Literature

Because I'm a Girl (Paperback / softback - 1 Feb 2010)

Because I'm a Girl
Eight authors, eight countries, eight unforgettable stories.Authors Tim Butcher, Xiaolu Guo, Joanne Harris, Kathy Lette, Henning Mankell, Deborah Moggach, Marie Phillips and Irvine Welsh visited eight different countries and spoke to young women and girls about their lives, struggles and hopes. The result is an extraordinary collection of writings about prejudice, abuse and neglect, but also about courage,...

By (author) Various

ISBN-13: 9780099535928 ; ISBN-10: 0099535920

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The New Handbook of Literary Terms (Paperback / softback - 23 Feb 2010)

The New Handbook of Literary Terms

By (author) D Mikics

ISBN-13: 9780300164312 ; ISBN-10: 0300164319

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The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold (Paperback / softback - 19 Jan 2010)

The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions. The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold investigates these constructions by situating ArnoldΣs poetry in a number of contexts that partially shaped it. Antony H. Harrison reopens discussion of selected...

By (author) Antony H. Harrison

ISBN-13: 9780821419007 ; ISBN-10: 0821419005

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The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold (Hardback - 19 Jan 2010)

The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions. The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold investigates these constructions by situating ArnoldΣs poetry in a number of contexts that partially shaped it. Antony H. Harrison reopens discussion of selected...

By (author) Antony H. Harrison

ISBN-13: 9780821418994 ; ISBN-10: 0821418998

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Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson (Hardback - 19 Feb 2010)

Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions
Since the 1980s, an increasing number of black writers have begun publishing speculative-fantastic fictions such as fantasy, gothic, utopian and science fiction. Writing into two literary traditions that are conventionally considered separate -- white speculative genres and black literary-cultural traditions -- the texts integrate an African American sensibility of the past within the present, with speculative...

By (author) Ingrid Thaler

ISBN-13: 9780415804417 ; ISBN-10: 0415804418

Price: £60.00 £53.50 Not Available

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Hardback - 19 Feb 2010)

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism

By (author) Not Available (NA)

ISBN-13: 9781414439303 ; ISBN-10: 141443930X

Price: £275.00 £261.50 Not Available

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Hardback - 26 Feb 2010)

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction
This book brings together the experiences of Anglo-American teachers and discusses some of the challenges which face teachers of nineteenth-century fiction, suggesting practical ways in which these might start to be overcome by considering the constantly changing canon, issues related to course design and the possibilities offered by film and ICT. This collection examines what is taught in nineteenth-century fiction...

Edited by Andrew Maunder; Jennifer Phegley

ISBN-13: 9780230537804 ; ISBN-10: 0230537804

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The Media and The Public: "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse (Hardback - 19 Feb 2010)

The Media and The Public
The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media have constructed and represented the public. The authors argue that the public is a product of representation, invoked through processes of mediation that are dominated by political, institutional, economic and cultural forces. The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media, from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed and...

By (author) Stephen Coleman; Karen Ross

ISBN-13: 9781405160407 ; ISBN-10: 1405160403

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Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 2: International Influence and Politics (Hardback - 10 Feb 2010)

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 2
This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars from around the world, focusing on Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politics. Themes include war, freedom of the press, economics and cultural production, the Hogarth Press, the global circulation of ideas, and transformations to the public sphere. Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, published in two volumes, focuses on the politics and...

Edited by Lisa Shahriari; Gina Potts

ISBN-13: 9780230517677 ; ISBN-10: 0230517676

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A Companion to the American Short Story (Hardback - 19 Feb 2010)

A Companion to the American Short Story
A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past two centuries. Written by leading critics in the field, it explores a wide range of writers, from Edgar Allen Poe and Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Charles Chesnutt at the end of the nineteenth century. A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the...

Edited by Alfred Bendixen; James Nagel

ISBN-13: 9781405115438 ; ISBN-10: 1405115432

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The Media and The Public: "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse (Paperback / softback - 19 Feb 2010)

The Media and The Public
The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media have constructed and represented the public. The authors argue that the public is a product of representation, invoked through processes of mediation that are dominated by political, institutional, economic and cultural forces. The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media, from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed and...

By (author) Stephen Coleman; Karen Ross

ISBN-13: 9781405160414 ; ISBN-10: 1405160411

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A Companion to Crime Fiction (Hardback - 19 Feb 2010)

A Companion to Crime Fiction
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. It brings together a series of forty–seven original essays from some of the world’s leading authorities. A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of...

Edited by Charles J. Rzepka; Lee Horsley

ISBN-13: 9781405167659 ; ISBN-10: 1405167653

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THE MAN WHO RAN LONDON DURING THE GREAT WAR: THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR FRANCIS LLOYD, GCVO, KCB, DSO, (1853-1929) (Hardback - 18 Feb 2010)

THE MAN WHO RAN LONDON DURING THE GREAT WAR
The Diaries and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd GCVO, KCB, DSO, (1853-1926).

By (author) RICHARD MORRIS

ISBN-13: 9781848841642 ; ISBN-10: 1848841647

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Save the Last Dance – Poems (Paperback / softback - 2 Feb 2010)

Save the Last Dance – Poems

ISBN-13: 9780393337310 ; ISBN-10: 0393337316

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The Essential Shakespeare Live Encore (CD-Audio - 15 Feb 2010)

The Essential Shakespeare Live  Encore

By (author) Vrej Nersessian

ISBN-13: 9780712351003 ; ISBN-10: 0712351000

Price: £15.70 £14.13 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 (Paperback / softback - 15 Mar 2010)

History of the Gothic
This volume, which weds a socio-historical and intellectual approach to classic British Gothic literature, is a perfect introduction to the genre for the student and lay reader alike. Works by gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley, as well as traditions like the Female Gothic, are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...

By (author) Carol Margaret Davison

ISBN-13: 9780708320457 ; ISBN-10: 0708320457

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Cashiers Parisiens – Parisian Notebooks Number 5 (Paperback / softback - 10 Mar 2010)

Cashiers Parisiens – Parisian Notebooks Number 5

By (author) JE Goldstein

ISBN-13: 9782952596244 ; ISBN-10: 2952596247

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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824 (Hardback - 15 Mar 2010)

History of the Gothic
This volume, which weds a socio-historical and intellectual approach to classic British Gothic literature, is a perfect introduction to the genre for the student and lay reader alike. Works by gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley, as well as traditions like the Female Gothic, are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...

By (author) Carol Margaret Davison

ISBN-13: 9780708320099 ; ISBN-10: 0708320090

Price: £65.00 £58.00 Not Available

A Companion to Shakespeare′s Sonnets (Paperback / softback - 12 Feb 2010)

A Companion to Shakespeare′s Sonnets
This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Contains more than 20 newly–commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. An...

Edited by Michael Schoenfeldt

ISBN-13: 9781444332063 ; ISBN-10: 1444332066

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