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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. This text examines the role of Christian history in 19th-century definitions of homosexual identity. Frederick S. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological, discourses. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HRAX; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 479.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333986431
ISBN
9780333986431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.68

paperback. "Don Quijote" emerges as a work that charts and reflects upon the historical transition from feudalism to the modern times of a moneyed, commercial society. This book offers a fresh reading of "Don Quijote", understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122274
ISBN
9780691122274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.18

Hardback. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; DSBF; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319490069
ISBN
9783319490069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Paperback. Reassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, the author shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power. Num Pages: 424 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226061542
ISBN
9780226061542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.55

Paperback. This second edition of Colin MacCabe's critical text on James Joyce adds new material that places it in its political and historical context. The argument links politics and literature, sex and language, providing an account of Joyce that places him continually in both Irish and European history. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 365.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333531532
ISBN
9780333531532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 110.94

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662605
ISBN
9781855662605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.84

Paperback. This anthology of plays written between 1890 and 1918 shows Americans to have been "dis/contented" citizens, conflicted by the demands of a dynamically changing nation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSBH; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537716
ISBN
9781349537716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99

Hardback. This reference work on Elmer Rice overviews his life and career and provides plot synopses and critical commentaries for his plays. The volume also provides cast and credit lists for major productions and an exhaustive bibliography of primary and secondary materials. Series: Modern Dramatists Research & Production Sourcebooks. Num Pages: 256 pages, chronology, bibliographies, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSG; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313274312
ISBN
9780313274312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.98

Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403972224
ISBN
9781403972224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.94
€ 80.95

Hardcover. This book explores Sara Coleridge's critical intelligence and theoretical reach. It shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely brilliant criticism of classical and English literature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623675
ISBN
9780230623675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18

Paperback. Through its examination of the nature of propaganda and early modern reading practices, and of the central role women played in Protestant reform, Marvelous Protestantism establishes a new approach to interpreting post-Reformation English culture. Num Pages: 282 pages, 44, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 165 x 12. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405865
ISBN
9781421405865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.51

Paperback. Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349469260
ISBN
9781349469260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Although William James was a significant presence in Paris in the early 20th century, the role he played in the creation of Marcel Proust's ground-breaking novel A la recherche du temps perdu has been neglected by scholars. Much of what made Proust's novel so original stems from James's writings, which were available to Proust in translation. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Lexington Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498556316
ISBN
9781498556316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.62

Hardcover. Far from being a unique, defining property of the confessional poets, confessionalism is a central trope of American literature. This book examines confessional writing not as a private, apolitical art, but rather one that demonstrates an engagement with the politics of literary influence, of gender relations, and of American culture more broadly. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219564
ISBN
9780230219564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 40.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349372379
ISBN
9781349372379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453342
ISBN
9780801453342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 49.10

hardcover. "The Well of Loneliness" - the Radclyffe Hall novel at times referred to as 'the bible of lesbianism' - was released in Britain in 1928 and was immediately controversial. This title gathers together classic essays on Radclyffe Hall's book - beginning with Havelock Ellis and early reviews - as well as pieces by critics as Esther Newton. Editor(s): Doan, Laura L.; Prosser, Jay. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 5S; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231118743
ISBN
9780231118743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.75
€ 86.56

Paperback. "This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose"-- Editor(s): Reed, K.; Despotopoulou, Anna. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349296637
ISBN
9781349296637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development. Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844662
ISBN
9781843844662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.82

Paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009639
ISBN
9780674009639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.85

Hardcover. Editor(s): Pepper, Andrew; Schmid, David. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 284 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137425720
ISBN
9781137425720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.94
€ 59.35

Paperback. A political history of African American literature Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814743393
ISBN
9780814743393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. Concentrating on the sacrament of the altar, poverty, and conflicting versions of sanctity, this is a critical study of Christian literature, theology, and culture in late medieval England. David Aers considers how certain late medieval Christians and their Church engaged the resources of the Christian tradition in their own historical moment. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020224
ISBN
9780268020224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. An annotated edition of an important Jacobean comedy, which is currently receiving attention from critics and on stage because the leading character is based on a famous personality of the time, Moll Cutpurse. Series: Revels Plays. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719016301
ISBN
9780719016301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 5.42

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