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Two Guys Read Moby-Dick: Musings on Melville's Whale & Other Strange Topics by Steve Chandler 9781931741637
RRP: £8.95£6.86In 1960, two high school friends were assigned to read the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick. Neither one of them read it. Four decades later, plagued by feelings of guilt at never having read The Great American Novel, the two friends grab for belated... -
How to Read a Novelist by John Freeman 9780374173265
RRP: £15.00£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374173265Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 129mm *... -
Carnal Reading by Joseph Pappa 9781611490046
£96.84The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of an "ideal reader" approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention... -
Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational by N. Katherine Hayles 9780231198240
RRP: £80.00£61.89Since Gutenberg’s time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine... -
A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread by Ivan Kreilkamp 9780231187107
RRP: £68.00£52.77Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of... -
Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian Periodicals in English and French, 1925–1960 by Faye Hammill 9781772120837
RRP: £42.99£35.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772120837Author Faye HammillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 400g -
The Journal (Meyerowitz) by Theresa Meyerowitz 9780845348307
£81.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780845348307Author Theresa MeyerowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 131Imprint Cornwall Books,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses -
Prizing Scottish Literature: A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards by Stevie Marsden 9781839987168
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839987168Author Stevie MarsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork by Whitney Trettien 9781517904081
RRP: £93.00£80.64How do early modern media underlie today's digital creativity? In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical,... -
Freedom Reread by L. Gibson 9780231188920
RRP: £68.00£52.77Few writers rankle like Jonathan Franzen. Despite popular acclaim, robust sales, and august literary laurels, Franzen's polarizing persona shares the spotlight with-and sometimes steals it from-his tragicomic novels of Midwestern family life. In this... -
A Lifetime of Fiction: The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102 by William Patrick Martin 9781442229396
£57.70A Lifetime of Fiction: The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102 is the most authoritative set of fiction book recommendations in the United States because it is a composite of the most noteworthy book award lists, best book publications, and... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin 9781451668568
RRP: £18.99£12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451668568Author Colm ToibinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)... -
Shaped by Stories: The Ethical Power of Narratives by Marshall Gregory 9780268206871
RRP: £83.00£72.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268206871Author Marshall GregoryFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams)... -
The Paradoxes of Posterity by Benjamin Hoffmann 9780271087047
RRP: £29.95£26.91The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope towards the spiritual... -
Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women's Bookstores in the United States by Junko Onosaka 9780415975964
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and... -
Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind by Michael Burke 9780415520683
RRP: £45.99£40.13This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is... -
Historical Networks in the Book Trade by Catherine Feely 9780367188443
RRP: £43.99£38.44The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers, publishers, booksellers and related trades existed at local, regional, national and international levels and were a vital part of... -
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C.S. Lewis to Left Behind by Nancy M. Tischler 9780313345685
£81.93A biographical encyclopedia of American and British Christian-themed writers from World War II to the present, covering acclaimed literary works and popular evangelical fiction. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C.S. Lewis to Left... -
Hamlet's Castle: The Study of Literature as a Social Experience by Gordon Mills 9780292742277
RRP: £28.99£24.96Hamlet's Castle is both a theoretical and a practical examination of the interactions that take place in a literary classroom. The book traces the source of literature's power to the relationship between its illusional quality and its abstract meaning... -
A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation by Beth Barton Schweiger 9780300112535
RRP: £27.50£26.93A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior... -
The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image by Lorenzo Servitje 9780271077116
RRP: £69.95£62.30The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video games, and many other forms of media. As a metaphor, zombies may represent political notions, such as the... -
Print Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice by Caroline Davis 9780230280908
£110.08This reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts on twentieth and twenty-first century print culture yet compiled. Illuminating the networks and processes that have shaped reading, writing and publishing, the selected extracts also examine... -
Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley by George Levine 9780226475516
RRP: £40.00£38.55In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the... -
The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction by William Veeder 9780226391977
RRP: £48.00£46.39In The Art of Criticism, William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin have brought together for the first time the best of the Master's critical work: the most important of his Prefaces, which R. P. Blackmur has called "the most sustained and I think the most... -
The Unresolvable Plot: Reading Contemporary Fiction by Elizabeth Dipple 9780367339753
£107.01Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experiments of writers such as Greene, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Nabakov, Calvino, Beckett, Eco, Spark, Hoban,... -
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five: Bookmarked by Curtis Smith 9781632460110
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632460110Author Curtis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing -
Rise Of The Graphic Novel, The (2nd Edition): Faster Than A Speeding Bullet by Stephen Weiner 9781561637027
RRP: £13.95£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561637027Author Stephen WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 369g -
Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor by Helena Michie 9781474406635
RRP: £100.00£91.32Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics' attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding... -
The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 by William Patrick Martin 9781442271869
RRP: £11.99£10.55The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue... -
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism: The Challenges of Science by Allan Hunter 9781138794726
RRP: £94.99£82.35First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day... -
A Companion to Herman Melville by Wyn Kelley 9781119045274
RRP: £37.95£33.76In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville's works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to MelvilleConsiders... -
Reading Today by Heta Pyrhonen 9781787351974
RRP: £35.00£30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351974Author Heta PyrhonenFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 470g -
Reading Today by Heta Pyrhonen 9781787351967
RRP: £15.00£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351967Author Heta PyrhonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 520g -
Against Amazon by Jorge Carrion 9781771963039
RRP: £12.99£8.63Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural,... -
Writers on the Air by Donna Seaman 9781589880214
RRP: £25.99£16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880214Author Donna SeamanFormat PaperbackPage Count 467Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 669g -
Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books by William Patrick Martin 9781442254770
RRP: £41.00£35.52Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books is the first comprehensive best book guide to wordless picture books (and nearly wordless picture books). It is an indispensable resource for parents and teachers who love... -
Literary Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature by Alex Palmer 9781510772595
RRP: £14.99£9.36Packed with fascinating facts, Literary Miscellany is sure to please both professor and pleasure reader alike. Wouldn't it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you'll... -
Where the Muses Still Haunt – The Second Reading by Hall Drury Anne 9781587315398
RRP: £21.00£17.76"Re-reading is one of life's joys," Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great book is inseparable from the endeavor to succeed at... -
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction by Kamil Naicker 9781032633787
RRP: £135.00£117.28A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence are not easily... -
Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel by Hannah Pardey 9781837644698
£96.61Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect investigates the material conditions of producing, distributing and...