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Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition by Bram Stoker 9780786477302
RRP: $48.73$40.35Bram 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... -
Repetition and Identity: The Literary Agenda by Catherine Pickstock 9780199683611
RRP: $43.86$43.43The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Stephen Fender
RRP: $17.53$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776120Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson
RRP: $68.23$59.46This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World... -
On Empson by Michael Wood 9780691163765
RRP: $39.00$30.99From one of today's most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration of one of the twentieth century's most important literary critics Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them... -
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama by Peter Saccio 9780195123197
RRP: $41.91$26.01Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the... -
Maurice Blanchot by Ullrich Haase
RRP: $50.68$44.13Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work.This accessible... -
William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems by William Cowper 9780582087279
RRP: $105.28$100.54Having previously suffered neglect as a result of Pope's dominance of the period, William Cowper (1731-1800) has now become a far more important figure in eighteenth-century literature. Following the successful format of the series, Professor Sambrook's... -
Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the "Odyssey" by Charles Segal 9780801487262
RRP: $60.45$53.35One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns are... -
His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy by Millicent Lenz 9780814332078
RRP: $58.40$52.51British author Philip Pullman's celebrated trilogy for young readers, His Dark Materials [Northern Lights/Golden Compass (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), The Amber Spyglass (2000)], has reached a broad spectrum of readers, from those appreciating his... -
Revival: Rumi, Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273 (1950): Selections from his Writings, Translated from the Persian with Introduction and Notes by Maulana Jala l al-Di n Ru mi
RRP: $72.13$63.43To the English reader the mysticism of Rumi opens a new world of spiritual and poetical experience. "God is One but religions are many" runs the Sufi teaching; and the English reader can here enlarge his experience by apprehending the mystic intuition of... -
Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy by Edith Hall 9780198147800
RRP: $167.70$132.09Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian' world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their... -
Coffee by Dinah Lenney
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves... -
Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution by Professor Jon Mee 9780226828381
RRP: $54.60$53.41A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of "dark satanic mills," in many ways so characteristic of literary... -
An Introduction to Gaelic Fiction by Moray Watson
RRP: $40.93$33.52The first guide to Gaelic fiction - covering the full expanse of the canon Tracing the history of Gaelic fiction over the last century, Moray Watson looks at the work of well-known authors such as Iain Moireach, Tormod Caimbeul and Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn,... -
A Companion to Ovid by Peter E. Knox
RRP: $75.95$67.47A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specializationIlluminates various aspects of... -
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach by Robin Behn 9780062730244
$22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062730244Author Robin BehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperReferencePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249g -
Amy Levy: Critical Essays by Naomi Hetherington
RRP: $46.78$40.64Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female... -
A Derrida Dictionary by Niall Lucy 9780631218432
RRP: $66.20$58.46This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works.From 'aporia' to 'yes', the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is at... -
Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 45 by Sebastian Sobecki 9780933784475
RRP: $97.50$84.65Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles... -
Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 by Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan 9780521102261
RRP: $77.98$64.86Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 examines early modern English actors' impersonations of black Africans. Those blackface performances established dynamic theatrical conventions that were repeated from play to play, plot to plot,... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007 by Hayden White
RRP: $46.78$40.64Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesser-known... -
The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse by Allison Pease
RRP: $46.78$39.72To The Lighthouse is one of the most important of Virginia Woolf's modernist achievements. Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, this Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike... -
Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) by Sparknotes 9781411479883
RRP: $21.43$15.17NOW IN COLOR! Read Macbeth in graphic-novel form-with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel-now with fully-colored illustrations-brings the time-old tale of greed and power to life. The illustrations... -
Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God by William C. Chittick
$118.46In this book William C. Chittick provides a first-time look at historic Persian literature and the topic of love, which is at the heart of Islamic spiritual thought. It contains extensive Arabic and Persian material, from the Qur'an up through the... -
Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions by Bradin Cormack 9780226378565
RRP: $39.00$37.83William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars,... -
George Herbert: 100 Poems by George Herbert 9781107151451
RRP: $38.98$32.02George Herbert (1593-1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the lasting popularity of his verse. This selection of one hundred lyric poems by Herbert is designed for readers... -
Baby's First Wild Animals by Georgie Taylor 9781789589368
RRP: $13.63$9.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789589368Author Georgie TaylorPage Count 10Imprint Imagine That Publishing LtdPublisher Imagine That Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 178mm * 15mm -
Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel by Sean Kicummah Teuton
RRP: $44.83$39.02In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book XXII by John Briscoe
RRP: $52.63$45.71Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC). It is Livy's best and most dramatic book, and the one most likely to appeal to students at every level. Livy drew on the Greek... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry by Linda K. Hughes 9781316633571
RRP: $46.78$40.50The Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women's poetry in its relation to print culture, diverse identities, and... -
Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
RRP: $120.90$104.44Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics based, for the first time, on the two concepts of emptiness (J.ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval practice and understanding of poetry. It clarifies the unique... -
Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis by Jacqueline Allan
RRP: $12.68$11.91Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist, and is regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories and experiments described in his 1973 study Aggression: A... -
The Mabinogion (Complete): Translated From The Red Book Of Hergest By Lady Charlotte Guest, Edited By Owen M. Edwards by Charlotte Guest (Charlotte Schreiber) 9789353363864
RRP: $25.35$22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353363864Author Charlotte Guest (Charlotte Schreiber)Format PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams)... -
Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550-1650 by Rebecca Laroche 9781138250529
RRP: $105.28$91.40The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons... -
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 2: Books vi X by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: $58.40$46.92Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also... -
Jean Rhys by Sylvie Maurel
$66.75Jean Rhys' writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the texts and their language. The book explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys' fiction. She is shown... -
The Contemporary British Novel by Philip Tew 9780826493200
RRP: $107.23$106.72"The Contemporary British Novel" is a lively, wide-ranging guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity. Designed to address problems faced by... -
White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite by Arthur L. Little, Jr.
RRP: $42.88$37.60What part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a 'white people' and how has his work been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and racial identity? Since the court of Queen Elizabeth I, through the early modern English theatre to the... -
Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics by Gemma Moss
RRP: $50.68$41.07An interdisciplinary account of the political importance of music in modernist literature A new methodology for analysing music in literature, informed by T. W. Adorno, that examines the politics of aesthetics An intensely interdisciplinary book,...