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Emigres: French Words That Turned English by Richard Scholar 9780691234007
RRP: $20.63$15.67The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern... -
Macbeth: Critical Essays by Samuel Schoenbaum 9781138887770
RRP: $47.72$42.29Originally published in 1991. Collecting together commentary and critique on 'the Scottish play', this book showcases varied discussions of the text and the theatrical productions. From Samuel Johnson's brief 1765 comment to the editor's own piece on the... -
Writing and Reading in Medieval Manuscript Culture: The Translation and Transmission of the Story of Elye in Old French and Old Norse Literary Contexts by Stefka Georgieva Eriksen 9782503547794
$152.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503547794Author Stefka Georgieva EriksenFormat HardbackPage Count 279Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V. -
Romeo and Juliet: Critical Essays John F. Andrews 9781138852716
RRP: $47.72$42.29Originally published in 1993. Presenting excerpts and articles on the themes and characters from the most famous story of young lovers, this collection brings together scholarship relating to the language, performance, and impact of the play. Ordered in... -
The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 1, 450–1066 by Carolinne White 9781107186514
$129.93This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. Excerpts are taken from Bede and other historians, from the letters of women written from their monasteries, from... -
Technology, Literature and Culture Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University) 9780745639543
RRP: $21.92$19.94Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist... -
Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt by Bonnie Honig
RRP: $48.96$44.09Consisting almost entirely of new essays specially prepared for this volume, Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt illuminates the diversity of contemporary feminisms while also generating new and suggestive readings of Hannah Arendt's political... -
Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell by John Chapple 9780719067716
RRP: $25.79$23.35Contains number of previously unpublished letters which were not included in the hardback edition. Completes the project of publishing the correspondence of one of the greatest nineteeth-century novelists - J. A. V. Chapple edited not only the letters of... -
Bad Modernisms by Douglas Mao 9780822337973
RRP: $30.95$27.30Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's most vibrant cultural constellation. Yet this widespread embrace... -
Scottish Literature: In English and Scots by Douglas Gifford 9780748608256
RRP: $47.73$46.29This substantial new volume is a stimulating yet in-depth introduction to Scottish literature in English and Scots. From medieval to modern, the entire range of literature is introduced, examined and explored. Aimed primarily at those with an interest... -
Environment by Rolf Halden
RRP: $12.89$10.02Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how... -
Living Through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 by Elaine Treharne 9780199585267
$36.98Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It... -
History of My Life: Volumes 5 and 6 by Giacomo Casanova
$56.02In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French... -
Herodotus: Histories Book I by Carolyn Dewald
RRP: $128.99$112.37In the Histories, which could loosely be translated as 'Investigations' or 'Researches,' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents' generation. Book 1 begins that story. It introduces both the world... -
Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity by James Eli Adams
RRP: $37.40$32.71A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996" While drawing on work in feminism, queer theory, and cultural history, Dandies and Desert Saints challenges scholars to rethink simplistic notions of Victorian manhood. James Eli Adams examines masculine... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson by Greg Clingham
RRP: $33.53$28.37Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp... -
Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories by Jean E. Howard
RRP: $49.01$43.06Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include:* King John* Henry VI, Part I* Henry VI, Part II* Henry, Part III*... -
Moliere: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott 9780521782814
RRP: $96.75$81.54In this biography, first published in 2000, Virginia Scott locates Moliere's life and work in the social, literary and theatrical contexts of the period. She offers a narrative account of his life and an overview of his plays in the wider setting of the... -
The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
RRP: $45.15$39.65Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful... -
The Cambridge Companion to War Writing by Kate McLoughlin 9780521720045
RRP: $37.40$31.50War writing is an ancient genre that continues to be of vital importance. Times of crisis push literature to its limits, requiring writers to exploit their expressive resources to the maximum in response to extreme events. This Companion focuses on... -
Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film by Seymour Benjamin Chatman
RRP: $32.24$28.39'About the AuthorSeymour Chatman is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.Reviews"Coming to Terms is clearly a major effort in the ongoing project of expanding and specifying our knowledge of narrative and the terms and concepts... -
Balzac's Omelette: A delicious tour of French food & culture with Balzac by Anka Muhlstein 9781907973222
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are'. This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein's erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honore de Balzac's writings. It is not... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: $43.85$38.26The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social,... -
Topographies by J. Hillis Miller 9780804723794
RRP: $41.28$36.67A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804723794Author J. Hillis MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 503g -
Virgin & Child by Maggie Hamand 9781909954458
RRP: $12.89$8.98Patrick, the first Irish Pope, is sure of many things: his faith, the sanctity of life, that he is a man, that he is celibate.Then all he's held true is cast into doubt.How can he act as the moral heart of the church when his convictions falter and his... -
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times by Tobias Menely 9780271078731
RRP: $36.06$31.61Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the... -
Shakespeare and Material Culture by Catherine Richardson 9780199562275
$37.64OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in... -
Telling Tales: A Student Guide to the AQA Short Story Anthology by David Wheeler 9780993218361
$26.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218361Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe Books -
A Companion to Greek Architecture by Margaret M. Miles 9781119245537
RRP: $59.28$52.36A Companion to Greek Architecture provides an expansive overview of the topic, including design, engineering, and construction as well as theory, reception, and lasting impact. Covers both sacred and secular structures and complexes, with particular... -
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton by Katie Kadue
RRP: $30.96$29.71When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking literary feats-including Michel de Montaigne and John... -
Critique of Critique by Roy Ben-Shai
RRP: $28.37$24.76What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book... -
Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Dr Valerie Wayne
$32.44This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered... -
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd 9780393339093
RRP: $30.32$27.64Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel. Ulysses, he argues, is a work written for and about the common person, offering a humane vision of a more... -
The Handbook of French Science Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier 9781649321619
RRP: $29.66$28.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649321619Author Jean-Marc LofficierFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Hollywood ComicsPublisher Hollywood ComicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume II: Prose: 1939-1948 by W. H. Auden 9780691089355
RRP: $118.68$94.66W. H. Auden's first ten years in the United States were marked by rapid and extensive change in his life and thought. He became an American citizen, fell in love with Chester Kallman, and began to reflect on American culture and to explore the ideas of... -
Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature by Joseph Carroll
RRP: $49.01$43.06In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to... -
The Cosmic Race / La raza cosmica by Jose Vasconcelos 9780801856556
RRP: $29.03$25.70In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, Jose Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present... -
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England by Professor Timothy M. Harrison
RRP: $33.54$32.06In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea change in the English seventeenth century, when, over the course of a half century, "conscience" made a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio by Guyda Armstrong 9781107609631
RRP: $30.95$26.28Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose... -
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics by Bruce R. Smith 9780226763668
RRP: $38.70$37.73In the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance, Bruce R. Smith examines and rejects the assessments of homosexual acts in moral philosophy, laws, and medical books in favor of a poetics of homosexual desire. Smith...