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Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics by William Keach 9780691168005
€17.99This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the... -
On Anachronism by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9780719082443
RRP: €101.15€71.60On Anachronism joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze,... -
Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries by Joan Fitzpatrick 9780719081132
RRP: €107.10€77.14Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietaries contains Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health, Andrew Boorde's Compendious Regiment and William Bullein's... -
Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography by James Olney 9780691629728
RRP: €159.46€136.50James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes it live. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton... -
Gendering German Studies: New Perspectives on German Literature and Culture by Margaret Littler 9780631209287
RRP: €27.07€23.76This collection of essays demonstrates across a spectrum of cultural topics the productive intersection of feminism and German Studies. Taking gender as a central analytical catagory, the authors explore German literature from the Middle Ages to the... -
Kostas Varnalis's Papers: The Poet's Workshop and History (Modern Greek) by Theano Michailidou 9789608696099
RRP: €20.17€19.15Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. An important contemporary of Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis, Varnalis's floruit as a poet was in the interwar period. His most... -
Doing Double Dutch: The International Circulation of Literature from the Low Countries by Elke Brems 9789462700970
RRP: €61.88€50.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462700970Author Elke BremsFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press -
The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature by Marion Gymnich 9783899717754
RRP: €96.38€79.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899717754Author Professor Dr Marion GymnichFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 922g -
Krieg und Literatur/War and Literature Vol. XIV, 2008 by Claudia Glunz 9783899717471
RRP: €63.06€51.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899717471Author Claudia GlunzFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 348g -
When the bad bleeds: Mantic Elements in English Renaissance Revenge Tragedy by Imke Pannen 9783899716405
RRP: €85.67€69.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899716405Author Imke PannenFormat HardbackPage Count 337Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 0g -
European Memories of the Second World War by Helmut Peitsch 9781845451585
RRP: €33.26€26.87For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred against those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Racism is back, and antiracism is no longer accepted... -
European Memories of the Second World War by Helmut Peitsch 9781571819369
RRP: €127.33€103.02During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume... -
Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England by Jonathan Baldo 9781526143549
RRP: €29.75€21.32This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it... -
Spenser and Virgil: The Pastoral Poems by Syrithe Pugh 9781526101174
RRP: €101.15€72.08Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and... -
Charles Lamb, Elia and the London Magazine: Metropolitan Muse by Simon P. Hull 9781138665156
RRP: €64.25€55.78The inherent 'metropolitanism' of writing for a Romantic-era periodical is here explored through the Elia articles that Charles Lamb wrote for the London Magazine.Book InformationISBN 9781138665156Author Simon P. HullFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint... -
The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition by Gerard Passannante 9780226648491
RRP: €59.50€56.94With "The Lucretian Renaissance", Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two... -
From the Berlin Journal by Max Frisch 9781803092140
RRP: €20.22€17.39The daily journal of a giant of German literature, touching subjects ranging from everyday life to the political and social conditions in East Germany as viewed from West Berlin. Max Frisch (1911-91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature... -
Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis by Clíona Hensey 9781837644766
€132.82Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Among the many communities of memory associated with the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), the group... -
The Baroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Peter N. Skrine 9781032485812
RRP: €103.52€89.89First Published in 1978, The Baroque focuses on eight areas where it expressed itself most successfully. The cultural movement called baroque dominated most of the Western Europe from the late sixteenth century to the 1720s. During that long time, it... -
Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing by Paula Henrikson 9780367653910
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing... -
Contemporary European Crime Fiction: Representing History and Politics by Monica Dall'Asta 9783031219788
RRP: €130.89€117.49This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific... -
Story and History – Narrative Authority and Social Identity in the Eighteenth–Century French and English Novel by W Ray 9780631175124
RRP: €46.35€40.70A comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, Story and History rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might... -
Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature by Caterina Romeo 9783031100420
RRP: €130.89€117.49This book argues for the importance of adopting a postcolonial perspective in analysing contemporary Italian culture and literature. Originally published in Italian in 2018 as Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale, this new English... -
The Subject of Crusade: Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500 by Marisa Galvez 9780226693217
RRP: €92.82€88.94In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in lyric poetry, putting words to the experience of... -
Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century by George E. Haggerty 9781611480108
RRP: €96.39€90.49In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively:... -
Albert Camus: The Unheroic Hero of Our Time by Ramin Jahanbegloo 9781032176222
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book interprets the ideas, thoughts and concepts that characterize the writings and philosophy of Albert Camus for our contemporary times. It investigates Camus' "revolted compassion" as an outsider and a philosopher-writer who in his own... -
This is Enlightenment by Clifford Siskin 9780226761473
RRP: €96.39€92.76Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query:... -
Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe by Simon Ditchfield 9781526143556
RRP: €35.70€28.76Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary... -
A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel by Edward H Friedman 9781855663671
RRP: €95.20€91.17The term picaresque describes a specific set of early modern Spanish narratives relating the life story of a lowborn adventurer in a realist, ironic, and often humorous manner. The protagonist, the picaro or picara (rascal), seeks upward mobility in a... -
Love's Quarrels: Reading Charity in Early Modern England by Evan A. Gurney 9781625343819
RRP: €39.21€37.65Early modern English writers often complained that ""charity had grown cold,"" lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid by Scott Lyall 9780748641895
€27.02Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in twentieth-century Scottish culture. His poetry is both compelling in its intellectual challenge and captivating in its lyrical... -
In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust by Barry McCrea
€25.94In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea... -
A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood by Patrick Spedding
€66.52There is much intense critical activity from researchers interested in the 18th century and women's studies, and as a result many of Haywood's works are now coming back into print. This is a comprehensive bibliography of Haywood, that lists newly... -
Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies by Martin Prochazka
RRP: €17.85€17.70This collaborative monograph will commemorate the centenary of the Prague English Studies, officially inaugurated in 1912 by the appointment of Vilem Mathesius. Apart from reassessing the work of major representatives, such as Mathesius, Vladislav... -
Passionate Intelligence: Imagination and Reason in the Work of Samuel Johnson by Arieh Sachs
€27.72Originally published in 1967. Professor Sachs shows the inner coherence of Samuel Johnson's thought by pointing out the interconnectedness of his remarks on religious, moral, aesthetic, political, and psychological subjects. Reason and imagination, the... -
Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature by Brenda Machosky
€60.70Taking a phenomenological approach to allegory, Structures of Appearing seeks to revise the history of aesthetics, identifying it is an ideology that has long subjugated art to philosophical criteria of judgment. Rather than being a mere signifying... -
Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms by Coburn Freer
€41.27Originally published in 1972. This book tries to study the affinities in form and matter between the versified translation of the Psalms and George Herbert's lyrics. Coburn Freer reads Herbert's poetry by way of the metrical psalms that precede it,... -
Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Gerald Cornelius Monsman
€41.27Originally published in 1967. Monsman undertakes a comprehensive critical analysis of Walter Pater's fiction, which presents the critic with numerous causes of frustration, not the least of which is a lack of both dramatic narration and description... -
Men and Masks: A Study of Moliere by Lionel Gossman
€41.27Originally published in 1963. Moliere's plays rank among the great comic achievements in the history of the stage. Yet few attempts have been made to understand them as expressing the historical context of the author's time. Most frequently they have... -
The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain: Mammoth and Megalonyx by William Christie
RRP: €57.11€49.75From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years...