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Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure by Simon Avery
$51.54This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the texts and explores the diverse range of interpretations... -
Imagining Spectatorship: From the Mysteries to the Shakespearean Stage by John J. McGavin
RRP: $51.66$47.99Oxford 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... -
Wordsworth and the Victorians by Stephen Gill 9780198119654
$73.38Wordsworth was an eighteenth-century contemporary of Blake and his greatest poetry was composed before Keats had written a line. His impact, however, was not fully registered until the Victorian period, when it became common to place his poetry in the... -
The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader by Brian Walsh
RRP: $48.73$45.65The Revenger's Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its... -
Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity: Toward a Phenomenology of Value by Charles Altieri 9780801478727
RRP: $62.40$55.01Charles Altieri, one of our foremost analysts of modernism, has in his recent work argued for the importance of the affects, which philosophy has too long subordinated to cognition and ethics. In Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity, Altieri... -
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 by L.M. Montgomery 9781487523695
RRP: $40.93$34.20Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a... -
Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in The Tatler and The Spectator Erin Mackie (Syracuse University) 9780801872532
RRP: $54.60$53.41In Market a la Mode, Erin Mackie examines the role that The Tatler and The Spectator, two eighteenth-century British lifestyle magazines, played in the growth of fashion and how they influenced their readers. She traces the commercial context in which... -
Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century by Claudia T. Kairoff
$98.01Anna Seward and her career defy easy placement into the traditional periods of British literature. Raised to emulate the great poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing in the Age of Sensibility, and publishing during the early Romantic era, Seward... -
A Complicated Jew: Selected Essays by Hillel Halkin 9781642938104
RRP: $42.90$27.40Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical-Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish culture and life are an education in themselves.Hillel Halkin is widely admired for his works of literary... -
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century by Walter Benn Michaels
RRP: $52.65$41.07"The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism" discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines... -
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott
RRP: $44.83$39.02Winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies! Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black... -
What Was Literary Impressionism? by Michael Fried
RRP: $81.80$65.52"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more, and it is every-thing." So wrote Joseph Conrad in the best-known account of literary... -
Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context by Golan Y. Moskowitz
RRP: $48.73$42.26Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928-2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and... -
The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders Martyn Colebrook 9780786442256
RRP: $42.88$36.17This collection of 12 new essays brings together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work. It considers Banks as a habitual border crosser who makes things... -
Titus Andronicus: Critical Essays Philip Kolin 9781138892354
RRP: $72.13$64.21Originally published in 1995. In three parts - introduction, criticism and reviews - this volume examines the goriest of Shakespeare's works. The editor's exhaustive introduction runs through the pattern of changing scholarship and commentary,... -
Oral Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Zumthor 9780816617258
RRP: $40.93$35.82This book aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral, or spoken, poetry. Paul Zumthor, a literary theorist, discusses the development of oral poetry from antiquity to the present in all its aspects: the forms... -
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism Charles Bernheimer 9780801850059
RRP: $54.60$53.41In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful-and controversial-influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly... -
The Blithedale Romance: A Norton Critical Edition by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$40.33This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations to help readers with Hawthorne's many... -
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy by Michael Robertson
RRP: $68.25$54.87The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale,... -
A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide by Kenneth Hsien-Yung Pai
RRP: $58.50$45.42The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature, beloved by readers ever since it was first published in 1791. The story revolves around the young scion of a mighty clan who,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift by Christopher Fox
RRP: $60.43$52.20The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and... -
The Conjure Stories by Charles W. Chesnutt
RRP: $29.23$25.41This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern how Chesnutt experimented with plots and characters and with the idea of the conjure story over time. With one... -
Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan by Marc Redfield
RRP: $52.63$45.47Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities. In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members... -
Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-SiAcle to the Present by Hillary Hope Herzog 9780857451811
RRP: $193.05$156.92Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city... -
The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art by Dr Andy Brown
RRP: $40.93$35.96Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of... -
Classica et Mediaevalia 65: DANISH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY by George Hinge
RRP: $111.13$90.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763543958Author George HingeFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity by Ian Finseth 9780190848347
RRP: $167.70$140.73The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a massive array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861... -
On Tarrying Joseph Vogl 9780857427243
RRP: $19.48$19.09Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy and political theory,... -
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature Sonya Posmentier (Assistant Professor, New York University) 9781421437934
RRP: $51.68$49.35A transformative literary history of black environmental writing.Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language AssociationAt the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of Black literary response... -
Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading by Leona Toker 9780253043535
RRP: $62.40$55.01Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's book shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives... -
Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy by Arthur E. Gordon
RRP: $78.00$71.12This is a much-needed textbook for students of epigraphy and an up-to-date reference work for scholars. Central to the work are its photos. Professor Gordon presents 100 Latin inscriptions arranged in chronological order and illustrated by the best... -
The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France by Andrew J. Counter 9780198785996
$204.75When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they... -
Jeanette Winterson by Susana Onega 9780719068393
RRP: $38.98$34.75This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work. Susana Onega combines the study of formal issues such as narrative... -
"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by G - A Newly Uncovered Manuscript Source for Shakespeare`s Plays by Dennis McCarthy
RRP: $126.75$122.48A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text. New sources for Shakespeare do not turn up every day... This is a truly significant one that has not heretofore been... -
Transgender and the Literary Imagination: Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing by Rachel Carroll 9781474462723
RRP: $46.78$42.61Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.Book... -
Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic by Vincent Carretta
RRP: $70.20$69.11Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates... -
The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities: Possibility as Reality by Professor Genese Grill
RRP: $48.73$46.64The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical... -
Hermeneutics: Writings and Lectures Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) 9780745661223
RRP: $35.08$31.28Paul Ricoeur's contribution to the theory of interpretation, or hermeneutics, is considerable: he ranks among the masters of this discipline alongside Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. In addition to major works like The Conflict of... -
Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory by Jyotsna G. Singh 9781408185544
$63.47Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and poetics. Taking a historical perspective, it covers... -
Anglo-Saxon Conversations - The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata by Scott Gwara
RRP: $156.00$149.39Translation (and text) of colloquies gives vivid picture of Anglo-Saxon monastic education. The monk Aelfric Bata is the only identifiable graduate of the school of Aelfric `Grammaticus', the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon homilist whose Grammar, Glossary...