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Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage by The late Margery Palmer McCulloch 9780192858047
RRP: £112.50£101.64This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from small town Scottish backgrounds and their discovery of Europe in the years after the first and second world wars. It tells us about... -
Women’s Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel: An Intertextual Study by Aleksandra Tryniecka 9781666905779
RRP: £81.00£74.50Women's Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel is a dialogical and intertextual journey through the pages of nineteenth-century novels and their modern, revisionary counterparts. It is the book not only dedicated to the readers... -
The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Daniel Matore 9780192857217
RRP: £65.00£58.56Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining... -
Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary by Michael Van Dussen 9781802078299
RRP: £29.99£27.38This volume presents the first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349), a hermit and mystic whose works were widely read in England and on the European continent into the early modern period... -
Michel Houellebecq: Humanity and its Aftermath by Douglas Morrey 9781846318610
£34.08An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has... -
Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought by Patricia Melzer 9780292713079
RRP: £25.99£24.11Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and gender of the body to global power relations among sexes,... -
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood 9780307741769
RRP: £16.95£8.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307741769Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen 9780691232744
RRP: £23.95£18.40An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English-and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakersOld English is the language you think you know until you... -
Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann
£56.37Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. This book is a bold reminder of the "forgotten victims" of the Third Reich.Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life... -
R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose and Political Aesthetic by Lachlan Gow Munro
£104.45R. B. Cunninghame Graham was a well-known and hugely influential figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish politics and literature. This book explores Graham's early political views, his time as a Member of Parliament, his disillusionment with... -
Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place by Neal Alexander
£104.45This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modernism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modernism tend to regard it as an... -
Twenty-First-Century Walter Scott: Times After Time by Caroline McCracken-Flesher
£105.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429863Author Caroline McCracken-FlesherFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797-1830 by Franz J. Potter
RRP: £70.00£59.03The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker, 1797-1835 breaks new ground surveying the origins of the gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to conclusively establish the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the gothic... -
Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives by Marco Bernini
RRP: £86.00£78.01Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental... -
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: £25.00£22.12"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: £25.00£22.12Subtotal: -
Silent Witness: Racine's Non-verbal Annotations of Euripides by Susanna Phillippo
RRP: £25.99£22.63This is an examination of the influence of the plays of Euripides on the French tragedian Racine, gleaned from Racine's markings on the texts. In her study, Phillippo examines the way in which the creative processes linking the two writers may have... -
The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence by Benjamin D. Hagen
£111.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979275Author Benjamin D. HagenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages by Peter Haidu
RRP: £32.00£28.61This ambitious book presents the most thorough historicist account to date of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation . Presenting the essence of the modern subject as resting... -
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: Invisible Presences by Molly Hoff
RRP: £27.49£22.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606670Author Molly HoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea by John Plotz
RRP: £18.99£17.12A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of... -
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History by Kevin Brazil 9781474431484
RRP: £23.99£21.85Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and... -
The Sacred Wood by T.S. Eliot 9781513279695
RRP: £4.99£4.04The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is a collection of essays by T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot is primarily recognized as one of the twentieth century's leading English poets, he was also a prolific and highly influential literary critic... -
Shopping Mall by Matthew Newton
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Mat thew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls... -
The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination by Lawrence Buell
RRP: £26.95£23.43Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". Written by one of the world's leading theorists in... -
Natural History: v. 10: Bks.XXXVI-XXXVII by Pliny the Elder
RRP: £24.95£23.39An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany,... -
Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice by Douglas Kerr 9780199674947
£70.14From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle... -
J.G. Ballard by Andrjez Gasiorek
RRP: £19.99£14.52This book offers a comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, regarded by several critics as one of the most significant fiction writers of recent times. Ballard's early science-fiction writing earned him plaudits as one of the most innovative... -
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 by Author S T Joshi 9781614980520
£30.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980520Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery by Mary-Ann Constantine 9780708320624
RRP: £16.99£14.50During Iolo Morganwg's lifetime Britain was obsessed with literary forgery. This book reveals the unexpected connections and hidden influences behind Britain's most successful (and hence, perhaps, least visible) Romantic forger. It explores Iolo's own... -
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls 9780226599373
RRP: £19.00£15.72"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small... -
Circumstantial Shakespeare by Lorna Hutson 9780198816393
RRP: £23.99£19.99Shakespeare's characters are thought to be his greatest achievement-imaginatively autonomous, possessed of depth and individuality, while his plots are said to be second-hand and careless of details of time and place. This view has survived the assaults... -
Jeanne D'Albret: Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration by Katleen M Llewellyn
RRP: £26.00£24.85This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d'Albret's Letters to the king, his mother, his brother, her own brother-in-law, and the queen of England, together with her Ample Declaration (1568) defending her decampment to the Protestant... -
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature by Bill Brown
RRP: £23.00£22.13In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us... -
Comedy: "An Essay on Comedy" by George Meredith. "Laughter" by Henri Bergson by Wylie Sypher
RRP: £25.50£22.44Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art-Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Moliere-used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to... -
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne 9780198798088
£35.00The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws... -
Hitch Hiker's Guide by M. Simpson 9781904048466
£3.38Don't panic! Everything you need to know about cult author Douglas Adams and his most famous creation, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is in here. From its unlikely start as a BBC radio serial in 1978, Hitchhiker's Guide developed into five... -
Ancient Greek Literature by K. J. Dover 9780192892942
£41.25This historical survey of Greek literature from 700 BC to 550 AD concentrates on the principal authors and quotes many passages from their work in translation, to allow the reader to form his own impression of its quality, including Homer, Plato,... -
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day by Byrne R.S. Fone
RRP: £45.00£41.41In the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression. In a variety of styles and genres, gay men have increasingly begun to articulate their sexual identities. At the... -
Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion by Carol Margaret Davison
RRP: £23.99£19.51Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, 'Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion' interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth... -
Thomas Carlyle by John Morrow 9781852855444
RRP: £31.99£31.95Thomas Carlyle was a major figure in Victorian literature and a unique commentator on nineteenth-century life. Born in humble circumstances in the Scottish village of Ecclefechan in 1795, his rise to fame was marked by fierce determination and the...