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Nature Translated: Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Alison E. Martin
RRP: $137.22$123.12Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important scientists of the nineteenth century. Captivating his readers with his vibrant, lyrical prose, he transformed understandings of the earth and space by rethinking nature as the interconnection of global... -
Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties by Carrie Smith-Prei
RRP: $99.49$14.68Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German... -
The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy by David G. Lummus
RRP: $39.43$39.19What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mussato, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Giovanni... -
Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries by Joan Fitzpatrick
RRP: $34.31$24.92Early 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... -
Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe by Victoria Browne
RRP: $231.57$201.17Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany,... -
Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance by Liz Constable
RRP: $51.44$44.58When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of... -
Ends of Enlightenment by John Bender
RRP: $44.58$37.81Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European... -
Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy by Gerald L. Bruns
$60.41As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us little about what Blanchot's work actually says and why it... -
Our Nazis: Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film by Petra Rau
RRP: $154.38$125.70This is an analysis of the resurgent cultural fascination with Nazism since 1989. Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British... -
Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide by Julian Wolfreys
RRP: $53.17$48.97Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy,... -
Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture by Adeline Johns-Putra
RRP: $154.38$110.50How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together twelve essays by leading and up-coming scholars on the theme of... -
Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England by Jonathan Baldo
RRP: $154.38$22.88This 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... -
The Shadow of Death: Literature, Romanticism, and the Subject of Punishment by Mark Canuel
RRP: $99.49$76.11The Shadow of Death is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. Mark Canuel argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gunter Grass by Stuart Taberner
RRP: $128.65$88.87Gunter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have... -
A Coat of Many Colors: Osip Mandelstam and His Mythologies of Self-Presentation by Gregory Freidin
RRP: $53.17$41.08For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. To respond to it meant to fashion from the available cultural and personal material a mythic self, one that could serve both as the organizing... -
Court and Culture: Dutch Literature, 1350-1450 by Frits Pieter Van Oostrom
RRP: $90.91$70.40Our common image of the Middle Ages, constructed partly from popular accounts by Tuchman and Huizinga, is a period in European history when cultural activity was in decay. Van Oostrom convincingly challenges this notion by presenting evidence of a lively... -
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2: The Songs and Sonets: Part 2: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses by John Donne
RRP: $130.36$111.51This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared,... -
Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets by Lisa Freinkel
RRP: $171.53$132.10The most influential treatments of Shakespeare's Sonnets have ignored the impact of theology on his poetics, examining instead the poet's "secular" emphasis on psychology and subjectivity. Reading Shakespeare's Will offers the first systematic... -
Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity: Essays in Commemoriation of Milena Dolezalova-Velingerova (1932-2012) by Kirk A. Denton
RRP: $32.59$31.73Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity presents thirteen essays written in honor of Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova (1932-2012), a member of the Prague School of Sinology and an important scholar of Chinese literature who was at the forefront in... -
The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe - From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers by Alex Wong
RRP: $162.95$156.23There is a great deal of kissing in Renaissance poetry, but modern critics do not generally recognise (as early readers did) that the literary conventions of the kiss were closely related to a fully-formed, lively and popular genre of Neo-Latin... -
The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance by Phillipa Hardman
RRP: $120.07$115.34Identity is a central concern of medieval romance. Here it is approached through essays on issues of origin and parentage, transformation and identity, and fundamental questions of what constitutes the human. The construction of knightly identity through... -
Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance by Don Cameron Allen
RRP: $66.90$59.07Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this... -
Journey to Beatrice by Charles S. Singleton
$67.12Originally published in 1977. This volume recovers the allegory in Dante's Divine Comedy and presumes that readers' deficient knowledge of or interest in allegory have led to misinterpretations of Dante's poem. None of the dozens of commentaries on the... -
Germaine Dulac by Maryann De Julio
RRP: $137.22$120.41One of the few women pioneers of cinema and a committed feminist, Germaine Dulac strongly believed that the public had a role to play in shaping the history of cinema and the kinds of films that filmmakers could make. This book draws on a wealth of... -
History of a Vendetta by Yorgi Yatromanolakis
RRP: $11.99$9.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946626748Author Yorgi YatromanolakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy by Dimitris Vardoulakis
RRP: $61.75$53.16The Doppelganger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelganger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelganger was coined by the... -
Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock by Steven Rawle
RRP: $154.38$113.36This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen,... -
Tasso'S Art and Afterlives: The <i>Gerusalemme Liberata</i> in England by Jason Lawrence
RRP: $145.80$103.21This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the lasting impact of... -
Nabokov's Early Fiction: Patterns of Self and Other by Julian W. Connolly
RRP: $58.30$50.34This book traces the evolution of Vladimir Nabokov's prose fiction from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s. While individual works by Nabokov have attracted extensive commentary, the precise contours of Nabokov's development as a writer of fiction have... -
Twentieth-Century Italian Drama: An Anthology by Jane House
RRP: $144.09$112.46This work explores the best of contemporary Italian theatre, from Luigi Pirandello to Massimo Bontempelli. It covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the aftermath of World War II, and includes a number of translations of plays never before... -
Classica et Mediaevalia: Volume 62 by Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen
RRP: $97.75$77.60Classica et Mediaevalia is an international, peer reviewed journal covering the field of the Greek and Latin languages and literature from classical antiquity until the late Middle Ages as well as the Greco-Roman history and traditions as manifested in... -
Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages by Marilina Cesario
RRP: $154.38$109.62This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews traditional categories of periodisation and discipline,... -
Maude by Christina Rossetti, On Sisterhoods and A Woman's Thoughts About Women By Dinah Mulock Craik by Christina G. Rossetti
$70.36"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah Mulock Craik advocates the... -
Henry Crabb Robinson: Romantic Comparatist, 1790-1811 by Philipp Hunnekuhl
$190.59Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) earned his place in literary history as a perceptive diarist from 1811 onwards. Drawing substantially on hitherto unpublished manuscript sources, this book discusses his formal and informal engagement with a wide variety... -
Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution by Susan Maslan
$46.19In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to shape the... -
Spenser and Virgil: The Pastoral Poems by Syrithe Pugh
RRP: $42.88$30.74Dubbed '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... -
Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature by Jeremy Davies
RRP: $75.46$65.94When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt... -
The Emergence of German as a Literary Language 1700-1775 by Eric A. Blackall
RRP: $92.61$79.50Originally published in 1959, Dr Blackall's book cuts across the usual distinction between 'literature' and 'linguistics' in the study of modern languages. The importance of Dr Blackall's remarkable study is that one is shown both sides in this interplay... -
Open Subjects: English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability by Professor James Kuzner
RRP: $41.15$36.12This is the first exploration of how early modern republican and contemporary radical thought connect with and complement each other. Studies of the republican legacy have proliferated in recent years, always to argue for a polity that cultivates the... -
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature by Robbie McLaughlan
RRP: $154.38$138.22Maps the fin de siecle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'Book InformationISBN 9780748647156Author Robbie McLaughlanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 527g