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The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland by Padraig Rooney
RRP: £10.99£7.40In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron and the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted and penned The Prisoner of Chillon. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up The Vampyre... -
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
RRP: £15.00£14.87When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of... -
War, the Hero and the Will: Hardy, Tolstoy and the Napoleonic Wars by Jane L. Bownas 9781845199043
RRP: £27.95£24.93Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being set in the same period of history. This study argues that... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen by Jennifer Bain
RRP: £23.99£20.37This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological... -
Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843442455
RRP: £8.99£6.26Euro Noir by Britain's leading crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw (author of Nordic Noir) examines the astonishing success of European fiction and drama. This is often edgier, grittier and more compelling than some of its British or American equivalents,... -
Mann: Buddenbrooks by Hugh Ridley
RRP: £24.99£21.18This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will... -
Medieval Monstrosity: Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe by Charity Urbanski 9780367197421
RRP: £35.99£31.69This volume examines various manifestations and understandings of the concept of monstrosity in medieval Europe around 500-1500 ce through a collection of contextual chapters and primary sources. The main chapters focus on a specific theme, a type of... -
The 100 Best Novels: In English by Robert McCrum 9781903385470
RRP: £9.99£6.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385470Author Robert McCrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement by Daniel Just
RRP: £90.00£65.27Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson
RRP: £23.99£19.51Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Romanticism. Fabled in his own lifetime as 'the Wizard of the North' and as the (long-anonymous) 'Author of... -
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Helene Cixous
RRP: £22.00£16.99Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential... -
Romantics and Victorians by Nicola J. Watson
£31.64The second volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to European romanticism and Victorian culture. Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching theme, providing a clear focus... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867931
RRP: £37.99£32.18The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters... -
Invectives by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £29.95£23.59Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch's Latin epic Africa imitated Virgil and his compendium On... -
Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
RRP: £25.00£20.92A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foeldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Foeldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy,... -
The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy by Robert Rix 9781009359474
RRP: £30.00£24.57For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rilke by Karen Leeder
RRP: £25.99£21.99Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on... -
Fashioning Gothic Bodies by Catherine Spooner 9780719064012
RRP: £19.99£18.28This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.About the AuthorCatherine Spooner is Lecturer in English... -
Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris by Karen Newman 9780691141107
RRP: £30.00£22.82Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic, political, and social changes wrought by the industrial... -
The 100 Best Novels: In the English Language by Robert McCrum 9781903385425
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385425Author Robert McCrumFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 389g -
The Animal Question in Deconstruction by Lynn Turner
RRP: £28.99£26.39This explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question'. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. This textbook reveals how thinkers on... -
Hamletics – Shakespeare, Kafka, Beckett by Massimo Cacciari 9781803092669
RRP: £16.99£16.66One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity... -
Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture by Michael Anderegg 9780231112291
£34.17From the earliest days of radio to the golden age of television and beyond, Orson Welles has occupied a unique place in American culture. In Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture, Michael Anderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter... -
Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art by Marina van Zuylen 9780801489860
RRP: £29.99£25.99"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the... -
The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle
RRP: £32.00£24.27In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry... -
The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch by Albert Russell Ascoli
RRP: £23.99£19.04Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this... -
Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion by Gail Kern Paster
RRP: £29.99£26.39How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own? If Western culture has traditionally held emotion... -
Clearing the Ground: C P Cavafy, Poetry & Prose, 1902-1911 by C. P. Cavafy 9781942281009
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942281009Author C P CavafyFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint LaertesPublisher LaertesWeight(grams) 276g -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 3, 1957-1965 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867955
RRP: £37.99£34.17This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might... -
Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France by Anne C. Vila
£28.79In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France. The thrills of the nervous system, the delectations of... -
Confrontations by Rene Wellek 9780691623214
RRP: £30.00£22.82Confrontations brings, together in one volume six essays by the distinguished critic Rene Wellek. Five have been previously published but are now practically unobtainable; one, "German and English Romanticism: A Confrontation," is previously unpublished... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
RRP: £23.99£19.99Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature... -
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin
RRP: £25.99£21.99Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and... -
Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado by Daniel Vitkus 9780231110297
RRP: £30.00£22.82During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire posed a clear and present danger to Christian rule in Europe. While English commerce with the Mediterranean world expanded, Ottoman forces invaded Greece, Hungary, and Austria. At the... -
A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds by Jacques Derrida 9780231066594
RRP: £35.00£27.80Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writings over the last twenty-five years are gathered in this accessible introduction, A Derrida Reader. The... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867948
RRP: £37.99£32.18This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the war years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's... -
Dante: The Divine Comedy by Robin Kirkpatrick
RRP: £19.99£16.18In this accessible critical introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy Robin Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how an early work such... -
Odysseus: A Verse Tragedy by Nikos Kazantzakis 9781935244257
RRP: £18.99£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935244257Author Nikos KazantzakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Somerset Hall PressPublisher Somerset Hall PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka by Carolin Duttlinger
RRP: £19.99£13.33Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a... -
Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics by Kevis Goodman
RRP: £35.00£33.91An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds This book studies later eighteenth-century...