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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... -
The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession by Stephen M. Best
RRP: £32.00£31.11In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of... -
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... -
The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques by Henry Russell
RRP: £14.99£9.26The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable... -
Literature of Labour: 200 Years of Working Class Writing by H. Gustav Klaus 9781911454908
RRP: £24.99£23.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454908Author H. Gustav KlausFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction by Mark Bould
RRP: £35.99£31.69The term 'science fiction' has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through... -
Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death by Judith Butler
RRP: £22.00£17.36The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the... -
The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560-1625 by Sebastiaan Verweij 9780198811749
£37.23This study presents a history of the literary culture of early-modern Scotland (1560-1625), based on extensive study of the literary manuscript. It argues for the importance of three key places of production of such manuscripts: the royal court, burghs... -
Works: v. 1 by Lucian
RRP: £24.95£24.54Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and... -
Stephen Greenblatt by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: £19.99£17.69Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices. Questioning not just... -
Roman History: v. 6 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £24.95£24.54A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Medieval English Literature by Beatrice Fannon
£28.38This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines the major authors such as Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain Poet, and covers key topics in... -
The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age by Walter Burkert
RRP: £31.95£31.25The splendid culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbors. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a... -
Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field by Carolyn Dever
RRP: £32.00£24.76Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as "Michael Field"-and who were partners and lovers for decades-is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel by John Wilson Foster 9780521679961
RRP: £30.99£26.77The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical... -
The Lives of the Novel: A History by Thomas G. Pavel 9780691165783
RRP: £25.00£19.59This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between... -
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Fred Botting
RRP: £19.99£14.52Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging media technologies from the phantasmagoria and magic... -
Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space by Stacy Alaimo 9780801486432
RRP: £28.99£26.51From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to... -
Modern African Drama by Biodun Jeyifo 9780393975291
RRP: £19.99£16.97"Backgrounds and Criticism" presents documents on modern African drama generally and on the assembled texts and authors specifically, including little-known materials. Featured are essays on Tawfik al-Hakim, Kateb Yacine, Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka,... -
Lancelot-Grail: 1. The History of the Holy Grail - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £30.00£27.08AlthoughThe History of the Holy Grail opens the Vulgate Cycle, it was added after the events described in Lancelot and The Quest of the Holy Grail were already an established part of the Arthurian story. It is, in Hollywood terms, a `prequel', and... -
How to Read the Victorian Novel by George Levine 9781405130561
RRP: £26.95£23.43How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and Middlemarch, it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry by Patrick Cheney
RRP: £25.99£21.99This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on...