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Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s by Kenneth R. Johnston 9780199657803
RRP: $111.15$95.06Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic... -
The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s Lucy Pearson 9781138252189
RRP: $89.68$78.25Lucy Pearson's lively and engaging book examines British children's literature during the period widely regarded as a 'second golden age'. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped... -
A Companion to Piers Plowman by John A. Alford
RRP: $52.65$41.07"A Companion to Piers Plowman" is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece. Until now no single volume has discussed the broad range of issues raised here, nor have previous studies drawn on such an... -
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature: The Enchanted Garden Robert Sayre 9781032114545
RRP: $74.08$65.09Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of... -
Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667 by Laurie Ellinghausen
RRP: $54.58$47.35Looking at texts by non-aristocratic authors, in this studythe author investigates the relationship between nascent early modern notions of professional authorship and the emerging idea of vocation - the sense that one's identity is bound up in one's... -
Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America by M. C. Kinniburgh
$63.26Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites for the information boom, it is unsurprising that McCarthyism and censorship would shape what they granted... -
Gothic Kinship by Agnes Andeweg
RRP: $38.98$34.34Although the preoccupation of Gothic storytelling with the family has often been observed, it invites a more systematic exploration. Gothic kinship brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and... -
My Dad's the Queen of All VTubers?! Vol. 2 by Wataru Akashingo 9781952241208
RRP: $27.28$18.47It's bad enough that Takashi's dad is secretly the ultra-popular 'Queen of VTubers', Kizuke Yai, but his mum's a struggling streamer who just can't seem to gain any popularity at all! Now the poor boy himself has been roped into the VTubing life, and the... -
Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment by Greg Chase 9781839980633
RRP: $156.00$149.14The early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically held that novelists responded to these shifts by questioning language's capacity to picture the world... -
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott
RRP: $46.78$40.64Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language Association Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and... -
The Victorian Male Body by Joanne Ella Parsons 9781474428606
RRP: $175.50$159.84A bold study on the very epicentre of Victorian ideology: the white, male body'The Victorian Male Body' examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality. The white, and frequently middle class,... -
Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices by Douglas A. Vakoch 9780367892623
RRP: $81.88$71.66Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience... -
Charles Olson and American Modernism: The Practice of the Self by Mark Byers 9780198813255
$182.07This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early... -
Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland by Sean D. Moore
RRP: $113.10$99.43Renowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean Moore's examination of Swift's writings and the economics behind the distribution of his work elucidates... -
When Lily Ponds Ripple by Anne-Marie Fitzwilliam 9781398475618
RRP: $35.08$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398475618Author Anne-Marie FitzwilliamFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons by Sarah Prescott 9780708320532
RRP: $19.48$14.78Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the 'invention' of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature... -
Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories by Lisa Propst
RRP: $58.48$48.18Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those people's stories... -
Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will by Richard Wilson
RRP: $56.53$52.47In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage: then 'all the... -
Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography, and Literature by Ao Wang 9781604979411
$149.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604979411Author Ao WangFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland: From Farm-Settlement to Sagas by Harriet Jean Evans Tang 9781843846437
RRP: $156.00$149.39A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation. Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to... -
Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds by Jonas Wellendorf
RRP: $60.43$37.13The coming of Christianity to Northern Europe resulted in profound cultural changes. In the course of a few generations, new answers were given to fundamental existential questions and older notions were invalidated. Jonas Wellendorf's study, the first... -
Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature by Alastair Fowler 9780198709688
$53.14Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously... -
The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature by Reinhard Kuhn
RRP: $113.10$88.10Kierkegaard claimed that the gods created man because they were bored, and Baudelaire predicted that the "delicate monster" of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn. Between these two statements lies the undefined expanse of... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by Julie Armstrong
RRP: $44.83$38.14The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather... -
Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Jason Marc Harris 9781138259546
RRP: $105.28$91.40Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the... -
Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital by Paul Jaussen
RRP: $179.38$161.44From Walt Whitman to the contemporary period, the long poem has been one of the more dynamic, intricate, and yet challenging literary practices of modernity. Addressing those challenges, Writing in Real Time combines systems theory, literary history, and... -
Literary Architecture: Essays Toward a Tradition: Walter Pater, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marcel Proust, Henry James by Ellen Eve Frank
RRP: $50.70$39.64"A complex and important book ...a challenging and sophisticated contribution to critical studies of the sister arts. It originates from a thoroughly considered grasp of the imaginative possibilities of the analogy between architecture and literature,... -
George Eliot Jan Jedrzejewski 9780415202503
RRP: $74.08$65.09As a woman in an illegal marriage, publishing under a male pseudonym, George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period. Today she is considered a key figure for women's writing and her novels, including The... -
Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End by Richard Dellamora
RRP: $54.58$47.07From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the... -
Jane Austen's Emma: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Paula Byrne 9780415286510
RRP: $58.48$51.95Emma is widely regarded as Jane Austen's most perfectly constructed novel. At once a comedy of misunderstanding, a razor-sharp analysis of the English class-system, a classic tale of moral growth, and a romance that combines sense with sensibility, it... -
The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays Robert S. Miola 9780815338895
RRP: $74.08$65.87This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of... -
Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women by Abena P.A. Busia 9780415073370
RRP: $97.48$84.83Theorizing Black Feminisms outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In doing so it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by contemporary Black women scholars, celebrating Black... -
Early Modern Women and the Poem by Susan Wiseman
RRP: $48.75$42.49Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women's lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland. The archival and theoretical... -
The Metaphysical Poets by David Reid 9780582298354
RRP: $97.48$93.29The Metaphysical Poets provides an introduction to the work of six strikingly various and original poets- Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell and Traherne. By closely examining how the poems work, the book aims to help readers at all stages of... -
Hermann Hesse: Life and Art by Joseph Mileck
RRP: $52.65$41.85"A critical biography far surpassing the previous ones." (Times Higher Education Supplement). "There are to be sure many writers whose biographies are more interesting than their fiction but Hesse is not one of these. He led a long and sometimes eventful... -
Saturnalia, Volume II: Books 3-5 Macrobius 9780674996717
RRP: $48.65$46.57An antiquarian's festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a ... -
The Dynamics Of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures Susan Arndt 9780865438989
RRP: $58.40$38.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438989Author Susan ArndtFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 323g -
Books to Die for: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly 9781476710365
RRP: $37.05$24.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476710365Author John ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 135mm * 38mm -
Women's Literary Networks and Romanticism: "A Tribe of Authoresses" by Andrew O. Winckles 9781786940605
$65.50An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. The eighteenth century witnessed the rapid expansion of social, political, religious and literary networks in Great Britain... -
Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power by Linden Peach 9780708319987
RRP: $13.63$10.65Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This work is of interest to students interested in women's studies, gender studies, and cultural studies as well as...