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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath by Jo Gill 9780521686952 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$6.05Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath by Jo Gill 9780521686952
RRP: $41.98$33.71Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first... -
Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism by Daniel K Green 9780990915034
RRP: $23.08$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990915034Author Daniel K GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Cow Eye PressPublisher Cow Eye PressWeight(grams) 200g -
Absalom, Absalom!: A Norton Critical Edition by William Faulkner
RRP: $31.48$28.20This Norton Critical Edition includes: The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.Two maps and five other images.A rich selection of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost by Robert Faggen
RRP: $48.28$41.08This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and... -
The Norman Maclean Reader by Norman Maclean 9780226500270
RRP: $35.70$30.70In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim - as well as the devotion of readers... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain 9780520279940
RRP: $79.80$66.38The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of... -
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
RRP: $38.83$28.01For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links... -
New Essays on The Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli 9780521319638
RRP: $60.88$51.28The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925, through its increasing popularity in the 1940s, to its critical and popular elevation from the standing of an... -
Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative by Professor or Dr. Josh Toth
$56.55Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism. Yet, if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course, how might we... -
Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity by Iliza Shlesinger
RRP: $39.88$24.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602863347Author Iliza ShlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century by Nancy Glazener 9780199390137
RRP: $172.20$138.45Literature in the contemporary sense, comprised of drama, fiction, poetry, and certain kinds of nonfiction prose, cohered during the nineteenth century and became the defining object of departments of modern languages and literatures in U.S. research... -
Bid Me to Live by H. D. 9780813061955
$43.01Scholars and students alike will turn to Caroline Zilboorg's edition of H.D.'s Bid Me to Livefor an introduction that provides heretofore unavailable insights and annotations that elucidate the book's countless literary and biblical allusions. A useful,... -
The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction by Alison Shonkwiler 9781517901523
RRP: $46.18$40.30As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the... -
Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change by Adam Trexler 9780813936925
$62.69Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's... -
California Continuum, Volume 1: Migrations and Amalgamations by Grant Hier 9781938349812
RRP: $44.10$32.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938349812Author Grant HierFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint PelekinesisPublisher PelekinesisWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm -
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century by Joan Hawkins
RRP: $65.10$58.30William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded)... -
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James
RRP: $50.40$49.20This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multivolume "New York" Edition of Henry James' fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great... -
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park by Naomi Mandel
RRP: $67.18$59.60This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). Taking as its starting-point "American Psycho"'s seismic impact... -
The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story by Michael J. Collins 9781009292849
RRP: $48.28$41.22This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short... -
Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee by Stella Adler 9780679746997
RRP: $39.88$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746997Author Stella AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James by Jonathan Freedman 9780521499248
RRP: $48.28$41.08The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: $35.60$29.09Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others... -
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins by Artemis Leontis 9780691210766
RRP: $52.50$41.14The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis book tells the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and... -
Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, Mccarthy, Sontag, Weil by Deborah Nelson
RRP: $50.40$48.36This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet... -
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson 9780691224305
RRP: $39.88$28.81From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial... -
Beat Writers At Work by Rick Moody 9780375752155
RRP: $32.55$29.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752155Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls 9780226599373
RRP: $39.90$32.47"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small... -
Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692 by Bernard Rosenthal 9780521558204
RRP: $81.88$67.79Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the... -
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780393264890
$39.12This second edition also includes: revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface and a note on the text by Leland S. Person; key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and... -
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger 9780393925890
RRP: $27.28$24.07It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive "Contexts" section includes maps, photographs, and documents showing how and why Alger used the backdrop of New York... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway by Scott Donaldson
RRP: $56.68$47.88This Companion serves both as an introduction for the interested reader and as a source of the best recent scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to analysing his major texts, the contributors provide insights into Hemingway's relationship... -
Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading by Virginia Jackson
RRP: $73.50$58.25How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained... -
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J King
RRP: $42.00$36.50Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing-or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick... -
Readings Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) 9780857422088
RRP: $43.05$36.50Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading. In... -
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 9780393284171
$34.21This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The first American edition (1889) of the novel, approved by Twain and published by his own company. * All 241 original illustrations, bringing to life Twain's admiration for King Arthur, Merlin and Camelot as... -
Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 by Dianne C. Luce 9781643363554
$72.32Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthyDevotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be... -
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $33.60$20.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123972Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm)... -
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F. O. Matthiessen 9780195007596
RRP: $109.20$76.84Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.Book InformationISBN 9780195007596Author F. O. MatthiessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Oxford... -
Our World by Molly Malone Cook 9780807068809
RRP: $86.10$54.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068809Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 244mm * 13mm