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War and American Literature by Jennifer Haytock
£94.21This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and... -
Don't Use The Phone: What Poets Can Learn From Books by Paul McDonald 9781910996621
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996621Author Paul McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Marie Corelli: Modernism, Morality, and Metaphysics by Carol Margaret Davison
RRP: £39.99£36.71This collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli's diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context.Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and... -
Ballads and Songs of Peterloo Alison Morgan 9781784993122
RRP: £85.00£26.99Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers... -
An Analysis of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation Amy Young Evrard 9781912127313
RRP: £6.50£6.11Arjun Appadurai's 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic of our times: globalization.Globalization has long been... -
E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by E. Pauline Johnson 9780802084972
RRP: £35.00£29.45E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a popular and versatile... -
Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19 by Olga Levaniouk 9780674053359
RRP: £16.95£13.85Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). This study makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication... -
Naomi Mitchison's Early in Orcadia, The Big House and Travel Light by Moira Burgess 9780948877612
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877612Author Moira BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Psalms and Medieval English Literature - From the Conversion to the Reformation by Tamara Atkin 9781843844358
RRP: £95.00£90.68An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon. The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period. This collection... -
The Emotional Life of the Great Depression by John Marsh 9780198847731
RRP: £46.99£35.62The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the despair of the American people during the decade,... -
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
RRP: £38.00£31.01Jayyusi presents in English translation a Palestinian world view characterized by intensity, paradox, aspiration, and eloquence. Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature will certainly become indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in... -
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction James F. English (University of Pennsylvania) 9781405120012
RRP: £33.95£29.98A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of... -
Romantic Art in Practice: Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760–1820 by Thora Brylowe
RRP: £30.99£21.89Exploring the relationship between visual art and literature in the Romantic period, this book makes a claim for a sister-arts 'moment' when the relationship between painting, sculpture, pottery and poetry held special potential for visual artists,... -
Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic by John Howard 9780957348974
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957348974Author John HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Alchemy PressPublisher Alchemy PressWeight(grams) 336g -
Practising Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction by Raman Selden 9780710811585
£59.40Aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A... -
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Critical Essays with a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism by Jackson J. Benson
RRP: £22.99£20.01The Grapes of Wrath is generally considered Steinbeck's masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciously theorized about, and with constant experimentation he made the form his own. Much of the best-and the... -
Tales of Wonder: Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards by Jack Zipes 9781517902599
RRP: £27.99£27.39The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect illustrations encountered in classic tellings of the tales. The... -
Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy & Methodology in Beckett Studies by Matthew Feldman 9783838206363
RRP: £29.90£24.10The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualise and exemplify the recent "empirical turn" in Beckett studies. Characterised, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist... -
Terence: Andria by Sander M. Goldberg 9781350020627
£25.15Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a vital companion to Terence's earliest comedy, Andria, highlighting its context, themes, staging and legacy. Ideal for students it assumes no... -
Hamlet by Anthony Dawson 9780719046254
RRP: £19.99£13.33Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography .About the AuthorAnthony B. Dawson is... -
Northrop Frye on Myth by Ford Russell
RRP: £37.99£33.38Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject.Reviews"...this... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Nathan Waddell
RRP: £82.99£75.21George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was... -
Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes by Tim Hanley
RRP: £30.00£28.31An eye-opening exploration of the toxic masculinity and sexism that pervades the superhero genre.Superheroes have been exciting and inspirational cultural icons for decades, dating back to the debut of Superman in the 1930s. The earliest tales have been... -
Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose by H. S. Bennett 9780198122296
£107.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity by Edward Burns 9780333397473
£119.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel by Stefan Tilg 9780199576944
£110.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sexualities & Relationships Student Guide by John P Elia 9780757580345
£62.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757580345Author John P EliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. -
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Ian Hamilton 9780198661474
£120.00This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and America... -
Discoveries on the Early Modern Stage: Contexts and Conventions Leslie Thomson (University of Toronto) 9781108494472
£120.00This study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage considers an important and popular performance convention in its cultural and religious contexts. Through close examination of a number of... -
Plagues, Apocalypses and Bug-eyed Monsters: How Speculative Fiction Shows Us Our Nightmares Heather Urbanski 9780786429165
RRP: £21.99£18.83Speculative fiction - both science fiction and fantasy - reflects, among other things, the fears of the culture that created it, contributing (perhaps unconsciously) to our efforts to prevent our fears from coming true. While the names and media change... -
Move to the Next Level by Olatunde Adepoju 9781425778309
RRP: £14.00£7.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425778309Author Olatunde AdepojuFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 127g -
Cursed Crown by Laura Greenwood 9781393754534
RRP: £9.99£9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393754534Author Laura GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Drowlgon PressPublisher Drowlgon PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
From Beneath the Altar by Carl McMurray 9780977475421
RRP: £16.95£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977475421Author Carl McMurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Spiritbuilding.comPublisher Spiritbuilding.comWeight(grams) 345g -
Dewch i Deithio: Nepal by Anni Llyn 9781783903535
£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783903535Author Anni LlynFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Canolfan PeniarthPublisher Canolfan PeniarthWeight(grams) 297g -
Sun Compass by Brigette DePape 9781988168616
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988168616Author Brigette DePapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint At Bay PressPublisher At Bay PressWeight(grams) 127g -
100 Things Nationals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Jake Russell 9781629378299
RRP: £14.95£11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629378299Author Jake RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 0g -
Blood Ties by L Waithman 9781626349223
RRP: £15.50£13.70In this richly imagined fantasy novel, young Lucas has the power to save two medieval kingdoms from destruction . . . but will he discover this ultimate secret before it's too late? Ten-year-old Lucas has been raised as a blacksmith's son; an outsider... -
King Warrior Jay Bulckaert 9781989754146
RRP: £14.99£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989754146Author Jay BulckaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Renegade Arts Canmore LtdPublisher Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd -
Salome by Oscar Wilde 9781913724368
RRP: £7.99£6.69Salome, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retells the Biblical story in which the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas demands the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for her... -
Good Listeners by Pascal Vine 9781913958206
£8.59The world has a way of getting into you; these poems document the process of prying it out. Whether that be from an ash tree's trunk or a rabbit's warren, or behind an abandoned shipping container on the way to work, or in a dusty noiseshow basement,...