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Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds by Cary Wolfe
RRP: £24.00£23.03The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us... -
Israeli Stories by Joel Blocker 9780805201086
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805201086Author Joel BlockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 343gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue duree. Weaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, she shows how... -
Letters: v. 1: Books I-IV by Angelo Poliziano
RRP: £29.95£23.66Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of the Age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." His correspondence gives us an intimate glimpse of the revival of classical... -
The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology 1764-1866 by Marcus Wood 9780198187097
£72.15Collects the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville,... -
Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination by Connal Parr 9780198791591
£96.41This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been... -
Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture by Suchitra Choudhury
RRP: £72.00£56.93The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fashion and the British Empire. During the late eighteenth century, Cashmere shawls from the Indian... -
A Bloomsbury Group Reader S. P. Rosenbaum (University of Toronto) 9780631190592
RRP: £47.95£42.18Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's novelists, biographers, critics, and even political... -
Selected Orations: v. 2 by Libanius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Pagans' advocate.Libanius (AD 314-393) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items... -
1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance by Thomas Harrison
RRP: £53.00£41.79The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate... -
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference by Jacques Derrida 9780823273676
RRP: £20.99£18.37In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. This event took... -
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel by Jennifer Harford Vargas 9780190642853
RRP: £74.00£65.53An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This... -
Barcode by Jordan Frith 9781501399916
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry by Colin Nicholson
RRP: £27.99£26.01This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry. The book combines thematic chapters with in-depth analysis of key poets writing in English,... -
Autism and Representation by Mark Osteen 9780415806275
RRP: £44.99£39.28Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field... -
Romantic Religion: A Study of Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien by R.J. Reilly 9781584200475
RRP: £20.00£14.29This classic book on the four 'Oxford Christians' is now available again with a new Preface by R. J. Reilly himself. Reilly provides insights into the literary, religious and philosophical background of these extraordinary writers and thinkers, and the... -
Alexander Pope in the Making by Joseph Hone 9780198842316
RRP: £78.00£70.88How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted. As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton... -
Cultivating the Heart: Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts by Ayoush Sarmada Lazikani 9781783162642
RRP: £15.00£11.67Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling - especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow - in a range of religious texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These texts encourage, stimulate, define... -
Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England by Daniel Vitkus 9780231119054
RRP: £30.00£23.29These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before... -
The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear by Susan Snyder 9780691196619
RRP: £30.00£23.29Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions,... -
Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners: Digesting the New Social History by Chris Fitter 9780198806899
£85.70Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners is a highly original contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. It breaks important new ground in introducing readers, lay and scholarly alike, to the existence and character of the political... -
Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England by Kirilka Stavreva 9780803295865
RRP: £19.99£18.18Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective... -
A History of Victorian Literature by James Eli Adams
RRP: £31.95£28.69Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less... -
The Ephemeral Eighteenth-Century: Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting by Gillian Russell
RRP: £79.99£72.56Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustrated with examples from across the period, Gillian... -
Shakespearean Futures: Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare's Stages Today by Amy Cook
RRP: £17.00£14.72Casting is the process by which directors assign parts to actors, creating the idea of the character for the audience. Casting is how we rehearse change, as we come to see an expanded repertoire of the kinds of bodies that are selected to play the lead,... -
Shakespeare Revolutionized: The First Hundred Years of J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare Identified by James A Warren 9781733589437
RRP: £40.00£37.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733589437Author James A WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Veritas PublicationsPublisher Veritas PublicationsWeight(grams) 1334gDimensions(mm)... -
Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art by Fariha Shaikh
RRP: £23.99£21.85Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is the first book to undertake a comprehensive survey of the literature produced by nineteenth-century settler emigration.Book InformationISBN 9781474433709Author Fariha ShaikhFormat... -
The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poety by Richard Harrier 9780674094604
RRP: £66.95£52.94Thomas Wyatt is the finest English poet between Chaucer and the Elizabethans. Many poems have been wrongly attributed to him, however, and the authenticity of different versions of his lyrics has been a matter of dispute. Richard Harrier makes a... -
An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney
RRP: £50.00£46.98Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z... -
The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature by W. R. J. Barron 9780708324493
RRP: £39.99£33.17This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own - stamped on the landscape in scores of... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526132024
RRP: £85.00£69.28Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the... -
Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture by Dan Gearino
RRP: £13.99£12.59The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers. Stores could then better customize their... -
Codex Epistolaris Carolinus: Letters from the popes to the Frankish rulers, 739-791 by Rosamond McKitterick 9781802078251
RRP: £39.99£36.06The Codex epistolaris Carolinus preserves ninety-nine letters, dated between 739 and 791 and sent by the popes to the Frankish king Charlemagne and his predecessors. The compilation was commissioned by Charlemagne in 791, but the sole surviving... -
Adrienne Rich: Poetry and Prose by Adrienne Rich
£30.29In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sense of Adrienne Rich's evolution and accomplishment. Accompanying this is the latest selection of study on her life and work.About the AuthorAdrienne Rich... -
Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature by Mary Beth Rose
RRP: £26.00£24.85For most readers and spectators, heroism takes the form of public, idealized masculinity. It calls to mind socially and morally elevated men embarking on active adventures: courageously confronting danger; valiantly rescuing the helpless; exploring and... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability by Alice Hall 9781032570082
RRP: £44.99£39.68The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider... -
Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity, and the End of Culture by Simon J. James
RRP: £29.49£27.15H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he... -
British Culture of the Post-War: An Introduction to Literature and Society 1945-1999 by Alastair Davies 9780415128117
RRP: £37.99£33.38From Angus Wilson to Pat Barker and Salman Rushdie, British Culture of the Post-War is an ideal starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain of recent years. Chapters on individual people and art forms give a clear and concise... -
An Analysis of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government Jeremy Kleidosty 9781912127559
RRP: £6.50£6.11John Locke's 1689 Two Treatises of Government is a key text in the history of political theory - one whose influence remains marked on modern politics, the American Constitution and beyond. Two Treatises is more than a seminal work on the nature and... -
The Gothic World by Glennis Byron
RRP: £45.99£40.13The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in exciting new directions, including film, politics,...