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Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons by Sarah Prescott 9780708320532
RRP: £9.99£7.80Examines 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... -
Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader by Susan Manning 9780748622870
RRP: £31.00£28.86The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies This Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area. In a substantial... -
Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £30.00£27.55From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England... -
The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley
£29.07How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political... -
The Futures of Medieval French - Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay by Jane Gilbert 9781843845959
RRP: £110.00£104.74Essays on aspects of medieval French literature, celebrating the scholarship of Sarah Kay and her influence on the field. Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions... -
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century by Charles LaPorte
RRP: £79.99£72.16In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important literary figure. Yet Victorian criticism took on religious dimensions that now... -
An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema by James Chandler
RRP: £42.00£40.81In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture - a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very... -
The Henry vi Plays by Stuart Hampton-Reeves 9780719056772
RRP: £85.00£60.17The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare's earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. In a story which stretches over thirty years, Shakespeare dramatises the fall of the House of Lancaster and creates... -
Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction Steven Cohan 9780415013871
RRP: £36.99£32.53Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and... -
Raymond Chandler by Anthony Fowles 9781906075873
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075873Author Anthony FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form by Gordon Pocock 9780521098144
RRP: £30.99£23.80Corneille and Racine may seem like marble monuments of an unchanging typical classicism. Mr Pocock is concerned to show that each of these great dramatists was a living writer, struggling to create developing forms and that the rules of neo-classical... -
Shakespeare and the Gods by Virginia Mason Vaughan
£27.78Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare's many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Ceres) that enhance his readers' and audiences' understanding and enjoyment of his work. Vaughan... -
Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape by E. L. Risden 9780786498659
RRP: £14.99£12.55The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and film making, yet criticism often places him at the margins of twentieth- and twenty-first century thought and experience. He actually sits near the centre of the last... -
Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines by Susan McHugh 9780816670338
RRP: £21.99£19.49Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, Animal Stories argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and... -
A Legend of the Wars of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott 9780748605729
RRP: £95.00£86.45Against the background of Montrose's campaign of 1644-5, this spirited novel centres on one of Scott's most memorable creations - Sir Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket. This hard-headed Aberdonian contrasts tellingly with the weird and passionate Highland... -
Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices by William Ian Miller 9780192855817
RRP: £29.49£27.15William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a... -
Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages by Katherine Callen King
RRP: £35.00£28.14The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles presented in Homer's "Iliad" imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking 'soldier' with 'hero' in Western culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances in the works of poets,... -
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola by Rachel Bowlby
RRP: £43.99£38.44The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... -
Medieval Narrative: An Introduction by Tony Davenport 9780199258390
£40.74An introduction to the variety of medieval narrative, intended both for students and more general readers who already know some of the classics of the Middle Ages, such as Beowulf, the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales,, and who wish to venture further... -
The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation Derek Attridge 9781138850071
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a... -
Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts by Griselda Pollock 9781785339707
RRP: £99.00£79.83Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His ideas on concentrationary art proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and the Frankfurt School,... -
Correspondence 1930-1940 Gretel Adorno 9780745636696
RRP: £60.00£52.75'We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.' So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his... -
The Medieval Saga by Carol J. Clover 9781501740503
RRP: £15.99£14.24Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland-the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate... -
Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature by Mary Beth Rose
RRP: £26.00£24.85For most readers and spectators, heroism takes the form of public, idealized masculinity. It calls to mind socially and morally elevated men embarking on active adventures: courageously confronting danger; valiantly rescuing the helpless; exploring and... -
The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel by Gary Morson
RRP: £21.99£19.19Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works-wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate... -
Children's Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetic Maria Nikolajeva (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781138953130
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature as a canonical art form, the history of children's literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic,... -
Adult Comics by Roger Sabin
RRP: £37.99£33.38In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.Adult comics are part of... -
Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction by William A. Cohen
RRP: £21.99£19.19Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages-and never his its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. Whether discussing George Eliot's lesbian readers, Anthony Trollope's whorish heroines, or Charles... -
Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings Claire Bracken 9781032009803
RRP: £39.99£35.33Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings analyzes and explores women's writing of the post-Tiger period and reflects on the social, cultural, and economic conditions of this writing's production... -
The Sun Also Rises: A Norton Critical Edition by Ernest Hemingway
£13.34This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Ernest Hemingway's best-known novel. Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston. A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully chosen to enhance the reader's... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer by Alastair Minnis 9781107699908
RRP: £19.99£17.13Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of... -
Biedermann und die Brandstifter Max Frisch 9781138129702
RRP: £135.00£117.28Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the AuthorMax Frisch, Peter Hutchinson, Lecturer in German, University of... -
Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture by Russell A. Berman 9780803222281
RRP: £19.99£17.54Enlightenment or Empire is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the culture of European colonialism. The book opens with a bold reconsideration of the relationship between the Enlightenment and colonialism, at the heart of which is an... -
Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger by Susan Bernstein
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into... -
Speculative Biography: Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations by Donna Lee Brien 9780367515843
RRP: £39.99£35.06While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This edited collection brings together a group of international biographers to discuss how, and why, each uses speculation in their work;... -
Martial Epigrammata W. M. Lindsay 9780198146254
£46.87The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are... -
Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England's Paradise Amy L. Tigner 9781138257825
RRP: £49.99£43.50Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic... -
Double Trouble: The Doppelganger from Romanticism to Postmodernism by Eran Dorfman
RRP: £39.99£35.06The double, doppelganger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed,... -
The Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History Jonathon Shears 9781789621198
£33.58What is a hangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? In the humanities, why have we neglected the subject of the hangover in our critical discussions of... -
Dafydd ap Gwilym and the European Context by Helen Fulton 9780708310304
RRP: £48.00£36.20A study of Dafydd ap Gwilym's verse in the light of the traditions of courtly and popular poetry and with consideration of the European influences on his work.About the AuthorHelen Fulton is Professor of English at the University of Wales Swansea.Book...