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Lancelot-Grail: 1. The History of the Holy Grail - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: $58.50$52.81AlthoughThe 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: $52.55$45.69How 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: $50.68$42.88This 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... -
A Rattleskull Genius: The Many Faces of Iolo Morganwg by Geraint H. Jenkins
RRP: $38.98$30.48Better known by the bardic name of Iolo Morganwg, Edward Williams was one of history's great fantasists. The legacy he left behind was a cottage filled to the ceiling with manuscripts. This volume provides a re-evaluation of the diverse interests of Iolo... -
Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead by Isabelle Stengers
RRP: $46.78$38.04Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of... -
Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood 9780691193304
RRP: $58.50$45.42A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fictionNow praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the eyes of its critics. As Elaine Freedgood reveals in Worlds... -
James Joyce's Ulysses: A Casebook by Derek Attridge 9780195158311
RRP: $77.98$54.39James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of... -
Feminist Literary Criticism by Mary Eagleton 9780582050150
RRP: $97.48$94.07Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of... -
Early Modern English Literature by Jason Scott-Warren 9780745627526
RRP: $44.83$44.56When we engage with the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, we encounter a culture radically unfamiliar to us at the start of the twenty-first century. The past is a foreign country, and so too are many of its texts. This readable and... -
The Library of the Other Antiquity / Reading Late Antiquity by Mats Malm 9783825367879
RRP: $126.75$105.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825367879Author Mats MalmFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams)... -
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities by Ursula K. Heise 9781032179292
RRP: $87.73$76.60The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future... -
Student Guide to Robert Frost by Warren Hope
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551709Author Warren HopeFormat HardbackImprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael by Anne K. Kaler 9780879727741
RRP: $35.00$24.80Detective, monk, father, herbalist, former Crusader and sailor, Celt, friend - author Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedictine monk-detective Brother Cadfael. As a detective, Cadfael uses his analytic mind to solve... -
Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman 9781781681435
RRP: $40.93$38.14One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes... -
Shelley's Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song: 2021 by Bysshe Inigo Coffey 9781837644308
RRP: $58.48$53.39Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022Shelley's Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley's poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelley's expressive repertoire first noticed by... -
The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee by Jarad Zimbler
RRP: $46.78$39.72Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those... -
Candide by Voltaire 9780393932522
$22.27The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. This edition also... -
A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography by John Marincola 9781444339239
RRP: $77.90$70.28This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by... -
Checking out Chekhov: A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors and Readers by Sharon Marie Carnicke 9781618113207
RRP: $40.93$39.27This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov - a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays have left an indelible imprint upon the world's theatre. Every page reveals the joys and difficulties of his short life, his comic... -
Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks 9780226075860
RRP: $40.95$39.60The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the... -
The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English by Victor Watson 9780521550642
RRP: $310.05$183.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
This Giving Birth: Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Women's Writing by Julie Tharp 9780879728083
RRP: $33.05$22.70Compelling essays which underline the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in women's writing. Embracing three centuries of prose and poetry, the anthology traces the evolution of American maternity literature, exploring the difficulties mothers... -
The Supergirls: Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines (Revised and Updated) by Mike Madrid 9781935259336
$30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935259336Author Mike MadridFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Exterminating Angel PressPublisher Exterminating Angel PressWeight(grams)... -
The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel and Our Endless Attempts to End It by Peter Orford 9781526724366
$42.02When Dickens died on 9 June 1870, he was halfway through writing his last book, _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_. Since that time, hundreds of academics, fans, authors, and playwrights have stepped forward to present their own ideas of how this unfinished... -
Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History by David Cowart 9780820340630
$50.60Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate with humor, insight, and cogency much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few... -
Problems: v. II: Rhetoric to Alexander by Aristotle
RRP: $48.65$45.61Peripatetic potpourri.Aristotle of Stagirus (384-322 BC), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at Athens and taught in the Academy (367-347). Subsequently he spent three years in Asia Minor at the court of... -
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub 9780521448857
RRP: $91.63$75.15The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the eagerly-awaited study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female homoeroticism. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love,... -
Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology by Anthony Bale 9780192848604
$43.84Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a... -
The Celebrated Hannah Cowley: Experiments in Dramatic Genre, 1776-1794 by Angela Escott 9781138661394
RRP: $93.58$81.53Hannah Cowley (1743-1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley's writing and in the performance of her plays... -
The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom by Toni Morrison
RRP: $29.23$19.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525659297Author Toni MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 132mm... -
Balzac's Omelette: A delicious tour of French food & culture with Balzac by Anka Muhlstein 9781907973222
RRP: $25.33$17.53'Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are'. This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein's erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honore de Balzac's writings. It is not... -
Method of Medicine: v. II, Bks. 5-9 by Galen
RRP: $48.65$45.61Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner,... -
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature by Peter Brand 9780521666220
RRP: $97.48$85.84Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This substantial history of Italian literature provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing since its earliest origins... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen by Deborah Cartmell
RRP: $52.63$44.46This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular... -
Politics as a Vocation by Tom McClean 9781912127672
RRP: $12.68$11.91German sociologist Max Weber's 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology. Its central strength lies in Weber's deployment of masterful interpretative skills to power his discussion of modern... -
Solzhenitsyn by Georg Lukacs 9780850361438
RRP: $29.15$26.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore 9781501766206
RRP: $31.18$27.77Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up-the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since Dylan went electric, listening to rock 'n' roll has... -
In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: $46.78$40.64Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity. Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne... -
Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century by Sarah Cole
RRP: $58.50$45.42H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as "time machine," "war of the worlds," and "atomic bomb," exerting vast... -
What the Demon Said by Matt Cardin 9781614983620
RRP: $48.75$39.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983620Author Matt CardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus Press