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Lesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction by Elizabeth English
RRP: £28.99£26.91Elizabeth English explores the aesthetic dilemma prompted by the censorship of Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Faced with legal and financial reprisals, women writers were forced to question how they might represent lesbian... -
Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film, and Visual Culture Miranda Jakisa 9783837625226
RRP: £38.99£31.98The ubiquitous Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as founding myth of its newly united people. Its retrospective deconstruction has absorbed most of the academic attention for the Yugoslav Partisans since the break-up. This edition in contrast... -
Dating the Sagas: Reviews & Revisions by Else Mundal
RRP: £40.00£33.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763538992Author Else MundalFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
Avitus of Vienne: Selected Letters and Prose by Avitus of Vienne
RRP: £34.99£32.12Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne from c.494 to c.518, is known for his poetic works, but his Latin prose style has led to some neglect of his letters. This first complete translation of the letters into English gives access to an important... -
Mannerist Fiction: Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon by William Donoghue
RRP: £45.00£39.18In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form - distorting space and time - began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue... -
Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse by Stefani Engelstein
£30.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791474785Author Stefani EngelsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History by Andrew Smith
RRP: £85.00£60.17Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. The book investigates how eighteenth century Graveyard Poetry and the... -
Henrik Ibsen by Eduardo Viegas
£37.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333305966Author Eduardo ViegasFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 195g -
Shakespeare: The Instant Guide by Instant Guides
RRP: £2.50£2.06Instant 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... -
Visualizing Spanish Modernity by Eva Maria Woods
RRP: £135.00£117.68While 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
£62.83Eighteenth-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... -
Old Masters, New Subjects: Early Modern and Poststructuralist Theories of Will by Dolora A. Wojciehowski
£76.91The author analyzes "old masteries," certain notions of freedom, individualism, and control long associated with the Renaissance, in relation to the ideologies of non-mastery that recur in theory today.Book InformationISBN 9780804723862Author... -
Critical Perspectives on Max Porter David Rudrum 9781032662367
RRP: £135.00£117.28Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study... -
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature by Peter Brand 9780521666220
RRP: £49.99£44.02Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This substantial history of Italian literature provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing since its earliest origins... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt 9780521679756
RRP: £25.99£21.99Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely... -
Major Writings of Germaine de Stael by Vivian Folkenflik 9780231055871
RRP: £35.00£27.74Considered the foremost woman intellectual of the Romantic period, Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) exerted a lasting influence on European culture through the example of her remarkable life and the force of her fiction and critical writings. Originally... -
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present by Timothy Unwin 9780521499149
RRP: £25.99£21.99This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Balzac by Owen Heathcote
RRP: £23.99£20.37One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel by Peter Bondanella 9780521669627
RRP: £25.99£21.99The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the... -
History of My Life: Volumes 11 and 12 by Giacomo Casanova
£43.43The 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... -
Fifty Poems of Hafiz by Arthur J. Arberry 9780521101509
RRP: £25.99£22.85Hafiz, the greatest lyric poet of Persia, was first introduced to English readers in the translation by Sir William Jones in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The present selection (fifty poems, with their English poetical versions by fourteen... -
Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion by Gail Kern Paster
RRP: £27.99£24.54How 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy
RRP: £25.99£21.99Niccolo 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... -
Mann: Doctor Faustus by Michael Beddow 9780521375924
RRP: £22.99£20.11In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkuhn, and his often bemused... -
The Greatest Spy Writers of the 20th Century: Buchan, Fleming and Le Carre by Phil Carradice 9781399071864
RRP: £20.00£14.29The spy novel has, over the past hundred years, become one of the most popular literary genres. The best exponents have become household names, as have their characters, heroes and villains alike. From Richard Hannay to James Bond and George Smiley, the... -
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990 by Tadeusz Kantor
RRP: £34.00£27.37Polish 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... -
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide by Nick Groom
RRP: £8.99£6.70Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and... -
Dante: De vulgari eloquentia by Dante 9780521409230
RRP: £25.99£21.89De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular... -
Eclogues. Garden of the Hesperides by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
RRP: £29.95£23.66A renowned Renaissance poet's homage to Naples makes its debut in modern English translation.Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served... -
Crises of the Sentence by Jan Mieszkowski 9780226617190
£23.03There 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 Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment by Andrew S. Curran
RRP: £29.00£26.08This 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,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Philip Swanson
RRP: £24.99£21.18Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America's most internationally famous and successful author, and a winner of the Nobel Prize. His oeuvre of great modern novels includes One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His name has become... -
Invectives by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £29.95£24.06Francesco 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... -
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 by Simon Franklin
RRP: £36.99£22.29The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of production, in social structures, in fashion and taste. The graphospheric environment can be public or private,... -
Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva 9780231143257
RRP: £25.00£19.59Julia 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... -
A History of the Bildungsroman by Sarah Graham
RRP: £36.99£21.89The 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... -
Everything Passes by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857548501
RRP: £12.99£8.94'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,... -
The Cambridge History of German Literature by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly 9780521785730
RRP: £55.99£48.30This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, take a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also ask what Germans in a given period were actually... -
The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue (La Citta del Sole: Dialogo Poetico) by Tommaso Campanella
RRP: £20.00£18.19Among 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: £29.00£22.54"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...