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A King and No King: Beaumont and Fletcher by Lee Bliss 9780719080425
RRP: £19.99£17.82A popular and influential play from its first performance in 1611 until the early eighteenth century, 'A King and No King' helped establish tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favoured dramatic genre, and Beaumont and Fletcher as leading playwrights... -
Encyclopaedia of Girls' School Stories: Volume Two by Sue Sims
£16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847452603Author Sue SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Girls Gone By PublishersPublisher Girls Gone By Publishers -
Moomins: Moomintroll's Book of Thoughts by Sami Malila
RRP: £5.99£4.88This is a collection of uplifting musings from the tender and sentimental young Moomintroll, providing some deceptively wise insights from the beloved Moomin stories. Moomintroll is innocent and sincere, with a sharp eye for the small beautiful things... -
Plays 1682-1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682-1696 by Aphra Behn
£101.31Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and... -
Shakespeare's Originality by John Kerrigan 9780198793755
RRP: £37.49£32.16How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles... -
New Essays on The Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli 9780521319638
RRP: £28.99£24.42The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925, through its increasing popularity in the 1940s, to its critical and popular elevation from the standing of an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
RRP: £23.99£19.99Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature... -
Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan by Ted Scheinman 9780865478213
RRP: £10.99£9.70The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother's world behind, he nonetheless found... -
Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge: Great Shakespeareans: Volume III by Roger Paulin
RRP: £34.99£33.23In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel and Coleridge to the reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution provides a sketch of its subject's intellectual and professional biography... -
Vernon Lee by Sondeep Kandola 9780746311769
RRP: £18.69£13.33This book is the first full-scale exploration of the fiction of one of the most influential women writing in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Lee's work was well-admired in her own day, her fiction and her writings on... -
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars by Paul Fussell 9780195030686
RRP: £19.99£13.74A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.Book InformationISBN... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies by Neil Lazarus
RRP: £33.99£29.66The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key... -
On Women by Susan Sontag
RRP: £16.00£9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250876850Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative by Professor or Dr. Josh Toth
£26.93Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism. Yet, if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course, how might we... -
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 9780231029292
RRP: £30.00£23.29What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual... -
The Short Story: An Introduction by Paul March-Russell
RRP: £21.99£20.11This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics... -
Romanticism by Aidan Day
RRP: £19.99£17.69Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical... -
The Spanish Gypsy by George Eliot by Antonie Gerard van den Broek 9780367876159
£46.97In 1864, George Eliot began writing her longest poem, "The Spanish Gypsy". This project exhausted her, and her partner took the manuscript away from her for fear it was making her ill. This work explains what Eliot read to research the poem, which parts... -
The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts 9780865479579
RRP: £14.99£11.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature by Heather Ingman
RRP: £39.99£35.23This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and... -
Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader by Jon Mee 9781444330441
RRP: £31.95£28.29Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet by A. D. Cousins 9780521735537
RRP: £24.99£21.18Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare,... -
A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sharon Lynn James
RRP: £35.95£32.67A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and... -
The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata and Mishima by Gwenn B. Petersen 9780824814762
RRP: £25.95£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824814762Author Gwenn B. PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press -
The Way We Write: Interviews with Award-winning Writers by Barbara Baker 9780826495051
RRP: £23.99£23.80This book is a unique collection of new interviews with award-winning writers - novelists, poets, playwrights, screenplay writers and children's writers. Each writer discusses their process, both mental and physical: why they write, whom they write for,... -
Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia's Modern Era by Thomas Seifrid 9781487551803
RRP: £56.00£45.94Staging the Absolute argues that an array of practices and beliefs came together to define an essential aspect of Russian and Soviet culture in the twentieth century: the persistent desire to interrupt - or disrupt - history. Drawing on sources that... -
Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories by Jean E. Howard
RRP: £37.99£33.38Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include:* King John* Henry VI, Part I* Henry VI, Part II* Henry, Part III*... -
Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts by Shiamin Kwa
RRP: £18.99£15.67The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or... -
Curious Questions & Answers about Rainforests by Anne Rooney 9781789892178
RRP: £12.99£5.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789892178Author Anne RooneyFormat HardbackImprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd -
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra 9781631491702
RRP: £23.99£20.51Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the... -
Arthurian Women: A Casebook by Thelma S. Fenster
RRP: £39.99£35.06Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the... -
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin 9780674022874
RRP: £23.95£19.14Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire... -
The Infection of Thomas de Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell 9780300049329
£44.98Best known for his work Confessions of an English Opium Eater, the Victorian writer Thomas De Quincey was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia who harbored and expressed the most ferocious and brutal... -
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture by Esther Cohen
RRP: £55.00£52.91In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrongdoing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from... -
Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism by Eliot Borenstein
RRP: £23.99£20.84In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to... -
The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England by Gail Kern Paster
RRP: £29.99£26.50Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean... -
Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations of Literature by David Ellis 9780718897185
RRP: £20.00£17.02Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a literary background have tackled the subject, they have... -
Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity by Iliza Shlesinger
RRP: £18.99£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602863347Author Iliza ShlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature by Anna Henchman 9780198797593
£37.23Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a... -
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians by Carlos Lozada 9781668050736
RRP: £29.99£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050736Author Carlos LozadaFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...