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The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities Eva Horn 9781138342477
RRP: £36.99£32.78The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights... -
Y Traddodiad Barddol by Gwyn Thomas 9780708326213
RRP: £12.99£9.96A lively and scholarly introduction to early Welsh poetry up to the period of court poetry, with notes on style, background and translations of the poems themselves; suitable for sixth form and college students, and anyone interested in Welsh poetic... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson by Penny Fielding
RRP: £23.99£22.19This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters... -
Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses: Becoming the Blooms by Luca Crispi
RRP: £39.49£35.99This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literature-Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloom-as well as a history of the genesis of Ulysses. From a genetic critical perspective, it explores the conception and... -
The Handbook of French Fantasy & Supernatural Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier 9781649321657
RRP: £20.99£20.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649321657Author Jean-Marc LofficierFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Hollywood ComicsPublisher Hollywood ComicsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Passions by Giacomo Leopardi
£49.37Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I... -
How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 by Nancy Armstrong 9780231130592
RRP: £28.00£21.80Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting... -
The Powers of Philology: DYNAMICS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: £23.99£20.84Philology--the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical texts--was once a firmly established discipline that formed the core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and literary fields. Although philology departments are steadily... -
Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to AElfric by Joseph Grossi
RRP: £58.00£50.17From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the... -
Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls by Mitali Perkins
RRP: £13.99£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506469102Author Mitali PerkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara 9780743476973
£13.25A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this... -
Student Companion to Charlotte and Emily Bronte by Barbara Z. Thaden 9780313310539
£49.37Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre have remained continuously popular ever since their 1847 publication. Though their lives were tragically short, Charlotte and Emily Bront^De made significant contributions to the history of the novel as a respected... -
Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England by Daniel Vitkus 9780231119054
RRP: £30.00£23.29These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before... -
Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-sex Literary Erotics 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis
RRP: £26.00£24.85In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses... -
Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frame by Brian Richardson 9780814250921
£31.91Apologies 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 -
A New Companion to Malory Megan G Leitch 9781843846758
£27.60A comprehensive survey of Malory's Morte Darthur, one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages. Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in... -
York Notes Companions: Medieval Literature by Carole Maddern 9781408204757
RRP: £10.99£8.35This volume spans five centuries of post-Conquest literature, written at a time in which enormous social, political and linguistic changes transformed life in Britain. Medieval genres such as Arthurian romance, lyrics, dream narratives and mystery plays... -
Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse: Tradition, Translation, and Transcription Rebecca Quoss-Moore 9789463723534
RRP: £113.00£106.71Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking. Understanding this system as an extensive network of production and reception in which women took on many roles... -
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman by Gregory Castle 9780813061351
£31.02The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and... -
J.G.Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Jeannette Baxter
£35.80This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on J. G. Ballard by leading international academics, which includes a short biography, timeline and comprehensive guided further reading.J.G. Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the... -
Korean War Comic Books by Leonard Rifas 9780786443963
RRP: £35.99£29.60Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America's "forgotten war,"... -
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... -
Peter Churchill: The forgotten novels of a British secret agent by Andrea Cominini
RRP: £9.99£9.21After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated over the summer of 1944, Andrea Cominini found that his brother, Peter, had also been an SOE agent operating in France during WWII. Peter carried... -
Wordsworth's Revisitings by Stephen Gill 9780199268771
RRP: £52.00£51.43Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man. In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the... -
Solzhenitsyn by Georg Lukacs 9780850361438
RRP: £14.95£13.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
An Analysis of Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined Elise Klein 9781912284719
RRP: £6.50£6.21Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, 'equality of what'?, Sen shows that (in)equality should be assessed as human freedom; for people to have... -
Roald Dahl by Ann Alston 9780230283619
RRP: £23.99£23.80Roald Dahl is one of the world's best-loved authors. More than twenty years after his death, his books are still highly popular with children and have inspired numerous feature films - yet he remains a controversial figure. This volume, the first... -
The Novel: A Survival Skill by Tim Parks 9780198739593
RRP: £23.99£23.68The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE by Robert Ford Campany 9780674247802
RRP: £25.95£20.96Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 ChinaDreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert... -
A Commentary on Horace: Odes: Book I by R. G. M. Nisbet 9780198149149
RRP: £72.00£57.46Horace's Odes are among the most popular, and the most misunderstood, of ancient writings. The present work is written in the belief that they are learned poems, which demand some knowledge of conventional forms and topics. Each ode is provided with an... -
Old Norse Mythology Comparative Perspectives by Pernille Hermann
RRP: £24.95£20.20Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages mainly... -
Hamlet's Choice: Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies by Peter Lake
RRP: £37.50£36.23An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by... -
LENIN HEGEL & WESTERN MARXISM: A CRITICAL STUDY by Kevin Anderson
RRP: £18.99£16.72This first full-length treatment of Lenin's studies of Hegel presents Lenin as a major figure in Hegelian Marxism, providing a more nuanced portrait of his work than that of either official Marxist-Leninism or most Western accounts. "With... -
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy 9780198187653
£59.30This book is the first to look at Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's achievement as a vital figure in the women's literary tradition. Robert Halsband's book on her life, the sixth this century and published in 1956, was the first to apply scholarly techniques... -
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 Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by John Sitter 9780521658850
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. These specially-commissioned essays avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to... -
Sparring With Gil Kane: Debating The History and Aesthetics of Comics by Gary Groth 9781683960713
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960713Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 717g -
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology by Erin James 9780814255650
£33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255650Author Erin JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Appropriate: A Provocation by Paisley Rekdal 9781324003588
RRP: £12.99£10.22How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a... -
Celine: Journey to the End of the Night by John Sturrock 9780521378543
RRP: £22.99£20.11This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will...