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Hardback. From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. Editor(s): Orr, Mary; Sharpe, Lesley. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897211
- ISBN
- 9780859897211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.35
€ 137.35
Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW price clipped and showing a little age and wear. Spotting on page edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0028190
- ISBN
- 9780224018456
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 86.00
€ 86.00
Paperback. This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346479
- ISBN
- 9781349346479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16pp b&w illustratio. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BGA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 402. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- W&N
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001335
- ISBN
- 9781857990614
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059047
- ISBN
- 9780674059047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 38.97
€ 47.99
€ 38.97
Paperback. Digital media is increasingly finding its way into the discussions of the humanities classroom. This book presents contributions by scholars and teachers from different countries and academic environments who articulate their approach to the study and teaching of digital literature. Editor(s): Simanowski, Roberto; Schafer, Jorgen; Gendolla, Peter. Series: Media Upheavals. Num Pages: 384 pages, 21 colour illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JNU; UD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837611304
- ISBN
- 9783837611304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.54
€ 50.99
€ 36.54
Hardcover. This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137500113
- ISBN
- 9781137500113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Hardcover. Examines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 2AGZ; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299222802
- ISBN
- 9780299222802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.82€ 79.36
€ 87.82
€ 79.36
Hardback. In Romantic Marks and Measures, Julia S. Carlson examines Wordsworth's poetry of "speech" and "nature" as a poetry of print, written and read in the midst of topographic and typographic experimentation and change. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 368 pages, 31 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812247879
- ISBN
- 9780812247879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.65
€ 86.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349435197
- ISBN
- 9781349435197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Paperback. Series: Plays. Num Pages: 86 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868193441
- ISBN
- 9780868193441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.83
€ 19.99
€ 14.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816516735
- ISBN
- 9780816516735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.46
€ 29.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. This new edition of Anthony Roche's pioneering survey of twentieth-century Irish drama brings the story up-to-date with new material on the contemporary Irish theatre scene. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219793
- ISBN
- 9780230219793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.19
€ 122.19
Hardback. This text explores the contemporary response to the picture books of the three pioneer Victorian illustrators of children's books: Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12pp photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; AFF; AGB; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810837393
- ISBN
- 9780810837393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.28
€ 155.28
Hardcover. British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274212
- ISBN
- 9781137274212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
A deft survey of the literary achievements of an author cited by Harold Bloom as one of the most influential writers of our time Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611174441
- ISBN
- 9781611174441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.69
€ 47.99
€ 39.69
Paperback. Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) ranks as the important American woman poet of the nineteenth-century after Emily Dickinson. This title reveals Piatt's ironic, experimental, and pushing the limits of Victorian language, the sentimental female persona, and what women's poetry could say. Editor(s): Bennett, Paula Bernat. Series: American Poetry Recovery Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252072819
- ISBN
- 9780252072819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.90
€ 27.99
€ 25.90
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801447082
- ISBN
- 9780801447082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.82
€ 68.82
Paperback. Originally published in French as La geocritique: reel, fiction, espace. Translator(s): Tally, Robert T. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292578
- ISBN
- 9781349292578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 133.21
€ 133.21
Paperback. Never before published, written 'at white-heat in three weeks' in autumn 1967 after two visits to the detention island of Leros in the Greek Dodecanese, The Protagonists is Chamberlain's response to the right-wing Colonels' Coup of April 1967. Editor(s): Davies, Damian Walford. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908069962
- ISBN
- 9781908069962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.26
€ 12.26
Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 113 x 22. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780522853056
- ISBN
- 9780522853056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.36
€ 20.99
€ 19.36
Hardcover. Contains stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight: all share the unsettling and dislocated reality. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370. Very good copy in bright dustwrapper .Signed by the author
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KEX0303173
- ISBN
- 9780224084697
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Hardback. Includes stories about food and eating under extreme conditions. This title features the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world. Editor(s): McAllester, Matt. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; JFCV; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1 edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268678
- ISBN
- 9780520268678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.01
€ 36.99
€ 27.01
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
€ 42.99€ 34.99
€ 42.99
€ 34.99