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Woolf Studies Annual by Mark Hussey 9781935625902
RRP: $78.00$64.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625902Author Mark HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 304g -
Poetry as Power: Yuan Mei's Female Disciple Qu Bingyun (1767-1810) by Louis Liuxi Meng 9780739112571
RRP: $193.05$168.79This book focuses on a prominent female poet of eighteenth century China, Qu Bingyun. Qu was a leader of a famous group of female poets known as the Female Disciples of Yuan Mei. This book explores the development of Qu as a poet and examines her unique... -
Coiffures: Hair in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture by Carol Rifelj 9781611491487
RRP: $191.10$167.90Balzac claimed that toilettes were the expression of society. Coiffures describes the historical and cultural practices associated with women's hairstyles, hair care, and hair art in nineteenth-century France. Hair also has profound symbolic significance... -
The W. B. and George Yeats Library: A Short-title Catalog by Wayne K Chapman 9781949979220
RRP: $70.10$53.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979220Author Wayne K. ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)... -
Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Ronald Haladyna 9781611483550
RRP: $198.90$174.60This volume is intended as an introduction of contemporary poetry by notable Uruguayan poets to the English-reading world, but also to readers of Spanish unfamiliar with them. Each poet is represented by an ample and varied selection of poems originally... -
Pynchon Character Names: A Dictionary by Patrick Hurley 9780786434589
RRP: $56.53$45.59The dictionary lists each character from Pynchon's fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likely etymology of each name. In addition, the thorough introduction examines Pynchon's character names as a part of his greater literary... -
Heroines by Mary Riso 9781532670770
RRP: $39.00$29.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532670770Author Mary RisoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 231g -
Critical Thinking by Colin N Manlove 9781532677236
RRP: $70.20$51.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532677236Author Colin N ManloveFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 367g -
Austen's Oughts: Judgment after Locke and Shaftesbury by Karen Valihora 9781611491371
RRP: $198.90$174.60The word is all over Austen's novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how one does feel). When Austen's characters employ an ought, the delicate oscillation between first- and third-person perspectives that... -
On the Dark Side of the Archive: Nation and Literature in Spanish America at the Turn of the Century by Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia 9781611483314
RRP: $169.65$148.65On the Dark Side of the Archive examines nineteenth-century nation building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, specifically those associated with the critique of traditional ideas often portrayed in Decadentism... -
Ross's Timely Discoveries: Quotes from Literature on Time, Past-Present-Future, Age, and Memory by Michael Ross 9781942600831
RRP: $21.43$18.37In this elegant but pocketable edition, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated 106 favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves but this isn't your typical rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. Michael... -
The Anxiety of Dispossession: Jealousy in Nineteenth-Century French Culture by Masha Belenky 9781611482911
$180.57In nineteenth-century France an obsession with jealousy swept the culture as a whole. Virtually every major French novelist employed it as a central plot device. At the same time, jealousy became a key theme for a broad range of medical, journalistic,... -
Heroines by Mary Riso 9781532670787
RRP: $70.20$49.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532670787Author Mary RisoFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 140g -
Twenty Years of Hippocampus Press: 2000-2020 by Derrick Hussey 9781614983194
RRP: $19.50$16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983194Author Derrick HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Spenser's Ovidian Poetics by M. L. Stapleton 9781611491357
RRP: $179.40$157.03No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K. in The Shepheardes Calender (1579), the... -
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Exhaustive Scholar's and Collector's Descriptive Bibliography of American Periodical, Hardcover, Paperback, and Reprint Editions by Robert B. Zeuschner 9780786431137
RRP: $29.23$24.47In creating some of the most enduring characters in 20th century literature, Burroughs (1875-1950) left a complex bibliographic record of editions, and a long chain of fascinated collectors. The present reference work details all United States versions... -
Gothic Terrors: Incarceration, Duplication, and Bloodlust in Spanish Narrative by Abigail Lee Six 9781611483406
RRP: $157.95$138.57Gothic Terrors brings together two discursive fields that have had very little contact hitherto: gothic studies and Hispanism. Though widely accepted in English studies, Hispanists seldom invoke the concept of a Gothic mode existing beyond its first... -
Tanqeed aur Adabi Tanqeed by Kaleemuddin Ahmad 9789358724462
RRP: $27.28$16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358724462Author Kaleemuddin AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 41g -
Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780 by Chantel M. Lavoie 9781611483413
RRP: $157.95$138.57This book addresses the place of women writers in anthologies and other literary collections in eighteenth-century England. It explores and contextualizes the ways in which two different kinds of printed material-poetic miscellanies and biographical... -
Poetry as Individuality: The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan by Derek Hillard 9781611483390
RRP: $157.95$138.57The most significant European poet of the second half of the twentieth century, Paul Celan, viewed poetry as "the language of an individual that has become form," an individual that is constructed through the act of observation in the poem... -
The W. B. and George Yeats Library: A Short-title Catalog by Wayne K Chapman 9781949979213
RRP: $159.90$96.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979213Author Wayne K ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 640g -
Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama by Andrew Majeske 9781611473834
RRP: $157.95$138.57Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women... -
Shakespeare's Lyricized Drama by Aleksandur Shurbanov 9781611491425
RRP: $191.10$167.90We are so used to calling the plays written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries 'poetic drama' that we hardly ever stop to think about the generic meaning of the term. This book is an attempt to explore Shakespeare's artistic achievement as an... -
Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 by David A. Valone 9781611483086
RRP: $193.05$168.79This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of... -
222: Aphorisms & Reflections by Steven Carter 9780761841593
RRP: $76.05$67.02The third installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of "meetings of the minds"-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of... -
James Lee Burke: A Literary Companion Laurence W. Mazzeno 9781476662817
RRP: $70.18$57.72James Lee Burke is an acclaimed writer of crime novels in which protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes and corporate executives who exploit the powerless. He is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series, set in New Orleans and... -
An Edwin Arlington Robinson Encyclopedia by Robert L. Gale 9780786449095
RRP: $105.28$85.55Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Quotable Shakespeare: A Topical Dictionary by Charles DeLoach 9780786405718
RRP: $42.88$35.82The Bard penned 38 plays, 154 sonnets and several other poems. This is a rich collection, thoroughly indexed, of 6,516 extraordinarily apt quotations, arranged under 1,275 topics that cover almost the entire range of human effort and thought, from... -
Amy Tan: A Literary Companion by Mary Ellen Snodgrass 9780786420131
RRP: $70.18$57.72In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more hugely popular novels to follow. Tan's work - once pigeonholed as... -
Dear Jb by Omolola Anne Famuyiwa 9781441503220
RRP: $27.30$24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441503220Author Omolola Anne FamuyiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 118g -
A Bibliographical Companion by Roy Stokes 9780810860476
RRP: $109.20$95.34During even a cursory reading of the "literature about books," students of bibliography frequently have initial difficulties in understanding some of the terms they encounter. In A Bibliographical Companion, Roy Stokes provides an alphabetical... -
Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work by B. J. Rahn 9780810859395
RRP: $99.45$87.01In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a reputation as a distinguished director of Shakespearean... -
New Aphorisms & Reflections: Third Series by Steven Carter 9780761850618
RRP: $68.25$60.35New Aphorisms & Reflections: Third Series, the sixth volume in a sequence which began with 222: Aphorisms & Reflections, features more than 450 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections... -
New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series by Steven Carter 9780761845843
RRP: $68.25$60.35New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings... -
222: Aphorisms & Reflections by Steven Carter 9780761841401
RRP: $78.00$68.68The second installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of "meetings of the minds"-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of... -
222: Aphorisms & Reflections by Steven Carter 9780761840503
RRP: $74.10$65.34222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg,... -
Paul's Literary Style: A Stylistic and Historical Comparison of II Corinthians 11:16-12:13, Romans 8:9-39, and Philippians 3:2-4:13 by Aida Besancon Spencer 9780761839545
RRP: $74.10$65.34Paul's Literary Style determines quantitatively how Paul varies the style of his writing to assist communication with different communities and to ascertain some constant characteristics of his writing. Using 2 Corinthians 11:16-12:13, Romans 8:9-39, and... -
The Readers Guide to the Classic British Mystery by Susan Oleksiw 9780892969685
RRP: $93.60$66.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892969685Author Susan Prince OleskiwFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5: C Passus 20-22; B Passus 18-20 by Stephen A. Barney 9780812239218
RRP: $177.45$153.89The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers... -
Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction Kevin A. Morrison 9781476669038
RRP: $56.53$47.68This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they...