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Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Ruth Glancy 9780415287609
RRP: €35.69€31.70Since its publication in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has remained the best-known fictional recreation of the French Revolution, and one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. A Tale of Two Cities blends a moving love story with the familiar figures of... -
Early Shakespeare, 1588-1594 by Rory Loughnane
RRP: €107.10€96.90Early Shakespeare, 1588-1594 draws together leading scholars of text, performance, and theatre history to offer a rigorous re-appraisal of Shakespeare's early career. The contributors offer rich new critical insights into the theatrical and poetic... -
Gerard Manley Hopkins by Angus Easson
RRP: €45.21€39.72Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writers of the Victorian period. Experimental and idiosyncratic, his work remains important for any student of nineteenth-century literature and culture.This guide to Hopkins' life and work offers: a... -
Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba by Federico Garc Ia Lorca 9780837195780
€99.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorrcia Lorca /f FedericoBook InformationISBN 9780837195780Format HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing... -
The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject by Paul Virilio 9780745648644
RRP: €17.84€16.01With around 645 million people expected to be displaced D by wars and other catastrophes D by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city. What he finds is... -
Medieval Persian Court Poetry by Julie Scott Meisami 9780691601779
RRP: €59.50€46.55Dr. Meisami discloses previously neglected stylistic qualities and ethical purposes in medieval Persian court poetry, and shows that court poets were also moral instructors who examined and celebrated the values they shared with their audiences. The book... -
Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age by Colin Jager
RRP: €83.30€72.24In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social... -
Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics by Akinwumi Adesokan 9780253223456
RRP: €23.79€20.87What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production and circulation of... -
Virgil's Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England by Andrew Wallace 9780199591244
€113.51Virgil's Schoolboys adds a new layer of complexity to Virgil's already complex pedagogical afterlife. Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of instruction, Andrew Wallace examines the relationship between his serial meditations on... -
A Familiar Compound Ghost: Allusion and the Uncanny by Sarah Annes Brown 9780719085154
RRP: €101.15€71.60A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or... -
D. H. Lawrence: The Croydon Years by Helen Corke
RRP: €19.03€16.95Croydon, England, was the setting of the famous three-way friendship of D. H. Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, and Helen Corke, all of whom made literary records of their association, and all of whom appeared as characters in Lawrence novels. Perhaps the most... -
Earl of Rochester: The Critical Heritage by David Farley-Hills
RRP: €23.79€21.53The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Book InformationISBN... -
Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond: Volume 48 by Cynthia Carson Bisbee 9780773555068
RRP: €73.78€63.74Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917-2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested in the biological nature of mental illness... -
Nervous System: The Story of a Novelist Who Lost His Mind by Jan Lars Jensen 9781840467932
RRP: €15.46€10.19This is a memoir in the vein of Plath's "Bell Jar". A few months after selling his first book to a major publisher, Jan Lars Jensen woke in a psychiatric ward, only to find that the ideas that had inspired his fiction now roamed through his waking... -
Postmodernism: The Key Figures Hans Bertens (Utrecht University) 9780631217978
RRP: €48.73€42.71Featuring summaries of postmodernism's greatest literary, cultural, and political champions written by a diverse group of scholars, Postmodernism: The Key Figures captures the dominance of a theoretical paradigm that has done nothing less than re-define... -
The Buke of the Howlat by Richard Holland Ralph Hanna, III 9781897976395
RRP: €47.60€45.87Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features. The Buke of the Howlat was composed in the late 1440s for Elizabeth Douglas, wife of Archibald Douglas, earl of Moray. It is one of the great monuments of... -
Robert E. Howard: A Closer Look by Charles Hoffman 9781614983118
RRP: €23.80€22.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983118Author Charles HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England by Claire M. L. Bourne
RRP: €108.29€103.48Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed... -
The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes by Han Baltussen
RRP: €83.30€72.24Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences for exercising free speech. In this collection of... -
Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801 - 1902 by Peter Hunt
RRP: €65.39€57.23Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and... -
Croxton Play of the Sacrament by John T. Sebastian
