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Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: £18.99£12.83This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art... -
The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kirk Curnutt 9780521676007
RRP: £23.99£19.99Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life - including his tempestuous romance with his wife and muse Zelda - continues to overshadow his art. However glamorous his... -
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Helena: Volume 11 by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £84.00£83.98This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each... -
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley
RRP: £13.99£9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898838Author Jenny MintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present by Margaret Greaves
RRP: £65.00£58.56Poetry and astronomy often travel together in the political sphere, from Milton's meeting with Galileo under house arrest to NASA's practice of launching poems into space. Anchored in the post-war period but drawing on a long history of poetry and... -
The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics by Sara Danius 9780801488009
RRP: £27.99£24.14In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 Merritt Moseley 9781032019109
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also... -
Woman's Weekly and Lower Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers by Eleanor Reed 9781802078428
£111.61A unique intersection between periodical and literary scholarship, and class and gender history, this book showcases a brand-new approach to surveying a popular domestic magazine. Reading Woman's Weekly alongside titles including Good Housekeeping, My... -
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: £35.00£27.74"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize... -
A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster Nigel Cawthorne 9781780338248
RRP: £8.99£6.20A comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouse's two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet ('Reggie') Jeeves, Bertie's friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may... -
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd 9780393339093
RRP: £23.50£20.77Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel. Ulysses, he argues, is a work written for and about the common person, offering a humane vision of a more... -
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature A. Robert Lee 9781032095400
RRP: £43.99£38.44Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as... -
Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory by Raymond Tallis 9780333639269
RRP: £59.99£54.73This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.Book InformationISBN... -
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff by Deborah A. Starr
RRP: £27.99£24.54The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of... -
Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review by Clare Hutton
RRP: £23.99£21.66James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in New York in the Little Review between 1918 and 1920. What kind of reception did it have and how does the serial version of the text differ from the version most readers know, the iconic volume edition... -
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits by Jason Allen-Paisant 9780192867223
RRP: £70.00£63.74Aime Cesaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Cesaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between... -
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries by Katie Ritson
RRP: £37.99£33.38Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of... -
Ulysses by Numbers by Eric Jon Bulson
RRP: £22.00£17.36Ulysses has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure, design, and history of Joyce's masterpiece, we pay attention to the numbers?Taking a computational approach, Ulysses by Numbers lets us... -
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism by Naomi Wynter-Vincent
RRP: £31.99£28.33Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process, and creative writing.There is now renewed interest in... -
Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century by Professor Kate Marshall 9780226827834
RRP: £21.00£20.31A wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird. Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the... -
Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller Helen Tyson 9781399522090
RRP: £85.00£69.28Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernist, psychoanalytic and popular writing from the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her... -
The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century by Scott Lucas 9780745321974
RRP: £26.99£17.59Since his death in 1950, George Orwell has been canonised as England's foremost political writer, and the standard-bearer of honesty and decency for the honourable 'Left'. In this controversial polemic, Scott Lucas argues that the exaltation of Orwell,... -
Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin 9780197565940
RRP: £70.00£63.74Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and in the central role they accord philosophy--in part through... -
The Beats in Mexico by David Stephen Calonne
RRP: £25.99£22.49Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac's On the Road to its role as a refuge for writers with criminal pasts like William S... -
Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form by Judith Brown
RRP: £39.00£34.12Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown... -
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall
RRP: £30.00£23.29At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for... -
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780300251159
RRP: £25.00£20.92An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then he took on his... -
Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927 by Daniel Albright 9781421416434
RRP: £51.50£45.81How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great... -
Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death by Aim e Gasston 9781399527415
£97.17During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War... -
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton 9780192857743
RRP: £65.00£58.56British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the AnthropoceneDLa proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: £91.00£82.48Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends... -
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel by Martyn Sampson
RRP: £27.99£24.14What is a "Catholic" novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions,... -
Alexander Pope in the Making by Joseph Hone 9780198842316
RRP: £78.00£70.88How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted. As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton... -
Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity, and the End of Culture by Simon J. James
RRP: £29.49£27.15H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he... -
State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 by Asha Rogers 9780198857761
£89.34Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature, Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198886440
RRP: £25.00£22.94This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its... -
British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the Duration by Beryl Pong
£89.34British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. As a wartime between, but distinct from, those of the First World War and the... -
Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns
RRP: £33.00£29.05J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is increasingly recognized as the most influential writer of the twentieth century. Sales of his books remain exceptionally high, and Middle-earth fan clubs flourish around the world. The massive success of the film versions... -
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories by L. Harte 9780333683811
RRP: £89.99£89.87Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and often challenging work by both new and established writers. Contemporary Irish Fiction provides an invaluable... -
The Fifth Notebook of Dylan Thomas: Annotated Manuscript Edition by Dylan Thomas
£72.20Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems. They contain the drafts of almost all of the work that would form his first two reputation-making collections, 18 Poems (1934) and Twenty-five Poems (1936), and many of...