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Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts by Blake Scott Ball
RRP: $58.78$49.58Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts... -
Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde by John Sloan
RRP: $20.98$15.52Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary... -
The Story of the Treasure Seekers and The Wouldbegoods by Professor Claudia Nelson 9780230360846
$37.99The first critical edition of the beloved classics that established Edith Nesbit as a major children's writer provides extensive guidance to help today's reader navigate the enchanting world of the Bastable family. Nelson situates Nesbit's groundbreaking... -
The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Lorna Hutson 9780198857358
RRP: $86.08$85.03This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel by Malcolm V. Jones 9780521479097
RRP: $54.58$46.18Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of... -
Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England by Stephen Orgel 9780521568425
RRP: $83.98$69.85Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and... -
Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis by David Grene
$25.49Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History by Alexandra Warwick 9780719074943
RRP: $41.98$30.95Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history collects together some of the best academic work on the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the fields of history, media and cultural studies debate the... -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide by Michael Groden 9781421406398
RRP: $87.15$78.79Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory... -
Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist by Martin McLaughlin 9780691174723
RRP: $63.00$54.50The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of... -
The Trauma Question by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: $79.78$70.10In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self. The Trauma Question... -
English Literary Sexology: Translations of Inversion, 1860-1930 by H. Bauer 9780230221635
RRP: $94.48$94.44It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual... -
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation by Adrian Poole 9780192142092
RRP: $210.00$172.26The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the astonishingly inventive tradition of translation to which some of the greatest poets in the English language have contributed, including... -
Lotty's War by Giuliano Crispini 9781910067222
RRP: $20.98$13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067222Author Giuliano CrispiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead PressWeight(grams) 198g -
Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire by Carol Dyhouse 9780198828129
RRP: $31.48$23.00From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal... -
William Blake: The Poems by Nicholas Marsh 9780230348080
$53.45William Blake was ignored in his own time. Now, however, his Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'prophetic books' are widely admired and studied. The second edition of this successful introductory text: * leads the reader into the Songs and 'prophetic... -
Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern - A Reader by Dr. Sean Burke 9780748606184
RRP: $65.10$61.55This reader provides a solid theoretical base for all those encountering the 'author' debate for the first time. It presents key readings from the main writers on authorship, including pieces from Plato, Descartes, Shelley, Freud, T. S. Eliot, Sartre,... -
The Brontes: Interviews and Recollections by Harold Orel 9780333663141
$86.27The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies. The best... -
Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems by Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi
RRP: $113.38$99.18Eustache Deschamps studied under the tutelage of Guillaume de Marchault, traveled in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt-where he was said to have been made a slave-and eventually become recognized as one of the great French medieval poets. He was the first... -
Emilia Morgan Lloyd Malcolm 9781350200258
RRP: $27.28$25.31'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fight relentlessly to make themselves heard.' EVENING STANDARD 'The great virtue of Lloyd... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton 9781857546927
RRP: $20.90$15.08Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable... -
Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne 9780198746003
$243.62This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or... -
India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs by Santanu Das
RRP: $52.48$46.03Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their... -
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross 9780199543410
RRP: $31.48$24.21An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up... -
Veering: A Theory of Literature by Nicholas Royle
RRP: $50.38$44.96This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life, Royle brilliantly traces a strangely compelling 'literary... -
Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare by Madhavi Menon
RRP: $56.68$50.57Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that... -
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley) 9780631223498
RRP: $77.60$69.64From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and... -
Sappho by Page DuBois 9781784533618
$53.66Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that... -
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex by Tony Fincham
RRP: $16.70$15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992915155Author Tony FinchamFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K Le Guin 9781668034903
RRP: $37.80$25.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668034903Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *... -
Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology Derek Pearsall (Harvard University) 9780631198390
RRP: $88.10$79.82In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser.About the AuthorDerek Pearsall is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard... -
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson 9780062419699
RRP: $20.98$14.36Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder-a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work. The Selected Letters of Laura... -
Italian Literature II - Tristano Riccardiano by F. Regina Psaki
RRP: $231.00$220.79Text with facing translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, providing new evidence for the development of the Tristan strand of the Arthurian legend. This is the first English translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, the Tristano... -
Little Goody Two-Shoes and Other Stories: Originally Published by John Newbery by Matthew Grenby
$42.46John Newbery is celebrated as the first successful publisher of children's books, and the founder of modern children's literature. Three classic works published by Newbery (the authors unknown) are now available for a new generation of readers. Edited by... -
Heroides by Ovid 9780674990456
RRP: $52.40$52.16Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at... -
A Map of Misreading: with a New Preface by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195162219
RRP: $31.48$19.43In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of... -
Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 by Dr. Mary Bateman 9781843846581
RRP: $199.50$191.92The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true,... -
Close Reading: The Reader by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: $54.58$48.80An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century's foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The... -
Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing by Lucille Cairns 9781802077957
$234.38Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women's Writing examines the most common types of Eating Disorders (EDs) - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa/bulimarexia, and binge eating disorder - as represented in contemporary French women's literature. The... -
All Booked Up: A Reading Retrospective by Susan Elkin 9781916668416
RRP: $20.98$15.14Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, All Booked Up invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book. Opening with Five Go Off In A Caravan,...