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ISBN: 9781851243846 - The Curious World of Dickens The Curious World of Dickens
Clive Hurst, Violet Moller

ISBN10: 1851243844  ISBN13: 9781851243846
Publisher: The Bodleian Library
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Jun 2012
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... More

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ISBN: 9780748633951 - Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed
Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck College, London)

ISBN10: 0748633952  ISBN13: 9780748633951
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2012
The 1980s were a time of tumultuous transition in Britain. While the Cold War was ending, Margaret Thatcher's government reinvented the postwar consensus of Britain's social landscape. This wide-ranging study follows such developments across... More

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ISBN: 9780748625079 - Modern American Literature Modern American Literature
Catherine Morley

ISBN10: 0748625070  ISBN13: 9780748625079
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2012
An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra Pound... More

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ISBN: 9780571281787 - Selected Poems Selected Poems
Don Paterson

ISBN10: 0571281788  ISBN13: 9780571281787
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 May 2012
Since his debut, "Nil Nil", won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, the author has lit up the poetry scene in the UK. This selection is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes... More

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ISBN: 9780674047525 - Freedom and the Arts Freedom and the Arts
Charles Rosen

ISBN10: 0674047524  ISBN13: 9780674047525
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 May 2012
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is perpetual negotiation required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling... More

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ISBN: 9780230577848 - Transgressive Imaginations Transgressive Imaginations
Maggie O'Neill, Lizzie Seal

ISBN10: 0230577849  ISBN13: 9780230577848
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 May 2012
This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum... More

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ISBN: 9781441107459 - Cybertext Poetics Cybertext Poetics
Markku Eskelinen

ISBN10: 1441107452  ISBN13: 9781441107459
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 May 2012
Uses cybertext theory and ludology to solve several persistent problems in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. This title constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows importance of... More

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ISBN: 9781107023512 - Charles Dickens and 'Boz' Charles Dickens and 'Boz'
Robert L Patten

ISBN10: 1107023513  ISBN13: 9781107023512
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2012
An original study of Dickens' early career and the way he constructed his literary reputation. Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the... More

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ISBN: 9780763635060 - Show Me a Story Show Me a Story
Leonard S Marcus

ISBN10: 0763635065  ISBN13: 9780763635060
Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S.
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2012

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ISBN: 9781846318207 - Vietnam and Beyond Vietnam and Beyond
Stefania Ciocia

ISBN10: 1846318203  ISBN13: 9781846318207
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Apr 2012
Vietnam and Beyond is a comprehensive, in-depth study of Tim O'Brien, one of the most thought-provoking writers of the Vietnam war generation. It is the first major new study of this important writer in over ten years. "Vietnam and Beyond... More