Search Results: Literary Criticism from Great Northern Books

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First printing. This book presents a selection of sixty-five poems from across Frost's writing career with Tim Kendall detailed account of each poem. Includes a bibliography and index. Slight wear to the bottom of the spine of the dustjacket and cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Includes the following essays: Chaucer and His Age -- Religion -- Chaucer -- The Fifteenth century -- The Author and His Public -- Fifteenth-Century Verse -- Fifteenth-Century Prose. Also includes chronological tables, bibliographical references, and index. Fading to spine of dustjacket, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Welsh treats the city of Dickens both as historical reality and as metaphor that provides a context for values and purposes expressed by the English novel. " [from jacket]. Includes bibliographic references, index, and illustrations. Ab clean unmarked copy.

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. An alphabetical guide offers biographies of authors, coverage of major topics, and brief introductions to individual novels." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. A collection of essays that "explore the representation of human consciousness in fiction in light of recent investigations in the sciences," [from publisher], from the noted British novelist and critic. Includes Lodge's Richard Ellmann Lectures, bibliographical references, and index. Slight sunning to dustjacket spine, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. Edited by Mark W. Estrin. Includes chronology, bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Orlando: University of Central Florida, 2002:Fall. First edition thus. Periodical. Very Good +. A nine page interview, with Lorrie Moore, conducted by Dana Kantrowitz and Chris Rohner. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Contents: Hardy.--James.--Shaw.--Conrad.--Kipling.--Yeats.--Joyce.--Lawrence. Also includes chronological tables, bibliographical references, and index. A tight, clean, unmarked copy.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Novy considers the contributions of women novelists in shaping and responding to Shakespeare's cultural presence." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Includes the following essays: The Literary Scene in 1815 -- Byron -- Shelley -- Keats -- Clare and the Minor Poets -- The Waverley Romances -- Peacock -- John Galt and the Minor Writers of Prose Fiction -- Hazlitt -- Lamb -- De Quincey -- Miscellaneous Prose -- History, Biography and Autobiography -- Interest in Foreign Literature and in Earlier English Literature -- The Literary Scene in 1832. Also includes chronological tables, bibliographical references, and index. Fading to spine of dustjacket, slight edgewear, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. Readers' Subscription Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Includes the following essays: The Background : Social ; The Ethos -- Defoe to 1710 -- Swift to 1709 -- Essayists and Controversialists : Steele ; Swift, Defoe, Arbuthnot ; Addison -- Poetry : Introductory ; Some Forms ; Some Poets -- Pope to 1725 -- The Drama -- The Philosophers -- Critics and Aestheticians -- Letters, Memoirs, Travel; Historians and Antiquaries -- Defoe, 1715-1731 : The Miscellaneous Writer ; Defoe and the Novel -- Swift, 1715-1745 : The Irish Patriot ; Gulliver's Travels ; The Final Phase: Poetry -- Poetry, 1720-1740 : Thomson ; Scientific Verse ; Various Trends -- Pope, 1725-1744. Also includes chronological tables, bibliographical references, and index. Small smudge on spine of dustjacket, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Contains the following four essays: Medieval Drama -- The Carol and Fifteenth-Century Lyric -- Popular Narrative Poetry and the Ballad -- Malory. Includes bibliographical references and index. Slight edgewear and fading to spine of dustjacket, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Continuum, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Review copy with publisher material laid in. "An essential source book and guide to erotic literature - the joyfully erotic, ancient and modern - as opposed to the merely pornographic." [from publisher] Includes essays, author directory, glossary, bibliographical references, and index. Slight creasing to front panel of book jacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. "Kreyling examines all of Welty’s works and he shows how her “achievement of order resulted from the experience she gained through her own writing and through the perception that came from her reading of other authors." [from review] Includes bibliographical references and index. Slight foxing to textblock else a clean, unmarked copy.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. "This innovative collection cuts a feminist swath through the old approach, reassessing the contributions to and influences on literature that have been made by Southern women writers." [from jacket] Edited by Carol Manning. Includes bibliographical references and index. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1974. First edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. New. Cover has a wonderful drawing of Manfred by Arny Skov. Includes errata, bibliographical references, and selected bibliography.

Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. Includes index and two pages of publisher ads in rear. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket.

Winona, MN: Great River Review, Inc., 1984. v.5:no.1. Periodical. Very Good. A single periodical issue contains two pieces related to John Berryman. The first, a group of poems titled, " from JOHN / HENRY" about John Berryman by Robert Runge. The second, "Extra Wings: John Berryman's Personal Library," by Richard J. Kelly. Also contains the short story, "Going to Town WIth Ma," by Frederick Manfred and a review of a Robert Bly book. A clean, unmarked copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 2005. First printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A collection of interviews edited by Alistair Owen. Includes black and white photographs, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

Tokyo: PHP International, 2009:December. First edition thus. Periodical. Very Good +. A complete magazine issue containing the cover story, "Haruki World," by Michael Hoffman, a 5 page article illustrated with color photographs. The cover of the magazine also has a portrait of Murakami with covers of his novels superimposed. A clean, unmarked copy.