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Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism by Scott Durham 9780804733366
RRP: £23.99£20.84Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy,... -
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
£105.64Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy's own words, he was 'feeling... -
Gay Novels of Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, 1881-1981: A Reader's Guide by Drewey Wayne Gunn 9780786497249
RRP: £28.99£23.38While American gay fiction has received considerable scholarly attention, little has been given to developments in other English-speaking countries. This survey catalogs 254 novels and novellas by some 173 British, Irish and Commonwealth authors in... -
World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance by Joel Nickels 9781108428491
RRP: £90.00£81.03This 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... -
Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in art, literature, and music by Gordon McMullan
£96.81'Late style' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely... -
Jonson: Volpone by Jonas A. Barish
£34.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333026151Author Jonas A. BarishFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 331g -
Siegel And Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman Mel Gordon 9781932595789
RRP: £23.99£16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595789Author Mel GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 567g -
Theory of Fiction: Henry James by James E. Miller 9780803257474
RRP: £31.00£27.36Comprised of more than 250 selections from Henry James's stories about writers, his critical and speculative essays, his Notebooks, Prefaces, and letters, this collection brings together for the first time, in a single, systematic volume, all the... -
After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin: 1911-2003 by Semyon Lipkin 9781906613389
RRP: £9.95£6.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906613389Author Yvonne GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 150g -
Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic by Caroline Bishop 9780198829423
£118.50The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas... -
The Story of the Odyssey by Stephen V. Tracy
RRP: £40.00£31.53Here Stephen Tracy offers a vivid, fast-paced narrative that serves as a reading guide to Homer's monumental epic. He not only provides translations of key passages and traces the evolution of major themes in the Odyssey, but also helps new readers to... -
Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600-1945 by Rebecca Earle 9780367888206
RRP: £39.99£36.66This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies... -
The Good Poem According to Philodemus by Michael McOsker
RRP: £93.00£84.66This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. Although his treatise was primarily polemical and lacks positive... -
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Timothy Aubry
RRP: £35.95£28.96In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant... -
Indian English by Pingali Sailaja
RRP: £27.99£26.01This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year history it has acquired its own character, yet still looks to native varieties of English for norms. The... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781032241869
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a... -
Plautus: The Darker Comedies. <I>Bacchides, Casina,</I> and <I>Truculentus</I> by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £26.50£23.29The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general. A common theme in all three comedies is the triumph of women over men. In Truculentus,... -
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History by Lynne W. Hinojosa 9781032155371
RRP: £39.99£35.06Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history-meaning both the burdens of the past, present, and future and the burden of living in time-and... -
The Last Light Horse by Dianne Wolfer 9781760991302
RRP: £16.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760991302Author Dianne WolferFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 177mm *... -
Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres by Rachael Scarborough King 9781421425481
RRP: £39.00£34.68Letters played a foundational role in facilitating the rise of print and popularizing new modes of writing in the long eighteenth century.In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the... -
The Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics by Enrique Garcia
£41.72This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their 'Love and Rockets' series... -
Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism by Rachel Greenwald Smith
RRP: £30.99£19.04Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in... -
Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle Sophie Thomas 9780415875790
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination,... -
The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome by James Uden 9780190886967
RRP: £32.99£30.24The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. Breaking away from the focus in recent scholarship on... -
Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages by Alastair Minnis
RRP: £27.99£24.14It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval,... -
The Grand Inquisitor: A graphic novel based on the story from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: £5.99£4.81One of the most famous passages in modern literature reimagined in a graphic novel adaptation. Two acclaimed Russian artists have collaborated to create an original graphic novel adaptation of the most famous chapters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The... -
The Frankenstein Notebooks: Part One Draft Notebook A Charles Robinson 9781138699854
RRP: £35.99£32.69Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is arguably the best known work of the English Romantic period. First published in 1996, this edition of The Frankenstein Notebooks contains not only facsimiles and transcriptions of all of surviving manuscripts related to the... -
Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed. by Steven Jay Rubin 9780786458929
RRP: £28.99£24.45This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on original interviews and archival research and featuring rare photographs, this book covers films considered unusually... -
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics by J. Daniel Elam
RRP: £23.99£20.84World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated... -
Signs in Society: Studies in Semiotic Anthropology by Richard J. Parmentier
RRP: £45.00£39.58Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices... -
The Problem of Literary Value by Robert J. Meyer-Lee
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature's defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values' ideological uses. Instead, arguing that... -
Medieval Romance and Material Culture by Nicholas Perkins
RRP: £95.00£91.08Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and... -
The Atlas of Middle Earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad 9780618126996
£15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618126996Author Karen Wynn FonstadFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 497g -
Lord Byron: The Critical Heritage by Andrew Rutherford
RRP: £43.99£38.84The 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 student and researcher to read the material themselves.Book InformationISBN... -
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation by Sandra Bermann 9780691116099
RRP: £45.00£35.72In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its... -
English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1789 by Richard W. Bevis
£53.48What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire... -
Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach Lisa Rado 9781138864245
RRP: £53.99£46.87Focusing on cultural practices, and gender issues during a period of the early 20th-century that witnessed radical transformations in sex roles, this anthology of original (and one classic) essays will generate a greater understanding of women's... -
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion by Glenn D. Burger
RRP: £30.99£22.85Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect theory are similarly insufficient for investigating the intersection of body and mind that late... -
Walking in the Wilderness: The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting by Michaela Keck 9783825351960
£70.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825351960Author Michaela KeckFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 4450g -
The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science John Holmes 9781032242217
RRP: £43.99£38.44Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In...