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The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry by Michael Ferber 9780521154376
RRP: $44.83$37.13The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also... -
Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice by Alison Mark 9780333734384
RRP: $87.73$87.69Contemporary Women's Poetry is a unique resource for students, teachers, and anyone interest in contemporary poetry. It offers the opportunity for readers to engage with the work of important figures and issues in contemporary women's poetry from two... -
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9780375725661
RRP: $34.13$25.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725661Author Gerard Manley HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge by John Worthen 9780521746434
RRP: $37.03$31.55Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative... -
Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film by Usha Vishnuvajjala 9781641893831
RRP: $185.25$176.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893831Author Usha VishnuvajjalaFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
$193.36Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction... -
The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus 9780521313872
RRP: $77.98$64.86The Life of Wilfrid offers us a graphic portrait of one of the most forceful characters in the history of the English Church: a man courageous and energetic yet at the same time litigious, ostentatious and overbearing, his life punctuated by restless... -
Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction by Kimberley Reynolds 9780230239371
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories... -
The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot by George Levine
RRP: $42.88$36.56This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian... -
Hamlet: Language and Writing by Dympna Callaghan
$38.98This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the... -
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman
RRP: $33.13$25.53The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent... -
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by William Trevor 9780199583140
RRP: $23.38$16.44Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchai, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of... -
Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780199688708
$68.06Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped us towards a better understanding of the how and why... -
Reading Samuel Johnson: Reception and Representation, 1750–1960 by Phil Jones 9781638040774
$188.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040774Author Phil JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
$30.62For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case... -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: $42.90$33.85Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
Milton: The Complete Shorter Poems by John Carey 9781405832793
$72.31This masterly edition contains all of Milton's English poems, with the exception of Paradise Lost, together with translations and texts of all his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. First published in 1968 - and substantially updated in 1996 - John Carey's... -
Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity by Jonathan White
RRP: $25.33$24.53During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array of disciplines. Over ten years, White conducted... -
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek 9780262740159
RRP: $70.20$60.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262740159Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 10mm -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow
RRP: $95.53$73.24Imitating 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... -
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: $58.50$44.50The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year... -
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $78.00$57.31In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War... -
Salamati: Hamed's Persian kitchen; recipes and stories from Iran to the other side of the world by Hamed Allahyari 9781911668565
RRP: $48.75$31.45'By eating my food, you come into my family. You are sitting with me, with my grandparents, parents and cousins, talking, sharing and enjoying the feeling of being together.'Hamed Allahyari cooks to connect - for that joyful moment you can say salamati... -
Welsh Gothic by Jane Aaron 9780708326084
RRP: $48.75$36.68Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic... -
Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack
RRP: $43.88$37.73A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as... -
Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene by Jane Grogan 9781138376328
RRP: $93.58$81.53Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through... -
Out Of Silence, Sound. Out Of Nothing, Something.: A Writers Guide by Susan Griffin
RRP: $31.18$18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094109Author Susan GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Cinema/Politics/Philosophy by Nico Baumbach 9780231184236
RRP: $48.75$38.20Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism," helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades,... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.30The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.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,... -
Muriel Spark's Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by David S. Robb 9780948877148
RRP: $13.55$10.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877148Author David S. RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift 9780393930658
$34.18"Contexts" features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism" provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations,... -
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions by Marina Yaguello
RRP: $52.65$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046398Author Marina YaguelloFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
BESS of Hardwick: New Perspectives by Lisa Hopkins 9781526101297
RRP: $175.50$98.42Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought)... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Nick Broten
RRP: $12.68$11.91Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the... -
Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Robert J. C. Young
RRP: $46.70$40.89Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary... -
A Study Guide for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375397919
RRP: $19.40$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375397919Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein, The by Sharon Ruston
RRP: $48.75$37.19What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science,... -
The Brontes and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination by Alexandra Lewis
RRP: $60.43$44.56What does it mean to be human? The Bronte novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontes and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte each... -
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton 9780674060258
RRP: $52.55$45.84In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common... -
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century by Joan Hawkins
RRP: $60.45$54.13William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded)...