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Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic by Angus Fletcher 9781421419343
£38.52For two thousand years, democratic authors treated comedy as a toolkit of rhetorical practices for encouraging problem-solving, pluralism, risk-taking, and other civic behaviors that increased minority participation in government. Over the past two... -
Narrating 9/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism by John N. Duvall 9781421417387
RRP: £37.00£34.42Narrating 9/11 challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the... -
Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England by Professor Mary Thomas Crane 9781421415314
RRP: £52.00£47.08During the scientific revolution, the dominant Aristotelian picture of nature, which cohered closely with common sense and ordinary perceptual experience, was completely overthrown. Although we now take for granted the ideas that the earth revolves... -
Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer by Josh Epstein 9781421415239
£42.37When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist... -
Literature in the Ashes of History by Cathy Caruth 9781421411545
RRP: £55.00£49.00Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own... -
My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch by Daniel Tiffany 9781421411453
RRP: £50.00£45.77Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry's relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry - a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and... -
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph 9781421446981
£26.08How contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening.In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with... -
Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture by Christopher Kempf 9781421443560
£26.08The hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor. In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term "workshop" for an experimental... -
Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture by Christopher Kempf 9781421443553
£73.31The hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor. In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term "workshop" for an experimental... -
Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature by Rebecca Richardson 9781421441962
£74.61What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism. Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians... -
Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century by Paula R. Backscheider 9781421441672
£75.01A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long... -
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang 9781421441368
£27.37Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In... -
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang 9781421441351
£71.15Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In... -
Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen 9781421440873
RRP: £97.00£85.59The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced... -
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang 9781421440842
£71.15What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of... -
Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser 9781421439518
£71.15Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as... -
The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature by Jessie Reeder 9781421438061
£71.15An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization.Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationSpanish colonization of Latin America came to an... -
Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative by Paul B. Armstrong 9781421437743
£84.45This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world-and why stories matter.How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive... -
Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals by Tony Bennett 9781405156998
RRP: £44.95£43.55Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies -- Tony Bennett. The selections in the volume span the period from the late 1970s to the present,... -
A Said Dictionary by R. Radhakrishnan 9781405183789
RRP: £86.95£68.57This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central to his work. * Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other key... -
A Dictionary of Postmodernism by Niall Lucy 9781405150774
RRP: £106.95£83.67A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture. Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition... -
Living with Theory by Vincent B. Leitch 9781405175296
RRP: £111.95£105.03In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature. * Argues that the field of theory in late postmodern consumer society has... -
Fielding, Dickens, Gosse, Iris Murdoch and Oedipal Hamlet by Douglas Brooks-Davies 9781349203628
RRP: £39.95£36.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349203628Author Douglas Brooks-DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 306g -
Writing Early Modern London: Memory, Text and Community by A. Gordon 9781349451661
RRP: £54.99£49.04Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a... -
Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siecle: Making a Name for Herself by F. Elizabeth Gray 9781349348350
RRP: £54.99£49.04As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic... -
Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics by S. Allen 9781349320424
RRP: £54.99£48.85This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry... -
Writing London: Volume 3: Inventions of the City by Julian Wolfreys 9781349284382
RRP: £54.99£49.16This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites... -
Christopher Caudwell: Towards a Dialectical Theory of Literature by Christopher Pawling 9781349203420
RRP: £39.95£36.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349203420Author Christopher PawlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 286g -
The Literature of Region and Nation by Ronald P. Draper 9781349197231
RRP: £45.00£40.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349197231Author Ronald P. DraperFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 360g -
Perspectives on Literature and Society in Eastern and Western Europe by George F. Cushing 9781349197002
RRP: £45.00£40.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349197002Author George F. CushingFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 276g -
Fictional Discourse and Historical Space by Andrew Wright 9781349185665
RRP: £29.95£27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349185665Author Andrew WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 173g -
Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope by Allan Ingram 9781349181667
RRP: £32.50£29.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349181667Author Allan IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 286g -
Words After Speech: A Comparative Study of Romanticism and Symbolism by Paul Coates 9781349180264
RRP: £29.95£27.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349180264Author Paul CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 296g -
The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary by Pramod K. Nayar 9781118781050
£82.11This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. * Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that... -
Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology by Pramod K. Nayar 9781118780992
RRP: £119.95£118.35This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies. Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established... -
A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature by Shirley Chew 9781118652350
RRP: £59.95£47.38Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature... -
Living Space in Fact and Fiction by Philippa Tristram 9781032744483
RRP: £110.00£95.51First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the ‘real’ world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist. The role of the house, in fact and fiction, tells us much about... -
Sheer Fiction: v. 2 by Paul West 9780929701080
£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701080Author Paul WestFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. -
The Power Of Tautology: The Roots of Literary Theory by Allen Thiher 9780838637524
RRP: £96.00£88.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838637524Author Allen ThiherFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses -
Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England by Jordan Kirk 9780823294466
£89.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823294466Author Jordan KirkFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g