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The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Critical Biography by John Worthen
€121.86Drawing especially on the many scholarly discoveries of recent years, this biography examines the life - and death - of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Based on sceptical historical investigation and featuring an in-depth look at Shelley's personal,... -
Before Einstein: The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siecle Literature and Culture by Elizabeth L. Throesch 9781785271786
RRP: €29.75€28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785271786Author Elizabeth L. ThroeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism by Stephanie O'Rourke
RRP: €89.25€80.61Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This work reveals how deeply intertwined cultural practices of art and science questioned the authority of the human body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing... -
The Valley of Vision: Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary by Peter F Fisher
€37.83The author of this important contribution to the study of Blake was tragically drowned in a sailing accident when he had almost completed it in manuscript. His was a critical mind of singular erudition and power. As is abundantly evidenced in these... -
Marie or, Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America by Gustave de Beaumont
€30.88Gustave de Beaumont's 1835 work, Marie, or Slavery in the United States is structured as a fascinating essay on race interwoven with a novel. It is the story of socially forbidden love between an idealistic young Frenchman and an apparently white... -
Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts by Griselda Pollock 9781785339707
RRP: €117.81€95.76Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His ideas on concentrationary art proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and the Frankfurt School,... -
The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476 by Sonja Drimmer
RRP: €73.78€63.74At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish... -
The Revolution of Cola Di Rienzo by Ronald G Musto 9780934977005
RRP: €23.80€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977005Author Francesco PetrarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France by Anne C. Vila
€34.26In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France. The thrills of the nervous system, the delectations of... -
Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past by Steven Blevins 9780816697168
RRP: €28.55€24.80Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how... -
An Analysis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Giovanni Gellera 9781912127955
RRP: €7.74€7.27Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works: Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781435142855
RRP: €15.46€10.71No writer portrayed Americas Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of elegant ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties... -
New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte by Barbara A. Suess
RRP: €47.59€41.72This new essay collection brings together some of the top BrontA" scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne BrontA"'s fiction and other writings and to restore BrontA" to her rightful place in literary... -
A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread by Ivan Kreilkamp
RRP: €20.22€16.24Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of... -
The Poetry of T. S. Eliot D. E. S. Maxwell 9781138121683
RRP: €39.26€34.70In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot's poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments. This study traces Eliot's style from the earliest poems to the... -
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy by B.W. Powe
RRP: €38.08€31.54Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada's central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe,... -
Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn by Gill Plain 9781611487787
RRP: €48.79€42.94What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century,... -
Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens by Rebecca W. Bushnell
RRP: €53.55€46.62For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just... -
Short Form American Poetry: The Modernist Tradition by Will Montgomery
RRP: €24.98€22.91Reading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse. It begins with Imagism and devotes chapters to William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Lorine... -
Decadence and Literature by Jane Desmarais 9781108426244
€125.00Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes... -
Consider David Foster Wallace by David Hering 9780976146575
RRP: €23.79€15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976146575Author David HeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Sideshow Media GroupPublisher Sideshow Media GroupWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Writer and the People by Alberto Asor Rosa
RRP: €32.13€26.75Originally published in 1965, The Writer and the People was one of the key books in the revitalization and invigoration of the young Left in late-1960s Italy. Aiming to demystify the myth of populism, Alberto Asor Rosa takes on Marxism and its legacy,... -
A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by J.A.E. Curtis 9781644691335
RRP: €109.47€104.40Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich... -
The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses by Karen Lawrence 9780691609836
RRP: €41.65€33.01In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the... -
Seamus Heaney and Society by Rosie Lavan 9780198822974
RRP: €95.20€86.47Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media. Seamus Heaney and Society presents a dynamic new engagement with one of the most celebrated poets of the modern... -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Ryan Moore 9781912303700
RRP: €23.79€21.05Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United... -
Darwin by Charles Darwin 9780393958492
€28.74The impact of Charles Darwin's work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This new edition, larger and more... -
Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories by Barbara Black 9780814255612
€40.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255612Author Barbara BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 381g -
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 9781107046504
€125.71The Woodlanders (1887) was Thomas Hardy's elventh published novel and the one he claimed to like 'as a story, the best of all'. It is a story of wide appeal, having much to say on themes such as marriage and social class, and with a background revealing... -
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €20.22€17.93"This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and off-putting to the outsider." -New York Times Book Review... -
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified Casey Cothran 9781138547650
RRP: €57.11€49.75This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social... -
Volpone, or the Fox: Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson 9780719030932
RRP: €15.46€14.22This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets... -
Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. II by Quintilian 9780198146551
€53.26Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. IIBook InformationISBN 9780198146551Author Michael WinterbottomPage Count 420Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 129mm * 27mm -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9780143036357
RRP: €17.85€10.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036357Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 109mm... -
Harsh World and Other Poems by Angel Gonzalez 9780691616650
RRP: €35.70€27.72Although seven volumes of his poetry are available in Spanish, the work of Angel Gonzalez has not been widely translated into English. This bilingual edition, introduced by the poet, presents selections from Palabra sobre palabra (Word upon Word), his... -
Selected Orations: v. 1 by Libanius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Pagans' advocate.Libanius (AD 314-393) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items and... -
Through Buddhist Eyes by Sangharakshita 9781911407812
RRP: €35.64€24.89Through Buddhist Eyes continues Sangharakshita's five volumes of memoirs. Covering journeys across five continents and two decades, this volume is made up of nineteen travel letters and one talk. They are Sangharakshita's heartfelt communications to the... -
An Analysis of Sun Tzu's The Art of War Ramon Pacheco Pardo 9781912127535
RRP: €7.74€7.27Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a series of lessons in the applied art of problem solving. Sun (544 BC-496 BC), an experienced general from the Warring States period of Chinese history, saw war as an inevitable problem - indeed, the ultimate problem... -
Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers by Shannon Miller 9780812240863
RRP: €73.78€63.74The narrative of the Garden of Eden infused seventeenth-century political thought no less than it reflected attitudes toward the relationship between the sexes. Within the contemporary debate over political legitimacy, theorists who supported or... -
Literary Criticisms of Law by Guyora Binder
RRP: €89.25€69.60In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension...