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On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American Writing by Denis Flannery
RRP: $46.18$40.61Sibling bonds, both literal and figurative, have had a crucial role in American writings of queer desire and identity. In nuanced and original readings, Denis Flannery demonstrates the centrality of fraternal and sororal love to queer strands of... -
Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism by Christian A. Smith 9780367559304
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx's collected works and letters, which provides evidence that Shakespeare's writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and... -
A Companion to Poetic Genre Erik Martiny (University of Aix-En-Provence, France) 9781444336733
RRP: $79.70$71.61A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural... -
The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space by Ursula Kluwick
RRP: $83.98$73.63From 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... -
Poetry and the Question of Modernity: From Heidegger to the Present by Ian Cooper
RRP: $83.98$74.19Interest in Martin Heidegger was recently reawakened by the revelations, in his newly published 'Black Notebooks', of the full terrible extent of his political commitments in the 1930s and 1940s. The revelations reminded us of the dark allegiances... -
Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia by Thomas DuBois
RRP: $73.50$65.39With 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... -
In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages by Shirin A. Khanmohamadi
RRP: $105.00$91.88Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced... -
Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past by Karen Grumberg 9781786839282
RRP: $147.00$109.83Middle Eastern Gothics is the first scholarly volume on Gothic literature from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its nine chapters consider literary expressions of the Gothic in the major Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and... -
Shakespeare and Popular Music by Adam Hansen 9781441126986
$68.36Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. How have Shakespearean characters, words, texts and iconography been represented... -
Scottish and International Modernisms: Relationships and Reconfigurations by Emma Dymock
RRP: $41.90$31.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841072Author Emma DymockFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Ciceronian Controversies by JoAnn DellaNeva 9780674025202
RRP: $62.90$50.46The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This... -
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
RRP: $64.03$48.64"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass,... -
Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life by Amanda Jo Goldstein
RRP: $65.10$63.40Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic... -
Europe: Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418 by David Wallace
RRP: $95.53$95.49This 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,... -
Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy by Martin Revermann 9780198152712
$224.51Comic 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... -
Shakespeare in Jest by Indira Ghose 9780367322458
RRP: $41.98$37.15Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was crucial in shaping comedy in today's entertainment... -
Biedermann und die Brandstifter by Max Frisch
RRP: $77.68$68.31Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the AuthorMax Frisch, Peter Hutchinson, Lecturer in German, University of... -
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina's Rape Keith Walker (University of Oxford, UK) 9781118438794
RRP: $69.20$61.19Building 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... -
Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun 9780393331646
RRP: $25.18$19.99In this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers... -
Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760 by John O'Brien
RRP: $55.65$48.91In the fall of 1723, two London theaters staged, almost simultaneously, pantomime performances of the Faust story. Unlike traditional five-act plays, pantomime - a bawdy hybrid of dance, music, spectacle, and commedia dell'arte featuring the familiar... -
Romance Writing Lynne Pearce (University of Lancaster) 9780745630052
RRP: $37.78$34.21Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in... -
Marketing English Books, 1476-1550: How Printers Changed Reading by Alexandra da Costa 9780198847588
RRP: $207.90$195.72The 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... -
Y Dychymyg Ol-Fodern: Agweddau ar ffuglen fer Mihangel Morgan by Rhiannon Marks 9781786835901
RRP: $41.98$31.98Cyfrol arbrofol o feirniadaeth greadigol yw hon, sy'n cynnig golwg ffres ar ffuglen fer y llenor nodedig Mihangel Morgan (1955-). Hon yw'r astudiaeth estynedig gyntaf o'i waith, a rhoddir sylw penodol i'r wyth cyfrol o ffuglen fer a gyhoeddodd rhwng 1992... -
Cesare Pavese's Long Journey: A Critical-Analytical Study by Giose Rimanelli 9781599541334
RRP: $35.70$28.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541334Author Giose RimanelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Beyond Realism by Aaron R. Hanlon
RRP: $35.70$30.91This 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... -
The Oral and the Written in Early Islam by Gregor Schoeler 9780415597074
RRP: $113.38$98.43Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and... -
Darwin by Charles Darwin 9780393958492
$52.40The 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... -
Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction by Lisa Surridge
RRP: $44.08$38.58The 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... -
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology by Karen L. Kilcup 9780631199861
RRP: $119.60$105.34Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression.About the AuthorKaren L. Kilcup is Professor of American literature... -
Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940: Volume 4 by Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
$222.35The years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory... -
The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play by David Carnegie 9780199641819
$173.59This 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... -
Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination Valerie Smith (Princeton University) 9781118917695
RRP: $46.10$41.20This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate's aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels. Offers... -
Joseph Andrews with Shamela and Related Writings by Henry Fielding 9780393955552
$40.28An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The... -
The Legacy Of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism by Anne V. Adams 9780954702311
RRP: $35.68$24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954702311Author Anne V. AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 440g -
Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $50.38$44.44A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from... -
Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-SiAcle to the Present by Hillary Hope Herzog 9780857451811
RRP: $207.90$170.35Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city... -
The Long-Legged House by Wendell Berry 9781619020016
RRP: $33.58$23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619020016Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Wonder Woman Unbound by Tim Hanley 9781613749098
RRP: $44.00$36.312015 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,... -
Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory by Lynne Huffer
RRP: $58.80$45.78Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have... -
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture by Esther Cohen
RRP: $115.50$111.11In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrongdoing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from...