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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by J. Jack Halberstam 9780814735848
RRP: £70.00£60.31The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative... -
British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960: Between the Waves by Jane Thomas
£45.98An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women's writing by shedding new light on a group of authors... -
William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas by Ian Felce
RRP: £80.00£73.28An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris. The work of William Morris (1834-1896) was hugely influenced by the medieval sagas and poetry of Iceland; in particular, they inspired his long... -
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: £15.99£14.24From the central concept of the field-which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field- have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In... -
Suite Antique by John Rutter 9780193560697
RRP: £37.75£28.70for chamber orchestra The instrumentation for this work is the same as Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.5. The Suite is made up of six movements ranging from a 'Bach-like Aria' to a 'Richard Rodgers-style Waltz'. Rutter's own style comes through most... -
Stanzaic Guy of Warwick by Alison Wiggins
RRP: £12.50£10.64The poem, which survives only in the Auchinleck Manuscript, deals with the later years of Guy's life, beginning with his return to Warwick after having established himself on the Continent as a pre-eminent model of knighthood. After his marriage,... -
Musings on Monsters: Observations on the World of Classic Horror by Lou Tambone
RRP: £15.99£14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940589237Author Lou TamboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Sequart Research & Literacy OrganizationPublisher Sequart Research & Literacy... -
Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky: Master Builders of the Spirit Stefan Zweig 9781412810470
RRP: £45.99£40.13Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed... -
Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation by Marita Nadal
RRP: £47.99£41.81Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the... -
Modernism from the Margins: The 1930's Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas by Chris Wigginton 9780708319277
RRP: £6.99£5.46"Modernism from the Margins" is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the... -
The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980 Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University, USA) 9781405167550
RRP: £32.95£29.14The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and... -
Subjective Criticism by David Bleich
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally published in 1981. The meaning and objectives of literature, argues David Bleich, are created by the reader, who depends on community consensus to validate his or her judgements. Bleich proposes that the study of English be consciously... -
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Routledge Study Guide by Dcra GoonetIlleke 9780415357760
RRP: £36.99£32.53Joseph Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism. This classic tale transcends... -
A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel Francis O'Gorman (University of Leeds) 9781405103206
RRP: £37.95£33.36This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read.Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.Provides fresh perspectives on how... -
Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature: An Introduction by Maria Nikolajeva 9780810854260
RRP: £76.00£66.76As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by... -
Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar by Phebe Jensen
RRP: £39.99£35.06Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological,... -
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 by Jane Potter 9780199543212
RRP: £53.00£52.39Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has... -
My Shakespeare: The Authorship Controversy: Experts examine the arguments for Bacon, Neville, Oxford, Marlowe, Mary Sidney, Shakspere, and Shakespeare. by William D. Leahy 9781911454557
£65.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454557Author William D. LeahyFormat HardbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2: C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8 by Ralph Hanna
RRP: £83.00£72.11The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within... -
Incest in Contemporary Literature by Miles Leeson 9781526148100
RRP: £30.00£26.68This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and artists, rather than a single author from this period... -
Children's Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory by Ian Wojik-Andrews 9780815337942
RRP: £41.99£36.75This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.Book InformationISBN 9780815337942Author Ian Wojik-AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton by Steven Swarbrick
RRP: £21.99£19.19Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the many theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What... -
The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century by Andrew O'Malley 9780415514682
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late 18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution... -
Fables and Other Lies by Claire Contreras 9780998345680
£12.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998345680Author Claire ContrerasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Claire ContrerasPublisher Claire ContrerasWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics by John Plotz
RRP: £27.00£21.06Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. "The Crowd" sets... -
A Concise Companion to Realism Matthew Beaumont (University College, London, UK) 9781444332070
RRP: £36.95£32.51A Concise Companion to Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed. Comprises 17... -
Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems by Jessica Lewis Luck 9781609389055
£80.62Poetics of Cognition investigates the material effects of experimental poetics using new evidence emerging from cognitive science. It asks: How do experimental poems "think" and how do we think through them? Examining experimental modes such as the New... -
The Companion to A Tale of Two Cities by Andrew Sanders 9781903206140
£17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903206140Author Andrew SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Helm Information LtdPublisher Helm Information Ltd -
New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona Caird by Ann Heilmann
RRP: £19.99£17.82Recent years have seen a rennaissance of scholarly interest in the fin-de-siecle fiction of the New Woman. New Woman Strategies offers a new approach to the subject by focusing on the discursive strategies and revisionist aesthetics of the genre in the... -
Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England by Julie Crawford
RRP: £33.00£29.52In post-Reformation England, "monster" could mean both a horrible aberration and a divine embodiment or revelation. In "Marvelous Protestantism", Julie Crawford examines accounts of monstrous births and the strikingly graphic illustrations accompanying... -
An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H. P. Lovecraft by David E. Schultz 9780984638611
RRP: £25.00£21.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984638611Author David E. SchultzFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 511gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578-1799 by Moira Ferguson 9780253281203
RRP: £19.99£17.54"An invaluable resource to scholars interested in feminist thought. . . . " -Ruth Perry"Anyone interested in women's history or feminist thought must read this book." -Lillian Faderman"Moira Ferguson has selected wisely from well-known and little-known... -
Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal by Lucy McDiarmid 9780198722786
RRP: £43.49£43.21On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet,... -
Howl for Now: A Celebration of Allen Ginsberg's Epic Protest Poem by Simon Warner 9781901927252
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927252Author Simon WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route Publishing -
Post-Colonial Shakespeares Ania Loomba 9780415173872
RRP: £28.99£25.09Postcolonial Shakespeares is an exciting step forward in the dialogue between postcolonial studies and Shakespearean criticism. This unique volume features original work by some of the leading critics within the growing field of Shakespeare studies and... -
Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life by Benjamin Kahan
RRP: £20.99£18.37In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for... -
Reading in Proust's A la recherche: le delire de la lecture' by Adam Watt 9780199566174
£74.17Through close textual analysis of the scenes of reading in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Adam Watt offers an invigorating new study of the novel and previously unacknowledged paths through it. After considering key childhood 'Primal Scenes'... -
Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature by David Simpson
RRP: £21.99£19.19Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or... -
The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation by Scott Cook 9781933947648
RRP: £64.00£56.84The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable... -
Art, Survival and So Forth: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski by Jules Smith 9781903110034
RRP: £11.95£8.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110034Author Jules SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball PressWeight(grams) 431g