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George Steiner: A Reader by George Steiner 9780195050684
RRP: £22.49£15.63As an incisive and provocative critic of literature, language, and culture, George Steiner has acquired an international reputation and a devoted following. "He scatters bright ideas everywhere," writes The New York Times Book Review, "and... -
COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK by Fred Cooper
RRP: £14.99£13.45This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, it quickly became clear that... -
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
RRP: £74.00£64.45Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature Association Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, Nonfiction Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON... -
Crick Crack Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series) by Merle Hodge 9780435989514
£13.78A revealing novel of childhood about Tee who is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.Book InformationISBN 9780435989514Author Merle HodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Pearson... -
Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama by Kate Aughterson
RRP: £23.99£23.80Shakespeare and Gender guides students and teachers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality,... -
Literary Expressions of African Spirituality by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett 9781498515498
RRP: £45.00£41.44With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African... -
The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England by Laura Saetveit Miles
RRP: £28.99£28.30Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated... -
Reading and Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960 by Kimberley Reynolds 9780198806189
RRP: £28.99£21.28Kim Reynolds, Jane Rosen, and Michael Rosen present a new anthology of radical writings for children from the first half of the twentieth century. In the years 1900 to 1960, large sections of the British population embraced a spectrum of left-wing... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii by W. J. Leatherbarrow
RRP: £25.99£21.99Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. While remaining accessible to an undergraduate and non-specialist readership, the essays as a whole seek to renegotiate the terms in which... -
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair 9780521537773
RRP: £41.99£36.92This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes an introduction by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the... -
The Cambridge History of the English Novel by Robert L. Caserio
RRP: £33.99£30.26The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of... -
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors by Elleke Boehmer 9780199253715
RRP: £35.99£30.15Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has... -
Rhetoric by Dr. Jennifer Richards
RRP: £19.99£17.69Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history as well as elements of philosophy, politics and culture... -
Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw 9780230361447
RRP: £44.99£44.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia by Hesiod
RRP: £24.95£24.54Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer.The first volume of... -
Mikhail Bakhtin by Alastair Renfrew
RRP: £25.99£22.63Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century's most influential literary theorists. This accessible introduction to his thought begins with the questions 'Why Bakhtin?' and 'Who was Bakhtin?', before dealing in detail with his ideas on authorship and... -
A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library by Camillo A. Formigatti
RRP: £50.00£43.25This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the book... -
Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History by Catherine Belsey
RRP: £17.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474417372Author Catherine BelseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period by William St. Clair 9780521699440
RRP: £46.99£33.28During the four centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, everyone engaged in politics, education, religion, and literature believed that reading helped to shape the minds, opinions,... -
The Singularity of Literature by Derek Attridge
RRP: £16.99£15.22The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in... -
Time Murderer Please by Raymond Dyer 9780856760389
RRP: £10.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856760389Author Raymond DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce by Umberto Eco
RRP: £18.99£16.72" . . . fascinating throughout. . . . the book is recreative in the highest sense." -Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic"A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection, and Peirce scholars." -Library JournalReviews" ..... -
Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature by Joseph Carroll
RRP: £37.99£33.38In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to... -
Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776298Author Cedric WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
For All Occasions: A Selection of Poems, Prose and Party Pieces by Peter Barkworth 9780413726506
RRP: £22.99£22.85This marvellous selections of over 200 pieces by writers as diverse and entertaining as Charles Dickens, John Betjeman, Noel Coward, Joyce Grenfell, Ogden Nash and Oscar Wilde are poems and prose writings which work best when read aloud. Peter Barkworth,... -
Ted Hughes in Context by Terry Gifford 9781108425551
£88.30Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and experience gave him access. The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century... -
The Graphic Novel: An Introduction by Jan Baetens
RRP: £23.99£19.51This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray 9781035031689
RRP: £9.99£6.87With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city.London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the... -
The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening by Jennifer Lynn Stoever
RRP: £24.99£21.67The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see "difference." At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama by A. R. Braunmuller 9780521527996
RRP: £32.99£28.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gender Trouble by Tim Smith-Laing
RRP: £6.50£6.11Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines feminism's struggle against patriarchy as part of a much broader issue: the damaging effects of all our assumptions about gender and identity. Looking at the... -
Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison 9780679760009
RRP: £21.00£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679760009Author Ralph EllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Cries Of The Spirit by Marilyn Sewell 9780807068496
£29.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068496Author Marilyn SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £22.00£14.93"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to... -
The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain And Ireland by Ronald Carter
RRP: £14.99£10.95This second edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the end of the twentieth century... -
A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite by Violet Fenn
£20.54Our enduring love of vampires - the bad boys (and girls) of paranormal fantasy - has persisted for centuries. Despite being bloodthirsty, heartless killers, vampire stories commonly carry erotic overtones that are missing from other paranormal or horror... -
The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley 9780877285168
RRP: £15.99£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877285168Author Aleister CrowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 16mm -
The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding by Claude Rawson
RRP: £26.99£22.80Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707-54) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a ... -
Roland Barthes by Graham Allen
RRP: £19.99£17.69Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. This book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates, including:*existentialism... -
Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature by Elizabeth Laraway Wilson 9781581341980
£17.59Recently updated and fully indexed, this comprehensive, easy-to-reference guide offers readers commentaries on the best available children's books in over two dozen subject areas.About the AuthorELIZABETH LARAWAY WILSON earned a BA and MA in literature...