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Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions by Professor Peter Mack
RRP: £22.00£17.36A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging... -
William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Andrea Elizabeth Donovan (Minot State University, North Dakota, USA) 9781138878389
RRP: £53.99£46.87The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, founded by artist and craftsman William Morris in 1877, sought to preserve the integrity of historic buildings by preventing unnecessary repairs and additions. William Morris's intention and that of... -
The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico 9781503613591
RRP: £23.99£20.84Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British... -
The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space by Ursula Kluwick
RRP: £39.99£35.06From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a... -
Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations Erin J. Campbell 9781138273511
RRP: £43.99£38.44The goal of the twelve essays in this volume, contributed by scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and medicine, is to enrich our understanding of cultural discourses on ageing in early modern Europe. While a number of books examine... -
Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia by Thomas DuBois
RRP: £37.00£31.14With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia. For more than five... -
The Epigram in England, 1590-1640 by James Doelman
RRP: £85.00£60.57While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947. It combines thorough description of the... -
Writing Beyond the Revival: Facing the Future in Gaelic Prose, 1940-1951 by Philip O'Leary 9781906359287
RRP: £68.00£66.22This is the second volume of a two-part collection following on from O'Leary's "Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939". The first part, "Irish Interior: Keeping Faith with the Past in Gaelic Prose, 1940-1951", was published... -
The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader by Emily Sun
RRP: £50.00£43.81Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and... -
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities by Jeremy Chow 9781684484287
RRP: £33.00£29.05This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore... -
Europe: Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418 by David Wallace
RRP: £45.49£45.47This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418,... -
Beowulf by All: Community Translation and Workbook by Jean Abbott
RRP: £19.95£19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894715Author Jean AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy by Martin Revermann 9780198152712
£106.91Comic Business situates Aristophanic comedy in the context of competitive (re)performance culture in 5th- and 4th-century Greece. It seeks to illuminate how the dazzling busyness of Aristophanic comedy is the creation of a carefully manipulating... -
Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater by Katherine Schaap Williams 9781501753503
RRP: £52.00£45.50Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes-and is in turn remade by-early modern disability. Figures described as "deformed," "lame," "crippled," "ugly," "sick," and "monstrous" crowd the stage in English drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth... -
Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel by Katherine Binhammer 9781421437613
RRP: £30.50£27.37How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells... -
Formalism and Marxism by Tony Bennett
RRP: £29.99£26.64Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-century literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism created its own reverberations by offering a... -
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina's Rape Keith Walker (University of Oxford, UK) 9781118438794
RRP: £32.95£29.14Building on the strength of Keith Walker's acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the... -
Beyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women's Poetry in Context by Marle Hammond 9780197264720
RRP: £60.00£59.62This volume tackles complex theoretical questions about sex and gender and the way that they inform classical Arabic poetics. Arabic literature has a rich tradition of women's poetry, and of lamentation for the dead in particular. Dr Hammond argues that... -
Peirce, Signs, and Meaning by Floyd Merrell
RRP: £35.00£12.37C.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates... -
Marketing English Books, 1476-1550: How Printers Changed Reading by Alexandra da Costa 9780198847588
RRP: £99.00£93.20The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now... -
The "Odyssey" Re-formed by Frederick Ahl
RRP: £38.00£33.27Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman believe that contemporary readers who do not know ancient Greek can gain a sophisticated grasp of the Odyssey if they are aware of some of the issues that intrigue and puzzle the experts. They offer a challenging new... -
Kingly Crown by Solomon ibn Gabirol
RRP: £16.99£15.07Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) of Spain was a Jewish philosopher and moralist who is perhaps best known for the beautiful forty-stanza poem Keter Malkhut (The Kingly Crown). Hailed by scholars as one of the most important classics of Hebrew literature,... -
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy by Casey Due
RRP: £15.99£14.24The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a... -
Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Beyond Realism by Aaron R. Hanlon
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element examines the eighteenth-century novel's contributions to empirical knowledge. Realism has been the conventional framework for treating this subject within literary studies. This Element identifies the limitations of the realism framework for... -
Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 by David L. Pike
RRP: £29.99£26.90In Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed... -
Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction by Lisa Surridge
RRP: £20.99£18.37The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates' courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat... -
The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play by David Carnegie 9780199641819
£82.66This book is about the search for a lost play. Celebrating the quatercentenary of publication of the first translation of Don Quixote, it is the first collection of essays entirely devoted to The History of Cardenio, a play based on Cervantes and... -
Doctrina pueril: A Primer for the Medieval World Ramon Llull 9781855663091
RRP: £19.99£19.79An unforgettable introduction to the medieval world and its culture for the modern reader. Published in association with Editorial Barcino. Ramon Llull wrote the Doctrina pueril between 1274 and 1276 to provide minimum knowledge to those... -
On Rereading by Patricia Meyer Spacks 9780674725898
RRP: £26.95£21.41After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently... -
Florence Marryat by Catherine Pope
RRP: £29.99£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454632Author Catherine PopeFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Wonder Woman Unbound by Tim Hanley 9781613749098
RRP: £20.95£16.782015 Amelia Bloomer Project ListThis close look at Wonder Woman's history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman with a golden lasso and bullet-deflecting bracelets. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time,... -
George Eliot: The Critical Heritage by David Carroll
RRP: £45.99£40.53The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on... -
An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson by Eric Wagner
RRP: £30.99£19.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561845668Author Eric WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint New Falcon Publications,U.S.Publisher New Falcon Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 350g -
Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Robert S. Miola 9780199259861
£50.77Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Rather than perpetuate the... -
Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Bruce Harding 9780786460328
RRP: £35.99£29.60Considered one of the "Queens of Crime"--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a... -
Voices From Madagascar: An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature by Jacques Bourgeacq
RRP: £28.99£24.96There is currently in Madagascar a rich literary production (short stories, poetry, novels, plays) that has not yet reached the United States for lack of diffusion outside the country. Until recently, Madagascar suffered from political isolation... -
Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo by Susan Napier
RRP: £17.95£14.60Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and the ever-disturbing Mishima Yukio have explored twentieth-century Japanese alienation with an unsparing eye and savage humor. In Escape from the Wasteland, Susan J. Napier examines their vivid and often perverse... -
Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing by Steven Gilbar
RRP: £26.00£20.73This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers - be they naturalists or armchair explorers - will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the... -
Selling the Story: Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola by Jonathan Paine
RRP: £40.95£32.83A literary scholar and investment banker applies economic criticism to canonical novels, dramatically changing the way we read these classics and proposing a new model for how economics can inform literary analysis.Every writer is a player in the... -
The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories by Mark Asquith
£32.30Annie Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, and the best of these are to be found in her Wyoming trilogy, in which she turns her eye on America's...