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Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur by A. Briggs 9780333750230
RRP: $251.98$228.86Michael Young is one of the key figures in British twentieth century history. Focusing on family, community and social change, he has cascaded ideas, in the process coining new words, like 'meritocracy'. He has also initiated or played a major role in... -
Literature and Psychoanalysis by Professor Jeremy Tambling
RRP: $41.98$30.49Literature and Psychoanalysis is an exciting, and compulsive working through of what Freud really said, and why it is so important, with a chapter on Melanie Klein and object relations theory, and two chapters on Lacan, and his work on the unconscious as... -
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture by Juliet John 9780198848776
RRP: $86.08$85.03The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including... -
Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century by Duska Radosavljevic 9780230343115
$98.39Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies... -
Marcel Proust by Michael Wood
RRP: $39.88$34.27A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust's work as an event and... -
Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts by Running Press
RRP: $12.58$11.09Baffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare's most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sections for quick retrieval when a stinging retort is... -
Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Gillian Sargent
RRP: $14.60$11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841270Author Gillian SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Theorist's Mother by Andrew Parker 9780822352327
RRP: $41.98$37.40In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its... -
Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives by Carola Kaplan 9780415971652
RRP: $79.78$70.94Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in the English language. Conrad's work has taken on a new importance in the dawning of the 21st century: in the wake of September 11 many... -
"Hamlet" After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text by Zachary Lesser
RRP: $58.78$51.49In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all... -
God's Silence by Franz Wright 9780375710810
RRP: $35.68$25.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375710810Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
RRP: $20.98$14.15A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.90The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his... -
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling by Antonino Ferro
RRP: $83.98$73.63Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart Nell Stevens 9781509868186
RRP: $31.48$28.25Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of RainIn 1857, after two years of writing The Life of... -
Prosthesis by David Wills 9780804724593
RRP: $138.60$121.34A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Most critical efforts look not only humble and constrained beside this magnificent book, but also simply dull-dull in the sense that they have not realized (realized in the sense of 'understood' but also in the... -
A Study Guide for Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" by Cengage Learning Gale 9780270527797
RRP: $20.90$18.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780270527797Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 73g -
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: From Howells to London by Donald Pizer 9780521438766
RRP: $71.38$61.45This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of... -
An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo Padraig Belton 9781912284634
RRP: $13.65$13.21Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as "evolving" from... -
Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867 by Chris R. Vanden Bossche 9781421412085
RRP: $95.55$85.20Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving... -
Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem by Timothy M. Dale 9781442246645
RRP: $31.48$24.21Jim Henson's creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world's most recognizable cultural icons. From Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and their Muppet friends to the legendary Sesame Street and Children's Television Workshop,... -
The Dunciad (revised first edition) Valerie Rumbold 9781408204160
RRP: $77.68$76.48The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this... -
Jane Austen in Context by Janet Todd 9780521688536
RRP: $50.38$42.82This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short,... -
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450 - 1800 by Lucien Fevre 9781844676330
RRP: $50.38$40.66The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with... -
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within by Mari Ruti
RRP: $58.78$51.49The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of symbolic prohibition) or the "person" (who is aligned... -
The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden by Roy Strong
RRP: $31.40$21.06Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from sources including Elizabethan gardening... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871404084
RRP: $50.38$43.72Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of... -
The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 by I. T. Ker 9780852446256
$31.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852446256Author I. T. KerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 370g -
Sunsong: Book 1 by Frances Mordecai 9780582765559
$28.94The anthology Sunsong (Book 1) contains a mixture of poems from across the Caribbean and from other parts of the world. The selection is varied, challenging and enjoyable. It includes rhythmic poems for choral orchestration, story poems for humour and... -
Philosophy and Terry Pratchett by Jacob M. Held 9781137360151
RRP: $52.48$46.47Philosophy and Terry Pratchett is the first attempt by philosophers to explore themes in Sir Terry Pratchett's writings. It will appeal to both specialists and fans of Pratchett with serious essays written in a manner accessible to anyone who enjoys, or... -
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
RRP: $35.68$32.13Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women's Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle-and not so subtle-strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
$48.03An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation--if not his popular readership-has... -
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 9780571223435
RRP: $18.88$13.19In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Tragedy by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $47.25$39.80An exploration of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture-from literature and politics to philosophy and theater... -
The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin 9780192846303
RRP: $68.23$63.44A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William... -
Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus by Erich Segal 9780195041668
RRP: $75.58$56.97'We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.' Phoenix This reissue of virtually the only book in English devoted to the work of the Roman comedy writer Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) includes a new preface and additional... -
The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland by Gerald Dawe 9781788551069
RRP: $35.68$34.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551069Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Autobiography in Early Modern England by Dr. Adam Smyth 9780521761727
RRP: $189.00$153.59How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the... -
Literary Theory and Criminology Rafe McGregor (Edge Hill University, UK) 9781032262802
RRP: $77.68$68.84Literary Theory and Criminology demonstrates the significance of contemporary literary theory to the discipline of criminology, particularly to those criminologists who are primarily concerned with questions of power, inequality, and harm. Drawing on... -
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford 9780252067952
RRP: $44.08$38.58In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects,...