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Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama by Michael Neill
€47.39Putting History to the Question marks a critical step beyond the orthodoxy of New Historicism. This collection of mutually enriching essays, hitherto scattered through a variety of journals and critical collections, represents a generous range of Michael... -
Shakespeare: The Instant Guide by Instant Guides
RRP: €2.98€2.45Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing. Portable, easy to use and durable they contain all the basics whether you're studying the subject or just... -
Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization by Kate Rigby
€128.34Whilst the earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world, today the "romanticising" of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. A rediscovery of the importance of the... -
Visualizing Spanish Modernity by Eva Maria Woods
RRP: €160.65€140.04While the simultaneously creative and destructive forces of modernity in Western Europe have been well studied, the case of Spain has often been overlooked. Visualizing Spanish Modernity concentrates on the time period 1868-1939, which marks not only the... -
The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist by Zachary Sng
€77.74Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of... -
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990 by Tadeusz Kantor
RRP: €40.46€31.95Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential directors as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, and... -
Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva 9780231143257
RRP: €29.75€22.82Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and... -
Everything Passes by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857548501
RRP: €15.46€10.64'Everything passes. The good and the bad. The joy and the sorrow. Everything passes. Or does it?' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the painter Jan Gossaert paints Danae, upon whom Jupiter descends in a shower of gold, as a plump nubile maiden,... -
History of My Life: Volumes 11 and 12 by Giacomo Casanova
€51.68The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Dona Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encounter with... -
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy
RRP: €30.93€27.19Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading... -
The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment by Andrew S. Curran
RRP: €34.51€30.44This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues,... -
Crises of the Sentence by Jan Mieszkowski 9780226617190
€27.41There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the word,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe by Lesley Sharpe
RRP: €30.93€27.19The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world's greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume... -
A History of the Bildungsroman by Sarah Graham
RRP: €44.02€26.05The Bildungsroman has been one of the most significant genres in Western literature since the eighteenth century. This volume, comprised of eleven chapters by leading experts in the field, offers original insights into how the novel of formation... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: €53.55€48.56In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and... -
The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue (La Citta del Sole: Dialogo Poetico) by Tommaso Campanella
RRP: €23.80€21.65Among Renaissance utopias, "The City of the Sun" is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical... -
Virginia Woolf and the Real World by Alex Zwerdling
RRP: €34.51€26.28"The finest critical book on Virginia Woolf to date. Alex Zwerdling's large and subtle study places Virginia Woolf's world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. The book leaves us with renewed... -
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte by Emily Bronte 9780231103473
RRP: €33.32€25.42In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bellappeared on the British Literary scene. The three psuedonymous poets, the Bronte sisters went on to unprecedented success with such novels as Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris by Anna-Louise Milne
RRP: €28.55€18.12No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where... -
The Global Eighteenth Century by Felicity A. Nussbaum
RRP: €30.35€29.50Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a "long eighteenth century," one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the contributing authors take this idea one step further,... -
Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov by Martin Hagglund 9780674066328
RRP: €64.20€50.10Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time-whether through an epiphany of memory,... -
Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton by David Quint
RRP: €61.88€47.95Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation... -
History of My Life: Volumes 9 and 10 by Giacomo Casanova
€51.68Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of... -
Wittgenstein and Modernism by Michael LeMahieu 9780226420400
RRP: €36.89€35.93Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary." But few books have really followed up on these claims,... -
Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig 9780811221399
RRP: €15.46€12.17After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser... -
Essays On World Literature: Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Dante by Ismail Kadare
RRP: €17.84€11.76The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature - Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare - through the... -
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France by Anne E. Linton
€41.90During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century... -
Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
€43.27Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists... -
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 by Virginia Cox
RRP: €58.31€51.03This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and... -
Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900: A Cr itical Study of Major Fiction from Prousts Swanns Way to Ferrantes Neapolitan Tetralogy by DR Schwarz
RRP: €32.07€27.88An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise... -
Modern Italian Literature by Ann Hallamore Caesar 9780745628004
RRP: €21.41€19.09This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present. It probes the work of major authors in their broad cultural context, traces the history of audiences and publishers,... -
Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare by Richard Dutton 9780719063695
RRP: €29.75€25.68Explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England as a site for regional drama, introducing the reader to the non-metropolitan theatre spaces which formed a vital part of early modern dramatic activity. Uses the... -
History of My Life: Volumes 5 and 6 by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: €51.17€45.01In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French... -
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by Henri Michaux
RRP: €40.46€31.95Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work "is without equal in... -
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco
RRP: €32.07€27.45In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader-his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie, for Little Red Riding Hood, Agatha Christie, Agent 007... -
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster by Gerard Passannante
RRP: €28.56€23.94When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination... -
The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts by William J. Purkis
RRP: €95.20€91.17Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends. This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier... -
The Body of Beatrice by Robert Pogue Harrison
€32.05Harrison's elegant poems follow in the steps of his work on interpreting the classic "Divine Comedy"by Dante. (Poetry)About the AuthorRobert Pogue Harrison is a professor of literature at Stanford University, where he is Rosina Pierotti Professor in... -
A New History of Early English Drama by John D. Cox 9780231102438
RRP: €53.55€41.73For many years the study of pre-seventeenth-century English drama was shaped largely by an understanding that everything written revolved around the individual author, either as part of the tradition that prepared the way for Shakespeare or as part of... -
History of My Life: Volumes 7 and 8 by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: €51.17€45.01In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In Rome he charms the Pope; in Naples, he nearly marries a...