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Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-18 by E. J. Clery 9780719040276
RRP: £19.99£18.10How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which... -
On Bataille and Blanchot Jean-Paul Sartre 9780857429131
RRP: £7.99£7.23An in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has... -
Sexuality by Joseph Bristow
RRP: £22.99£20.16Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a... -
Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Christopher Golden 9780312373726
£18.49Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations - unrivaled critical respect and extraordinary commercial success. From the landmark comic book series "The Sandman"... -
Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings by Vanessa Joosen 9780814334522
RRP: £32.95£29.05In Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings Vanessa Joosen broadens the traditional concept of intertextuality to include academic texts. With three key texts... -
Music Lessons: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures Fiona Sampson 9781852249090
RRP: £8.95£6.52In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by... -
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson 9780691224305
RRP: £18.99£14.22From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial... -
The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics by Sara Danius 9780801488009
RRP: £27.99£24.52In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's... -
San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets by David Meltzer 9780872863798
RRP: £24.99£18.80San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and... -
Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews during the Rif War (1909-27) by Elisabeth Bolorinos Allar
RRP: £80.00£76.01How were Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures depicted in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography during the Rif War and what did this portrayal reveal about conflicting visions of Spanish identity? Runner-up for the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish... -
Children's Literature Carrie Hintz 9781138667952
RRP: £19.99£17.96Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has... -
Charles Dickens's Bleak House: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Janice M. Allan 9780415247733
RRP: £19.99£17.69With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice Allan:introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's... -
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn
RRP: £21.50£18.21Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system... -
Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery by Lucille Lang Day 9781734531336
RRP: £16.00£10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734531336Author Lucille Lang DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Scarlet Tanager BooksPublisher Scarlet Tanager BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
The Greek Anthology: v. 2 by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£23.76A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called... -
Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Kaye Mitchell
RRP: £26.99£23.44A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with... -
Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value by Charles Altieri 9780801478727
RRP: £32.00£28.43Charles Altieri, one of our foremost analysts of modernism, has in his recent work argued for the importance of the affects, which philosophy has too long subordinated to cognition and ethics. In Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity, Altieri... -
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £12.99£9.50Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer's People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers.For the 'serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world,... -
The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life by Fanny Howe
RRP: £23.00£18.10In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's role... -
Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "the Lord of the Rings" by Fleming Rutledge 9780802824974
£19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802824974Author Fleming RutledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 373Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century by Ayse Celikkol 9780199769001
RRP: £105.00£83.24Romances of Free Trade offers a new account of the cultural work of romance in nineteenth-century Britain. Celikkol argues that novelists and playwrights employed this genre to represent a radically new historical formation: the emergence of the global... -
Books of the Beast: New Edition by Timothy D'Arch Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928179Author Timothy d'Arch SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 215g -
A History of the Bildungsroman by Sarah Graham
RRP: £36.99£21.89The Bildungsroman has been one of the most significant genres in Western literature since the eighteenth century. This volume, comprised of eleven chapters by leading experts in the field, offers original insights into how the novel of formation... -
Natural History: v. 10: Bks.XXXVI-XXXVII by Pliny the Elder
RRP: £24.95£23.76An 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,... -
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel 9780691037660
RRP: £45.00£35.60Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness... -
The Sacred Wood by T.S. Eliot 9781513279695
RRP: £4.99£4.14The 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... -
The Arthurian Handbook: Second Edition Norris J. Lacy 9780815320814
RRP: £43.99£39.14Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the... -
The Age Between: Personal Reflections on Youth Fiction by Aidan Chambers
£16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916121409Author Aidan ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Fincham Press RoehamptonPublisher Fincham Press Roehampton -
Method of Medicine: v. II, Bks. 5-9 by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.76Antiquity'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,... -
Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture by Paul Goring 9780826485656
RRP: £21.99£21.89This guide to eighteenth-century literature and culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1688-1789, including: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including the expansion of cultural... -
Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson by Sebastian Matzner 9780198724285
RRP: £26.49£23.82Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it... -
The Lives of the Novel: A History by Thomas G. Pavel 9780691165783
RRP: £25.00£19.90This 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... -
Diablo: Book of Cain by Blizzard Entertainment 9781803368313
RRP: £27.99£18.87Delve deeper into the dark fantasy world of the Diablo universe as Deckard Cain shares history and lore in this fictional illustrated journal. In Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo (R) and Diablo II, the recurring character of Deckard Cain delivered... -
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective by Antonio Benitez Rojo
RRP: £23.99£21.56In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs... -
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780333294413
£45.97One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later... -
The Ideology of Democratism by Emily B. Finley 9780197642290
RRP: £39.99£34.23A unique reinterpretation of democracy that shows how history's most vocal champions of democracy from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls have contributed to a pervasive, anti-democratic ideology, effectively redefining democracy to... -
The Correspondence: v. 2 by Marcus Cornelius Fronto
RRP: £24.95£23.76Letters of an imperial tutor.The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD 100-176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the... -
Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin 9780824883089
RRP: £20.95£12.46Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who... -
The Notebooks by Henry James 9780226511047
RRP: £45.00£43.21"For other novelists the value of Henry James's Notebooks is immense and to brood over them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally...