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Shakespeare in Company by Bart van Es 9780198728085
RRP: $43.85$30.60This book is about two very different kinds of company. On the one hand it concerns Shakespeare's poet-playwright contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Jonson, and Fletcher. On the other, it examines the contribution of his fellow actors, including Burbage,... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby
RRP: $32.19$30.65Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans... -
Complete Works by Hadewijch 9780809122974
RRP: $34.82$30.74"Each volume has been critically chosen, lucidly translated and excellently introduced by internationally acknowledged scholars. (The publisher) must be praised for its selectivity, overall book format, original cover designs by contemporary artists, and... -
Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition by Bram Stoker 9780786477302
RRP: $32.24$26.69Bram Stoker's initial notes and outlines for his landmark horror novel Dracula were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1913 and eventually made their way to the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, where they are housed today. Until now, few of... -
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas
RRP: $34.83$27.17For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of... -
Elizabeth I and Her Age by Susan M. Felch 9780393928228
RRP: $20.63$18.34Succeeding to the English throne in 1558, she was the third woman monarch in the nation's history. The role of English monarch-which involved being commander in chief, head of the English Church, and ruler of the royal court, with all its intrigues-was... -
Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692 by Bernard Rosenthal 9780521558204
RRP: $50.30$41.64Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the... -
Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile by Amy L. Hubbell 9780803264908
RRP: $58.05$50.93Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally "black-feet") were former... -
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature by Jose Ortega y Gasset
RRP: $28.38$22.39No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." In the essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, Ortega grappled... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867948
RRP: $49.01$41.51This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the war years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's... -
Journal of Vampire Studies: Vol. 3 (2023) by Anthony Hogg 9780645203448
$9.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645203448Author Anthony HoggFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Vampire Studies AssociationPublisher Vampire Studies AssociationWeight(grams) 277g -
The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara
RRP: $32.24$27.95A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."-Journal of Japanese StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780804718950Author Paul... -
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern by Greta LaFleur
RRP: $36.11$31.14Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston. Refuting arguments that... -
Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 Russ McDonald (Goldsmith's College, London) 9780631234883
RRP: $54.12$49.81Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory is an anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. An anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published... -
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought by Frans De Bruyn
RRP: $30.95$24.56The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to a world undergoing radical... -
Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature by Sharae Deckard 9781781381915
RRP: $32.24$28.91The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long... -
William Shakespeare Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631145547
RRP: $50.25$44.45This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent... -
How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time by Carolyn Dinshaw
RRP: $28.37$25.14How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony... -
Saturn's Moons: A W.G Sebald Handbook Jo Catling 9781906540029
RRP: $105.77$94.04This book focuses on W. G. Sebald's life and works - as teacher, as scholar and critic, as colleague and as collaborator on translation. It contains a number of rediscovered short pieces by Sebald, hitherto unpublished interviews, a catalogue of his... -
The Annotated Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 9780393072198
RRP: $41.27$38.09Since its publication in 1868, the beloved children's classic Little Women, has been handed down from mother to daughter. It has inspired an opera, three films and a musical. In this lavish four-colour edition, renowned Alcott expert John Matteson brings... -
An Introduction to Arab Poetics by Adonis
RRP: $9.02$6.67Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book one of the foremost Arab poets reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of the pre-Islamic poetry of Arabia and the relationship between Arabic poetry and the... -
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Janet Beer 9780415238212
RRP: $25.79$22.82Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.This sourcebook combines accessible... -
The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects by Mari Ruti
RRP: $36.12$28.12In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant... -
Children's Literature and Social Change: Some Case Studies from Barbara Hofland to Philip Pullman by Dennis Butts 9780718892081
RRP: $40.31$38.92While there are many books about children's literature, few discuss it within its social context or investigate the ways writers reflect or react to change in society. Dennis Butts explores how shifting attitudes and historical upheavals from the 1840s... -
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages by Penelope Reed Doob
RRP: $20.63$18.37Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without... -
Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1: 1857-1866 by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: $64.50$57.29The PEIRCE EDITION contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief historical and biographical introduction, extensive editorial and textual notes, and a full chronological... -
Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics by Jeff T Johnson 9781947447448
RRP: $27.09$21.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447448Author Jeff T JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Sartre and Fiction by Gary Cox 9780826423184
$37.56This clear and accessible introduction offers detailed coverage of, and invaluable guidance on, Sartre's fictional writings."Sartre and Fiction" offers a clear and accessible introduction to the extensive fictional writings of Jean-Paul Sartre... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Milton by Stephen B. Dobranski 9780521726450
RRP: $25.79$15.96John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive overview of the author's life, times and writings. It... -
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Lynch
RRP: $38.70$37.73At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, characters in books became identified with the reader, as friends with... -
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University, USA) 9780415771603
RRP: $23.21$20.69Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory,... -
Works: v. 8 by Hippocrates
RRP: $32.19$30.65The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine."The medical treatises collected under Hippocrates' name are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. In... -
Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology by Andrew Hadfield 9780198871576
RRP: $30.95$28.86A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell by Thomas N. Corns 9780521423090
RRP: $34.82$29.41English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of... -
Because of Ye Bleedin' Spanner by John Smith 9781398495043
RRP: $14.18$10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495043Author John SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Metamorphoses: Bks. 9-15 by Ovid
RRP: $32.19$32.04The poetry of change.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 first, he offended the... -
The Book of Sleep by Haytham El Wardany
RRP: $16.76$15.00Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states-metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence-be envisioned as action... -
Dealing with Evils: Essays on Writing from Africa by Annie Gagiano 9783898218672
RRP: $29.54$24.10In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses over twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi / San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English... -
On Buildings by Procopius
RRP: $32.19$30.65Late antique architecture.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 ... -
Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love: Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s by Glyn Salton-Cox
RRP: $116.10$105.74It is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were involved with leftist politics. Why, then, has there been no extended examination of this striking juncture of dissident sex and socialism? What, for instance, does it mean for...