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Hardcover. First published together in Latin in 1623, these two tracts present descriptions of the hermetic cosmology and the alchemical work. The introduction provides a biographical note on d'Espagnet and traces the influence these works had on later generations. Translator(s): Everard, John; Ashmole, Elias. Series: English Renaissance Hermeticism. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD; HBG; HBLH; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780824075422
- ISBN
- 9780824075422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.53
€ 160.53
Paperback. By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social norms. Num Pages: 408 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Anniversary ed.
- SKU
- V9780804741880
- ISBN
- 9780804741880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.78€ 50.82
€ 51.78
€ 50.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816649655
- ISBN
- 9780816649655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.35
€ 29.99
€ 26.35
Hardback. Tracks the crises of sovereign power as it migrates out of the state to become a constitutive feature of the public sphere. Bringing together literature and political theory, this title argues that the antebellum public sphere emerges as a spectacle with investments in both punishment and entertainment. Series: American Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230990
- ISBN
- 9780823230990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.99
€ 100.99
Paperback. "Originally published in Hebrew in 1973 under the title Hamashal vehanimshal, having appeared as one of several stories in the volume Ir u-meloah." Translator(s): Diamond, James. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804788724
- ISBN
- 9780804788724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.36
€ 27.99
€ 25.36
Paperback. Alicia Ostriker Of one substance, of one Matter, they have cruelly Broken apart. They never will touch Each other again. The shining Lovelier and younger Turns away, a pitiful girl. She is completely naked And it hurts. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691013909
- ISBN
- 9780691013909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.89
€ 24.99
€ 18.89
Hardback. To explore the early-eighteenth-century view of the 'sublime Milton', the author analyzes the work of five readers of Paradise Lost during the years 1701-34: Joseph Addison, the only writer of the five who attained any lasting fame; and John Dennis, by far the most important - and overlooked - of the early Miltonists. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804716321
- ISBN
- 9780804716321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.46
€ 89.46
Paperback. Presents current thinking on some of the theoretical issues and dilemmas in the conception and writing of literary history, by scholars from Europe, Australia and North America. Topics covered include the role of literary history in "new" societies and the problem of literary classification. Series: English Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674879133
- ISBN
- 9780674879133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.72
€ 29.99
€ 24.72
Hardcover. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Num Pages: 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478. 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243846
- ISBN
- 9781851243846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.48
€ 13.99
€ 11.48
Constructing Spain explores the interactions between culture, geography, and society over fifty years of recent Spanish history through close readings of over a dozen films and novels. Num Pages: 354 pages, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1DS; 3JJ; 3JM; DSB; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483963
- ISBN
- 9781611483963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.08
€ 147.08
Hardcover. By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet s most creative period of life and writing. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470655443
- ISBN
- 9780470655443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.72
€ 116.72
Hardback. Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed. Num Pages: 472 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400327
- ISBN
- 9781421400327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.92
€ 74.92
Paperback. Editor(s): Lund, Hans Peter. Num Pages: 123 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 123
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772898421
- ISBN
- 9788772898421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.20
€ 30.99
€ 22.20
Contemporary Taiwanese literature has often been neglected and misrepresented by literary historians both inside and outside of Taiwan. Chang provides a comprehensive and fluent history of late twentieth-century Taiwanese literature by placing this vibrant tradition within the contexts of a modernizing local economy, a globalizing world economy, and a postcolonial and post-Cold War world order. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231132343
- ISBN
- 9780231132343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.12
€ 94.12
hardcover. This book is an exploration of the notion of "drive" as it passes from Kant's need of reason, to Freud's concept of hallucinatory wish fulfillment, to the relentless force of indifferentiation in Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751131
- ISBN
- 9780804751131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.20
€ 116.20
Hardcover. Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity. This title examines two texts - Alain de Lille's "De planctu Naturae" and "Guillaume de Lorris" and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose". Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226724614
- ISBN
- 9780226724614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 39.42
€ 51.99
€ 39.42
Paperback. Explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behaviour of these characters as we would the behaviour of real people Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 25. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814766569
- ISBN
- 9780814766569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Paperback. The issue of a woman's place - and the possibility that she might stray from it - was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. This book takes as its starting point the vast literature of this era devoted to the proper conduct and education of women. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321675
- ISBN
- 9780822321675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
hardcover. Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521194563
- ISBN
- 9780521194563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.64
€ 61.64
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647838
- ISBN
- 9780691647838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.80
€ 170.80
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780875801186
- ISBN
- 9780875801186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99
€ 36.99
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609133
- ISBN
- 9780691609133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.31
€ 50.31
Hardcover. A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication. Num Pages: 226 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336. Lightly scored copy in original decorated covers. Covers showing some age and bumped to edges and corners. No dust wrapper. Remains a good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- The Athlone Press
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0006296
- ISBN
- 9780485610062
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758338
- ISBN
- 9780804758338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.38
€ 27.99
€ 25.38