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De Re Rustica: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Columella
RRP: $32.19$30.65A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service... -
Shakespearean Verse Speaking: Text and Theatre Practice by Dr. Abigail Rokison-Woodall 9780521764346
RRP: $116.10$86.75This book uses evidence from theatrical hand-books, performance practice and drama training to provide a synthesis of academic and theatrical approaches to the Shakespearean text. Abigail Rokison's work combines scholarship with practical exploration in... -
The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: $30.95$25.58This book tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg. Returning to the work of Hannah Arendt, Lyndsey Stonebridge traces the emergence of a critical aesthetics of judgment in a group of writers - often hard to place... -
Bloody Murder: from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons 9780892964963
RRP: $28.32$25.14In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable,... -
A Dune Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert's Original Six Novels by Donald E. Palumbo 9781476669601
RRP: $28.37$24.29This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels-Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune-provides an encyclopedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlights the... -
Sacramental Letters by Nina Butorac 9781532652967
RRP: $25.06$19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532652967Author Nina ButoracFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Correspondence of H.G. Wells: Volume 1 1880-1903 by David C. Smith
RRP: $41.27$36.55This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and while a few are business - to publishers, agents and... -
Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth by Verlyn Flieger 9780313305306
$143.60As a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. When he died in 1973, he left behind a vast body of unpublished material related to his fictive mythology. Now edited and... -
A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates by Suman Gupta 9780415351713
RRP: $33.53$29.19This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight... -
Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative by J. A. Burrow 9780521050661
RRP: $39.98$30.70In medieval society, gestures and speaking looks played an even more important part in public and private exchanges than they do today. Gestures meant more than words, for example, in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this, the first study of its kind... -
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide by Cathia Jenainati
RRP: $11.60$8.64The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major... -
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World by Robert Hass 9780061923913
$15.20Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. The New York Times hailed him as a writer who is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak, gives one an almost visceral pleasure. Now, with What... -
Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by Francis O'Gorman
RRP: $25.80$19.76Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O'Gorman shows how... -
The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Amelia Dale
RRP: $36.11$31.14Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies) The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch by Albert Russell Ascoli
RRP: $30.95$24.56Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this... -
Shakespeare and Queer Theory by Melissa E. Sanchez
$32.83Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory, the field's historical... -
Lancelot-Grail: 7. The Death of Arthur - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: $38.70$34.42The Death of Arthur brings the Vulgate Cycle to its tragic ending. It opens with the aftermath of the Grail quest, and the king's attempts to revive the much depleted Round Table. But at this point the affair between Lancelot and Guinevere intensifies,... -
Robert Browning: Selected Writings by Richard Cronin 9780198797623
RRP: $27.08$26.61This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of... -
Elena Ferrante's Key Words by Tiziana de Rogatis 9781787701922
RRP: $18.05$12.71"I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent." -Elena Ferrante, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng HuoZhou... -
Ursula Le Guin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Ursula Le Guin
RRP: $16.76$11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197791Author Ursula Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 22 by Patora Fuyuhara
RRP: $14.18$12.42The Visions Dancing in My Mind... Touya's honeymoon might be over, but love's still lingering in the air in Brunhild! Can poor Endymion cope with being part of an alien menage a quatre? Who else might be looking for a match made in heaven? Having... -
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction by Andrew Mangham
RRP: $30.95$26.28In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely... -
Thomas of Woodstock by Peter Corbin 9780719080678
RRP: $25.79$23.35This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context,... -
Three Renaissance Usury Plays: The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl by Lloyd Kermode
RRP: $25.79$22.72This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an... -
Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications by Cesar Dominguez
RRP: $46.43$40.88Introducing Comparative Literature is a comprehensive guide to the field offering clear, concise information alongside useful analysis and examples. It frames the introduction within recent theoretical debates and shifts in the discipline whilst also... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger 9780521556873
RRP: $33.53$28.37This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and... -
The Minor Latin Poets: v. 2 by J.W. Duff
RRP: $32.19$30.65A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of ... -
Poetry and Photography by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: $16.76$15.00The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a... -
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 by David Norbrook 9780521785693
RRP: $49.01$44.93'[Norbrook's] marvellously original, densely researched study of the English republican imagination is an attempt to retrieve forgotten figures like the regicide Henry Marten, as well as to extend our understanding of the works of Milton and Marvell.'... -
Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art by Philip Hardie
RRP: $54.18$42.96A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and... -
Angela of Foligno`s Memorial by Cristina Mazzoni 9780859915625
RRP: $25.79$20.56Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She devoted herself to a relentless pursuit of God when as a middle-aged woman she lost her mother, husband and children; illiterate herself, she... -
Fear, Reverence, Terror by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: $32.25$27.92We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to... -
The Future of the Classical Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) 9780745635996
RRP: $19.34$17.78Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis... -
Keats's Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives Brian Rejack 9781800856721
$41.50In late December 1817, when attempting to name "what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature," John Keats coined the term "negative capability," which he glossed as "being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any... -
The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation by Giordano Bruno 9781487521400
RRP: $41.28$36.62Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends... -
Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction by Malcolm Bowie 9780521275880
RRP: $51.59$42.91The views of Freud, Proust and Lacan are depicted through this staging of a series of provocative dialogues between psychological science and imaginative literature of the twentieth century.Book InformationISBN 9780521275880Author Malcolm BowieFormat... -
John Keble in Context by Kirstie Blair 9781843311478
RRP: $19.34$18.94This unique, interdisciplinary and timely volume offers the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades, and a comprehensive introduction to this key figure. 'John Keble in Context' provides a wide range of perspectives on Keble's place... -
Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction: A Critical Study Carlen Lavigne 9780786466535
RRP: $28.37$24.29This analysis of cyberpunk science fiction written between 1981 and 2003 positions women's cyberpunk in the larger cultural discussion of feminist issues. It traces the origins of the genre, reviews the critical reactions and outlines the ways in... -
Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture by Stephen Bending
RRP: $30.95$26.79Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world - whether willed or enforced - and of their engagement with the... -
Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind by Karl Kroeber
RRP: $38.70$30.04Kroeber argues that literary criticism needs to reestablish connections to a wide range of social activities, especially the thinking of contemporary scientists. This new kind of criticism, "ecological literary criticism," sets out to correct the...