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London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell 9780140436501
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and... -
A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding by Christopher D Johnson
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding provides the most complete discussion of Fielding's works and career currently available. Tracing the development of Fielding's artistic and instructive... -
The Collected Poems of Laurence Whyte by Michael Griffin 9781611487213
Booksplease Price: £113.41Though his name might not be familiar to many twenty-first century readers, Laurence Whyte (d.1753) is an important missing link in eighteenth-century Ireland's literary and musical histories. A... -
Dictionary of Irish Philosophers by Thomas Duddy 9780826489722
Booksplease Price: £103.41"The Dictionary of Irish Philosophers" spans 15 centuries of Irish thought, from the Irish Augustine in the 7th century, to Iris Murdoch and JO Wisdom in the 20th. Over 180 individuals who have... -
Voltaire's Revolution: Writings from His Campaign to Free Laws from Religion by G. K. Noyer 9781633880382
Booksplease Price: £17.05Voltaire, the pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was one of the most influential leaders of the French Enlightenment. His defense of individual freedom of conscience and his criticisms of... -
Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours James Watt 9781108842693
Booksplease Price: £90.57Even as members of the social elite participated in the European Grand Tour, travellers, writers, and readers increasingly recognized that Britain and Ireland might offer sights and experiences to... -
The Wake by Tom Murphy 9780413714107
Booksplease Price: £14.24"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel The Wake recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her home... -
The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy 9780413659309
Booksplease Price: £14.62"One of the greatest Irish plays of the century" (Irish Times) "The language of the play is on a sort of inspired bender. It surfeits on its own potency. Tom Murphy's gift - here and in his other... -
![Murphy Plays: v.1: "Famine", "The Patriot Game", "The Blue Macuschla" by Tom Murphy 9780413665706](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5197671/5274933/9780413665706__09339.1724644399.jpg?c=1 "Murphy Plays: v.1: "Famine", "The Patriot Game", "The Blue Macuschla" by Tom Murphy 9780413665706")
Murphy Plays: v.1: "Famine", "The Patriot Game", "The Blue Macuschla" by Tom Murphy 9780413665706
Booksplease Price: £25.24The first collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish... -
Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster 9781783275588
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found... -
Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel by Katherine Binhammer 9781421437606
Booksplease Price: £84.48How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money... -
Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel by Katherine Binhammer 9781421437613
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £18.35How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money... -
Fables of the East: Selected Tales 1662-1785 by Ros Ballaster 9780199267347
Booksplease Price: £70.65Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and... -
Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland by Andrew Carpenter 9781859181041
Booksplease Price: £37.45This pioneering anthology introduces many previously neglected eighteenth-century writers to a general readership, and will lead to a re-examination of the entire canon of Irish verse in English... -
An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy Nils-Johan Jørgensen 9781041175537
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding -... -
Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster 9781837651276
Booksplease Price: £27.60An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found... -
Fables of the East: Selected Tales 1662-1785 by Ros Ballaster 9780199267354
Booksplease Price: £42.59Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and... -
Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer by Kerry S. Walters 9780791440445
RRP: £26.97Booksplease Price: £25.62For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that... -
Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin H. Griffin 9780521811187
Booksplease Price: £99.73The poetry of the mid - and late eighteenth century has long been regarded as primarily private and apolitical; in this wide-ranging study Dustin Griffin argues that in fact the poets of the period... -
Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents Professor Tony Judt 9780718191412
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.20'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a... -
!["The Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov 9780413774033](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5244942/5322202/9780413774033__96991.1724773789.jpg?c=1 ""The Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov 9780413774033")
"The Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov 9780413774033
Booksplease Price: £14.45Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in... -
![Murphy Plays: v. 2: "Conversations on a Homecoming"," Bailegangaire", "A Thief of a Christmas" by Tom Murphy 9780413675606](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5197672/5274934/9780413675606__07525.1724644400.jpg?c=1 "Murphy Plays: v. 2: "Conversations on a Homecoming"," Bailegangaire", "A Thief of a Christmas" by Tom Murphy 9780413675606")
Murphy Plays: v. 2: "Conversations on a Homecoming"," Bailegangaire", "A Thief of a Christmas" by Tom Murphy 9780413675606
Booksplease Price: £24.89The second collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel In Conversations on a Homecoming, Michael... -
Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin H. Griffin 9780521009591
Booksplease Price: £43.34The poetry of the mid - and late eighteenth century has long been regarded as primarily private and apolitical; in this wide-ranging study Dustin Griffin argues that in fact the poets of the period... -
![Murphy Plays:6: Cherry Orchard; "She Stoops to Folly; The Drunkard; The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant by Tom Murphy 9781408123881](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8058384/9094305/9781408123881__94523.1747730351.jpg?c=1 "Murphy Plays:6: Cherry Orchard; "She Stoops to Folly; The Drunkard; The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant by Tom Murphy 9781408123881")
Murphy Plays:6: Cherry Orchard; "She Stoops to Folly; The Drunkard; The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant by Tom Murphy 9781408123881
Booksplease Price: £24.63Murphy Plays: 6 brings together four plays by the author inspired by other great works of literature: The Cherry Orchard: In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family... -
Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes by Frederick M. Keener 9781611495249
Booksplease Price: £51.70Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes presents an account of "the Poets' Secret," the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something... -
The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age by Victor Kiernan 9781783604296
Booksplease Price: £24.63When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by David A. Brewer 9781421445373
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £29.41The latest work in eighteenth-century studies.Showcasing exciting new research across disciplines, Volume 52 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores how history's dominant narratives have... -
Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity by Vivasvan Soni
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £43.68For many eighteenth-century thinkers, happiness was a revolutionary idea filled with the promise of the Enlightenment. Vivasvan Soni argues, however, that the period fails to establish the importance... -
The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana) Daniel Defoe 9780198851028
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'I liv'd indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen of Whores.' Left destitute by her husband, the... -
Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 by David O'Shaughnessy
Booksplease Price: £35.47The theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience. Irish actors and playwrights, operating both as individuals and... -
Romantic Comedy by Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths 9781350183414
Booksplease Price: £38.45'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an... -
Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 by David O'Shaughnessy 9781108498142
Booksplease Price: £99.73The theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience. Irish actors and playwrights, operating both as individuals and... -
Romantic Comedy by Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths 9781350183377
Booksplease Price: £80.33'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an... -
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9780140436624
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.13In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of... -
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction by Daniel Cook 9781107668584
Booksplease Price: £35.47The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the... -
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and... -
The Village News: The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll by Tom Fort 9781471151101
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'An entertaining book, written with Fort's characteristic conversational style... A real pleasure to read' - BBC Countryfile 'A wide-ranging, intelligent and bracingly enjoyable book' - The Literary... -
Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France by Shaun Regan 9781611485936
Booksplease Price: £51.70Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War,... -
Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France by Shaun Regan 9781611484786
Booksplease Price: £90.57Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War,... -
Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle by Anthony W. Lee 9781684480234
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Samuel Johnson's life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships-and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships...