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Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Kristina Straub
RRP: £51.50£45.77From Daniel Defoe's Family Instructor to William Godwin's political novel Caleb Williams, literature written for and about servants tells a hitherto untold story about the development of sexual and gender ideologies in the early modern period. This... -
Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980: Volume 5 by Eve Patten 9781108480444
£105.04This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and... -
Doctrina pueril: A Primer for the Medieval World Ramon Llull 9781855663091
RRP: £19.99£19.79An unforgettable introduction to the medieval world and its culture for the modern reader. Published in association with Editorial Barcino. Ramon Llull wrote the Doctrina pueril between 1274 and 1276 to provide minimum knowledge to those... -
The Poems of John Keats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook John Strachan 9780415234771
RRP: £105.00£90.86This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon.The sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and... -
Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence: New Relations by Michael O'Neill
£110.45Through attuned close readings, this volume brings out the imaginative and formal brilliance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing as it explores his involvement in processes of dialogue and influence. Shelley recognizes that poetic individuality is the... -
Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre: Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama by Douglas Bruster
RRP: £37.99£33.38This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in... -
Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories by Barbara Black 9780814255612
£33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255612Author Barbara BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 381g -
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy by Casey Due
RRP: £15.99£14.24The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a... -
A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers: Cryptography and the History of Literacy by Susan Kim
RRP: £41.99£36.75The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies,... -
The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times, Fourth Edition by Eric Bentley
RRP: £17.99£15.90First published in 1946, The Playwright as Thinker is a classic work of drama criticism that helped create the intellectual environment in which serious American theater would thrive in the second half of the twentieth century. At the time of publishing,... -
Futures of Comparative Literature: ACLA State of the Discipline Report by Ursula K. Heise
RRP: £35.99£31.69Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this... -
The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Professor Paula McDowell
RRP: £39.00£33.19Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, the rise of commercial print culture in eighteenth-century Britain inspired reflection at the time on the traditions that had seemingly preceded it. And so it... -
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu by Zi Zhuang 9780231031479
RRP: £92.00£77.95This is one of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition - impressive for both its bold philosophical imagination and its striking literary style. Accepting the challenge of translating this captivating classic in its entirety, Burton... -
Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 by Laura Carter 9780198868330
RRP: £97.00£87.83Histories of Everyday Life is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth century Britain. It explores how non-academic historians, many of them women, developed a new breed of social history after the First World... -
An Analysis of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Michael O'Sullivan 9781912127641
RRP: £6.50£6.29David Hume's 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology - the philosophy of knowledge. It is also a classic of the critical thinking skills of analysis and reasoning. Analysis is all... -
The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England Jennifer Heller 9781138248793
RRP: £49.99£43.50Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England that takes the form of a dying mother's pious counsel to her... -
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre by Amy Lidster
RRP: £75.00£67.74During the early modern period, the publication process decisively shaped the history play and its reception. Bringing together the methodologies of genre criticism and book history, this study argues that stationers have - through acts of selection and... -
Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England by Mark C. Amodio
RRP: £21.99£19.19Mark Amodio's book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living tradition articulated only through the public,... -
Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics by Peter Steiner 9780801493669
RRP: £15.99£14.46Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here... -
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones
RRP: £30.00£27.39Literature is often assumed to be monolingual: publishing rights are sold on the basis of linguistic territories and translated books are assumed to move from one "original" language to another. Yet a wide range of contemporary literary works mix and... -
Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other "Other" by Matthieu Chapman
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses... -
Poems and Meditations Anne Bradstreet 9780866986212
RRP: £53.00£51.44This volume presents all the surviving writings of the poet Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672): the poems published during her lifetime in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America; or, Several Poems (London, 1650), poems added to the posthumous edition of... -
On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life by Dennis J. Schmidt
RRP: £21.99£19.87On Germans and Other GreeksTragedy and Ethical LifeDennis J. SchmidtWhat Greek tragedy and German philosophy reveal about the meaning of art for ethical life."Schmidt's investigation of tragedy is a highly significant, powerful work, one with... -
Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature: Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism by Donald Keene 9780231114394
RRP: £45.00£35.72-- Los Angeles TimesThe fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry,... -
Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping 'Others' by Erith Jaffe-Berg
RRP: £39.99£35.06Drawing on published collections and also manuscripts from Mantuan archives, Commedia dell' arte and the Mediterranean locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. The study provides a broad... -
The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery Wolfgang Clemen 9780415612203
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1951. The edition reprints the second, updated, edition, of 1977. When first published this book quickly established itself as the standard survey of Shakespeare's imagery considered as an integral part of the development of... -
George Eliot: The Critical Heritage by David Carroll
RRP: £45.99£40.53The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on... -
Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy by Kirk Ormand 9780292760523
RRP: £19.99£17.54Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how... -
Principles of Poetry by Sakutaro Hagiwara
RRP: £18.99£16.98This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in the modern period. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) was not only an original poet but also a perceptive and... -
Magical Realism and Literature by Christopher Warnes 9781108426305
£100.91Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin... -
English Drama Before Shakespeare by Peter Happe 9780582493742
RRP: £47.99£45.98English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in... -
Euripides by Judith Mossman 9780198721840
£57.30Few ancient authors are as challenging as Euripides, and few have provoked so many diverse critical opinions through the ages: Aristotle described him as 'most tragic', and yet many of his plays have been condemned by critics as barely qualifying as... -
Catholic Culture in Early Modern England by Ronald Corthell
£39.17This collection of essays explores the survival of Catholic culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England-a time of Protestant domination and sometimes persecution. Contributors examine not only devotional, political, autobiographical, and other... -
Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post–Soviet Esotericism by Edmund Griffiths
£39.12"Aleksandr Prokhanov (born 1938) is a prizewinning novelist and also, as editor of the weekly newspaper Zavtra, a leading figure in Russian imperial patriotism. Ever since 1991, when he signed (and reputedly wrote) the manifesto for the failed putsch... -
Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism by Alexander Tyrell Davis 9781900621373
RRP: £22.00£21.05This is a study of one of the most important poets of the mid 20th-century. At the time of his death, Denis Devlin was Irish ambassador to Italy. This book looks at Devlin's work within the aftermath of the Irish literary revival and Anglo-American and... -
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton 9780674060258
RRP: £26.95£24.17In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common... -
Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) by Elissa Marder
RRP: £23.99£20.84This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's description of the shock experience of modernity through readings of... -
Notes on Thought and Vision by H. D. 9780872861411
RRP: £7.99£7.21Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender differences... -
Lydia Davis: A Study by Paul McDonald 9781910996164
£11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996164Author Paul McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Role of Translators in Children's Literature: Invisible Storytellers by Gillian Lathey
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms' tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English, and stories...