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Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings by Diana Pavlac Glyer
RRP: £26.95£16.47An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these... -
Literature and Food Studies by Amy L. Tigner
RRP: £35.99£31.69Literature and Food Studies introduces readers to a growing interdisciplinary field by examining literary genres and cultural movements as they engage with the edible world and, in turn, illuminate transnational histories of empire, domesticity,... -
Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins by Cristina Santos 9781498529655
RRP: £39.00£34.37Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. This book... -
The Irish and China: Encounters and Exchanges by Jerusha McCormack
RRP: £17.99£13.71WINNER OF SPECIAL BOOK AWARD OF CHINA 2021 In 1318, the Irish Franciscan friar and explorer James of Ireland accompanied Friar Odoric of Pordenone to the Far East, thus becoming the first Irish person in China. Since then, encounters between the Irish... -
Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular by Martin Eisner
RRP: £30.99£19.99Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written... -
Florence Marryat by Catherine Pope
RRP: £29.99£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454632Author Catherine PopeFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen): The Six Novels Wendy Craik 9781138084445
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen's six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This is a truly... -
From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures by Janet Clare
RRP: £90.00£81.21Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience rather than reality. Challenging the traditional period divide of 1660, essays in this volume explore continuities with the... -
The Philosophy of War Films by David LaRocca 9780813176222
RRP: £32.50£27.61Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to... -
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell
RRP: £30.99£23.25A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each... -
The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism by David E. Wellbery 9780804726948
RRP: £29.99£26.90In this book, the author has three aims: (1) to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry adequate to the intricacies of its subject matter; (2) to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism; (3) to... -
Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy by Miléna Santoro 9780228017677
RRP: £31.00£27.36Kim Thuy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Quebecois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author's novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated... -
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War by Nicholas White
RRP: £84.99£74.25This book analyses the ways in which divorce informed the development of French fiction until the First World War, arguing that in France the divorce question was intimately related to the rhythm of revolution.Book InformationISBN 9781907975479Author... -
Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru by Rolena Adorno
RRP: £19.99£17.94In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva coronica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of... -
Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780: Volume 1 by Moyra Haslett 9781108427500
£105.04This volume examines eighteenth-century Irish literature, highlighting the diversity of texts, authors and approaches that characterises contemporary studies of the period. Chapters consider the contexts of history, politics, language, philosophy,... -
Beyond Reformation: An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity by David Aers 9780268020460
RRP: £27.99£24.14In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland's Piers Plowman, the most searching... -
Shadows in a Chinese Landscape: Chi Yun's Notes from a Hut for Examining the Subtle Chi Yun 9780765601742
RRP: £49.99£43.50In this major undertaking David Keenan translates and contextualizes over 100 tales from the Notes from the Hut for Examining the Subtle, a collection of 1,200 tales and observations by Chi Yun, one of eighteenth century China's leading intellectuals. By... -
Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition Walt Whitman 9780415275446
RRP: £29.99£26.64This sourcebook includes the full text of Song of Myself. Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the... -
Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence by Vincent Sherry 9781107079328
RRP: £75.00£68.14In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary... -
Macbeth: New Critical Essays Nick Moschovakis 9781138828452
RRP: £47.99£41.81This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and globally influential plays. Its eighteen new chapters represent a broad spectrum of... -
T. S. Eliot by Harriet Davidson 9780582061538
£32.02One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In this volume, Harriet Davidson collects key recent essays by such... -
A History of the Surrealist Novel by Anna Watz
£90.27A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine... -
French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK by Irving Goh
RRP: £39.99£35.33This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that... -
Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market by Linda H. Peterson
RRP: £50.00£39.52During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature by Crystal Parikh 9781108722209
RRP: £23.99£20.37Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently... -
Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity Dominic Janes 9781138382787
RRP: £45.99£40.13Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry... -
The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays Thomas Wheeler (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) 9781138715226
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1991. Essays here are arranged chronologically within sections: 'The Play as Text', 'Shylock' and 'The Play in the Theatre.' Collecting previously published important commentaries and scholarly articles, this volume in the... -
Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission by Jacqueline Glomski 9780198737261
£102.48In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified. The prominence of literary critics has increased, the awarding of lucrative book prizes has become more publicized, and reports of the formation of reading groups have... -
Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Carol Diethe 9781571819321
RRP: £99.00£80.47No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements... -
Queer Forster by Robert K. Martin
RRP: £28.00£27.39This volume presents a revision of gay criticism and focuses on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. Many previous critics of Forster downplayed his homosexuality or read Forster in terms of gay liberation. This collection... -
The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination by Haiyan Lee
RRP: £58.00£50.57In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There... -
Abysses Pascal Quignard 9780857422446
RRP: £19.00£16.44Pascal Quignard is an enigmatic author whose writings rove with great poise across the worlds of literary and artistic endeavour, classical and modern, across folk tale, myth and legend, and yet encapsulate moments of intense present experience, evoking... -
Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism by Mark Bracher
RRP: £27.99£24.54Can reading social protest novels actually produce a more just world? Literature and Social Justice offers a scientifically informed, evidence-based affirmative answer to that crucial question, arguing that literature has the potential-albeit largely... -
Meaning by Shakespeare by Terence Hawkes
RRP: £41.99£36.75We traditionally assume that the `meaning' of each of Shakespeares plays is bequeathed to it by the Bard. It is as if, to the information which used to be given in theatrical programmes, `Cigarettes by Abdullah, Costumes by Motley, Music by Mendelssohn',... -
Scottish Literature Since 1707 by Marshall Walker 9780582028920
£52.48Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. Disposing of stereotypical ideas about Scotland and the... -
The Semiotics of Theater by Erika Fischer-Lichte
RRP: £31.00£27.76"The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . [L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, and a bibliographical gold mine." -Modern Language Notes" . . . impresses with its thoroughness and the... -
Modernism and the Frankfurt School by Tyrus Miller
RRP: £21.99£17.97Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture.Book... -
The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men by Michael J. Meyer 9780810867338
RRP: £79.00£69.74First published in 1937, Of Mice and Men has been a staple of American literature ever since. Divided by decade, The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men provides an overview of criticism over the 70 years the book has been in print... -
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies by Laura R. Kremmel
RRP: £70.00£56.57This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a... -
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691173672
RRP: £28.00£21.80In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the...