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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology by Roger Lonsdale 9780192827753
RRP: £18.99£13.61Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? More than a hundred are represented in this anthology, yet only few have hitherto featured in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse. Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the... -
Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling by David Bordwell
RRP: £26.00£25.25In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different... -
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
RRP: £18.00£17.59This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is,... -
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play by August Wilson 9780452261136
RRP: £15.00£10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452261136Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books... -
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609 by Chloe Kathleen Preedy 9780192843326
RRP: £112.50£101.64During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the... -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan 9781787384705
RRP: £20.00£18.24A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary... -
The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis
RRP: £31.00£28.69The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key... -
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens 9780199686667
RRP: £9.99£7.11'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?' At the height of his career, around the time he... -
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of... -
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford
RRP: £11.99£10.15An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists"I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one needs to know about Jane Austen, and, best of all, leaves... -
Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan Napier
RRP: £15.99£13.56The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world-"an essential work in anime scholarship." (Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic) A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a... -
Aeschylus Tragoediae: Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoedias by Aeschylus 9780198145707
£27.89Contains the Greek texts of the seven extant plays of Aeschylus: "Persae", "Septem contra Thebas", "Supplices", "Agamemnon", "Choephoroe", "Eumenides", and "Prometheus Vinctus".Book InformationISBN 9780198145707Author Denys PageFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Illustrated Courtroom by Elizabeth Williams 9781956470420
£43.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956470420Author Elizabeth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson 9781783523801
RRP: £20.00£11.24From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to... -
Brown Bear Goes to the Museum by Jane Foster 9781787418325 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£3.81There's so much to discover together in the museum! Follow Brown Bear and his friends as they explore all of the different rooms - from the transport section to the art gallery. With vibrant artwork and charming animal characters, this new picture... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara 9780802134523
RRP: £11.99£9.02Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary... -
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780872201620
RRP: £13.99£11.83First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. This accurate and graceful... -
Tunnel of Mirrors by Ferne Arfin 9781802270648
RRP: £12.99£11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802270648Author Ferne ArfinFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Green River PressPublisher Green River PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: £33.95£27.81Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1 by Andre Laks
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
£29.10In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics,... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151450
RRP: £22.00£17.36Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering... -
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader by Patricia Waugh
£43.44This book covers the key theoretical approches in modern literary theory, and includes essays and texts that are essential reading for any student of critical theory. It includes sections on Formalism and Structuralism, Feminism, Marxism, Postmodernism,... -
Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780312421724
RRP: £16.00£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421724Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Reading Shakespeare's Mind by Steve Sohmer 9781526138071
RRP: £19.99£9.59This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's life, and puts faces to the names of Jaques,... -
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Felix Guattari 9780816615155
RRP: £17.99£15.90In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka's work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of "minor literature"-the use of a major language... -
Philippics 1-6 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: £5.00£4.42First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and... -
Judith Butler by Sara Salih 9780415215190
RRP: £19.99£17.69Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520293632
RRP: £25.00£20.59The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this... -
British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference by Bridget Orr
RRP: £30.99£22.85In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion, manners and party politics. Using the theatre as a means of circulating and publicizing radical Enlightenment ideas, many plays made... -
Collected Essays: Volume 1. The Englishness of the English Novel by Q. D. Leavis 9780521276771
RRP: £42.99£36.19Queenie Dorothy Leavis was one of the best critics of the novel. Her primary interest was in the English novel in its greatest period the nineteenth-century, but she had wide interests and wrote on the American novel as well; and her anthropological view... -
Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination by Malcolm Guite
RRP: £41.99£36.75Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the... -
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature by Alison Lurie 9780316246255
RRP: £19.99£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316246255Author Alison LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 by Nancy Armstrong 9780231130592
RRP: £28.00£21.80Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting... -
Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 by Andrew Nette
RRP: £32.99£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635248Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Poetic Edda by Henry Adams Bellows 9780486437101
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437101Author Henry Adams BellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Antonio Machado: Selected Poems by Antonio Machado
RRP: £33.95£27.41Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first hand... -
Forgotten Manuscript by Sergio Chejfec 9781913867713
RRP: £11.99£8.29"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer." -Patti Smith"Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain."The perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Deirdre David
RRP: £24.99£21.18In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and...