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Literary studies: general

Hardback. Examines the literary strategies of Anais Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions, scrutinizing her artistry, and identifying her modernist techniques and her poetic vision. This volume also contains views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell. Editor(s): Nalbantian, Suzanne. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333650875
ISBN
9780333650875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.38

Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890888
ISBN
9780801890888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.32
€ 28.04

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349732487
ISBN
9781349732487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691608501
ISBN
9780691608501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.74
€ 40.56

Paperback. The writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Sade himself is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims. Num Pages: 348 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064215
ISBN
9780226064215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.01

Hardback. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312225087
ISBN
9780312225087
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.88

Hardcover. Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139337
ISBN
9781571139337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.08

Hardcover. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 157 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403995834
ISBN
9781403995834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69
€ 60.74

Hardcover. Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230299030
ISBN
9780230299030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.65

Paperback. Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; HBW; JFC. 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. 2014
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349494682
ISBN
9781349494682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Provides work by fifty poets in texts freshly credited from contemporary sources. Offers much fuller annotation than customarily available. Includes canonical poets and works as well as works of writers rarely anthologised. Editor(s): Cummings, Robert. Series: Blackwell Annotated Anthologies. Num Pages: 624 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1016.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631210665
ISBN
9780631210665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349422906
ISBN
9781349422906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Focuses on the early modern period in Japanese literature. This anthology introduces English readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon (satiric sermons), kibyoshi (satiric and didactic picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), and gokan (bound books). Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 552 pages, Numerous woodcut prints to be reproduced from previous edition. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Abridged
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231144155
ISBN
9780231144155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.36

Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880336833
ISBN
9780880336833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.27

paperback. This work looks at the changing concept of the purity of women brought about by the rise of Christianity. Rejecting Roman feminine virtue in its pure, but fertile form, Christianity claimed a moral superiority in its ideals of romance, and portrayed women seeking more spiritual goals. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HRCC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674939509
ISBN
9780674939509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.65

Paperback. This book explores the conceptual complexity and formal challenges posed by the concept of intimacy in eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799447
ISBN
9780804799447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. "The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributors are codicologists, historians and literary critics, offering a varied reading of the Queen and of her cultural inheritance"-- Editor(s): Petrina, Alessandra; Tosi, Laura. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326051
ISBN
9781349326051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

hardcover. Examines the ways in which traditions of philosophy and logic are reflected in major works of medieval literature. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 322 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107068742
ISBN
9781107068742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349202416
ISBN
9781349202416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99

Paperback. This edition of the letters between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson has been expanded and revised to include 59 letters discovered after the book's original publication in 1979. The additional letters and new annotations clarify the correspondence and illuminate the writers' friendship. Editor(s): Karlinsky, Simon. Num Pages: 398 pages, 26 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Rev Exp
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520220805
ISBN
9780520220805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.68

Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325628
ISBN
9780822325628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Hardback. A world-renowned historian presents a series of four brilliant forays into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. Series: Italian Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dustwrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
KSS0009520
ISBN
9780231116282
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. An assessment of Native American fiction and criticism. It brings the traditions of Native American fiction into conversation with ideas about the past, present and future of Native literatures. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803222878
ISBN
9780803222878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.42

Hardcover. O'Toole uncovers Hardy's fascination with the points of intersection between genealogy and fiction and argues that this relationship fuels much of his writing. This volume also revisits existing accounts of genealogical narrative and considers the presence in other nineteenth and twentieth century novels of motifs foregrounded in Hardy's work. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 383.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333681633
ISBN
9780333681633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.58

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