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Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human by Onno Oerlemans 9780231159548
RRP: £55.00£42.91Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton 9780521147958
RRP: £22.99£19.56The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern... -
Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction by Dorrit Claire Cohn
RRP: £45.00£35.32This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: £33.99£29.66The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social,... -
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell
RRP: £24.99£21.67In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780393924664
RRP: £13.99£12.65This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit... -
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by J. W. Ernst 9780823215591
RRP: £45.00£39.18Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were... -
FML: And You Thought You'd Had a Bad Day... by Didier Guedj 9781843178828 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780674267206
RRP: £32.95£26.64Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays-the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)-are... -
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend by Roy Morris, Jr. 9781421431536
RRP: £20.50£16.26The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The... -
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: £16.99£14.96Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school... -
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
RRP: £25.99£22.49What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts-and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading-are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book... -
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka 9780231185752
RRP: £30.00£23.29The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic... -
M: Writings, 1967-72 by John Cage 9780714511351
RRP: £15.95£13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714511351Author John CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker 9780801881855
RRP: £38.00£34.81Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man who lived among the cannibals!" Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and... -
The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh by Sneharika Roy 9780367890438
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and... -
War and American Literature by Jennifer Haytock
£94.21This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and... -
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £29.95£20.70A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work... -
On Cormac McCarthy: Essays On Mexico, Crime, Hemingway and God by Allen Josephs 9780692700617
RRP: £12.99£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692700617Author Allen JosephsFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint New Street Communications, LLCPublisher New Street Communications, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology by Karen L. Kilcup 9780631199861
RRP: £55.95£49.77Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression.About the AuthorKaren L. Kilcup is Professor of American literature... -
The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden and the Flood by Mark Twain 9780820316505
£53.68This volume collects the most important writings by Mark Twain in which he used biblical settings, themes and figures. Featuring Twain's singular portrayals of God, Adam, Eve, Satan, Methuselah, Shem, St. Peter and others, the writings stand among... -
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins by Susan Fraiman 9780231166355
RRP: £22.00£17.36Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic... -
The Theology of John Donne by Jeffrey Johnson
RRP: £19.99£19.39John Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology. John Donne is here treated as an original religious thinker; the evidence for the distinguishing features of his theology is... -
The Book of Stupid Questions by Tom Weller 9780446389723
RRP: £14.99£13.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446389723Author Tom WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 118g -
Walking the Rez Road: Stories by Jim Northrup 9781555919771
RRP: £15.95£12.25Celebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war but has trouble surviving the peace.About the AuthorJim... -
American Drama: In Dialogue, 1714-Present by Jacqueline Foertsch
£32.30An essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of... -
The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £33.99£20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534986Author Jack KerouacFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain by Forrest G. Robinson
RRP: £28.99£24.42The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of... -
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine by Bart D. Ehrman 9780195307139
RRP: £21.49£12.39A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has stood atop The New York Times Bestseller List for well over a year, with millions of copies in print. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry by Walter Kalaidjian
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the... -
The Long-Legged House by Wendell Berry 9781619020016
RRP: £15.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619020016Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present by Sir Theodore Martin 9780231181938
RRP: £22.00£17.36What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an... -
The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution by Eric Slauter
RRP: £80.00£77.01The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial... -
Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology by Eric S. Rabkin
RRP: £18.49£13.34An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science fiction as well as a highly entertaining collection, Science Fiction contains 27 chronologically-arranged stories and excerpts, ranging from such early classic works as Swift's Gulliver's Travels... -
The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin by Mark Tredinnick 9781595340184
RRP: £17.99£13.80At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin author Mark Tredinnick... -
The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript by F. Scott Fitzgerald
£68.22This edition presents the manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the earliest full version of the novel that survives. Study of this manuscript reveals much about the composition of the novel - about the development of its characters and... -
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson
£27.37In this whip-smart study, Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers unprecedented analyses of the work of Barbara Guest,... -
Faulkner and the Native South by Jay Watson 9781496837929
RRP: £34.95£31.81From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching implications of Faulkner's fictional place-name "Yoknapatawpha," to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding... -
Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti 9781611804171
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804171Author Robert InchaustiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson by Joel Porte 9780521499460
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the...