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What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History by Tom Mole 9780691175362
RRP: $87.75$69.65This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition by Roland Greene 9780691170435
RRP: $58.50$51.40The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully... -
A History of Irish Women's Poetry by Ailbhe Darcy
$174.12A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms - mythology, gender, history, the nation - and most... -
The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood 9780226261638
RRP: $50.70$48.46"The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood reconnects the things... -
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji' by Haruo Shirane 9780804717199
RRP: $54.58$47.07The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese... -
The Cambridge History of French Thought by Michael Moriarty 9781107163676
$229.69French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction by Gerry Canavan
RRP: $44.83$38.14The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the... -
Echo by Amit Pinchevski
RRP: $31.18$18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543408Author Amit PinchevskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin) 9780631182986
RRP: $173.45$151.36W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure... -
Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility by Hina Nazar
RRP: $87.75$76.40Enlightened Sentiments reassesses the enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of eighteenth-century letters known as "sentimentalism." Nazar argues that the recent retrieval of sentimentalism as a predominantly... -
The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces: How Ignatius J. Reilly Defeated Hollywood Stephan Eicke 9781476689319
RRP: $56.53$46.90For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way lawsuits were filed, filming locations destroyed, friendships... -
The Nature of Modernism: Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew by Elizabeth Black 9780367886059
RRP: $81.88$71.66This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging reductive associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, the book's central... -
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday by Patricia Fumerton
RRP: $54.58$47.07It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the... -
Who's Who in Shakespeare by Hamish Johnson
RRP: $38.98$34.50Who's Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays. It provides:* detailed biographical information on each leading figure* analyses of the role and significance of each minor figure* a... -
World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century by Daniel J. Ennis
RRP: $76.05$66.53This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald's biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918-2013), the... -
Script Culture and the American Screenplay by Kevin Alexander Boon 9780814332634
RRP: $56.45$40.77By considering the screenplay as a literary object worthy of critical inquiry, this volume breaks new ground in film studies.Though the history of the screenplay is as long and rich as the history of film itself, critics and scholars have neglected it as... -
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War by Monica Popescu
RRP: $42.88$37.42In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from... -
De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality by Alan Lawson 9780415105477
RRP: $85.78$74.96De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies... -
Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity Alastair J. L. Blanshard (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781119025481
RRP: $48.65$42.47Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture. Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman worldCorrelates the study of classical... -
Faulkner and the Native South by Jay Watson 9781496837929
RRP: $68.15$62.03From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching implications of Faulkner's fictional place-name "Yoknapatawpha," to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding... -
The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution by Eric Slauter
RRP: $156.00$150.17The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial... -
Calibrations: Reading For The Social by Ato Quayson 9780816638406
RRP: $40.93$35.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816638406Author Ato QuaysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Mortal Thoughts: Religion, Secularity, & Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture by Professor Brian Cummings
$66.75Since the nineteenth century it has been assumed that the concept of personal identity in the early modern period is bound up with secularization. Indeed, many explanations of the emergence of modernity have been based on this thesis, in which... -
William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror by Chris Bundock
RRP: $39.00$34.79Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake's affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake's intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake's gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers... -
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders by Margaret Clunies Ross 9781843846390
RRP: $156.00$149.39First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed. Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval... -
The Economy of Literature by Marc Shell
$49.65Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? Marc Shell explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium of exchange, how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and... -
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century by Ronald Hingley
RRP: $56.53$52.51This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects, the Russian empire being considered from... -
Maestros, Dilettantes, and Philistines: The Musician in the Victorian Novel by Emily Kate Auerbach 9780820409269
RRP: $69.42$61.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820409269Author Emily Kate AuerbachFormat HardbackPage Count 213Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 360g -
A Companion to Sensation Fiction Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida, USA) 9781405195584
RRP: $74.00$67.00This 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... -
'Hamlet' and World Cinema by Mark Thornton Burnett
RRP: $60.43$44.56'Hamlet' and World Cinema reveals a rich history of cinematic production extending across the globe. Making a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews with cast, directors and screenwriters,... -
Aeschines by Chris Carey 9780292712232
RRP: $46.78$40.64This is the third volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Published over several years, the series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are... -
Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain by Nicholas R. Jones
RRP: $66.20$62.63In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in... -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance by James C. Bulman
$95.78The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally... -
Keywords for Media Studies by Laurie Ouellette 9781479859610
RRP: $44.83$39.02Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media... -
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale: The Griselda Story Received, Rewritten, Illustrated by Judith Bronfman 9780367357443
RRP: $62.38$55.24Originally published in 1994. This surveys the origin and development of one of Chaucer's most problematic characters, Griselda, who through the centuries has challenged the horizon of expectations of many an audience. Starting with Boccaccio's Decameron... -
Alice Munro's Miraculous Art: Critical Essays by Janice Fiamengo
$57.60Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro's career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the... -
The Secret Trollope: Anthony Trollope Uncovered by John Sutherland
RRP: $68.23$64.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224517Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s by Sarah Meer 9780820327372
$64.82Titled after ""Tom-Mania,"" the name a British newspaper gave to the international sensation attending the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, this study looks anew at the novel and the songs, plays, sketches, translations, and imitations it inspired. In... -
Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy Sibylle Erle 9781906540692
RRP: $165.73$144.79This book examines the early reception of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy and demonstrates how the challenges occurring during the production of Henry Hunter's translation resonate in William Blake's treatment of the Genesis story.About the... -
Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter by Susan Stanford Friedman 9780691058047
RRP: $87.75$78.80In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and...