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Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism by Elizabeth Pender 9780271082219
RRP: $67.10$60.08Djuna Barnes once said that "there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object," and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes... -
The Epigram in England, 1590-1640 by James Doelman
RRP: $178.50$127.20While 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... -
Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction by Professor Mark Payne 9780691205946
RRP: $52.50$41.79An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction-stories set after civilization's destruction-is a long one, spanning the... -
John Milton: A Short Introduction by Roy C. Flannagan 9780631226208
RRP: $69.20$61.19In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a complicated and sophisticated author, and his poetry and prose. ... -
Ovidian Transversions: 'Iphis and Ianthe', 1300-1650 by Valerie Traub
RRP: $58.78$54.62The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe'.Book InformationISBN 9781474448918Author Valerie TraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476 by Sonja Drimmer
RRP: $130.20$113.36At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish... -
Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian auto/biography by Felicity James
RRP: $88.18$77.18A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this... -
W.H. Auden by Tony Sharpe 9780415327367
RRP: $79.78$70.10As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been used in musical scores and quoted in Hollywood films... -
Karl Marx and World Literature by S. S. Prawer 9781844677108
RRP: $58.78$57.62"Very few men," said Bakunin, "have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx." S. S. Prawer's highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature-poems, novels, plays-infused and shaped Marx's... -
A Preface to Donne by James Winny 9780582352469
$89.59Probably the most famous of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. Book InformationISBN... -
An Analysis of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism Rachel Teubner 9781912127412
RRP: $13.65$13.04The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of criticism in English: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" helped to re-orientate arguments about the study of literature and its production by redefining... -
Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany by Anna Linton 9780199233366
$225.79In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten. In the light of this high mortality rate, some historians have argued that parents did not form close relationships with their children,... -
Vergil in the Middle Ages by Domenico Comparetti
RRP: $115.50$90.11From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from... -
Amongst Those Left by Francis Booth
$38.05Amongst Those Left is a long-overdue study of experimental literature in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century through the 1980s. Undertaken with the aim of refuting the idea that "while American and French fiction was exciting and... -
Towards a Posthuman Imagination in Literature and Media: Monsters, Mutants, Aliens, Artificial Beings by Simona Micali 9781788745826
RRP: $101.64$86.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788745826Author Simona MicaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International... -
Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot by Gertrude Himmelfarb 9781594035968
RRP: $25.18$20.31It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew -- a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is... -
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser 9780674248458
RRP: $75.50$61.30A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples.Between the world wars, a generation of Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled... -
Third Part of Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare 9780140714678
RRP: $23.39$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714678Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House... -
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
RRP: $58.70$47.15"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes by Janice M. Allan
RRP: $157.50$105.53Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This Companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the... -
Chaucer and the Ethics of Time by Gillian Adler
RRP: $147.00$118.80Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clock. Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's... -
T. S. Eliot and the Mother by Matthew Geary 9780367760472
RRP: $83.98$74.47The first full-length study on T. S. Eliot and the mother, this book responds to a shortfall in understanding the true importance of Eliot's poet-mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, to his life and works. In doing so, it radically rethinks Eliot's... -
Interpreting Hebrew Poetry by David L. Petersen
$27.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800626259Author David L. PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry by Brad Leithauser
RRP: $63.00$39.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655053Author Brad LeithauserFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction by Alison Cornish
RRP: $62.98$54.03Alison Cornish offers a compelling new take on the Commedia with modern sensibilities in mind. Believing in Dante re-examines the infernal dramas of Dante's masterpiece that alienate and perplex modern readers, offering an invigorating view of the whole... -
The Song of the Massacred Jewish People by Katzenelson Yitzhak 9781587905582
RRP: $31.50$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587905582Author Katzenelson YitzhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Regent PressPublisher Regent PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm... -
Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel by Lennard J. Davis
RRP: $58.78$51.49"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real...The value of Davis's book is that it explores the... -
How to Die Alone: The Foolproof Guide to Not Helping Yourself by Mo Welch 9781523504268
RRP: $27.20$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523504268Author Mo WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 157mm * 160mm... -
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals: Liberal Creatures in Literature and Culture by Anna Feuerstein
RRP: $65.08$47.99During 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... -
Shakespeare in Performance by Robert Shaughnessy
$63.69This collection of modern essays by leading figures in the field of Shakespeare scholarship reveals the rich interplay between contemporary theoretical approaches - psychoanalytic, new historicist, feminist and cultural materialist - and the study of the... -
The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir by David Lehman 9781501763625
RRP: $46.18$35.01From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster, and other femmes fatales-crime and crime solving in fiction and film captivate us. Why do we keep returning to Agatha... -
Science and Poetry in Medieval Persia: The Botany of Nizami's Khamsa by Christine van Ruymbeke
RRP: $189.00$132.93Nizami Ganjavi is one of the foremost figures in Persian poetry, living in Azerbaijan in the second half of the twelfth century. One of the oldest Western poets in Persian literature, he is acclaimed for his five masnavis which are assembled to form the... -
The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico
RRP: $207.90$71.40Challenging 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... -
Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library by Andrew M. Stauffer
RRP: $81.90$71.65In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as... -
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord: Volume 14 by Yukiya Murasaki
RRP: $23.08$22.87"I admit it. You are the leader." "Thank you, Diablo. I will do everything to answer the trust you've placed in me." As it just so turns out, the former prime minister Noah Gibun is an outsider-a Cross Reverie player who was pulled into... -
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by W. Michelle Wang 9780367619053
RRP: $92.38$80.72The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field... -
Mrs Henry Wood by Mariaconcetta Costantini
RRP: $62.98$59.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224937Author Mariaconcetta CostantiniFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
The Oxford Handbook of Dante by Manuele Gragnolati 9780198883876
$86.31The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative by Audrey Fisch
RRP: $69.28$59.60The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American... -
Stone by Marius von Mayenburg 9781408115145
RRP: $25.18$25.10A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 5 February 2009. 'This is our house underneath all this mildew and junk. I know every stone.' As a house passes from owner to owner, and from...