardcover. This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Bronte sisters. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631231493
- ISBN
- 9780631231493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.85
€ 100.85
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843344
- ISBN
- 9781843843344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.56
€ 89.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912640
- ISBN
- 9781403912640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardcover. Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss love, happiness, suffering, memory and death. Editor(s): Afridi, Mehnaz M.; Buyze, David M. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2FMC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114111
- ISBN
- 9780230114111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06