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Elizabeth I: Translations, 1592-1598 by Janel Mueller 9780226201320
RRP: $115.50$96.79England's Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and... -
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference by Jacques Derrida 9780823273676
RRP: $44.08$39.19In 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... -
Thoughts and Things by Leo Bersani 9780226705170
RRP: $37.80$36.94Leo 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... -
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by Philip Yampolsky 9780231159579
RRP: $63.00$48.91Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son... -
Against the Grain: Selected Essays by Terry Eagleton 9780860918417
RRP: $33.58$30.05These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences.Eagleton's combative... -
Engagements with Narrative Janine Utell 9780415732468
RRP: $75.58$66.55Balancing key foundational topics with new developments and trends, Engagements with Narrative offers an accessible introduction to narratology. As new narrative forms and media emerge, the study of narrative and the ways people communicate through... -
Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition by Aaron Kamugisha
RRP: $50.38$43.76Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended... -
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone by Susan Paterson Glover
RRP: $83.98$73.63Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an... -
Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830: Volume 2 by Claire Connolly
$222.35The years between 1780 and 1830 are vital decades in the history of Irish writing in English. This book charts the confluence of Enlightenment, antiquarian, and romantic energies within Irish literary culture and shows how different writers and genres... -
Beats, Bohemians and Intellectuals by Jim Burns 9780905488578
RRP: $18.88$16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905488578Author Jim BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Trent EditionsPublisher Trent Editions -
A Companion to Sensation Fiction Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida, USA) 9781405195584
RRP: $79.70$71.61This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and... -
Letters from the Dust Bowl by Caroline Henderson 9780806135403
RRP: $39.80$28.31In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American ""understanding of some of our farm problems."" His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson's articles, which... -
What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century by Kathleen Lubey
RRP: $46.18$40.30What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts... -
Roman History by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: $52.40$52.16A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles by William Hughes 9781786832337
RRP: $157.50$126.11Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve... -
A Companion to Medieval Poetry Corinne Saunders (University of Durham, UK) 9781405159630
RRP: $81.80$73.35MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative, and alliterative poetry of the 15th century... -
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle
RRP: $50.38$43.76In 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... -
John Milton Complete Shorter Poems Stella P. Revard (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville) 9781405129275
RRP: $69.20$62.83An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced... -
Ideology by David Hawkes 9780415290128
RRP: $54.58$47.52This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of ideology after September 11.Ideology:*traces the history of the term and the debates which surround... -
Modernist Fiction: An Introduction by R. W. Stevenson
$96.56In the revised edition of this popular text, Randall Stevenson has expanded, re-emphasised and amended his work to make it even more relevant to today's student studying the Modernist period in literature. The book covers a wide range of modernist... -
Treasure Neverland: Real and Imaginary Pirates by Neil Rennie
$61.28Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and tales of their exploits are still popular today. Most people have heard of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd even though... -
Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 by Chelsea Phillips
RRP: $69.30$60.54The 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... -
The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert 9780984475292
RRP: $23.08$15.96Elisa Gabbert's The Self Unstable combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the... -
G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870 Jennifer Conary 9781032416380
RRP: $75.58$67.91This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular... -
Genius in France: An Idea and Its Uses by Ann Jefferson 9780691160658
RRP: $84.00$67.05This engaging book spans three centuries to provide the first full account of the long and diverse history of genius in France. Exploring a wide range of examples from literature, philosophy, and history, as well as medicine, psychology, and journalism,... -
The Poems of Browning: Volume Two: 1841-1846 by Robert Browning 9780582063990
RRP: $109.18$107.73The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet. Volume... -
A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952) by Joseph Sherman 9780367602031
RRP: $83.98$73.63In this book, the authors explore Peretz Markish's entire career from his famous early modernist poetry to his post-war Yiddish literature that responded to Nazi and Soviet state-sponsored violence, and everything in between.About the AuthorJoseph... -
A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader by Leonard Harris
$60.59Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought. Harris' writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain... -
The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman
RRP: $52.48$45.51For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new... -
Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire by William G. Thalmann
RRP: $121.80$109.96Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus's Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space--its contours and borders, along with the people, animals, and objects that fill it--and the equally important role of absence... -
The Barcelona Reader: Cultural Readings of a City by Enric Bou 9781786940322
RRP: $57.75$51.56Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a... -
Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England by Stephen Orgel 9780719081699
RRP: $41.98$36.98Why 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... -
Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern by Todd McCaffrey 9781937856830
RRP: $23.08$22.26When Anne McCaffrey passed in November 2011, it was not only those closest to her who mourned her death; legions of readers also felt the loss deeply. The pioneering science fiction author behind the Dragonriders of Pern(R) series crafted intricate... -
The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France by Raisa Adah Rexer
RRP: $105.00$91.16Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form-artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between-were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal... -
They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir by Flora Veit-Wild 9781847013347
RRP: $52.48$50.23Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature. ... -
Rural India and Peasantry in Hindi Stories: Narratives After Premchand by Vanashree
$174.87Rural narratives after Premchand remained unnoticed because of not being written in English. Rural India and Peasantry: Ethnography in stories after Premchand is a study of literary representation of rural life in a vast expanse of land designated as the... -
The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition by Michael Hunter
RRP: $63.00$48.91The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called "Masters" of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry,... -
Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall by Stanislao G. Pugliese 9780823233595
RRP: $65.10$57.46More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi fell to his death from the stairwell of his apartment building in Turin. Within hours, a debate exploded as to whether his death was an accident or a suicide and,... -
An Analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America Elizabeth Morrow 9781912127542
RRP: $13.65$13.04Alexis de Tocqueville's 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory - and of the problem-solving skills central to putting forward political ideas. Problem-solving has several aspects: identifying problems, finding methodologies to deal... -
Identities by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780226284392
RRP: $46.20$45.40The 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...