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Yeats, Folklore and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought Frank Kinahan 9781138687264
RRP: £36.99£32.78This lively introduction to the poems of W. B. Yeats, first published in 1988, provides a series of intriguing new readings of his work in relation to his profound involvement with occultism and folklore. During Yeats's formative years as an artist, two... -
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 by Virginia Cox
£53.84This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and... -
On the Seven Deadly Sins by Lord Kenneth Baker
RRP: £30.00£23.58In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins - Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust - have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really... -
Minority Report by H. L. Mencken 9780801856587
£20.95In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top of his profession, the publication of three volumes of memoirs, and a steady stream of journalism that made him loved and hated, sometimes by the same... -
The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany by Jane Armstrong
RRP: £17.99£17.16An ideal reference companion for students and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, this informative and entertaining Miscellany gives a wealth of contextual and biographical information to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of his work. There is an entry... -
Shakespeare and Text: Revised Edition by John Jowett
RRP: £22.49£19.16Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the... -
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Jeremy Noel-Tod 9780199640256
£46.62This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this... -
Poetics of Liveliness: Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds by Ada Smailbegović
RRP: £25.00£19.59Can poetry act as an aesthetic amplification device, akin to a microscope, through which we can sense minute or nearly imperceptible phenomena such as the folding of molecules into their three-dimensional shapes, the transformations that make up the life... -
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine by Bart D. Ehrman 9780195307139
RRP: £21.49£12.39A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has stood atop The New York Times Bestseller List for well over a year, with millions of copies in print. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that... -
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Humphrey Carpenter 9780198602286
£39.15The indispensable reference book for anyone concerned with children's books. Over 900 biographical entries deal with authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have influenced the development of children's literature... -
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books by Michael Dirda
RRP: £16.95£10.34Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded for his reviews in The Washington Post, he picked up an... -
The Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters by Rich Weidman 9781617136016
RRP: £14.99£13.43EThe Beat Generation FAQE is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II... -
A Play Book: Creating Writers, Creating Citizens by Mary Collins 9780985099787
RRP: £16.00£10.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985099787Author Mary CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Entasis PressPublisher Entasis PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm -
Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe by Ian Watt 9780521480116
RRP: £80.00£68.63In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year... -
Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field by Carolyn Dever
RRP: £32.00£25.16Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as "Michael Field"-and who were partners and lovers for decades-is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned... -
The Ruskin Revival: 1969-2019 Suzanne Fagence Cooper 9781843681823
RRP: £19.99£13.35In the year of the bicentenary of John Ruskin's birth, Suzanne Fagence Cooper documents the astonishing revival of interest in Ruskin's ideas and values. In his own day, he was revered as a pioneering art critic - champion of J M W Turner and the... -
Roman History: v. 1 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £24.95£24.84A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under... -
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama by E. Ann Kaplan
RRP: £35.99£31.69From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical,... -
Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare's England by Dr Tiffany Stern
RRP: £23.99£20.94This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a... -
The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace by Ralph Clare
RRP: £24.99£21.18Best known for his masterpiece Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace's desire to blend formal innovation and self-reflexivity with the communicative and... -
The American Scene by Henry James 9781108471176
£99.73Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based on both romantic and practical motives, allowed him to revisit the now-transformed cities of his youth as... -
The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader by Nigel Wheale 9780415126113
RRP: £41.99£36.75For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the... -
A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain by C. L. Innes
RRP: £28.99£23.80Now updated and available in paperback, this is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years. Beginning with authors who arrived as immigrants or slaves in the mid-eighteenth century, Innes includes a detailed... -
Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero: Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set Sherry Ginn 9780786498192
RRP: £14.99£13.20First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, was introduced to movie audiences in Iron Man 2 (2010). Her character has grown in popularity with subsequent Marvel films, and fans have been vocal about wanting to see... -
The Jazz Poetry Anthology by Sascha Feinstein
RRP: £20.99£18.37" . . . in a class by itself . . . sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery . . . the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." -Jazziz Magazine"In the course of the history of jazz, there have been only a few articles that get to the core of the... -
The Pen And The Sword: Conversations with Edward Said by David Barsamian 9781931859950
RRP: £14.99£10.14A collection of five wide-ranging interviews with Edward Said (1935-2003), covering topics such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his groundbreaking work of literary scholarship Orientalism, critical theory, music and more. Includes a new preface by... -
Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585-1639 by Tracey Hill
RRP: £25.00£17.92Pageantry and power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. It provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare's time and beyond.Central to the cultural life of... -
Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante by Charles Williams 9780976402541
RRP: £18.95£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976402541Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar: With its Continuations. by J. M. W-. Hadrill 9780313227417
£65.93This translation of the fourth book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations, has Latin and English on opposite pages.Book InformationISBN 9780313227417Author J. M. W-. HadrillFormat HardbackPage Count 137Imprint Praeger Publishers... -
Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible 2022: North American Edition by Jim Murray 9781838320744
RRP: £17.95£12.75Thanks to industry guru Jim Murray and his internationally acclaimed annual Whiskey Bible, the Japanese are now running out of their own single malt and people have fought in Toronto liquor stores to grab the last bottle of his World Whisky of the Year... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva 9780140187595
RRP: £18.00£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187595Author Marina TsvetaevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing by Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan
RRP: £19.99£18.94Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of Shakespeare's masterful embodiment of Rome and Egypt's contrasting worlds in language, structure, and characterization. Instead of seeing the interaction of Roman and Egyptian... -
Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics by Dr. Casey Brienza
£31.95Japanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have "invaded" and "conquered" the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture... -
The Cosmic Zoom - Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation by Horton
RRP: £24.00£23.03In The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, a view of two people enjoying a picnic zooms up and away to show their surroundings, moving progressively farther into space, then zooms back in for a close-up of the hand of the picnicker, travelling deep... -
Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present by Sir Theodore Martin 9780231181938
RRP: £22.00£17.36What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an... -
Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy by John J Gross 9780671883867
£18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Royal Society of Literature Award 1992 and Yorkshire Post Literary Award Book of the Year Category 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780671883867Author John J... -
The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture by Laura Varnam 9781526143563
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the... -
Lovecraft Lexicon: A Reader's Guide to Persons, Places & Things in the Tales of H P Lovecraft by Anthony Pearsell 9781561841295
RRP: £40.99£26.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561841295Author Anthony PearsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 589Imprint New Falcon Publications,U.S.Publisher New Falcon Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 778g -
Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word by Charles Bernstein 9780195109924
RRP: £47.49£38.54Close Listening brings together 17 strikingly original essays, commissioned especially for this volume, on the reading of poetry, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself,... -
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...