RRP: €20.83€17.26The Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which survives in a single sixteenth-century copy, dramatizes the physical abuse by five Muhammad-worshipping Syrian Jews of a Host, the bread consecrated by a priest during the Christian Mass. The text is the work of a... -
A Saucer Full of Secrets by Pam Henry 9781782189329
RRP: €13.08€10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782189329Author Pam HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Currach PressPublisher Columba BooksWeight(grams) 134g -
Cicero's Topica: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Tobias Reinhardt 9780199207718
€83.25Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission. Cicero recommends an Aristotelian... -
Creative Writing and the New Humanities by Paul Dawson 9780415332217
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book examines the institutional history and disciplinary future of creative writing in the contemporary academy, looking well beyond the perennial questions 'can writing be taught?' and 'should writing be taught?'.Paul Dawson traces the emergence of... -
The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: €26.78€26.63'About the AuthorAlbert J. Wehrle taught Russian at Goucher College and the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a traqnslator in Washington, D.C.ReviewsWith this critical study... the most exhaustive Marxist analysis and refutation of Russian... -
Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis by Theodoros Chiotis
RRP: €13.08€9.09Futures features some of the most daring new voices in Greek poetry, together with international poets with Greek connections. These bold, impassioned and critically aware texts stake new poetic and political ground: they articulate what it means to live... -
Superhero Comics by Christopher Gavaler
€38.02A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals: *The history of... -
Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall 9780199562022
RRP: €47.59€47.37Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's finest poets - combatants and non-combatants alike - and... -
Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in 17th-Century England by Achsah Guibbory 9780199681709
€50.27Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in 17th-Century England is a cultural history of seventeenth-century England. It assesses the complexity and fluidity of Christian identity from the reign of Elizabeth I and the early Stuart kings through the English... -
Romantic Writings by Stephen Bygrave
RRP: €30.93€20.31Romantic Writings is an ideal introduction to the cultural phenomenon of Romanticism - one of the most important European literary movements and the cradle of 'Modern' culture. Here you will find an accessible introduction to the well-known male Romantic... -
How Sherlock Pulled the Trick: Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method by Brian McCuskey
RRP: €35.64€32.02A masterful combination of literary study and author biography, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick guides us through the parallel careers of two inseparable men: Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Reconsidering Holmes in light of Doyle's... -
The Way God Intended Me to Be by Dola Fashola 9780990348696
RRP: €11.89€11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990348696Author Dola FasholaFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Adedola FasholaPublisher Adedola FasholaWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *... -
Understanding Lord of the Flies: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Kirstin Olsen
RRP: €58.31€33.27A seemingly simple tale of schoolboys marooned on an island, Lord of the Flies has proven to be one of the most enigmatic and provocative pieces of literature ever published. This casebook probes the many layers of meaning in the novel, examining its... -
Watch and Ward by Henry James
€107.43The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. While Watch and Ward has long been dismissed as an early... -
Shaped by Stories: The Ethical Power of Narratives by Marshall Gregory
RRP: €27.36€23.81In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians, pastors, and teachers. He then explores the ethical... -
Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism Linda Kauffman (University of Maryland, College Park) 9780631163565
RRP: €46.35€40.70The political force of feminism cannot be separated from the theories which give it that force. an effective feminist literary criticism must negotiate its relationship to the dominant male voice of traditional practices. Can it change that voice for new... -
The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn Daniel Anlezark 9781843842033
RRP: €77.35€73.55First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant. The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and 41, are some of the most complex Old English texts to... -
The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music by Barbara Ravelhofer 9780199559251
€61.49The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. Drawing on a massive amount of documentary evidence... -
The Dictionary of Mythology: An A-Z of Themes, Legends and Heroes: Slip-Cased Edition by Ja Coleman
RRP: €29.74€23.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789508604Author Ja ColemanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 1216gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book by Matthew Rubery 9780674545441
RRP: €41.59€33.55Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of...