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The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius
RRP: $58.80$46.49The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of... -
The Persian Prison Poem by Rebecca Ruth Gould 9781474484022
RRP: $52.48$47.69The first English-language study of the Persian prison poem Develops a new approach to genre, based on the political status of the prison poem Offers an unprecedented account of the interrelations of poetry and power in pre-modern literature ... -
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer 9780226564692
RRP: $50.40$48.36In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a... -
Ulysses: The Mechanics of Meaning by David Hayman 9780299090241
RRP: $41.90$39.90Since its original publication in 1970, Ulysses: the Mechanics of Meaning has become one of the most talked about, cited, and respected of commentaries on Joyce's classic work. Its compact format and its crisp, lucid style make David Hayman's book an... -
Hardy, Conrad and the Senses by Hugh Epstein 9781474449878
RRP: $54.58$44.23This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. With a focus on nature and the environment, Hugh Epstein analyses thirteen of these powerful works in the... -
Jane Austen's Lost Novel: Its Importance for Understanding the Development of Her Art. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by P.J. Allen by Jane Austen
$37.00Until the appearance in 1870 of the Memoir written by her nephew J.E. Austen Leigh, very little was known about Jane Austen beyond what could be deduced from her major novels. This had been the family's choice. Despite this lack of information Deidre Le... -
My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Park 9780226824765
RRP: $58.80$57.52Examines spaces of inner life in eighteenth-century England to shed new light on interiority in literature and visual and material culture. In what kinds of spaces do we become most aware of the thoughts in our own heads? In My Dark Room, Julie Park... -
Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity by D. Felton
RRP: $33.58$29.90Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study,... -
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy by Michael Robertson 9780691202860
RRP: $42.00$33.87The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayIn this lively literary history, Michael Robertson introduces readers to a vital strain of... -
Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf by Deborah Parsons
RRP: $41.98$37.15Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between... -
An Analysis of Plato's The Republic James Orr 9781912127870
RRP: $13.65$13.21The Republic is Plato's most complete and incisive work - a detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that justice exists in a real society, rather than as merely the product of an idealized philosophical construct. The work considers several... -
Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital by Sophie Seita
RRP: $58.78$50.69What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguing against the notion that the avant-garde is dead or confined to historically "failed" movements, this book offers a more dynamic and inclusive theory of avant-gardes that accounts for how they work in... -
Rediscovering Margiad Evans: Marginality, Gender and Illness by Kirsti Bohata 9780708325605
RRP: $18.88$14.87Margiad wrote about the elderly, about love between women, about elusive, enigmatic characters. She is renowned for her ability to depict place, yet she also makes place reflective of the emotional and spiritual lives of her characters and her own... -
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898-1939 by Benjamin Lefebvre 9781487544126
RRP: $41.98$36.83Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories... -
Looking for Sex in Shakespeare by Stanley Wells 9780521540391
RRP: $50.38$41.98Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. This book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors,... -
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 9780393264234
$30.93This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel (1859) accompanied by twenty-seven illustrations, from original images by Halbot Knight Browne ("Phiz") to cartoons from The Simpsons.An expansive introduction and detailed explanatory... -
The Robin Hood Handbook: The Outlaw in History, Myth and Legend by Mike Dixon-Kennedy
RRP: $63.00$47.94Robin Hood, whether riding through the glen, robbing the rich to pay the poor or giving the Sheriff of Nottingham his come-uppance, is one of the most captivating and controversial legendary figures. Was there a historical figure behind the legends? Did... -
Literary Sussex by Alan Starr
RRP: $33.58$22.79In the quiet countryside or by the sea - and always very close to London - Sussex has offered a creative space for writers, from Lord Tennyson to Lee Child. Other writers, like Kate Mosse, Maureen Duffy and David Hare, were born in the county or have... -
American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction by David Caplan
RRP: $18.88$17.30A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and... -
M: Writings, 1967-72 by John Cage 9780714511351
RRP: $33.50$28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714511351Author John CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa by Anthony Davies 9780521399135
RRP: $83.98$69.85Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's... -
Signs of Meaning in the Universe by Jesper Hoffmeyer
RRP: $44.08$38.58From reviews for the bestselling Danish edition:" . . . dashing and idiomatic language that is a pleasure to read." -Berlingske Tidende" . . . an appetizer and eye opener . . . Hoffmeyer is a modernistic pioneer in the wide open spaces of the natural... -
Literature and the Creative Economy by Sarah Brouillette 9781503602809
RRP: $46.18$40.30This book contends that mainstream considerations of the economic and social force of culture, including theories of the creative class and of cognitive and immaterial labor, are indebted to historic conceptions of the art of literary authorship. It... -
Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
RRP: $67.20$52.84Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists... -
Journal of Vampire Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2 (2021) Anthony Hogg 9780645203400
$14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645203400Author Anthony HoggFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vampire Studies AssociationPublisher Vampire Studies AssociationWeight(grams)... -
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves by Jack Zipes
RRP: $77.68$68.31This is an irresistible and unique anthology of fairy tales written by some of the most notable writers of the Victorian period, including Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbitt.Book InformationISBN... -
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature by Professor Drew Daniel
RRP: $50.40$48.36Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "joy... -
Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis by Rachel Eisendrath
RRP: $54.60$52.19We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the... -
Shakespeare'S Storms by Gwilym Jones
RRP: $41.98$29.99Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardThe first comprehensive study of Shakespeare's storms. Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in... -
Lord of the Flies by William Golding by Raymond Wilson
RRP: $48.28$47.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333404096Author Raymond WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 140g -
The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East by Eleonora Sasso
RRP: $50.38$45.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454865Author Eleonora SassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Race Martin Orkin 9781138904699
RRP: $54.58$48.26Race offers a compelling introduction to the study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period... -
Readings Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) 9780857422088
RRP: $43.05$37.07Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading. In... -
Critical Ecofeminism by Greta Gaard 9781498533607
RRP: $81.90$72.18Australian feminist philosopher Val Plumwood coined the term "critical ecofeminism" to "situate humans in ecological terms and non-humans in ethical terms," for "the two tasks are interconnected, and cannot be addressed properly... -
The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation by Scott Cook
RRP: $134.40$119.36The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable... -
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume 1 by Donald H. Reiman 9780801861192
RRP: $247.80$220.16A milestone in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of all poems and translations that Shelley published or... -
A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature Phillip Pulsiano (Late of Villanova University) 9781405176095
RRP: $100.70$87.91This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars.Embraces both... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby
RRP: $71.30$58.84Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public... -
Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Connie Ann Kirk 9780313332142
$86.86The poet Sylvia Plath has been a cultural icon since 1963 when she took her own life on a cold winter morning at the age of 30. This up-to-date biography explores the nature and sources of the mythology that has surrounded the poet's life by presenting a... -
Deleuze and Queer Theory by Chrysanthi Nigianni
RRP: $65.10$54.29This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, it...