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Student Guide to Charles Dickens by Robert Giddings 9781871551266
RRP: £11.99£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551266Author Robert GiddingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds: A Reading of T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays David Ward 9781138122659
RRP: £47.99£42.21The basis of this critical examination of Eliot's work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot's... -
A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature by Raymond Furness
RRP: £37.99£33.38Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the... -
A Sonnet from Carthage: Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of Sixteenth-Century Europe by Richard Helgerson 9780812240047
RRP: £35.00£30.74In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega wrote in 1535 from the neighborhood of ruined Carthage... -
A History of English Georgic Writing by Paddy Bullard
£90.28The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists,... -
Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. by Helen Damico
RRP: £17.50£14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879288287Author Helen DamicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 467Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher University of Exeter Press -
'The World' and Other Unpublished Works of Radclyffe Hall by Jana Funke
RRP: £90.00£64.42This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall. These new materials significantly broaden and complicate critical views of Hall's writings. They demonstrate the stylistic and thematic range of her work and cover diverse... -
The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll 9781137505460
£49.88Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers. His immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. The wit and imagination, the wisdom, sense of absurdity and sheer fun which fill his... -
Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals): The Literature of the 1890s Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow, UK) 9781138799141
RRP: £37.99£33.38The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the... -
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale Veronica L. Schanoes 9781138248076
RRP: £53.99£47.23At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne... -
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
£105.64Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy's own words, he was 'feeling... -
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque Michel Delville 9780367890261
RRP: £39.99£35.06This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body's heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or... -
Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing, 1760-1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant by Sam George 9780719076978
RRP: £85.00£60.17In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women's engagement with the Swedish botanist,... -
The Life of Zabolotsky: by Nikita Zabolotsky by R. R. Milner-Gulland 9780708312629
RRP: £7.99£7.04This is a biography of the poet Nikolay Zabolotsky, written by his son, illustrated with examples of his work and telling in detail the story of his arrest during Stalin's terror, eight years of prison and exile, and stubborn survival. Since his death,... -
The Virus Paradigm: A Planetary Ecology of the Mind by Roberto Marchesini
RRP: £17.00£14.72In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader - could say 'paradigmatic' - meaning. The term 'virus' can be seen as a key word or an explanatory model also for processes that go beyond the... -
Questions of Phenomenology: Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude by Francoise Dastur 9780823233748
RRP: £29.99£26.50Francoise Dastur is well respected in France and Europe for her mastery of phenomenology as a movement and her clear and cogent explications of phenomenology in movement. These qualities are on display in this remarkable volume. Dastur guides the... -
The Anatomist of Power - Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority by Costas Despiniadis 9781551646589
RRP: £46.00£37.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551646589Author Costas DespiniadisFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 344gDimensions(mm) 223mm *... -
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Timothy Aubry
RRP: £35.95£28.96In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant... -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2: C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8 by Ralph Hanna
RRP: £83.00£72.11The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within... -
Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century by Cheryl Turner
RRP: £37.99£33.38Living by the Pen traces the pattern of the development of women's fiction from 1696 to 1796 and offers an interpretation of its distinctive features. It focuses upon the writers rather than their works, and identifies professional novelists. Through... -
Plautus: The Darker Comedies. <I>Bacchides, Casina,</I> and <I>Truculentus</I> by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £26.50£23.29The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general. A common theme in all three comedies is the triumph of women over men. In Truculentus,... -
David Foster Wallace in Context by Clare Hayes-Brady
£85.36David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable... -
Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books by Esther De Dauw 9781978806030
RRP: £28.99£24.96The superheroes from DC and Marvel comics are some of the most iconic characters in popular culture today. But how do these figures idealize certain gender roles, body types, sexualities, and racial identities at the expense of others? Hot Pants and... -
St John and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler
RRP: £90.00£79.45The Gospel according to St John, often regarded as the most important of the gospels in the account it gives of Jesus' life and divinity, received close attention from nineteenth-century biblical scholars and prompted a significant response in the arts... -
Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy by Sibylle Erle
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the early reception of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy and demonstrates how the challenges occurring during the production of Henry Hunter's translation resonate in William Blake's treatment of the Genesis story.About the... -
Don't Use The Phone: What Poets Can Learn From Books by Paul McDonald 9781910996621
RRP: £14.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996621Author Paul McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn by Meredith Farmer
RRP: £21.99£19.19Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear-and our compassion Herman Melville's Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. Ahab Unbound leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent... -
Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martin Gaite by Joan L. Brown
RRP: £29.99£26.50Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen MartIn Gaite explores the last six novels by Spains most honored contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself-as Brown called MartIn Gaite, who was a dear friend-as they... -
An Analysis of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation Amy Young Evrard 9781912127313
RRP: £6.50£6.29Arjun Appadurai's 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic of our times: globalization.Globalization has long been... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781032241869
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a... -
Bronte Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by Dr. Patsy Stoneham
£46.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454342Author Dr. Patsy StonehamFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire by Deepika Bahri 9780816698363
RRP: £20.99£18.37Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the simple mixing of races in examining the impact of colonialism on the colonized body. However, as Deepika Bahri argues, it is essential to... -
Romanticism, Nationalism and the Revolt Against Theory by David Simpson 9780226759463
RRP: £30.00£29.25Why has Anglo-American culture for so long regarded "theory" with intense suspicion? In this important contribution to the history of critical theory, David Simpson argues that a nationalist myth underlies contemporary attacks on theory. Theory's... -
Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945-1990 by Gerrit-Jan Berendse 9781800730687
RRP: £99.00£79.83For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a... -
Complaint: Grievance among Friends by Avital Ronell
RRP: £19.99£17.54"It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and compassion. Yet Pollyannas rile us up with their grotesque... -
The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts by Alan Richardson
£33.01The Neural Sublime brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in British Romantic studies. In exciting and unprecedented ways, Alan Richardson demonstrates how developments in the neurosciences can transform the... -
The Female Face of Shame by Erica L. Johnson
RRP: £20.99£18.37The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus... -
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales: A Short Introduction John C. Hirsh (Georgetown University in Washington DC) 9780631225621
RRP: £33.95£29.98This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading... -
Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems by Lorna Goodison 9781857548488
RRP: £9.95£7.18Lorna Goodison's "Goldengrove" is a rich and varied selection of poems from "Travelling Mercies" (2001) and "Controlling the Silver" (2004), together with twenty new, previously unpublished, poems. This is a gathering from a poet at the height of her... -
The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories Kurahashi Yumiko 9780765601582
RRP: £37.99£33.38This is an English-language anthology dedicated to the short stories of Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-), a Japanese novelist of profound intellectual powers. The eleven stories included in this volume suggest the breadth of the author's literary production,...