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The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
RRP: $155.40$136.19Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation was transformational in nurturing the resurgence of... -
European Memories of the Second World War by Helmut Peitsch 9781571819369
RRP: $224.70$183.27During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume... -
De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius 9780714530789
RRP: $14.68$12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530789Author Nikolaj FrobeniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England by Julie Crawford
RRP: $69.30$61.99In post-Reformation England, "monster" could mean both a horrible aberration and a divine embodiment or revelation. In "Marvelous Protestantism", Julie Crawford examines accounts of monstrous births and the strikingly graphic illustrations accompanying... -
Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy Joan E. McRae 9781138988439
RRP: $96.58$85.11Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making this an essential addition to any library with a medieval literature or French literature collection.Book InformationISBN... -
Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania by Rahel Orgis
RRP: $83.98$73.63Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth's Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book... -
Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems Dr Steven J.A. Breeze 9781843846451
RRP: $168.00$160.88An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts. Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old... -
The Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry and Performance in Sixteenth Century England by Rosalind King 9780719080661
RRP: $41.98$37.42The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in... -
Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Martin McQuillan
$60.59Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The... -
Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801 - 1902 by Peter Hunt
RRP: $115.40$101.79Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and... -
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421412245
RRP: $81.90$74.93The study of what is collectively labeled "New Media" - the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology - has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic field,... -
The Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie Vol. 1: Dreams of Knowledge by Malcolm Bowie 9780367601850
RRP: $83.98$74.47This book explains the relationship between imagination and intellectual inquiry. It is written in the form of articles intended for academic readers. The book focuses on main subjects: proust, modern French poetry, and psychoanalysis.About the... -
The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction by David M. Bethea
RRP: $94.50$75.01David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available... -
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial by Sarah D. Wald
RRP: $65.10$57.90The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the editors and... -
Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s by Kenneth R. Johnston 9780199657803
RRP: $119.70$102.38Robespierre'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... -
Canon Ein Llen: Saunders Lewis, R. M. Jones, Alan Llwyd by Tudur Hallam 9780708321140
RRP: $10.48$8.82A volume which examines the development of the Welsh literary canon from the time of Saunders Lewis to the present day. International debates concerning canon formation are read in relation to Welsh literature, and in particular to the critical writings... -
The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain: Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s Lucy Pearson 9781138252189
RRP: $96.58$84.27Lucy 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: $56.70$44.23"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... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Archeson
RRP: $60.88$56.07The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It... -
Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of "Moby-Dick" by Jonathan A. Cook
RRP: $226.80$198.51In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the... -
Modernism and Opera by Richard Begam 9781421420622
$89.46At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows-the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically... -
Modernism, Science, and Technology by Mark S. Morrisson
$62.83From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of intense scientific and technological change. Modernism,... -
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature: The Enchanted Garden Robert Sayre 9781032114545
RRP: $79.78$70.10Romantic 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: $58.78$50.99Looking 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... -
Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life by Benjamin Kahan
RRP: $44.08$38.58In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for... -
Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America by M. C. Kinniburgh
$68.12Information 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... -
World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century by Daniel J. Ennis
RRP: $81.90$71.09This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald's biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918-2013), the... -
The Cambridge History of American Poetry by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: $92.38$82.22The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars,... -
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Routledge Study Guide by Dcra GoonetIlleke 9780415357760
RRP: $77.68$68.31Joseph Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism. This classic tale transcends... -
Gothic Kinship by Agnes Andeweg
RRP: $41.98$36.98Although 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: $29.38$19.89It'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... -
The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist by Margaret C. Jones
$114.32In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated... -
Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth by Jack Stillinger
RRP: $46.18$40.30In Romantic Complexity, Jack Stillinger examines three of the most admired poets of English Romanticism--Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--with a focus on the complexity that results from the multiple authorship, the multiple textual representation, and... -
Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment by Greg Chase 9781839980633
RRP: $168.00$160.61The 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... -
The Life of D. H. Lawrence: A Critical Biography by Andrew Harrison 9780470654781
RRP: $144.80$125.79Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence's life, work, and... -
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott
RRP: $50.38$43.76Part 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: $189.00$172.14A 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,... -
English Verse 1830 - 1890 Bernard Richards 9780582483880
RRP: $123.88$118.86This popular anthology provides a collection of the most significant Victoran verse xxx; including some minor figures notably John Clare, Emily Bronte and James Thomson. Fully annotated, this collection contains introductions to individual poets,... -
Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature by David Simpson
RRP: $46.18$40.93Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or... -
Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices by Douglas A. Vakoch 9780367892623
RRP: $88.18$77.18Bringing 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...