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Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
RRP: £23.99£20.84What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts-and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading-are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book... -
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... -
British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now by Emma Young
RRP: £23.99£21.85What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit. From the rise of the modern... -
Zadie Smith's "White Teeth" by Claire Squires 9780826453266
£18.09This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains... -
On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word by Angela Leighton 9780199551934
RRP: £37.49£31.79What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how... -
Demosthenes, Speeches 27-38 by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780292702547
RRP: £19.99£17.54This is the eighth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 by A. Saunders 9780521130035
RRP: £38.99£33.26This book, originally published in 1982, was the first detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when the Portuguese brought Europe into contact with black Africa and originated the Atlantic slave-trade... -
The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World: Questions and Perspectives by Christopher Schliephake
RRP: £17.00£14.72What can a study of antiquity contribute to the interdisciplinary paradigm of the environmental humanities? And how does this recent paradigm influence the way we perceive human-'nature' interactions in pre-modernity? By asking these and a number of... -
Amitav Ghosh by Anshuman A. Mondal 9780719070051
RRP: £14.99£13.64Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav... -
The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic After 9/11 by Arthur Bradley 9780826444295
RRP: £100.00£99.72The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie... -
Collected Poems by William Blake
RRP: £14.99£13.58William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one... -
Topographies by J. Hillis Miller 9780804723794
RRP: £32.00£28.21A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804723794Author J. Hillis MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 503g -
Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions by Orietta Da Rold
RRP: £79.99£72.16Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success... -
The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester 9780195396195
RRP: £13.99£10.84In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, draped the folds of cloth low enough to expose her bare... -
Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival by Dennis Denisoff
RRP: £75.00£67.74Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the... -
Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound by Susan Bennett 9781474246477
RRP: £15.99£14.37Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up... -
In the Face of Adversity: Translating Difference and Dissent by Thomas Nolden 9781800083707
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800083707Author Thomas NoldenFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 390g -
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism by Sara Mills 9780415096645
RRP: £37.99£33.38Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses:... -
Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem by Jennifer L. Fleissner
RRP: £28.00£27.79An examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will. What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity rests... -
Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths by Emily Katz Anhalt
RRP: £16.99£14.61An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry by Michael Wachtel 9780521004930
RRP: £23.99£19.99The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature... -
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
RRP: £16.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679454656Author Peter WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Imagining the Medieval Afterlife by Richard Matthew Pollard
RRP: £22.99£20.66Where do we go after we die? This book traces how the European Middle Ages offered distinctive answers to this universal question, evolving from Antiquity through to the sixteenth century, to reflect a variety of problems and developments. Focussing on... -
The Roman Actor: By Philip Massinger by Philip Massinger 9780719087813
RRP: £19.99£17.61Philip Massinger's tragedy The Roman Actor, was first performed in 1626, as King James I's reign came to an end and his son Charles I acceded to the throne. Three years later, when the play was published, relations between the king and many in parliament... -
Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self-Destruction and the Creative Process by Amy D Ronner 9781793607836
RRP: £35.00£30.95In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim's etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in... -
Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frame by Brian Richardson 9780814250921
£32.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250921Author Brian RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 567g -
Ancient Myths, Ancient Wisdom: Recovering Humanity's Forgotten Inheritance Through Celestial Mythology by David Warner Mathisen 9780996059060
RRP: £39.00£35.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996059060Author David Warner MathisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 866Imprint Beowulf BooksPublisher Beowulf BooksWeight(grams) 1134g -
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 by David James 9781107562714
RRP: £23.99£20.37This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical and environmental change. Written by a host of... -
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction by Liesbeth Korthals Altes
RRP: £50.00£43.81Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker's psychology,... -
Conversations with Raymond Carver by Marshall Bruce Gentry 9780878054497
RRP: £29.95£27.41This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern... -
Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer by Richard Godden 9780521064033
RRP: £30.99£25.45Fictions of Capital situates manners and writing about manners in the context of American capitalism between 1880 and 1960, a period that runs from the onset of the sales culture to its war-prompted crisis point in the 1960s. The work of various economic... -
Othello: Critical Essays by Susan Snyder
RRP: £36.99£32.53Originally published in 1988. Selections here are organised chronologically looking at both theatrical commentary and literary criticism. The organisation brings out the shifts in emphasis as each generation reinvents Shakespeare, and Othello, by the... -
Reading Piers Plowman by Emily Steiner 9780521687836
RRP: £23.99£20.37Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually... -
Walter Benjamin: An Arcade of Reflections by Alan Wall 9780999136522
RRP: £12.95£10.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999136522Author Alan WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Odd VolumesPublisher Odd VolumesWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm -
Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre by P. Edmondson 9780230218680
£29.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis by David Walton
RRP: £95.00£83.12Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis argues that Oscar Wilde's narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious fighter-an active agent who tested boundaries and recognized the dangers of doing so, adopting... -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide by Michael Groden 9781421406398
RRP: £41.50£37.23Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory... -
Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera by Zitkala-Sa 9780803299191
RRP: £12.99£10.34"Hafen has done a great service to the study of American Indian literature by collecting in one book several published and unpublished pieces. . . . A wonderful and enlightening collection."-ChoiceZitkala-Sa (Red Bird) (1876-1938), also known as Gertrude... -
Virginia Woolf and Trauma: Embodied Texts by Suzette Henke 9780944473795
RRP: £30.00£24.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473795Author Suzette HenkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)... -
Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing, 1760-1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant by Sam George 9780719088452
RRP: £19.99£16.42In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women's engagement with the Swedish botanist,...