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Printed Writings by George W. Russell: A Bibliography by George W. Russell
RRP: £44.95£36.71This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, "AE." Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book... -
Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution by Steven Blakemore
£104.97The revisions of the French Revolution by three prominent eighteenth- century writers are focused on in this book. The implication in the OtraditionO these writers rebelled against raises fundamental questions about the representations of rebels and... -
The River (Masterworks of Literature) by Henry David Thoreau
£46.15To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808402626Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
The Tribune of the People by Emilia Pardo Bazán
£99.52This early novel of Emilia Pardo Bazán is her most Naturalistic work in the manner of the French movement, and is also her most outspoken statement of her feminist point of view.Book InformationISBN 9781611481013Author Emilia Pardo BazánFormat... -
Working With Shakespeare by Howard Mills
£106.86This book aims to increase the pleasure of studying Shakespeare, working with the plays as the craftsman-dramatist himself worked by concentrating on poetic detail and dramatic moments. The book offers an accessible nuts-and-bolts approach in steadily... -
Sexuality, Gender, and Power in Iris Murdoch's Fiction by Tammy Grimshaw
£99.56This study explores the overlooked themes of sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's fiction, particularly the interplay of power, gender, and sexuality in her characters' personal and social relationships. Gender and sexuality were important... -
The Nun and Other Stories by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
£88.55AlarcónOs OOThe NunOO has been praised as a stark depiction of decadence and decline, Captain Poison as a humorous reversal of The Taming of the Shrew, OOMoors and ChristiansOO as an astute commentary on greed, and OOThe Tall WomanOO as an absorbing tale... -
The Novel's Seductions: Staëhl's Corinne in Critical Inquiry by Karyna Szmurlo
£89.63Were the strength of a literary work measured by its impact on the reader, Corinne, or Italy would qualify as one among the most effective of texts, to judge by the intensity of the responses it has produced. Positing feminine transcendence through art... -
A Student's Guide to Literature by R. V. Young
RRP: £8.95£7.66This guide to Western literature and poetry addresses timely issues. It demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are... -
Michel Tournier: Le Coq de bruy_re by Walter Redfern
£82.19This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyre, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier... -
Human Shadows Bright As Glass: Drama As Speculation and Transformation by Howard Pearce
£100.13A fresh approach to the dramatic experience is attempted in this book. It begins with a consideration of Edmund HusserlOs attempt to clarify our understanding of immediate experience and takes into account Martin HeideggerOs and Hans-Georg GadamerOs... -
Franklin Evans (Masterworks of Literature Series) by Walter Whitman
£47.06To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401353Author Walter WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
The Best of Bill Nye's Humor by Bill Nye
£47.06To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808403432Author Bill NyeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
Teaching With Shakespeare: Critics in the Classroom by Bruce McIver
£100.13In this work, six Shakespeare scholars and critics (Helen Vendler, R. A. Foakes, Leah Marcus, John Wilders, Patricia Parker, and Annabel Patterson), in a series of lectures delivered to undergraduates, explain distinctive critical strategies that they... -
Backward Glances by Leonardo Buonomo
£74.00This study shows how, in the nineteenth century, Americans often described and narrated Italy as a way of reflecting on their own country and national identity in genres as various as travel literature, fiction, poetry, and journalism. Indeed, maintains... -
Tales of the Northwest (Masterworks of Literature Series) by William Joseph Snelling
£34.00To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808404187Author William Joseph SnellingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
Rachel Carson: A Literary Companion by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
RRP: £42.99£35.15Rachel Carson was a marine biologist credited with the founding of the ecology movement and the rise in ecofeminism. One of her most popular works was Silent Spring, which challenged the use of DDT (an insecticide infamous for its negative environmental... -
Aspects of Modern Swedish Literature by Irene Scobbie
RRP: £24.95£24.71This is the most comprehensive history of modern Swedish literature to have been published in English. The book includes both in-depth studies of major writers like August Strindberg, Hjalmar Soederberg and Par Lagerkvist and survey accounts of the more... -
Thunderation!: Folk Play With Song and Dance by Erich Mühsam
£108.14Mühsam, a German Jewish revolutionary activist and writer, was one of the most colorful figures of the German revolutionary counterculture early in the twentieth century. Written in 1930, Thunderation was his last full-length play before his death at the... -
American Republic by Orestes Brownson
£47.06To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400127Author Orestes BrownsonFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
Sir Philip Sidney and Arcadia by Joan Rees
£82.22This book rejects the Calvinist and deconstructionist interpretations of Sidney and argues instead for a man of humane and generous sympathies who thought deeply about human experience and the art and function of writing.Book InformationISBN... -
Oscar Wilde: The Critic As Humanist by Bruce Bashford
£88.55Readers of WildeOs critical writingsstruggle to determine what he is saying. The first half of this book clearly defines thetheoretical tasks Wilde setshimself and the ways he tries to accomplish them. The bookOs second half argues that WildeOs criticism... -
Deephaven and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
£38.26To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401001Author Sarah Orne JewettFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
Sound and Light: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela by William Duckworth
RRP: £83.00£77.09La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela have been pursuing their art for more than three decades. Together, they have created large-scale works for light and sound of many hours duration-full of slow-moving microtonal sounds bathed in magenta hues and... -
Arthurian Literature XX by Keith Busby
RRP: £70.00£67.24Arthurian Literature continues the policy of alternating themed issues and miscellanies. This varied collection includes studies of major Arthurian works and authors in Old French, Middle High German, Middle English, and of one important novel by C.S... -
Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Elizabeth A. Bohls
RRP: £23.99£21.06This title examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian... -
The Long and the Short of It: A Practical Guide to European Versification Systems by Joseph A. Dane
RRP: £21.99£18.79Students of English literature now rarely receive instruction in versification (theory or practice) at either the undergraduate or the graduate level. The Long and the Short of It is a clear, straightforward account of versification that also functions... -
Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe by Liz Herbert McAvoy
RRP: £80.00£77.01An examination of ways in which the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe were affected by traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women. The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and... -
Arthurian Literature XXI - Celtic Arthurian Material by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
RRP: £70.00£67.24This special number of the well-established series Arthurian Literature is devoted to Celtic material. Contributions, from leading experts in Celtic Studies, cover Welsh, Irish and Breton material, from medieval texts to oral traditions surviving into... -
Anthony Trollope: A Companion by Nicholas Birns
RRP: £35.99£29.60Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines... -
The Nightingale and the Hawk: A Psychological Study of Keats' Ode by Katharine M. Wilson
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book is the result of investiging whether Ode to a Nightingale could be interpreted as the record of an actual song that moved Keats so deeply as to involve, in Jung's terms, an experience of the Self. . It is in effect a biographical study of one... -
Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination by W. B. Gerard
RRP: £47.99£41.81The first full-length and comprehensive study of the illustrations of Sterne's work, this book explores the ability of Sterne's texts to inspire the visual imagination. It helps to explain why scores of editions of his fiction have been illustrated, some... -
Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XV by Cary M. Mazer
RRP: £34.99£32.61All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice. From William Poel's reproductions of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century to Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction of... -
Arthurian Bibliography IV - 1993-1998 Author Listing and Subject Index by Elaine Barber
RRP: £110.00£105.14A must for any self-respecting library. NOTES AND QUERIES A standard work of reference. ENGLISH STUDIES With the appearance in 1999 of the very extensive interim volume covering the years 1978 to 1992, the Arthurian Bibliography became once more the... -
Music, Words and Voice: A Reader by Martin Clayton
RRP: £80.00£57.09Music, Words and Voice: A Reader is a new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. It is the first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationships between words and... -
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University by Cornelius Buttimer
RRP: £134.00£114.53The first full account of North America's largest collection of traditional Irish-language manuscripts. Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. The... -
Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings by Robert Hillenbrand
RRP: £130.00£112.51Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings presents the first comprehensive examination of the interplay between text and image in the celebrated Persian national epic, the Shahnama, written by the poet Firdausi of Tus. The Shahnama is... -
Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition Sidonie Smith 9781517916879
RRP: £97.00£82.45A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative The boom in autobiographical narratives continues apace. It now encompasses a global spectrum of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £97.00£82.45Subtotal: -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo 9781350366121
RRP: £39.99£33.99The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key topics across 15 chapters, it provides an approachable and... -
LX: The Love Axe/l: 2: Notes and Commentary Kamau Brathwaite 9781845231767
RRP: £19.99£16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231767Author Kamau BrathwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd