Old Is Gold
Discover old books and books of old at our online bookstore. Shop old classic books, best-selling books, and timeless treasures—perfect for collectors and book lovers alike!
-
Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)Mortality from Homer to ShakespeareThis work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the "belly-monstrous" as a crucial point of intersection between mothers and warriors in traditional narratives of the...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Alexander Pope: A Literary BiographyThis critical biography is a posthumous publication by a Pope scholar of international reputation. It gathers the scholarship and insights of the author's earlier books and essays on Pope into a final work of new research and a lifetime's reflection on its subject, aimed...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain: 1819 to the Early Twentieth CenturyDuring the nineteenth century, local officials sought to deal with their Irish pauper 'problem' by removing these poor migrants back to Ireland under the laws of settlement and removal. Over the course of the century, hundreds of thousands of Irish paupers were forcibly repatriated...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Life of William Collins, PoetEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.The Life of William Collins, Poet presents a much-needed biographical study of William Collins based on archival research. Collins's work has long been considered central to understanding the development of English...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation LiteratureEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Greening Bohemia is the first book to connect diverse Beat Generation literature to environmental concerns. What is the connection between the Beat Generation and the environment? Using careful textual and rhetorical...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Morbidities and the Concept of the New LiteratureRam?n G?mez de la Serna (1888-1963) was one of Spain's most gifted avant-gardists. Oftentimes remembered as the inventor of the greguer?a--a type of witty and humorous epigram that recasts the commonplace and absurdities of everyday reality--he was a prolific writer and published dozens of...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler's Critical and Synoptic Edition of UlyssesEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.2024 is the 40th anniversary of Hans Walter Gabler's critical and synoptic edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, published in 1984 by Garland. Ulysses Forty Years brings together a collection of essays...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Late Victorian Literary Collaboration: Authorship, Co-Authorship and Popular FictionAn exciting new contribution to the expanding but still largely uncharted territory of collaboration studies, Late Victorian Literary Collaboration is the first book-length study of the trend for collaborative writing that emerged in the last decades of the nineteenth century.As a result of the...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Derek Mahon: A RetrospectiveDerek Mahon (1941-2020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. This collection of new critical essays offers an important retrospective assessment of the nature of his poetic achievement. Bringing together many leading scholars of modern and contemporary...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne KygerPoet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger provides a much-needed re-evaluation of the work of Joanne Kyger, a remarkably productive poet associated with transformative literary movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Kyger uses time and place to anchor her writing...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Gothic PeckinpahThis book argues for the importance of Gothic in understanding one of the key elements within the films of Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984). Although occasionally noted in the past, the Gothic has been generally overlooked when most critics consider the work of Sam Peckinpah with...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 19: 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume's 601 documents show Jefferson dealing with various challenges. He is injured in a fall at Monticello, and his arm is still in a sling months later when he narrowly escapes drowning...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 18: 1 December 1821 to 15 September 1822A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume's 627 documents feature a vast assortment of topics. Jefferson writes of his dread of "a doting old age." He inserts an anonymous note in the Richmond Enquirer denying that he has...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the StateEven before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool. In 1944 a team representing the incipient state was dispatched to play matches around the liberated Mediterranean. This consummated...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
August Wilson Century CycleSeries introduction by John Lahr with individual volumes introduced by Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Marion McClinton, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Phylicia Rashad, Ishmael Reed, and Frank Rich. No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Papers of Chief John Ross (2 Volume Set)Chief John Ross of the Cherokees held the preeminent political position in his tribe for nearly forty years and served his people in a public capacity for more than fifty. From 1816 to 1866, Ross penned an enormous number of letters, speeches, reports, and...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769-1849 (2 Volume Set) Volume 6A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well--a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state's recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Engineering the Lower Danube: Technology and Territoriality in an Imperial Borderland, Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesThe Lower Danube--the stretch of Europe's second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea--was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches--the Iron Gates...
- $639.37 AUD
- $639.37 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Lives of Cold War Afro-AsianismThe Afro-Asianism of the early Cold War has long remained buried under the narrative of Bandung, homogenising and subverting the different visions of post-colonial worldmaking that co-existed alongside the Bandung project. This book turns the lens on these other visions, and the transnational interactions...
- $638.51 AUD
- $638.51 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Europe in the Long Twentieth Century: A Transnational HistoryThanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost natural global superiority, especially among...
- $635.29 AUD
- $635.29 AUD
- Unit price
- per
