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Byron and the Victorians by Andrew Elfenbein 9780521454520
Booksplease Price: $201.16This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. It has two emphases,... -
Favourite Stories of Courageous Girls: inspiring heroines from classic children's books Louisa May Alcott 9781444952315
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94This wonderful anthology features the stories of some of the best-loved heroines in children's books. From Jo March who sells her hair to raise money for her family, to George's single-minded... -
The Disappearance of God: FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITERS by J. Hillis Miller 9780252069109
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still... -
Motherhood by Carmela Ciuraru 9781841597652
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.52From tenth-century Japan's Izumi Shikibu, colonial America's Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel's Yehuda Amichai, Ireland's Paul Muldoon, and Russia's Anna... -
Byron and the Victorians by Andrew Elfenbein 9780521607087
Booksplease Price: $95.15This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. It has two emphases,... -
Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849946223
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.18A calming collection of nature poems to help you relax and unwind at the end of every day. Now more than ever we're all in need of a daily fix of the natural world, to comfort and distract us from... -
Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science Stella Pratt-Smith 9780367880033
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing... -
Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by... -
Poems on Nature by Helen Macdonald 9781035026760
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a... -
Animal Visions: Posthumanist Dream Writing by Susan Mary Pyke 9783030038762
Booksplease Price: $159.81Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how... -
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929: Viewer, I Married Him Jamie Barlowe 9781032539898
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte,... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.86'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature... -
Emily's Bread: Poems by Sandra M. Gilbert 9780393301502
RRP: $30.45Booksplease Price: $26.67What is the daily bread of women? In these splendid poems, Sandra Gilbert imagines spiritual regeneration through the tradition pioneered by the two Emilys--Emily Dickinson and Emily Bronte--who are... -
Insomnia: Poems by John Kinsella
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.04In this forceful call to action, acclaimed poet John Kinsella explores deeply felt and ever more insistent ecological concerns in his signature lyrical and experimental activist poetry. Here Kinsella... -
Moonstruck!: Poems About Our Moon by Roger Stevens 9781910959787
Booksplease Price: $28.75New poems about the moon from well-known and up-and-coming poets, including many of the National Poetry Day Ambassadors, are combined with classic poems with a moon theme,. This is an... -
Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels by Nicola Diane Thompson 9780814782125
Booksplease Price: $64.64When Scenes of Clerical Life appeared anonymously in 1853 the Saturday Review pictured its author, George Eliot, as a bearded Cambridge clergyman and the revered father of several children. When... -
100 Poems to Grow Your Confidence Liz Ison 9781837330034
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.74A collection of 100 upbeat, empowering and encouraging poems aimed at anyone who is looking for a boost of confidence.This collection of 100 poems is here to be your biggest cheerleader. Whether you... -
A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year Jane McMorland Hunter 9781837330461
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $35.85A classic Batsford poetry collection, now reissued with a stunning new cover.This calming anthology of nature poems, with one for every day of the year, is the perfect bedside companion to help you... -
100 Poems To See You Through by Daisy Goodwin 9781529104691
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68When times are tough - whether because of illness, bereavement or receiving bad news - it can be hard to find the right words. Help comes in the form of this beautifully packaged gift book,... -
Andrew Crozier Reader by Andrew Crozier 9781847771001
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $29.99Andrew Crozier (1943-2008) was a poet, and an energiser of poetry. A champion of work excluded from the familiar canon, he brought to the English literary landscape of the 1960s and 70s an engagement... -
The Country Commonplace Book Miranda Mills 9781849949996
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.56A seasonal touchstone packed full of quotes, book lists, recipes, poems and observations on the natural world to keep close at hand and to accompany you through the year.Commonplace books have been... -
111 Places in Bradford That You Shouldn't Miss by Cath Muldowney
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75Still known as Wool City, Bradford has evolved from its industrial past and diversified into a powerhouse of artistic creativity and diverse attractions. Striking architecture and unique locations... -
Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory by Michael S. Macovski 9780195070637
Booksplease Price: $119.64This interdisciplinary volume of collected, unpublished essays demonstrates the importance of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogic meaning for a wide range of... -
Horror in the Age of Steam: Tales of Terror in the Victorian Age of Transitions by Carroll Clayton Savant 9780367711252
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Change is terrifying, and rapid change, within a small amount of time, is destabilizing to any culture. England, under the tutelage of Queen Victoria, witnessed precipitous change the likes of which... -
Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels by Nicola Diane Thompson 9780814782118
Booksplease Price: $190.20When Scenes of Clerical Life appeared anonymously in 1853 the Saturday Review pictured its author, George Eliot, as a bearded Cambridge clergyman and the revered father of several children. When... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $181.00This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily... -
Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780472066834
Booksplease Price: $40.47In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. O'Brien... -
Kate Bush: Song by Song by John Van der Kiste 9781781558249
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $28.64Kate Bush began her career in 1978 at the age of 19 with the single 'Wuthering Heights', inspired by a film adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel, the first No. 1 UK single to be written and sung by a... -
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 9780199577033
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.74'it only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court' When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look... -
Classic Collection of Fairy Tales & Poems: Best-loved Poetry and Prose from the Great Writers, Including Hans Christian Andersen, John Keats, Lewis Carroll, the Brothers Grimm and Walt Whitman by Nicola Baxter 9781843229728
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.55This title features two wonderful books packed with timeless stories and rhymes, retold for today's young readers. It includes all the best-loved fairy tales, such as "The Little Mermaid",... -
Every Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life by Aoibhin Garrihy
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.05'A soothing collection to comfort and inspire in those quieter moments of reflection and searching' Cecelia AhernEvery Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life is a stunning collection of... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill 9780748623068
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.73This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily... -
Every Day is a Fresh Beginning: The Number 1 Bestseller: Meaningful Poems for Life Aoibhín Garrihy 9781804181317
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.57'A soothing collection to comfort and inspire in those quieter moments of reflection and searching' Cecelia AhernEvery Day is a Fresh Beginning: Meaningful Poems for Life is a stunning collection of... -
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture by Deborah Lutz 9781107434394
Booksplease Price: $74.49Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy with... -
Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the Brontes Helen MacEwan 9781845197438
Booksplease Price: $65.39The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her... -
Reinventing the Sublime: Post-Romantic Literature and Theory by Steven Vine
Booksplease Price: $239.78Looks at the return of the sublime in post-modernity, and at intimations of a 'post-Romantic' sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of 'invention' -- taking the Latin... -
Reinventing the Sublime: Post-Romantic Literature and Theory by Steven Vine 9781845196752
Booksplease Price: $74.66Looks at the return of the sublime in post-modernity, and at intimations of a 'post-Romantic' sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of 'invention' -- taking the Latin... -
The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature Holly Blackford, Ph.D 9781138793491
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the... -
How to Begin Studying English Literature by Nicholas Marsh 9781137508775
Booksplease Price: $57.92How to Begin Studying English Literature has established itself as one of the most successful and popular introductory student guides in the field. This fourth edition has been fully revised and... -
Kerry Jackson by April de Angelis
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants?El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's Kerry Jackson's pride and joy.Wearing her...