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The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Critical Biography by John Worthen
$215.04Drawing 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: $52.50$49.94Apologies 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 -
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat 9780815637936
$66.76War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as... -
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice by Kenji Yoshino 9780061769122
RRP: $33.58$21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061769122Author Kenji YoshinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Dorian Unbound: Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive by Sean O'Toole
RRP: $60.90$54.35A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde's classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.Building upon a large body of archival and critical work on Oscar Wilde's only... -
The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan 9780745659893
$84.88"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was... -
Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France by Anne C. Vila
$60.46In 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... -
Shakespeare's Other Language by Ruth Nevo 9780367695019
RRP: $60.88$52.69Shakespeare's last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. These features have sometimes been interpreted as the carelessness of an of an aging dramatist... -
Race and New Modernisms by K. Merinda Simmons 9781350030398
$60.59From the Harlem and Southern Renaissances to postcolonial writing in the Caribbean, Race and New Modernisms introduces and critically explores key issues and debates on race and ethnicity in the study of transnational modernism today. Topics... -
Vastarien, Vol. 1, Issue 1 by Matt Cardin 9780692089279
RRP: $31.48$30.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692089279Author Matt CardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Grimscribe PressPublisher Grimscribe PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Heroic Awe: The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic by Kelly Lehtonen 9781487545369
RRP: $96.60$83.39During the Renaissance, the most renowned model of epic poetry was Virgil's Aeneid, a poem promoting an influential concept of heroism based on the commitment to one's nation and gods. However, Longinus' theory of the sublime - newly recovered during the... -
Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice by Christie Carson
RRP: $54.58$45.97Due to the unique cultural capital of his works, Shakespeare has long been the test subject for new methods and digital advances in arts scholarship. Shakespeare sits at the forefront of the digital humanities - in archiving, teaching, performance and... -
Lost World by Patricia Melo 9781408801154
RRP: $18.88$14.83Maiquel is an ex-contract killer who's been a fugitive for ten years - ever since his girlfriend Erica ran off with his daughter, took up with an evangelical pastor and disappeared from his life. When his aunt dies, leaving him a house and a savings... -
A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread by Ivan Kreilkamp
RRP: $35.68$28.67Jennifer 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: $69.28$61.24In 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... -
Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn by Gill Plain 9781611487787
RRP: $86.10$75.77What 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,... -
Consider David Foster Wallace by David Hering 9780976146575
RRP: $41.98$28.41Apologies 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)... -
Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics by Akinwumi Adesokan 9780253223456
RRP: $41.98$36.83What 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... -
Othello: Texts and Contexts by William Shakespeare
$57.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312398989Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackImprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition by Aaron Kamugisha 9780253036261
RRP: $81.90$71.65Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended... -
Seamus Heaney and Society by Rosie Lavan 9780198822974
RRP: $168.00$152.59Throughout 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... -
World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance by Joel Nickels 9781108428491
RRP: $189.00$171.51This book proposes a new definition of world literature: an archive of democratic mechanisms external to state power. Accordingly, World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance takes shape as an exploration of nonstate space - territories of... -
Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Critical Approach Julia Round 9780786449804
RRP: $46.18$39.54This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in... -
Talk on the Wilde Side by Ed Cohen
RRP: $52.48$45.80Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new `type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating this to middle-class discussions of masculinity throughout the nineteenth century.Book InformationISBN... -
The Best of James Whitcomb Riley by Donald C. Manlove 9780253202994
$33.92The best-loved poems by the "Hoosier Poet" are here collected to read and cherish time and time again. Included are some of Riley's most durable and endearing works-poems about nature, home, and country as well as the dialect poems for which Riley is... -
Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture by Erica Fudge
RRP: $46.18$41.73The boundaries between human and beast forged a rugged philosophical landscape across early modern England. Spectators gathered in London's Bear Garden to watch the callous and brutal baiting of animals. A wave of "new" scientists performed... -
The Contemporary Poetry Archive: Essays and Interventions by Linda Anderson
RRP: $54.58$49.52These 13 newly commissioned chapters examine the impact of archival poetry collections on both literary scholarship and poetic practice.Book InformationISBN 9781474432443Author Linda AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College) 9780801881985
RRP: $113.40$110.00In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in... -
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified Casey Cothran 9781138547650
RRP: $100.78$87.80This 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... -
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet by Michelle R. Warren
RRP: $58.78$50.69Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In this book, Michelle Warren tells the... -
Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. II by Quintilian 9780198146551
$94.00Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. IIBook InformationISBN 9780198146551Author Michael WinterbottomPage Count 420Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 129mm * 27mm -
J. G. Ballard by D. Harlan Wilson 9780252082955
RRP: $35.68$31.65Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and... -
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 by David Fairer 9780582227774
RRP: $113.38$108.28In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer's book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional... -
War Poetry: An Introductory Reader by Simon Featherstone
RRP: $79.78$70.10War Poetry is a major new anthology of poetry combined with substantial introductory material. Demonstrating the full range and diversity of the writing which came out of both world wars, War Poetry includes selections from established and... -
Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London) by Richard Maidstone
RRP: $24.15$19.82The poem that Richard Maidstone wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports information about the royal entry that concluded the crisis in greater detail than any other source. The poem is not primarily a report, however; like Maidstone's other... -
Harsh World and Other Poems by Angel Gonzalez 9780691616650
RRP: $63.00$48.91Although 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... -
Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words, Ideas, Interactions by Megan Cavell
RRP: $178.50$126.36Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The... -
Studying Early Printed Books, 1450-1800: A Practical Guide by Sarah Werner
RRP: $155.30$135.41A comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics... -
Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers by Shannon Miller 9780812240863
RRP: $130.20$112.48The 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... -
Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience by Pascale Aebischer 9781350125810
RRP: $60.88$57.79This ground breaking collection of essays is the first to examine the phenomenon of how, in the twenty-first century, Shakespeare has been experienced as a 'live' or 'as-live' theatre broadcast by audiences around the world. Shakespeare and the 'Live'...