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Paperback. Tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning', the author begins with an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325680
- ISBN
- 9780822325680
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.52
€ 31.99
€ 28.52
Paperback. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0236319
- ISBN
- 9780826453198
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Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802071552
- ISBN
- 9780802071552
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Hardcover. * A collection of fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830--1900. * Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read. * Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Editor(s): O'Gorman, Francis. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405103190
- ISBN
- 9781405103190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.15
€ 137.15
Hardback. Argues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through figures and narratives of paralysis: motion is no more defining of modern travel than fixations, resistance, and impasse; concepts and figures of travel, he posits, must be rethought in this more static light. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803229914
- ISBN
- 9780803229914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.05
€ 73.05
Paperback. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812213577
- ISBN
- 9780812213577
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Condition: New
€ 37.13
€ 37.13
Paperback. Editor(s): Motte, Warren F., Jr. Series: The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786159
- ISBN
- 9781564786159
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Condition: New
€ 10.78
€ 10.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478659
- ISBN
- 9780801478659
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.76
€ 36.99
€ 32.76
Paperback. Gene Stratton-Porter's tale of a plucky, orphaned newspaper boy is now back in print! Series: The Library of Indiana Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages, 32 figures. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 29. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253210456
- ISBN
- 9780253210456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.76
€ 36.99
€ 32.76
Hardback. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739143612
- ISBN
- 9780739143612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.04
€ 133.04
Hardcover. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. Editor(s): Zeitlin, Judith T.; Liu, Lydia H. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 620 pages, 94 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 620
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010987
- ISBN
- 9780674010987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.52€ 54.08
€ 58.52
€ 54.08
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843849
- ISBN
- 9781843843849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.15
€ 88.15
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The Dundurn Group Canada
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889242210
- ISBN
- 9780889242210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.70
€ 24.99
€ 21.70
Editor(s): Moore, Timothy J. Translator(s): Parker, Douglass. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: ANF; DD; DSBB; HBLA1. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624661860
- ISBN
- 9781624661860
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Condition: New
€ 56.38€ 43.75
€ 56.38
€ 43.75
Hardcover. This text takes a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new "mother tongue" - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; CFB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025533
- ISBN
- 9780268025533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.85
€ 113.85
Paperback. The story of Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063992
- ISBN
- 9780719063992
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.74
€ 25.99
€ 25.74
Paperback. As the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - a battle of the books known as the "Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns". Num Pages: 236 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; HBA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226141381
- ISBN
- 9780226141381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 39.42
€ 45.99
€ 39.42
Paperback. In eighteen enlightening essays, the critic Brooke Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH; GT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635974
- ISBN
- 9781566635974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.06
€ 16.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813563381
- ISBN
- 9780813563381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.71
€ 165.71
Hardback. Editor(s): Gibbons, Reginald. Translator(s): Geist, Anthony L. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DS; 2ADS; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691633732
- ISBN
- 9780691633732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.66
€ 109.66
Paperback. Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138276208
- ISBN
- 9781138276208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.38
€ 62.38
Hardback. Here, Mark Knight offers an analysis of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the influence of his late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction. Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of Chesterton's fiction, Knight provides a means of locating Chesterton's work among theological and cultural concerns of his age. Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223091
- ISBN
- 9780823223091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.33
€ 92.33
Paperback. Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346742
- ISBN
- 9781137346742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 41.28
€ 45.99
€ 41.28
Paperback. As the importance of race and gender has become established recently in literary studies, the concept of class has been seen as crude and unnecessary. This study argues for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class in literature. Editor(s): Dimock, Wai-chee. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076012
- ISBN
- 9780231076012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.00
€ 49.00