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The Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2): 2020 Richard Price 9781789628135
RRP: $69.20$63.40These canons (or rules) for church organization and life and Christian morals issued at a council held in Constantinople in 691/2 form the foundation of Byzantine Canon Law. They show an intense concern to restore the proper discipline of clerical... -
Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater by Felicity A. Nussbaum
RRP: $65.10$58.30In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently... -
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Patrick Williams (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9780745014913
RRP: $104.98$102.08This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary.Book InformationISBN 9780745014913Author Patrick... -
The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson 9781783523801
RRP: $42.00$23.94From 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... -
Algernon Swinburne: The Critical Heritage Clyde K. Hyder 9780415756754
RRP: $92.38$80.72The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on... -
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God Claire Cronin 9781913462055
RRP: $27.28$18.54Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid - about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds... -
Suppliant Women: "Suppliant Women", "Electra", "Heracles", "Trojan Women" by Euripides
RRP: $52.40$49.56Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group by Derek Ryan
$77.43The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group - the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose members included Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster,... -
Viral Shakespeare: Performance in the Time of Pandemic by Pascale Aebischer
RRP: $35.70$30.91This Element offers a first-person phenomenological history of watching productions of Shakespeare during the pandemic year of 2020. The first section of the Element explores how Shakespeare 'went viral' during the first lockdown of 2020 and considers... -
Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook by John Plunkett 9780230551756
$71.88An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for... -
Homer: The Iliad by M. S. Silk 9780521539968
RRP: $50.38$37.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot by A. David Moody
RRP: $60.88$51.28In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's... -
Henry James: A Very Short Introduction by Susan L. Mizruchi
RRP: $18.88$13.97An elegant introduction to one of America's most complex and influential writers. From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James (1843-1916) created a unique... -
London Assurance by Dion Boucicault 9780713626094
RRP: $25.18$23.98Dion Boucicault was a witty, selfish and deceitful charmer, a bigamist, a profligate spendthrift and the author of dozens of successful plays, only a handful of which endure. Among these his early comedies influenced Oscar Wilde, and his Irish melodramas... -
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox
RRP: $20.98$14.36When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. ... -
The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin 9780198924937
RRP: $33.58$30.03The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cowen Orlin offers close readings of key archival documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor 9780198827689
RRP: $35.68$26.44Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction... -
Subjectivity by Donald E. Hall 9780415287623
RRP: $41.98$37.15Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall: * examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases... -
From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail C. Scott Littleton 9780815335665
RRP: $79.78$70.64This volume boldly proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes). Also includes... -
Ocean by Steve Mentz
RRP: $20.98$16.57Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles... -
Thomas Hardy and the Church by Jan Jedrzejewski 9780333640258
RRP: $188.98$188.73Thomas Hardy and the Church traces the development of Hardy's attitude towards Christianity. Through an analysis, firmly rooted in documentary evidence, of his use of the motifs of church architecture, religious ritual, and the characters of clergymen,... -
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas - An Annotated German-Language Reader by Henk de Berg
RRP: $69.28$62.22The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible. German-language... -
Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty by Albert Bermel 9780413766601
RRP: $46.18$45.97The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood. In this incisive study, Albert Bermel looks... -
New Hampshire by Robert Frost
RRP: $20.98$15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565345Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)... -
Charlotte Bronte Revisited: A view from the 21st century Sophie Franklin 9781912235247
RRP: $20.98$14.70Everybody knows Charlotte Bronte. World-famous for her novel Jane Eyre, she's a giant of literature and has been written about in reverential tones in scores of textbooks over the years. But what do we really know about Charlotte? As the famous siblings... -
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future Duncan Wooldrige 9781916041233
$29.23How photography transforms the future as much as the past This book proposes a radical concept: that the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring a familiar medium through a new lens, the book asserts that... -
Pro Archia by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.90Defense of a poet, and five speeches from after exile.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne by Achsah Guibbory 9780521540032
RRP: $54.58$46.18The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry... -
Springboard Shakespeare:Hamlet by Ben Crystal
RRP: $25.18$23.00Hamlet is the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's tragedies. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the challenges and the rewards it presents to actors, audiences... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: $57.75$23.67From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat... -
A Study Guide for Sophie Treadwell's Machinal by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375383806
RRP: $20.90$19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375383806Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities by Dr. James O’Sullivan 9781350452572
$58.78The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $18.88$13.19When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his relationship with his hero is a hilarious story of ambition,... -
Mysteries of Dune: Sufism, Psychedelics, and the Prediction of Frank Herbert by Mahmoud Shelton 9780974146829
$17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974146829Author Mahmoud SheltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Temple of Justice BooksPublisher Temple of Justice BooksWeight(grams) 82g -
Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones 9780198826484
RRP: $27.28$20.12Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So... -
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds by Jocelin of Brakelond 9780199554935
RRP: $18.88$13.97This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of... -
Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances by R. F. Foster 9780199641659
RRP: $28.33$24.93W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present... -
Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson 9780199645886
RRP: $41.98$31.54The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media... -
Praeterita by John Ruskin 9780192802415
RRP: $25.18$18.19'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson
RRP: $50.38$41.64Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Romanticism. Fabled in his own lifetime as 'the Wizard of the North' and as the (long-anonymous) 'Author of...