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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Professor Alice Kaplan
RRP: $20.64$17.85States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert... -
Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters by H P Lovecraft 9781614982791
RRP: $32.25$28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982791Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Caxton's Golden Legend by Mayumi Taguchi 9780198867968
$84.21This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton. It is an English translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea (ca. 1267), a collection... -
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya Sarkar
RRP: $69.66$59.88The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature-what early moderns termed poesie-in the dynamic intellectual culture... -
Allegory by Professor Jeremy Tambling
RRP: $37.40$32.37Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling: presents a... -
The Fin-De-Siecle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity by Michael Shaw
RRP: $33.53$27.17As the Irish Revival took shape and the Home Rule debate dominated UK politics, what was happening in Scotland? This book reveals distinct but comparable concerns with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-sie?cle Scotland, evident in the work of a... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky 9780198744689
$45.15Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly... -
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses by Niklaus Largier
RRP: $30.95$26.88From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that... -
Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems by Nicolas Michaud 9780812699197
$28.43In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants atop a swimming turtle, the sun goes around the world every day, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of... -
Victorian Fantasy: Imagination and Belief in Nineteenth-Century England by Stephen Prickett 9781911454236
RRP: $58.05$58.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454236Author Stephen PrickettFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
The Game and Playe of the Chesse by William Caxton
RRP: $17.42$14.72Despite its title, Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse does not, in fact, have much to say about a game or about playing it ... Instead, the work uses the chessboard and its pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the... -
D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence by John Worthen 9780521437721
RRP: $54.17$40.91The first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence was originally published in 1991, and draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them hitherto unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary... -
Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture by Juliet John 9780198184614
$107.60This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and 'theatrical' aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens, this book... -
Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore 9780198827054
RRP: $92.88$64.32Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this... -
On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose by Theodore Roethke
RRP: $18.05$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591563Author Theodore RoethkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g -
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft by Claudia L. Johnson 9780521789523
RRP: $33.53$28.37Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognised as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres, including journalism, letters and travel writing, and is increasingly understood as an heir to... -
The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe by Rebekah Sheldon
RRP: $28.37$25.14Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children's Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet's uncertain future return us-again and again-to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates... -
Glitter by Dr. Nicole Seymour
RRP: $12.89$10.02Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have... -
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 9780393284171
$21.78This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The first American edition (1889) of the novel, approved by Twain and published by his own company. * All 241 original illustrations, bringing to life Twain's admiration for King Arthur, Merlin and Camelot as... -
Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction by Michael Levy 9781107610293
RRP: $29.66$24.56Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic -... -
John Clare: The Trespasser by John Goodridge
RRP: $9.02$7.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170298Author John GoodridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640 by David M. Bergeron
RRP: $25.79$23.17Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects them to the practice of patronage. The prefatory matter discussed ranges... -
Reframing Russian Modernism by Irina Shevelenko 9780299320409
RRP: $103.20$97.54Presenting a multifaceted portrait of modernist culture in Russia, an array of distinguished scholars shows how artists and writers in the early twentieth century engaged with politics, science, and religion. At a time when many Russian social... -
The Works of Thomas Traherne VII: Christian Ethicks and Roman Forgeries Jan Ross (Royalty Account) 9781843846185
RRP: $127.71$121.38Hereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial. DAILY TELEGRAPH [Christopher Howse] Thomas Traherne (1637-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the... -
Productive Body, The Stephen Shapiro 9781780995762
RRP: $12.89$11.21The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism's transformation of the body is related to the rise of scientific psychology and social science... -
The Living Are Few, The Dead Many: Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn Hans Henny Jahnn 9781900565592
RRP: $15.48$14.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565592Author Hans Henny JahnnFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $20.64$12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123972Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm)... -
Shakespeare: Measure for Measure by C. K. Stead
$47.20This detailed volume presents a selection of early comments on the play, reviews of post-war productions and modern critical studies. It includes contributions from a wide range of critics, including S.T. Coleridge, Richard David, Edward Dowden, William... -
The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell by Jill L. Matus 9780521609265
RRP: $34.82$29.41In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty... -
The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution by N. H. Keeble 9780521645225
RRP: $43.85$37.45This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the... -
Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War by Holly Furneaux
RRP: $38.04$35.02Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period. It traces a persistent narrative swerve from tales of war violence to reparative accounts of soldiers as moral exemplars, homemakers, adopters... -
Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Maiden's Quest by Marie-Louise Von Franz 9781630519612
RRP: $78.05$69.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630519612Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems by Frances Mayes 9780156007627
RRP: $25.79$20.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156007627Author Frances MayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthology Virginia Blain 9781408204986
RRP: $47.72$46.27There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the English poetic landscape of the nineteenth century. This title offers a key selection of poems by 13 Victorian... -
Reading John Keats by Susan J. Wolfson
RRP: $20.63$17.93John Keats (1795-1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around him. Leading Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson explores the breadth of his... -
Ballads and Songs of Peterloo by Alison Morgan 9781526144294
RRP: $25.79$22.72Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers... -
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion by John D. Caputo
RRP: $27.08$24.21"Caputo's book is riveting. . . . A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis. . . . There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work... -
Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic by Andrew Dalby 9780393330199
RRP: $25.80$21.97Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the Odyssey and the Iliad, asking new questions about the poet named Homer. Rediscovering Homer follows the growth of the legend of Troy from a kernel of historical truth into an unforgettable... -
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-1888 by Henry James
$124.55The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The nine tales in this volume, published between 1884 and 1888,... -
The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King by Stanley Wiater
RRP: $39.98$25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312324902Author Christopher GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)...