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The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry by Eric Griffiths 9780198827016
€101.98The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak. Intonation, accent, tempo, and pitch of utterance can be inferred from a written text but they are not clearly demonstrated there... -
Agrip Af Noregskonungasogum by M. J. Driscoll 9780903521758
RRP: €14.28€11.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521758Author M J DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Absentees - On Variously Missing Persons by Daniel Heller-roazen
RRP: €38.08€28.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130475Author Daniel Heller-roazenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 616gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 156mm *... -
Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy by Joan E. McRae
RRP: €54.73€48.23Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making this an essential addition to any library with a medieval literature or French literature collection.Book InformationISBN... -
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal by Christopher Stray 9780198777366
€124.95Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in... -
Gothic Shakespeares by John Drakakis
RRP: €45.21€39.72Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties... -
The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During
RRP: €47.60€39.97In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved,... -
Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties by Philip E. Wegner
RRP: €26.17€22.84Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a... -
Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture by Dr Barry J. Faulk 9780821420959
€29.17The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell... -
Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey by Janet Brennan Croft 9780786474387
RRP: €26.17€21.38Widely considered one of the leading experts on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Thomas Alan Shippey has informed and enlightened a generation of Tolkien scholars and fans. In this collection, former students and colleagues honour Shippey with 15 essays... -
Fleabag Shrine: Diverse Particulars Apropos of N Degrees 9 rue Git-le-Coeur by Gregory Stephenson
RRP: €7.14€6.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797156933Author Gregory StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Ober-Limbo VerlagPublisher Ober-Limbo VerlagWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
A Companion to Hellenistic Literature James J. Clauss (University of Washington, USA) 9781118782903
RRP: €46.35€41.17Offering unparalleled scope, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature in 30 newly commissioned essays explores the social and intellectual contexts of literature production in the Hellenistic period, and examines the relationship between Hellenistic and... -
Hume's Philosophy in Historical Perspective by M. A. Stewart 9780199547319
RRP: €127.93€115.66David Hume was a highly original thinker. Nevertheless, he was a writer of his time and place in the history of philosophy. In this book, M. A. Stewart puts Hume's writing in context, particularly that of his native Scotland, but also that of British and... -
Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century by Michael Taylor 9780198711841
RRP: €30.33€25.35Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to... -
An Analysis of Alan D. Baddeley and Graham Hitch's Working Memory Birgit Koopmann-Holm 9781912128723
RRP: €7.74€7.27The work of memory researchers Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch is a prime example of the ways in which good critical thinkers approach questions and the problems they raise. In the 1960s, researchers into human memory began to understand memory as... -
Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 by Walter Stephens 9781421426877
RRP: €56.53€49.94Why was the Renaissance also the golden age of forgery?Forgery is an eternal problem. In literature and the writing of history, suspiciously attributed texts can be uniquely revealing when subjected to a nuanced critique. False and spurious writings... -
Epic and Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh by Dick Davis 9781933823058
RRP: €23.79€20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823058Author Dick DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 352g -
Disappointment: Its Modern Roots from Spinoza to Contemporary Literature by Dr Michael Mack
RRP: €28.55€28.35Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trump's 'America first' policies, this book challenges the idea that they are motivated solely by fear and instead looks at the hope and promises that drive these renewed forms of nationalism. Addressing... -
Romance of Evast and Blaquerna Ramon Llull 9781855663046
€24.26The first major work of literature written in Catalan and arguably the first European novel. The Romance of Evast and Blaquerna is a novel in which Ramon Llull rebelled against secular literature of chivalry and the court in general, which was so... -
How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters by Karl Steel
RRP: €24.98€21.86From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had... -
Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth and Literary Culture, 1150 - 1200 by Heather Blurton
RRP: €59.50€51.66William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the long history of antisemitism... -
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 4: 1790-1880 by Norman Vance 9780198859222
€56.01The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering... -
The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and its Discontents by Professor Ritchie Robertson 9780199248889
€68.66The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust... -
Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 by Chelsea Phillips
RRP: €39.27€34.57The rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective... -
Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810 by Harriet Guest 9780226310527
RRP: €35.70€34.81During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educatedwomen and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet... -
Roger Zelazny by F. Brett Cox
RRP: €26.17€22.84Challenging convention with the SF nonconformist Roger Zelazny combined poetic prose with fearless literary ambition to become one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1960s. Yet many critics found his later novels underachieving and... -
The Dream of Absolutism: Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity by Hall Bjornstad
RRP: €32.13€31.50What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained-and what is lost-by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend to... -
Pig's Tales: Stand Up Stories, Comic Poetry & Juggling Potatoes by Clive Pig 9780956948236
RRP: €7.13€4.82Age range 6 to 9 PiG's Tales is especially suited to the young at heart,particularly for playful 5 -11 year olds and their parents.But to tell the truth, anyone of any shape or size who likesa good yarn and a laugh would enjoy opening the pagesof PiG's... -
Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England by Stephen Orgel 9780719081699
RRP: €23.79€20.96Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as... -
Because of Ye Bleedin' Spanner by John Smith 9781398495043
RRP: €13.08€9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495043Author John SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Rhetoric of Romanticism by Paul de Man 9780231055277
RRP: €38.08€34.66This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism.Reading Paul de Man taught a generation of American critics what critical readings... -
Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community by Kirstie Blair
RRP: €105.91€84.56This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide... -
The Jack Reacher Field Manual: An Unofficial Companion to Lee Child's Reacher Novels by George Beahm 9781941631027
RRP: €13.08€10.78You don't know Jack--Jack Reacher, that is ...In The Jack Reacher Field Manual: An Unofficial Companion to Lee Child's Reacher Novels, from ex-Army major and New York Times bestselling author George Beahm, get up-close and personal with Reacher like... -
Charles Dickens: The Critical Heritage by Philip Collins
RRP: €54.73€48.23The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on... -
Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen by Simon Bacon 9781476675381
RRP: €26.17€22.07Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age. This book is a study of... -
Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650-1765 by Melinda Alliker Rabb
RRP: €36.88€27.19Focusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function of the small-scale during the period from 1650 to 1765. Drawing on three interconnected areas of... -
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume 1 by Donald H. Reiman 9780801861192
RRP: €140.42€123.80A 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism by Pericles Lewis
RRP: €28.55€20.38Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth... -
Words Of A Rebel by Peter Kropotkin 9781629638775
RRP: €28.55€18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638775Author Peter KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Forms of Poetic Attention by Lucy Alford
RRP: €65.45€51.54A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention...