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Paperback. The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. * Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226307
- ISBN
- 9780631226307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.20
€ 49.99
€ 49.20
Hardback. Through readings of literary works, legal opinions, and treatises, The Affective Life of Law demonstrates that both law and literature are necessary complements in the efforts to take responsibility for the loss and damage inflicted by the first and second World Wars. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761666
- ISBN
- 9780804761666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.81
€ 73.81
Hardback. What was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184470
- ISBN
- 9780226184470
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Condition: New
€ 92.06€ 76.95
€ 92.06
€ 76.95
Hardcover. English Renaissance Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in honour of her seventieth birthday Num Pages: 312 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and some sunning to spine
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000837
- ISBN
- 9780198120933
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Argues that World War II blurred the boundaries between battleground and home front bringing women and civilians into war discourse. This book discusses the interplay of fascination and disapproval in the texts of twentieth-century war and the way in which homage to war hero and victim contends with revulsion at war's horror and waste. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119382
- ISBN
- 9780231119382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.07€ 86.26
€ 115.07
€ 86.26
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635972
- ISBN
- 9780691635972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.67
€ 202.67
Translator(s): Chew, Kristina. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872206106
- ISBN
- 9780872206106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.46
€ 49.99
€ 35.46
Hardcover. Editor(s): Nilsson, Ingela. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763507905
- ISBN
- 9788763507905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.22€ 42.92
€ 55.22
€ 42.92
Includes essays that represent scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Editor(s): Thomas, Professor Downing A.; Cody, Dr. Lisa Forman. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894350
- ISBN
- 9780801894350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.38
€ 56.38
Paperback. Traces the development of the scientific journal article as a linguistic genre in terms of its linguistic features. This book looks at Chaucer's "Treatise on the Astrolabe", as the first technical text written in English. It considers texts by Boyle, Power and Hooke from the late seventeenth century. Series: Functional Linguistics. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781845533175
- ISBN
- 9781845533175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.46
€ 48.46
Paperback. In the 1920s, the 'hard-boiled' stories published in "Black Mask", "Dime Detective", "Detective Fiction Weekly", and "Clues" featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries. This title examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s. Num Pages: 215 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397698
- ISBN
- 9781566397698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.81
€ 35.99
€ 31.81
hardcover. A wide-ranging study of lyric poetry in English, from the early modern period to the present. Editor(s): Thain, Marion. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781107010840
- ISBN
- 9781107010840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.84
€ 76.84
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Golden Dog Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780919614628
- ISBN
- 9780919614628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.38
€ 16.99
€ 15.38
Hardback. Examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analysing the role of Aristotelian principles, and others. Despite their initially incompatible attitudes to literary history and criticism, this study discloses their convergence on the Aristotelian notion of formal affectivism, demonstrated through conceptual shifts. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191719
- ISBN
- 9781845191719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
paperback. Written by some of the best-known and distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative text provides the most up-to-date scholarship on his writings available today. Read together, the chapters of this Companion map the direction of contemporary James studies. Editor(s): Zacharias, Greg W. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 792.
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- Paperback
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- V9781118492345
- ISBN
- 9781118492345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.45
€ 51.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; DSB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551524108
- ISBN
- 9781551524108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.63
€ 18.99
€ 17.63
Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narrative...
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Paperback. Presents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323402
- ISBN
- 9780822323402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.41
€ 29.99
€ 26.41
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746311769
- ISBN
- 9780746311769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.93
€ 24.99
€ 22.93
Hardback. Presents a study of modernity that examines classical influences Incorporates political, economic, social, and psychological theories Highlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, including Adam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud. Series: Classical Receptions. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405131391
- ISBN
- 9781405131391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.78
€ 41.99
€ 41.78
Paperback. Now including a new introduction from the author, this major work from one of England's finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and appreciation of literature. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; CFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd London
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415290036
- ISBN
- 9780415290036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.17
€ 20.17
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801426049
- ISBN
- 9780801426049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.95
€ 95.95
Hardback. This book focuses on specific moments of deliberated decision in the epic poems of Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. By exploring the difference between Aristotle's notion of proairesis and structuralist literary critics' use of the term, the author argues that decision making provides a link between ethical structures and narrative forms. Num Pages: 196 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874136357
- ISBN
- 9780874136357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.98
€ 112.98
Paperback. This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period. Series: Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233220
- ISBN
- 9780631233220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.61
€ 46.99
€ 46.61
Hardback. "An excellent introductory historical survey..an important resource to both literary scholars and followers of Jungian psychology."-ARBA "..a great help..succeeds quite well in achieving his stated purpose.."-PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Num Pages: 355 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJPN; DSB; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810821606
- ISBN
- 9780810821606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.04
€ 115.04