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Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution by Steven Blakemore
$130.17The 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
$57.33To 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
$123.43This 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
$133.04This 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
$123.48This 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
$109.84AlarcónOs 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
$111.19Were 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... -
Michel Tournier: Le Coq de bruy_re by Walter Redfern
$101.96This 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
$124.19A 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
$58.41To 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
$58.41To 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
$124.19In 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
$91.82This 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
$42.25To 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: $55.46$45.34Rachel 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: $32.19$26.14This 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
$134.13Mühsam, 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
$58.41To 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
$102.01This 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
$109.84Readers 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
$47.50To 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: $113.52$99.45La 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: $103.20$98.83Arthurian 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: $30.95$28.19This 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: $25.79$22.63Students 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 Liz Herbert McAvoy 9781843840084
RRP: $103.20$99.34An 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: $103.20$98.83This 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 Nicholas Birns 9781476677699
RRP: $46.43$38.18Anthony 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: $56.75$49.59This 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: $61.91$53.93The 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: $45.14$42.87All 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: $141.90$135.63A 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: $103.20$73.65Music, 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: $159.96$138.08The 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 Robert Hillenbrand 9780754633679
RRP: $167.70$145.14Shahnama: 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... -
A Study Guide for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375398763
RRP: $12.84$11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398763Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
A Study Guide for Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375397759
RRP: $12.84$11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375397759Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)... -
A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year by Tom Nissley 9780393351699
RRP: $16.76$14.78Book connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers' lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, embarrassments and achievements. Each handsome page in A Reader's Book of Days is devoted to a day of the... -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2: C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8 by Ralph Hanna
RRP: $107.07$93.02The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations by Peter Kemp 9780198609520 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60$2.95Now available as part of the Oxford Paperback Reference series, this new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by...