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Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate by Catherine Maxwell
RRP: £90.00£63.91Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian England's unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown 9780198722557
RRP: £34.49£25.55Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
Homi K. Bhabha by David Huddart
RRP: £19.99£17.69Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work,... -
Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters by H P Lovecraft 9781614982791
RRP: £25.00£21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982791Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 152g -
With Child: Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher by Andy Martin 9781509538225
RRP: £12.99£8.60With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Milton by Dennis Danielson
RRP: £28.99£24.42An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition... -
Modernism: A Cultural History by Tim Armstrong 9780745629834
£17.13The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres... -
Stage Invasion: Poetry & the Spoken Word Renaissance: 2019 by Pete Bearder
RRP: £10.00£7.00Award-winning poet Pete "the Temp" Bearder presents the unwritten history, science and skill of spoken word. Stage Invasion answers some strangely unaddressed questions: How was the live art of spoken verse kicked out of the Kingdom of Poetry? What is... -
Shakespeare in Parts by Simon Palfrey 9780199591107
£35.39A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full... -
An Explorer's Guide to Julian of Norwich by Veronica Mary Rolf 9780830850884
RRP: £17.99£14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830850884Author Veronica Mary RolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies by Janette Dillon 9780521674928
RRP: £19.99£16.18Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about... -
How to Read Shakespeare by Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: £6.99£4.84William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and movies, in love and war, in the public world of... -
Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Complaints from Middle England by Nigel Cawthorne 9781783342013
RRP: £9.99£8.17The very best outrage from the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, the newspaper that coined the phrase 'Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells' for grumpy complaints.Book InformationISBN 9781783342013Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gibson... -
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism by Jill Kraye
RRP: £26.99£22.80From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Prof Colin Burrow 9780198883463
RRP: £25.00£21.19Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and... -
Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan
RRP: £22.00£18.36A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But... -
Grotesque Weather and Good People by Solah Lim
RRP: £11.99£8.00A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple... -
Alarm by Dr. Alice Bennett
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us... -
Roman History: v. 8 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £24.95£24.54A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Shakespeare and Popular Voice by Annabel Patterson 9780631168737
RRP: £37.95£34.20In Shakespeare and the Popular Voice Annabel Patterson challenges as counter-intuitive the common opinion that Shakespeare was anti-democratic, contemptuous of the crowd and an unfailing supporter of Elizabethan social hierarchy.About the AuthorAnnabel... -
Jeremias Held. 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566): 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566) by Andrea Alciato 9782503525396
£49.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503525396Author Andrea AlciatoFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm * 20mm -
Longus: Daphnis and Chloe by Longus 9780521776592
RRP: £27.99£24.27Longus' Daphnis and Chloe is arguably our finest surviving Greek novel. Written under the Roman Empire and engaging with romantic, pastoral and rhetorical themes, the story and characterisation have captured the imaginations of artists over the centuries... -
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, An Abridged Edition by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £21.00£20.31An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by... -
Charlotte Bronte Revisited: A view from the 21st century by Sophie Franklin 9781912235247
RRP: £9.99£6.80Everybody 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... -
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?: A Handbook for the Rejected Writer by Fay Weldon
RRP: £8.99£6.45You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon... -
Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature by Hugh J. Silverman
RRP: £36.99£32.53This title, first published in 1991, opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. Building upon the key theme of dialogue, Gadamer and Hermeneutics provides a series of essays, either... -
Glitter by Dr. Nicole Seymour
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have... -
Euripides: Trojan Women by Barbara Goff 9780715635452
£25.45Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies by Penny Gay 9780521672696
RRP: £19.99£16.18Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about... -
John Milton by Richard Bradford 9780415202442
RRP: £36.99£32.53There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century literature courses. Where many previous guides have... -
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and the Historical Novel by Perry Anderson 9781804290798
RRP: £16.99£14.10There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson... -
Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank
RRP: £17.99£14.38From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer,... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521890472
RRP: £20.99£16.60This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at... -
Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374499Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Hamlet's Choice: Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies by Peter Lake
RRP: £37.50£36.23An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by... -
Shakespeare: The Basics by Sean McEvoy
RRP: £19.99£17.69Now in its third edition Shakespeare: The Basics is an insightful and informative introduction to the work of William Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays including the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations, this... -
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare by Peter Brook
RRP: £9.99£7.27In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why... -
The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century by Robert E Norton
RRP: £29.99£26.50For many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first... -
A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds by Jaime Semprun 9780262546171
RRP: £16.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546171Author Jaime SemprunFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation by W. J. T. Mitchell
RRP: £30.00£29.65In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures, Mitchell notes that we do not yet have a satisfactory...