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Hardback. Driscoll argues that the attempted cultural erasure of class in Great Britain in the period since Thatcher has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in literature and theory. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615274
- ISBN
- 9780230615274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. Argues for Ocampo's multifaceted development of ambiguity in various media and genres on the levels of language, plot and gender. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781855663084
- ISBN
- 9781855663084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.79
€ 89.79
Hardback. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857283191
- ISBN
- 9780857283191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.88
€ 135.88
Hardcover. Editor(s): Goldwyn, Adam J.; Silverman, Renee M. Series: Mediterranean Perspectives. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; HPN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137589279
- ISBN
- 9781137589279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.24
€ 65.24
Hardback. This text portrays an elusive and self-aware writer whose refusal to grant authority to a single perspective, even while she recirculated the fundamental assumptions and debates of her era, enabled her simultaneously to fulfill and deflect the expectations of the literary marketplace. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918754
- ISBN
- 9780813918754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.42
€ 75.42
Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816615483
- ISBN
- 9780816615483
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.02
€ 31.99
€ 29.02
Paperback. A comical satire about envy and aspiration amongst the ambitious middle classes, who think happiness is to be found in fame and material fortune. It exposes the importance of seeing and judging the world as it is and not being duped by its pretences. Editor(s): Ostovich, Dr. Helen. Series Editor(s): Bevington, David; Dutton, Richard; Findlay, Alison; Ostovich, Dr. Helen. Series: Revels Plays. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719078392
- ISBN
- 9780719078392
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Condition: New
€ 33.61
€ 33.61
Hardcover. Professor Richards's work is based on part of a manuscript in the British Library concerned with the revenues and administration of the later Mughal Empire, and datable to the reign of the Emperor Bahadur Shah I (AD 1708-1712). Editor(s): Richards, John F. Num Pages: 195 pages, p. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 2BXF; 3JF; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780906094143
- ISBN
- 9780906094143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.34€ 73.57
€ 75.34
€ 73.57
Hardback. This book highlights obedience as an American cultural motif by examining the ways in which citizens understand and dramatize the struggle between autonomy and allegiance. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747257
- ISBN
- 9780804747257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.25
€ 85.25
Paperback. The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational. Editor(s): Grover, M.; Brown, E. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349334520
- ISBN
- 9781349334520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Paperback. These essays address the multitude of issues arising from the affective, personal, political and sexual dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir's work. Contributors include Serge Julienne-Caffie, Asa Momberg, Barbara Klaw, Richard J. Golsan and Liz Constable. Editor(s): Hawthorne, Melanie. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of Virginia
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919744
- ISBN
- 9780813919744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.66
€ 31.66
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647975
- ISBN
- 9780691647975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.80
€ 130.80
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631424
- ISBN
- 9780691631424
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.37
€ 174.37
Hardback. Focuses on the complicated and unresolved relationship between childhood and adulthood in Dickens's fictional and non-fictional work. The book concentrates on the fiction of Dickens's middle years, particularly "David Copperfield", and on some of the journalistic essays. Num Pages: 223 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: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333594353
- ISBN
- 9780333594353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.53
€ 122.53
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801437748
- ISBN
- 9780801437748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.73
€ 113.73
Paperback. Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. The author puzzles out this phenomenon. Translator(s): Izzo, Justin. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226107066
- ISBN
- 9780226107066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.65
€ 43.99
€ 33.65
Hardcover. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis. Editor(s): Fludernik, Monika; Nandi, Miriam. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403995
- ISBN
- 9781137403995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 360 pages, 174 color images, and 4 more for the cover. BIC Classification: 1H; APF; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 622. Adapting Violence to the Screen. Series: Film and Culture Series. 360 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1H; APF; DSB. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 22. Weight: 622.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147552
- ISBN
- 9780231147552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.84
€ 51.84
Paperback. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486281
- ISBN
- 9781349486281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardback. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403983862
- ISBN
- 9781403983862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
paperback. Editor(s): Julavits, Heidi; Leland, Andrew; Vida, Vendela. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Believer Magazine
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781940450117
- ISBN
- 9781940450117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.33
€ 10.99
€ 9.33
Paperback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631217121
- ISBN
- 9780631217121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.71
€ 54.71
Paperback. This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naive tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Dartmouth College Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611688986
- ISBN
- 9781611688986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 38.18
€ 49.99
€ 38.18
Paperback. An engrossing collection of essays by today's top literary minds on the topic of living with a writer Editor(s): Salwak, Dale. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349722259
- ISBN
- 9781349722259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.90
€ 37.90