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The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J.K. Rowling's Novels by Anne J. Mamary 9781476681344
RRP: £21.99£17.97When Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its "internal logic." The Philosopher's Stone, known for its power to transform base metals into gold and to give immortality to its maker, is... -
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature by David Wallace 9780521890465
RRP: £62.99£53.78This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the... -
The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830 by David Francis Taylor
RRP: £37.50£36.63This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first... -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: £24.95£23.76The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ... -
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin 9781328470225
RRP: £19.99£13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470225Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books... -
Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages Frances Beer (Customer) 9780851153438
RRP: £19.99£17.23Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material. `A wholly feminine voice within Catholicism-they express the inexpressible better than any amount of rational thinking about God.' THE... -
Comics As Art: We Told You So: An Oral History of Fantagraphics Books Tom Spurgeon 9781606999332
RRP: £49.99£35.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999332Author Tom SpurgeonFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
The Deathly Hallows Lectures: The Hogwarts Professor Explains the Final Harry Potter Adventure by John Granger 9780972322171
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Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy by Arthur E. Gordon
RRP: £40.00£32.18This is a much-needed textbook for students of epigraphy and an up-to-date reference work for scholars. Central to the work are its photos. Professor Gordon presents 100 Latin inscriptions arranged in chronological order and illustrated by the best... -
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
RRP: £17.99£12.252014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators... -
No Authority: Writings from the Laureate for Irish Fiction by Anne Enright 9781910820513
RRP: £17.00£14.11In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women: the long silence surrounding the Mother and Baby home in Tuam which was broken by the voice of Catherine Corless, the silence of Irish literary... -
A Concordance to Conrad's Under Western Eyes by David Leon Higdon 9780367893941
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. The user is provided with a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult Tatiana Kontou 9781138109636
RRP: £49.99£44.24Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies and hundreds of articles that have appeared recently... -
From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature by Barbara Newman
RRP: £27.99£24.54Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around... -
Tennyson by Rebecca Stott 9780582237124
RRP: £49.99£48.24Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new work on Tennyson, effectively linking feminist and... -
Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal Sherryl Vint 9781846318153
£31.75Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical... -
History of the Gothic: American Gothic by Charles L. Crow 9780708320440
RRP: £19.99£15.47Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain... -
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
£12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015498Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
The Black Hole of Auschwitz by Primo Levi
RRP: £16.99£15.46The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this book Levi rails... -
Woman's Weekly and Lower Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers by Eleanor Reed 9781802078428
£111.61A unique intersection between periodical and literary scholarship, and class and gender history, this book showcases a brand-new approach to surveying a popular domestic magazine. Reading Woman's Weekly alongside titles including Good Housekeeping, My... -
The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-2020 Michael J Cohen 9781032174860
RRP: £39.99£35.33The British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters here analyse a wide cross-section of the... -
Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse by Elza Adamowicz 9780521619875
RRP: £43.99£38.14Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and creative strategy. She considers verbal collage, pictorial collage, and the hybrids they generate, and... -
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks by Kathy Eden 9780226821269
RRP: £20.00£19.40Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical... -
Student Guide to W.H. Auden by Stephen Wade 9781871551365
RRP: £11.99£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551365Author Stephen WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Telling Times by Nadine Gordimer
RRP: £12.99£9.89Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of... -
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts Mark Bland (DeMontfort University, UK) 9781118492154
RRP: £33.95£30.21A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable Mention... -
The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue by Terry Eagleton
£27.97Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist deeply hostile to the zeitgeist. Over the last forty years... -
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate 9781642598742
RRP: £52.00£34.69"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." -Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out-of-print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the... -
The Victorian Literature Handbook by Alex Warwick 9780826495778
£30.09This is a one-stop resource offering a complete textbook for courses in Victorian literature."The Victorian Literature Handbook" is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. It provides a... -
Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre by Sue-Ellen Case
RRP: £25.00£24.72A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.About the AuthorSue-Ellen Case is associate professor in the School of Drama,... -
The Lost Steps by Andre Breton
RRP: £15.99£14.46The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is Andre Breton's first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was emerging as a central figure in French (and European)... -
How to Read a Shakespeare Play David Bevington (University of Chicago) 9781405113960
RRP: £23.95£20.97This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's works for pleasure. Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioningly Focuses on six... -
After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century by Sherryl Vint
RRP: £24.99£21.18After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and... -
A History of Ambiguity by Anthony Ossa-Richardson 9780691228440
RRP: £30.00£24.06Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism-far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive... -
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius by Adrastos Omissi
RRP: £32.99£29.75Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ... -
Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz by Stephanie Merrim 9780814322161
RRP: £24.95£21.86Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz fills a gap... -
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments by Callimachus
RRP: £28.00£24.93Having found his translators, may Callimachus now find the public he deserves. -D.S. Carne-RossA Poundian figure who summed up the possibilties of a new era's response to an old and rich poetic tradition, Callimachus (ca. 305 B.C.-ca. 240 B.C.) was the... -
Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England by Neil Rhodes
RRP: £29.49£27.15This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in... -
Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love: Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s by Glyn Salton-Cox 9781474454858
RRP: £23.99£21.85Queer Communism and the Ministry of Loveseeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.Book InformationISBN 9781474454858Author Glyn Salton-CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader by Timothy Corrigan
RRP: £47.99£42.21The Routledge new edition of this classic book functions as an accessible introduction to the historical and theoretical exchanges between film and literature and also includes the key critical readings necessary for an understanding of this increasingly...