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The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse by Allison Pease
RRP: $50.38$42.78To 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... -
Last Avant Garde by David Lehman
RRP: $41.54$31.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495332Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Office by Dr. Sheila Liming
RRP: $20.98$16.32Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has... -
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science by Robert Crawford 9780199258123
RRP: $144.90$108.28A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing... -
The Idiot by F. M. Dostoevsky
RRP: $39.90$24.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702242Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction to His Life and Writings by Arthur S Koki 9781614983910
RRP: $52.50$46.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy 9780300095289
RRP: $63.00$52.19A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), edited by David... -
Rousseau-Kant-Goethe by Ernst Cassirer 9780691621265
RRP: $63.00$49.69Translated by James Gutmann, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall, Jr. Originally published in 1945. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the... -
New Selected Essays: Where I Live by Tennessee Williams 9780811217286
$34.67For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York Times, to be published just prior to opening-something to whet the theatergoers' appetites and to get the critics thinking. Many of these were collected in... -
How to Do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy 9780195188561
RRP: $180.60$137.61Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why is the skeptic always the first to go? Why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits any more? Why is... -
John Milton Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education David Loewenstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 9781405129312
RRP: $71.30$63.32Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious and political liberty. This superbly annotated new... -
Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle by Alison Keith
RRP: $121.80$106.20Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the... -
Postcolonialism Tariq Jazeel 9781138677487
RRP: $77.68$68.84Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers, the book is a lively, stimulating and relevant introduction to 'postcolonial... -
Modernism, Empire, World Literature by Joe Cleary
RRP: $73.48$64.51After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated... -
Shakespeare Thinking by Philip Davis 9780826486950
$53.03"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. "Shakespeare Now!" recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know... -
Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford) 9780631229858
RRP: $71.30$63.44This engaging book draws on all of Shakespearea s plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. * Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespearea s plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the... -
Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery Peter Hunt (University of Colorado) 9781405188067
RRP: $60.80$52.65An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad-ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical... -
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology by Andrew Hass 9780199544486
$92.04The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume... -
Metaphor by Denis Donoghue 9780674430662
RRP: $75.50$61.30Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor ("a carrying or bearing across") supposes that an ordinary word could have been used in a statement but hasn't been... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades by Anthony Bale
RRP: $50.38$43.47How were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present by Harriet S. Turner
RRP: $54.58$46.18The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of... -
Seamus Heaney (Cobee) (Paper) by Helen Hennessy Vendler 9780674002050
$54.94Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on poetry takes up one of the world's great poets.Where other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing,... -
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson
RRP: $56.70$45.07The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing... -
Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now by Susheila Nasta 9781912408207
RRP: $18.88$13.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Benson Medal Award - Royal Society of Literature 2019 and Honorary Fellow - Royal Society of Literature 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781912408207Author Susheila... -
How to Read the Victorian Novel George Levine (Rutgers University) 9781405130561
RRP: $56.60$49.20How 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... -
Italian Women Writing by Sharon Wood
RRP: $31.48$23.35How has it happened that from being politely ignored or marginalized just half a century ago, women writers in Italy are now at the centre of literary activity? To what extent does writing by women reflect the successes and failures of Italy in the... -
Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry by Matthew Jarvis 9780708321522
RRP: $20.98$16.38Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry' examines the question of how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. The first volume to offer a sustained assessment of Welsh poetry in English... -
The Shorter Fiction by Sir Walter Scott
$236.75Scott wrote short stories throughout his career, some included within novels, others published separately in periodicals. This collection of the stories from periodicals extends from his earliest published fiction to his last and comprises pieces from... -
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions by John M Bowers
RRP: $36.75$30.45When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete masterpiece. The pieces presented here date from the fifteenth... -
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius by Elaine Fantham 9781421408361
$66.99Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture, Elaine Fantham fills that void by examining the... -
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham 9780199566983
RRP: $128.10$127.09In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien , or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first comprehensive analytical survey of the whole field of... -
Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus by Jennifer R. March
RRP: $69.28$62.48Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for the tight unity of its plot; every bit of every scene counts towards the dramatic effect. The action is... -
Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life by Constance Brown Kuriyama
RRP: $54.58$47.96Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) emerges in most accounts of his life by biographers and critics as a mysterious and sensational action figure, a hapless pawn of circumstance, or a pseudonymous cipher. Constance Brown Kuriyama's new biography reconstructs... -
A Companion to the Victorian Novel Patrick Brantlinger 9781405132916
RRP: $86.00$76.88The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published... -
Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction by David Roberts 9781107617971
RRP: $41.98$35.97Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured... -
Reading William Blake by Saree Makdisi
RRP: $33.58$29.19William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an... -
Fantasy Cinema - Impossible Worlds on Screen by David Butler 9781906660161
RRP: $37.78$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660161Author David ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
The Dog Husband by Rose McDonagh 9781914114069
RRP: $23.08$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914114069Author Rose McDonaghFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Reflex PressPublisher Reflex Press -
Louis Althusser by Luke Ferretter
RRP: $41.98$37.15Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and continues to influence political modes of criticism such as... -
Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation by Matthew Cheung Salisbury
RRP: $55.65$45.09In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages. The public, organized worship of the Church had a central role in medieval life...