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The Savage Detectives Reread by David Kurnick
RRP: $33.13$26.62The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolano's novel has also been called an exercise in... -
Social Authorship and the Advent of Print Margaret J. M. Ezell (Texas A&M University) 9780801877377
RRP: $51.68$49.35How did academic and literary writers living in rural Britain in the 1680s establish their careers and find audiences for their work? What factors influenced the choices of essayists and dramatists who lived outside London and the university cities? Who... -
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Dr. Andy Hines
RRP: $42.90$41.38A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism. This striking contribution to Black literary... -
The Cambridge World History of Lexicography by John Considine
$57.29A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, and the Greco-Roman world,... -
How Literatures Begin: A Global History by Joel B. Lande 9780691186528
RRP: $62.40$49.06A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that... -
Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory by Milija Gluhovic
RRP: $31.18$29.70Why has memory become such an important political tool in response to the challenges of modernity? How can performance be used to probe and recuperate aspects of the past, and what are the ethical and political questions that arise when it does so? And... -
Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time by Jeffrey Masten
RRP: $54.58$47.07For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to... -
Palace of Books by Roger Grenier
RRP: $27.30$23.91For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art. Under Grenier's wry gaze, cliches crumble, and offbeat... -
George Douglas Brown's House with the Green Shutters by Iain Crichton-Smith 9780948877032
RRP: $13.55$10.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877032Author Iain Crichton-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish... -
All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction by Lilian R. Furst 9780822316466
RRP: $40.93$35.82"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst seeks to reconcile these contradictory claims. In doing... -
The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing by Gerald Dawe 9781788550284
$76.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788550284Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Class Gary Day 9780415182232
RRP: $50.68$44.13This book traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, uniquely examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary writings, Gary Day:* gives an account of class at... -
Historia Peredur Vab Efrawc by Glenys Goetinck 9780708326206
RRP: $9.73$7.88One of three romances originating in the mists of Arthurian legend.Book InformationISBN 9780708326206Author Glenys GoetinckFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales Press -
Sherlock Holmes by Mark Campbell 9781842438879
RRP: $15.58$11.02Who is Holmes? The world's most famous detective? A drug addict with a heart as cold as ice? A millstone around the neck of his creator? He's all of these things and much, much more. Sherlock Holmes was the brainchild of Portsmouth GP Arthur Conan Doyle... -
At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean by Steve Mentz
$54.58This is a fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery. We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There's more real salt in the plays than we... -
Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? Ato Quayson (University of Toronto) 9780745617138
RRP: $35.08$31.28This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies.About the AuthorAto Quayson is Lecturer in English and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.Reviews'Quayson's summary of the essence of the... -
Be Kind by TEEN Breathe 9781781454749
RRP: $19.48$13.26Be Kind is a guided notebook with tools, advice and inspiration to help teenagers be compassionate to themselves and others.Book InformationISBN 9781781454749Author TEEN BreatheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ammonite PressPublisher GMC... -
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 9781107037779
$197.55This is the first complete scholarly edition of one of Hardy's greatest novels. The Return of the Native engages ambitiously with contemporary ideas and problems of existence, and would go on to become one of the major 'Wessex novels'. When composed in... -
The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire: Laughing and Lying by Maria Plaza 9780199237937
$77.49Maria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Her starting point is that satire is driven by two motives, which are to a certain extent opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious... -
The Spanish Tragedy: A Critical Reader by Thomas Rist
RRP: $48.73$45.65The Spanish Tragedy was the first 'revenge tragedy' on the English Renaissance stage: but for its influence, major dramas including The Revenger's Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi and even Hamlet would not exist as they do. It is thus a key text for the... -
Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide by Patrick Collier
RRP: $38.98$34.34Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal... -
Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color by Nicholas Gaskill
RRP: $38.98$34.20The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880-1930Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children's books to the... -
Modern Theories of Drama: A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre, 1850-1990 by George W. Brandt 9780198711391
$93.13Modern Theories of Drama concentrates on the developments in dramatic theory over the last 150 years, providing a crucial resource for students of drama and theatre studies. From Aristotle's Poetics onwards, drama - especially 'serious' drama - has been... -
Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster by Dennis Barone
RRP: $46.78$40.64The novels of Paul Auster-finely wrought, self-reflexive, filled with doublings, coincidences, and mysteries-have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first... -
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire by Elleke Boehmer 9780198744184
RRP: $109.20$107.82Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry... -
Renaissance Drama Sandra Clark (Birkbeck College) 9780745633114
RRP: $35.08$31.28Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern England produced for the professional theatre. It brings new insights to bear by exploring the plays in their... -
British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology by Paula R. Backscheider
$81.10This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R... -
Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History by Janet Montefiore
RRP: $81.88$71.66Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what... -
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics by Patricia Fumerton
RRP: $144.30$127.63In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustrations, a popular tune title, and a poem. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, and fugitive—individual elements... -
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 9780520390485
RRP: $31.18$21.29Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature.Dictee is the best-known work of... -
Reading Experimental Writing by Georgina Colby
RRP: $50.68$41.07Bringing together internationally leading scholars and practitioners whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the question of 'reading' in the contemporary climate from culturally and linguistically... -
English Prose of the Nineteenth Century by Hilary Fraser 9780582051362
RRP: $91.63$69.85Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticisim, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage... -
Byron J. Drummond Bone 9780746307755
$38.75After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas... -
The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time by Helen Small
RRP: $75.06$64.33Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they... -
Drivetime: Literary Excursions in Automotive Consciousness by Lynne Pearce
RRP: $46.78$42.61What sorts of things do we think about when we're driving or being driven in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from 'the motoring century' (1900-2000), paying particular... -
Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative by Hanna Meretoja 9780367667481
RRP: $81.88$72.44In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our dreams, fantasies, aspirations, historical... -
Charlotte Bronte by Dr. Patsy Stoneman 9780746308561
RRP: $36.45$25.99Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is one of the most famous novels in the world; its heroine's spirited response to hardship and temptation has engaged an eager readership since its publication in 1847. Jane Eyre, however, was not Charlotte Bronte's only... -
Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King's IT by Whitney S. May 9781496842237
$66.30Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in... -
Ethics, Security, and the War Machine by Ned Dobos 9780192887849
RRP: $46.78$42.24If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization-or... -
Creative Storytelling: Building Community/Changing Lives by Jack Zipes
RRP: $70.18$61.80Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive...