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Je, Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference by Luce Irigaray
RRP: $104.98$91.35Irigaray offers the clearest available introduction to her own work. Focusing on power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies, she lays out what for her has become the central problem for women in the modern world.Book InformationISBN... -
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire by Hiram Perez
RRP: $46.18$40.30Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Perez traces the development of... -
What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries Volume 158 by David N Bell 9780879072070
RRP: $83.98$68.63The literacy and education of medieval nuns has been a subject of dispute and study in recent years. In his third Index of medieval libraries, David Bell presents a comprehensive list of all manuscripts and printed books which have been traced with... -
Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen Simon Bacon 9781476675381
RRP: $46.18$38.96Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age. This book is a study of... -
A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger by Bernard Bergonzi 9780199257416
$228.52A biography of Matthew Arnold's Catholic younger brother Tom, a scholar, teacher, and self-styled 'wanderer'. Arnold's path in life took him, after a brilliant start at Oxford, to colonial New Zealand, to Tasmania, to Dublin, back to Oxford, and once... -
Political Fictions Jean-Paul Sartre 9780857429070
RRP: $20.98$18.52A collection of pieces on politically engaged fiction of Sartre's day, including works by Andre Gorz and Paul Nizan. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the... -
Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea; or, A Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall Anna Trapnel 9780866985581
RRP: $58.80$57.96In 1654, Anna Trapnel - a Baptist, Fifth Monarchist, millenarian, and visionary from London - fell into a trance during which she prophesied passionately and at length against Oliver Cromwell and his government. The prophecies attracted widespread public... -
British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s by Kaye Mitchell 9781474436205
RRP: $58.78$54.20This collection brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial and crucially overlooked period of British literary history.Book... -
Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City by Dr Antony Augoustakis
$60.59This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama by Carolyn Williams 9781107095939
RRP: $96.60$41.08This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an... -
Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses by Stephen Harrison
RRP: $210.00$165.50Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising... -
Who'S in the Money?: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood s New Deal by Harvey G. Cohen
RRP: $50.38$45.89Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration during 1933Harry and Jack Warner were among the most important advocates and fundraisers of President Franklin Roosevelt during his 1932 presidential campaign,... -
Beowulf: An Imitative Translation by Ruth P.M. Lehmann 9780292707719
RRP: $25.18$22.97The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the... -
Lyotard and Politics by Stuart Sim
RRP: $58.78$54.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456524Author Stuart SimFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Transgender and the Literary Imagination: Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing by Rachel Carroll 9781474462723
RRP: $50.38$45.89Transgender 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... -
The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama by Lorna Hutson 9780199691487
RRP: $107.10$106.81The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama... -
William Shakespeare in 100 Facts by Zoe Bramley
RRP: $16.78$11.74William Shakespeare is the world's best-loved playwright. His work is performed all over the globe and his life still tantalises us with its mysteries. The man who created classics such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth lived in the most turbulent yet... -
Essay on Negation by Paolo Virno
RRP: $40.95$40.40As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What... -
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9781108451673
RRP: $25.18$20.92'I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of... -
Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris by Vanessa R. Schwartz
RRP: $56.70$44.23During the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris emerged as the entertainment capital of the world. The sparkling redesigned city fostered a culture of energetic crowd-pleasing and multi-sensory amusements that would apprehend and represent real... -
Women and Nature?: Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment Douglas Vakoch 9780367152406
RRP: $92.38$80.72Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices... -
Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Volume 2 by David MacGregor 9781787056534
RRP: $23.08$22.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787056534Author David MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood 9780691193304
RRP: $63.00$48.91A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fictionNow praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the eyes of its critics. As Elaine Freedgood reveals in Worlds... -
Eight Dramas of Calderon by Pedro Calderon De La Barca 9780252069031
RRP: $35.68$31.65Throughout the world, people believe that much of what they do is accidental, ordinary, and inconsequential, while other acts can bring on divine retribution or earn eternal grace. In Man and the Sacred, Caillois demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous... -
Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult by Leigh Wilson
RRP: $60.88$56.95While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of modernity, or as an attempt to draw on a hidden history of ideas,... -
Encounters: Conversations on Life and Writing Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745653877
RRP: $31.48$28.94"Isn't it ... particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. "[I]t's only in writing, on paper, ... that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of... -
Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noel Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White by Samuel R Delany
RRP: $29.38$26.63In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction "Delany's prismatic output is among the most significant, immense and innovative in American letters... -
The Warrior Song of King Gesar by Douglas J Penick 9780974597461
RRP: $35.60$30.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974597461Author Douglas J PenickFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Treasury PressPublisher Mountain Treasury PressWeight(grams)... -
Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan by Franz Prichard
RRP: $63.00$48.91In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep interest in cities and their... -
Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books M.B. Parkes 9781138110687
RRP: $104.98$92.19In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the... -
The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics by Martha Woodmansee 9780231106016
RRP: $63.00$48.91Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and... -
Amitav Ghosh by Anshuman A. Mondal 9780719070051
RRP: $31.48$28.64Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav... -
Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis by Theodoros Chiotis
RRP: $23.08$16.51Futures 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... -
A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the Present Eda Sagarra (Trinity College, Dublin) 9780631215950
RRP: $90.20$80.35Presents, in an immensely readable yet profoundly scholarly account, the history of German literature from the Reformation and Renaissance to the late twentieth century, in the wider context of Germanic culture, over the whole German-speaking area of... -
Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature by Michael Cadden
$69.72The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory, Telling Children's Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of... -
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s by Sarah Meer 9780820327372
$70.01Titled 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... -
A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J A Burrow
RRP: $67.18$59.49Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can stand beside Chaucer. The book examines the poem's... -
The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject by Paul Virilio 9780745648644
RRP: $31.48$28.25With 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... -
Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages by Lynn T. Ramey 9780813062075
$43.01Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe's Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. As early as the twelfth and... -
Kim Stanley Robinson by Robert Markley
RRP: $41.98$36.83Award-winning epics like the Mars Trilogy and groundbreaking alternative histories like The Days of Rice and Salt have brought Kim Stanley Robinson to the forefront of contemporary science fiction. Mixing subject matter from a dizzying number of fields...