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Hostages of the Jade Wolf by Keith Brumpton 9781789980950
RRP: £5.99£4.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789980950Author Keith BrumptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The Secret Book CompanyPublisher The Secret Book CompanyWeight(grams) 234g -
Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places by Margaret Anne Doody
RRP: £21.00£18.16In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue... -
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan by Michael Davies
£47.92The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and... -
Ampersand by Lydia Fulleylove 9781912436897
RRP: £10.99£7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436897Author Lydia FulleyloveFormat PaperbackImprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
An Analysis of St. Benedict's The Rule of St. Benedict Benjamin Laird 9781912127467
RRP: £6.50£6.11The Rule of St Benedict, written around 1500 years ago by the Italian monk St Benedict of Nursia, is a slim handbook for monastic life - a subject many modern readers would regard as relatively niche. It is, however, also a model of the organized and... -
A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge John Gibson (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA) 9780415875530
RRP: £45.99£40.53A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this... -
The Age of Nightmare by Jeremy Black 9781587310096
RRP: £20.00£16.98Historian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel his greatest service is the preservation of the detail--namely, the human impetus behind art that is often undervalued. Gothic novelists were purposeful,... -
Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship by Professor Lillian Nayder 9780801476853
RRP: £26.99£23.32In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and... -
Dickens at Work: Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 1 by John Butt 9780415569095
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens' actual methods and conditions of work; much of this evidence is examined and co-ordinated here for the first time. It includes Dickens'... -
Siege of Jerusalem by Michael Livingston
RRP: £13.00£11.02The fourteenth-century Siege of Jerusalem has been called by Ralph Hanna "the chocolate-covered tarantula of the alliterative movement" for its apparent anti-Semitism and is, as Livingston notes in his introduction, "simply difficult for... -
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 1: The Debate Poems: Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaigne, Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, Le Lay de Plour by R. Barton Palmer
RRP: £35.00£29.82Guillaume de Machaut is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. His unique and inventive output is the subject of this new, integrated edition of Machaut's complete poetry and music. Volume 1, The Debate Series, presents the two... -
Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity by Michael Ragussis
RRP: £23.99£21.24"I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew."-Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of... -
An Analysis of Moses Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed Mark Scarlata 9781912453634
RRP: £5.99£5.68Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical language-and apparent inconsistencies in the text-in the light of philosophy and scientific reason. Composed as a... -
The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet Alfred Thomas (Royalty Account) 9781843845669
RRP: £80.00£76.61First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs in the court of Richard II. Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has been somewhat overlooked, with previous... -
Vineland Reread by Peter Coviello
RRP: £16.99£13.65Vineland is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity's Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the... -
The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse by Roberta Frank
RRP: £54.00£46.79In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet's workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets. This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into... -
E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry by Norman Friedman
£26.93Originally published in 1960. In E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry, Norman Friedman argues that critics who have focused on what Cummings's poetry lacks have failed to judge Cummings on his strengths. Friedman identifies a main strength of Cummings... -
Collected Screenplays 1 by Harold Pinter
RRP: £25.00£17.40There is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate skill and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other authors, make the three volumes of his... -
Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897-1959 by Edward G. Seidensticker
£26.33Kafu the Scribbler is neither pure biography nor pure criticism nor yet a pure anthology, but a blending of the three. It is an introduction to Nagai Kafu and his city, accompanied by a fairly generous sampling from his works.About the AuthorEdward... -
Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion Jacob Risinger 9780691203430
RRP: £30.00£27.39An exploration of Stoicism's central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers... -
Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision by Prof Peter Goodrich 9780192848772
RRP: £78.00£71.28A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use... -
Lancelot-Grail: 9. The Post-Vulgate Cycle. The Q - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £30.00£27.08The revised version of The Quest of the Holy Grail gives a greater role to Perceval, and introduces a number of knights not found in the Vulgate; but the largest change is that much of the story of Tristan (and of his rivalPalamedes) is incorporated into... -
The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods Herman Rapaport (Wake Forest University, USA) 9781405170475
RRP: £19.95£17.67The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all... -
Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation by Peter Riley
RRP: £74.00£59.26In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and... -
Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600 Joanna Bellis (Royalty Account) 9781783271559
RRP: £80.00£76.61An examination of written and other responses to conflict in a variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict... -
The Portable Cixous by Helene Cixous
RRP: £28.00£21.80Helene Cixous is more than an influential theorist. She is also a groundbreaking author and playwright. Combining an idiosyncratic mix of autobiographical and fictional narrative with a host of philosophical and poetic observations, Cixous's writing... -
Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology by Robert E. Innis
RRP: £20.99£18.37" . . . fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interested in semiotics . . . This collection will surely become a standard text for those who teach semiotics, aesthetics or philosophy of language." -International Philosophical QuarterlyThis... -
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher 9780231162654
RRP: £22.00£17.36Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a... -
A Students Guide to Classics by Bruce S. Thornton
RRP: £8.95£5.16Provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested readings, this is unparalleled as a brief introduction to the... -
Supernatural Shakespeare: Folk Belief and Ritual in Elizabethan England by J. Snodgrass
RRP: £17.95£13.49Immerse yourself in Shakespeare's magical world, filled with supernatural encounters with faeries, ghosts and witches. Frolic with royalty, wander through forests, and experience love layered with enchantment. The Bard's use of these fantastical... -
Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art by David Mikics 9780393246872
RRP: £36.50£29.65David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellow's work through the real-life relationships and friendships that Bellow transmuted into the genius of his art... -
A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake David Womersley (University of Oxford) 9780631212850
RRP: £46.95£41.94This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. The Companion is... -
Goethe: Faust Part One by Nicholas Boyle
RRP: £23.99£19.99Nicholas Boyle begins with a fascinating survey of earlier versions of the Faust story. He then offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, emphasising the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and tracing its links with the thought and culture of... -
Identities by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780226284392
RRP: £22.00£21.62The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class and gender in feminist, lesbian and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and... -
Thoughts and Things by Leo Bersani 9780226705170
RRP: £18.00£17.59Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields-including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that... -
Blanket by Kara Thompson
RRP: £9.99£9.26Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness... -
Carmen De Burgos: Three Novellas: <i>Confidencias</i>, <i>La Mujer Fria</i> and <i>PunAl De Claveles</I> by Abigail Lee Six 9780719097119
RRP: £14.99£13.64Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), an influential journalist, socio-political activist, and a key literary figure in the cultural ferment of pre-war Madrid, is currently being rediscovered, having languished in a long and regrettable oblivion during the... -
Cormac McCarthy in Context by Steven Frye 9781108488839
RRP: £111.00£110.95Cormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences... -
Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians by Patrick Brantlinger
RRP: £24.99£21.67In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that... -
Deleuze and Performance by Laura Cull
RRP: £31.00£28.69Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in...