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Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion by Michelle Spring 9781472523938
£26.45Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in these exciting genres. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the genre and helpsyou get started with ideas, planning and research. PART 2 includes... -
The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On the Classics by Bernard M. W. Knox 9780393312331
RRP: £15.00£12.77Should the ancient Greeks-"the oldest dead white European males"-be kept alive in our collective memory? Why study them at all if, by passing their destructive ideas to the Romans and eventually to the rest of Europe, they may ultimately be responsible... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell
RRP: £34.49£29.67The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
Charles Dickens in Context by Sally Ledger 9781107698215
RRP: £30.99£28.68Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's... -
Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts by Keith E. Small 9780739177532
RRP: £45.00£39.18This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-one early Qur'an manuscripts. Keith Small analyzes a defined portion of text from the Qur'an with two aims in... -
The French New Wave - A New Look by Naomi Greene 9781905674121
RRP: £17.99£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674121Author Naomi GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus by Jane Gallop
RRP: £19.99£17.54Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common... -
The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee by Dominic Head 9780521687096
RRP: £19.99£17.13The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be... -
The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn J. Lesjak
RRP: £24.99£21.67The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure... -
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head by Eliot Borenstein 9781501769368
RRP: £18.99£17.40Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and... -
The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini by Giacomo da Lentini 9781487522865
RRP: £21.99£19.19This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian School (c.1220-1270) as well as the inventor of the... -
Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard by Eric Hoffman 9780786468898
RRP: £21.99£18.83In December 1977, struggling Canadian comic book artist Dave Sim self-published the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, a Conan the Barbarian satire featuring a foul-tempered, sword-wielding creature trapped in a human world. Over the next 26 years,... -
An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China by Beata Grant 9780197586310
RRP: £22.99£19.96The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic... -
A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World Rubina Raja (Aarhus University, Denmark) 9781119042846
RRP: £45.95£40.82A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. * Features... -
The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine 1840-1900 by Sally Shuttleworth 9780199682171
£43.13What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child? Moving between literary and scientific texts, Sally Shuttleworth explores a range of fascinating issues that emerge when the inner world of the child becomes, for the first... -
AstroLit: A Bibliophile's Guide to the Stars by McCormick Templeman 9780593579732
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593579732Author McCormick TemplemanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy by Bernice M. Murphy 9780786423125
RRP: £21.99£17.97Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly... -
National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction by Simon Franklin 9780521024297
RRP: £39.99£33.26What is Russia? Who are Russians? What is 'Russianness'? The question of national identity has long been a vexed one in Russia, and is particularly pertinent in the post-Soviet period. For a thousand years these questions have been central to the work of... -
A Mason & Dixon Companion by Brett Biebel 9780820365831
£28.98Mason & Dixon might be Thomas Pynchon’s most human book. Its main characters are richly drawn, and they center the narrative. Yet the novel is also packed with historical allusions and an eighteenth-century vernacular that some readers may find difficult... -
Romantic Religion: A Study of Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien by R.J. Reilly 9781584200475
RRP: £20.00£14.29This classic book on the four 'Oxford Christians' is now available again with a new Preface by R. J. Reilly himself. Reilly provides insights into the literary, religious and philosophical background of these extraordinary writers and thinkers, and the... -
Electoral Systems and Voting in the United Kingdom by Chris Robinson
RRP: £20.99£19.55A key feature of the New Labour government's constitutional reform agenda has been the introduction of a number of alternative methods of voting for both existing elections and for those to new political institutions. This book examines the workings of... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution by James Simpson 9780199265534
RRP: £52.00£43.72Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived... -
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities by Dennis Walder
RRP: £37.99£33.78The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary, Portrait... -
Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life by Lev Loseff 9780300181609
£33.73An intimate, penetrating study of Joseph Brodsky's life and work, written by his lifelong friend, the eminent Russian literary scholar Lev Loseff The work of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), one of Russia's great modern poets, has been the subject of much... -
Wine by Meg Bernhard
RRP: £9.99£7.77Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often... -
Baudelaire: Critical study by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780811201896
RRP: £12.99£11.63Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. We may often disagree with his interpretations of the poet's personality, but we cannot fail to wonder at the mastery with which he presents his case. It is the... -
The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor by Amy Richlin 9780195068733
RRP: £43.99£32.51Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. Amy Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defence of a bounded area serves as a model for... -
Beginning Realism by Steven Earnshaw
RRP: £10.99£9.99Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as 'too slippery' to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students... -
The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces by Stephen Orgel 9780198737551
£29.71The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them,... -
Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading by Virginia Jackson
RRP: £35.00£27.95How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained... -
On Liberty and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by John Stuart Mill
RRP: £11.00£9.62This Norton Critical Edition includes: Three major essays—On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)—that illustrate Mill’s liberal political philosophy at the height of his powers.Editorial matter—including a richly... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062691
£52.82A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by Adrian Poole 9780521691574
RRP: £30.99£24.20In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy,... -
Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan by Eric Hayot
RRP: £20.00£15.89Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization of the university, plummeting enrollments, budget cuts, and political critiques from right, left, and... -
C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven: A Reader's Guide to the Great Divorce by David G Clark 9781936294091
£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936294091Author David G ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Winged Lion Press, LLCPublisher Winged Lion Press, LLCWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare by R. Malcolm Smuts 9780198822271
£41.09The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the... -
Deleuze: A Critical Reader Paul Patton 9781557865656
RRP: £41.95£36.44Paul Patton brings together an outstanding collection of appraisals by French- and English-speaking scholars of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the most important post-war French philosophers. A number of these pieces address Deleuze's original... -
Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self by Dustin Friedman
RRP: £30.50£27.16A reimagining of how the aesthetic movement of the Victorian era ushered in modern queer theory.Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose... -
Metaphor by David Punter
RRP: £28.99£25.09Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about... -
The Bell Tower by Pamela Crowe 9781912915996
RRP: £7.00£5.15Acerbic, precise and very funny, Pamela Crowe's poems explore home life and relationships in a delightfully forthright voice. Secret frustrations and anxieties are aired and private fantasies brought into the light, as odes blur into diatribes and...