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The Secret Shire of Cotswold by Steve Ponty
RRP: £14.99£10.95After over ten years of research into the settings in the Cotswold shires that Professor Tolkien turned from reality into fantasy, Steve Ponty explores the locations that serve as the true inspiration for the Shire in The Lord of the Rings. By reversing... -
A Short History of English Literature by Harry Blamires
RRP: £37.99£33.78This book guides through some six centuries of English literature, beginning with Chaucer's time, and goes on to analyse the background, interconnections and major achievements of individual writers in each period. It is useful to the student of English... -
Romanticism and the Sciences by Dr. Andrew Cunningham
RRP: £43.99£38.54This book presents a series of essays, each specially written by an expert in the area, which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences, and on the role of the sciences in Romantic literature. The contributions are designed to... -
Dickens, Death, and Christmas by Robert L. Patten 9780192862662
£106.49"Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? This book starts at the Paris Morgue... -
Spartacus: Film and History Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University) 9781405131810
RRP: £33.95£29.98This is the first book systematically to analyze Kirk Douglas' and Stanley Kubrick's depiction of the slave revolt led by Spartacus from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film's use of ancient sources, the ancient... -
Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis by Vincent Bruyere 9781503638631
RRP: £20.99£18.37In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries... -
Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth by Jack Stillinger
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Romantic Complexity, Jack Stillinger examines three of the most admired poets of English Romanticism--Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--with a focus on the complexity that results from the multiple authorship, the multiple textual representation, and... -
Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature by Amaleena Damle 9781783162062
RRP: £19.99£15.23Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the... -
Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 by Thomas W. Krise
RRP: £27.00£26.47Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have been conspicuously absent from anthologies of 17th- and 18th-century British literature. In... -
Meanings of Beauty & the Beast: A Handbook by Griswold
RRP: £42.95£33.05Using Beaumont's classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how "Beauty and the Beast" takes on different meanings as it is analyzed by psychologists, illustrated in picture books, adapted to the screen, and rewritten by contemporary writers.The... -
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals: Liberal Creatures in Literature and Culture by Anna Feuerstein
RRP: £30.99£22.85During the Victorian era, animals were increasingly viewed not as property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. This book re-examines the nineteenth-century British animal welfare movement and... -
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age by Tarek El-Ariss
RRP: £25.00£19.59How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. Tarek... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain by Forrest G. Robinson
RRP: £28.99£24.42The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of... -
The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History by Octavio Paz
RRP: £22.99£20.01In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing in Spanish, presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. It is written in the same prose style... -
Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Other Works Laura F. Hodges (Royalty Account) 9781843843689
RRP: £80.00£77.01An analysis of the ways in which Chaucer uses details of costume, clothing and fabric, enhancing our understanding of and shedding fresh insights into his work. The use Chaucer made of costume rhetoric, and its function within his body of works, are... -
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory by Tatiana Prorokova
RRP: £29.99£28.17First runner-up for the 2019 Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American CultureCultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world... -
Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World by Ilka Kressner
RRP: £39.99£35.06Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob... -
Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism by Carolyn Williams
RRP: £15.99£14.24Exploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. Carolyn Williams asserts that Pater's aestheticism... -
French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and Exoticism by Julia Hartley
£96.61Decadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with the expansion of France's modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery signifier, Decadence figures alternately as... -
The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print by Jonathan Sawday
RRP: £37.99£33.78In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge. As early... -
Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation by Katherine E. Bishop
RRP: £60.00£50.86Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels, and film. John Wyndham's triffids, Algernon Blackwood's willows, and Han Kang's sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations, and... -
Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy Stephanie Shirilan 9781472417015
RRP: £135.00£117.68Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unmediated repository of early modern views on melancholy,... -
Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works by Marie de Gournay 9780226305561
RRP: £28.00£27.39During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his... -
Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology by Carrie Noland
RRP: £50.00£39.12Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression... -
Cell Tower by Steven E. Jones
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fiberglass antennas, cell towers raise up high into the... -
Aristophanes: Peace by Ian C. Storey 9781350020214
£25.15This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world... -
American Drama of the Twentieth Century by Gerald M. Berkowitz 9780582016019
RRP: £54.99£52.88In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres... -
Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony by Jacomien Prins
RRP: £41.99£36.75This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates... -
Baptizing Harry Potter: A Christian Reading of J.K. Rowling by Luke Bell 9781587680588
RRP: £12.99£10.36In this exquisitely detailed book, a monk gives his own Christian take on the Harry Potter series. He traces the intricate pattern of J K Rowling's surprisingly mystical tale with wit and insight. He brings out the wisdom of her understanding of good and... -
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience by Lauren M. E. Goodlad 9780198797616
£34.63How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century variations on the "geopolitical aesthetic" continue to resonate today? Crossing... -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780393651904
RRP: £20.99£17.00Farah Jasmine Griffin's beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand-a line from a note he wrote to her-she shares a... -
The Public Intellectual Helen Small (Pembroke College, Oxford) 9780631231981
RRP: £41.95£36.73New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.About the AuthorHelen Small is Fellow in English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is... -
Covering Darkness: Writing True Crime by Neil Root 9781910996225
RRP: £9.99£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996225Author Neil RootFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Rebecca Stott 9780582404700
RRP: £54.99£52.88This volume will provide students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America and who has become one of the great icons of Victorianism for the modern age. The... -
Lucian Opera Tomus IV (Books LXIX-LXXXVI) by M. D. Macleod 9780198145967
£47.16This volume completes the Oxford Classical Text of Lucian by adding eleven works of the Lucianic corpus proper, four other works wrongly attributed to Lucian in a few manuscripts, and those epigrams from the Anthologies which have any claim to be... -
Pearl by the River by Sudipta Mitra
RRP: £7.00£5.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129144881Author Sudipta MitraFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity: A Critical Anthology by Matthias Konzett 9781611473704
£114.45This volume is meant to introduce Elfriede Jelinek's diverse body of writing to the English-speaking public. Moreover, this collection of essays is not only of interest to scholars but also to teachers and students of literature alike. Fourteen scholars... -
De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius 9780714530789
RRP: £6.99£5.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530789Author Nikolaj FrobeniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities by Geoffrey Symcox 9781442645073
RRP: £42.00£34.97The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities... -
Litcomix: Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel by Adam Geczy
RRP: £25.99£22.49Critical studies of the graphic novel have often employed methodologies taken from film theory and art criticism. Yet, as graphic novels from Maus to Watchmen have entered the literary canon, perhaps the time has come to develop theories for interpreting...