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Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours James Watt 9781108842693
Booksplease Price: $190.20Even 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... -
Voltaire's Revolution: Writings from His Campaign to Free Laws from Religion by G. K. Noyer 9781633880382
Booksplease Price: $36.29Voltaire, 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... -
The Wake by Tom Murphy 9780413714107
Booksplease Price: $31.19"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: $30.70"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
Booksplease Price: $53.45The 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... -
Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland by Andrew Carpenter 9781859181041
Booksplease Price: $78.65This 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... -
Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel by Katherine Binhammer 9781421437613
RRP: $66.15Booksplease Price: $38.54How 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... -
Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster 9781783275588
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.90An 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: $177.41How 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... -
An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy Nils-Johan Jørgensen 9781041175537
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Here 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 -... -
Fables of the East: Selected Tales 1662-1785 by Ros Ballaster 9780199267347
Booksplease Price: $148.37Fables 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... -
Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster 9781837651276
Booksplease Price: $57.96An 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: $89.44Fables 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: $56.64Booksplease Price: $53.80For 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: $209.43The 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.32'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
Booksplease Price: $30.35Published 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
Booksplease Price: $52.75The 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: $91.01The 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
Booksplease Price: $51.72Murphy 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... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by David A. Brewer 9781421445373
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $61.76The 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... -
Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes by Frederick M. Keener 9781611495249
Booksplease Price: $108.57Implication, 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: $51.72When 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... -
Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity by Vivasvan Soni
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $91.73For 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.91'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... -
Romantic Comedy by Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths 9781350183377
Booksplease Price: $168.69'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: $209.43The 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... -
Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 by David O'Shaughnessy
Booksplease Price: $74.49The 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: $80.75'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: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.66In 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: $74.49The 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 Village News: The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll by Tom Fort 9781471151101
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24'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... -
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.46The 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... -
Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France by Shaun Regan 9781611485936
Booksplease Price: $108.57Reading 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,... -
Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France by Shaun Regan 9781611484786
Booksplease Price: $190.20Reading 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: $252.00Booksplease Price: $206.64Samuel 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... -
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24) by Jack Lynch 9781684483013
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $215.04The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and... -
'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794 by Michael J. Franklin 9780199532001
Booksplease Price: $155.67Sir William Jones (1746-94) was the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time. He re-drew the map of European thought. 'Orientalist' Jones was... -
The Village News: The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll by Tom Fort 9781471151095 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.25'An entertaining book, written with Fort's characteristic conversational style... A real pleasure to read' - BBC Countryfile 'Charming...Mr Fort doesn't only focus on the visually delightful in... -
The Peculiar Life of Sundays by Stephen Miller
RRP: $75.50Booksplease Price: $63.55Sunday observance in the Christian West was an important religious issue from late Antiquity until at least the early twentieth century. In England the subject was debated in Parliament for six...