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Restoration Drama: An Anthology by David Womersley 9780631209034
RRP: $81.80$74.74This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of... -
Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom 9781501164170
RRP: $31.20$17.88From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra-one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters-in "a masterfully perceptive reading of this... -
Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf by Deborah Parsons
RRP: $38.98$34.50Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between... -
Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal by Cristina Leon Alfar
RRP: $77.98$68.37How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina... -
Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: $50.70$49.24This expanded new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are: "Popular Culture"; "Diversity"; "Imperialism/Nationalism"; "Desire";... -
Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" by Frederick W. Turner 9780300192513
$51.32The untold story of Henry Miller's explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested... -
The Cambridge Introduction to W.B. Yeats by David Holdeman
RRP: $46.78$38.98This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments,... -
Wastocene: Stories from the Global Dump by Marco Armiero
RRP: $33.15$28.70Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in... -
Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England by Kim F. Hall
RRP: $56.53$48.67The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"-allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual... -
The Dunciad in Four Books by Valerie Rumbold 9781408204160
RRP: $72.13$70.47The 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... -
The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide by Christopher Gair
RRP: $19.48$14.72The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid writing inspired generations. In his chronicle of the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the Beat movement, Christopher Gair reveals how it sparked one... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871404084
RRP: $46.78$39.99Henry 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... -
A Writer's Britain by Margaret Drabble
RRP: $25.25$16.73The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman, covering all varieties of the British rural and urban landscape. This book presents an image of Britain as... -
The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France by Tom Conley 9780816674480
RRP: $42.88$37.42The Self-Made Map argues that during the Renaissance in France a "new cartographic impulse" affected both the "graphic and imaginary forms of literature." In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that as new maps were plotted... -
A Saint in Swindon by Alice Jolly 9781912054206
RRP: $15.58$11.10When a stranger arrives in town, with a bulging blue bag and a whiff of adventure, the neighbourhood takes notice. When he asks for his meals to be sent to his room and peace and quiet for reading, curiosity turns to obsession. Each day he stays there,... -
A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor 9781771125574
$47.74How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has... -
An Elm Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series by Jennifer Chiaverini 9780142196700
RRP: $38.81$30.36A beautiful keepsake volume to accompany the beloved New York Times bestselling seriesOver the course of the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, readers have expressed a longing to visit Elm Creek Manor, meet the quilters themselves, and admire their... -
Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality by Goran Stanivukovic
RRP: $56.53$45.94Now available in paperback, Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent... -
L.M. Montgomery and Gender by E. Holly Pike
RRP: $60.45$53.35The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the... -
The Law Of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock by Jeff Gardiner 9781909394193
RRP: $27.28$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394193Author Jeff GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 215g -
On Histories And Stories by A. S. Byatt 9780099283836
RRP: $25.33$17.73In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British... -
Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas by Dr. Laurie Atkinson 9781843846925
RRP: $126.75$120.53An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of... -
The Writing Notebooks by Helene Cixous 9780826493033
RRP: $42.88$42.69Hne Cixous is among the most influential and original literary critics and feminist thinkers of our time. This volume reproduces - for the first time, in any language - a collection of pages from her original writing notebooks, offering a unique insight... -
Romanticism by Cynthia Chase 9780582047990
RRP: $97.48$93.29The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist... -
The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem by Shira Wolosky 9780195138702
RRP: $86.76$61.05Anyone who has been asked to read and understand a poem has probably wondered: What does this really mean? Have I understood this the way I was supposed to? Did I get it? As the least literal of all of forms of creative writing, poetry is for many... -
Llyfrgell, Y Enillydd Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen 2009 by Fflur Dafydd 9781847711694
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847711694Author Fflur DafyddFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 18mm -
On the Genealogy of Morality by Don Berry
RRP: $12.68$11.91Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation. Well known as one of Nietzsche's greatest works, and as one of the most important books of nineteenth-century philosophy, On the Genealogy of Morality also... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing by Glenda Norquay
RRP: $60.45$55.95This book explores the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in... -
W B Yeats - Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $25.33$17.73W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period. From the quiet beauty of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film by Professor Russell Jackson 9780521685016
RRP: $52.63$45.24Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by,... -
Cassandra at His Finest and Funniest by William Neil Connor 9780955823824
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955823824Author William Neil ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel Barker -
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf by Gerri Kimber
RRP: $42.88$35.04These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship.Book InformationISBN 9781474439664Author Gerri KimberFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint... -
Further Reading by Matthew Rubery
RRP: $79.93$73.55What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further... -
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $17.53$12.58In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless science of Jules Verne to the power of H. G. Wells's... -
The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad 9780521191920
RRP: $77.98$69.44Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound... -
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life by Anahid Nersessian
RRP: $42.90$41.38Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, The Calamity Form... -
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway by Katherine West Scheil
RRP: $35.08$29.00What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife examines representations of Hathaway, from the earliest... -
The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms by Matt Eatough 9780199324705
RRP: $96.51$89.64The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays offer the... -
The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster by Wilfred Stone 9780804702638
RRP: $177.45$154.67A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804702638Author Wilfred StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Light Novel): Volume 1 by Yu Okano
RRP: $21.43$16.44Rentt Faina, a twenty-five-year-old adventurer, has been hacking away at monsters for a decade. Without much talent for the job, Rentt finds himself stuck hunting slimes and goblins for meager amounts of coin every day. Little does he know, all this is...