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Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages by Joseph B. Solodow 9780521515757
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.13In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change,... -
The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot by Kevin A. Morrison 9781399516099
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Although Elizabeth Gaskell was influenced by Mary Russell Mitford, and George Eliot by Gaskell, only a small number of scholars have considered the affinities and resemblances among all three writers... -
Petersburg/Petersburg: Novel and City, 1900-1921 by Olga Matich 9780299236045
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets... -
Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England by Stephen B. Dobranski 9780521842969
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14While authors in early modern England were gaining new authority - legally, economically and symbolically - Renaissance readers also were expected to participate in and make use of an author's... -
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 9780803245723
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive... -
Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now Amanda Lagji 9781474490214
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of waiting in colonial regimes of time, as well as in postcolonial framings of time,... -
Metagrammar: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Erik Camayd-Freixas 9783031923364
Booksplease Price: £100.19This book highlights the grammatical structure of thought and behavior as a blueprint for scientific discovery and innovation. It defines the new concept of metagrammar as the unnoticed transfer of... -
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series by Reinhold F. Glei 9781538191743
Booksplease Price: £77.37Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since... -
The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1899 - 1924: Human Nature and Conduct, 1922 by John Dewey 9780809328093
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature by Crystal Parikh
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary... -
Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions by Isabel Jaen 9780292754423
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01In the first decade of the twenty-first century, our understanding of the cognition of literature was transformed by scientific discoveries, such as the mirror neuron system and its role in empathy... -
Thinking into German: A step by step guide to expressing ideas in German by Robert Blair 9781789632132
Booksplease Price: £16.06Robert Blair's Thinking into German offers a tried and tested method of enabling students to cope with the daunting task of expressing their thoughts in German. Thinking into German starts by... -
Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages by Joseph B. Solodow
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change,... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780803264373
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, "the first time I walked off on my own feet-everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired."... -
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 9780803214026
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.87Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive... -
The Collected Works of John Dewey v. 13; 1921-1922, Journal Articles, Essays, and Miscellany Published in the 1921-1922 Period: The Middle Works, 1899-1924 by John Dewey 9780809328086
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and... -
The Distinction of Fiction by Dorrit Cohn
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.53Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway... -
Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art by Ronald Schuchard 9780195147025
Booksplease Price: £47.93Schuchard's critical study draws upon previously unpublished and uncollected materials in showing how Eliot's personal voice works through the sordid, the bawdy, the blasphemous, and the horrific to... -
Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic by Bart Eeckhout 9780230535848
Booksplease Price: £46.28In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry,... -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi 9780691160979
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.32It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in... -
Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography by Linda Rugg
Booksplease Price: £28.55Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple... -
The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History Susan Scott Parrish 9780691182940
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half... -
The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb by Hoda El Shakry 9780823286355
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Winner, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215053
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology by Alexander M. Schenker 9780300212402
Booksplease Price: £52.13This unique book weaves linguistic, cultural, and historical themes together to form a concise and accessible account of the development of the Slavic languages. Alexander Schenker demonstrates that... -
Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist Julianne Sandberg 9781350454057
Booksplease Price: £30.54Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleExamining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical... -
Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography by Linda Rugg 9780226731469
Booksplease Price: £92.71Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple... -
Conversations with LeAnne Howe by Kirstin L. Squint 9781496836441
Booksplease Price: £99.43Conversations with LeAnne Howe is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond our... -
The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil Giulia Riccò 9781531512248
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02Winner, 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Languages Association Introduces a way to study migration that privileges literary... -
The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil Giulia Riccò 9781531512255
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Languages Association Introduces a way to study migration that privileges literary... -
Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way by Gustavo Perez Firmat
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author's own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both... -
Using Reading to Teach a World Language: Strategies and Activities by Donna Spangler 9781138853515
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.79To help your students learn a world language, don't forget the power of reading! In this practical book from Donna Spangler and John Alex Mazzante, you'll gain a variety of strategies and activities... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1876-1878: Volume 2 by Henry James 9780803246195
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69Recipient of the "Approved Edition" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This critical and scholarly edition presents the complete letters of Henry James, one... -
The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube 9780231215046
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £83.43Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary... -
The Canadian Postmodern:: A Study of Contemporary Canadian Fiction by Linda Hutcheon 9780199001798
Booksplease Price: £14.00The postmodern novel was a surprisingly and often poorly understood phenomenon of the 1980s and 90s, in which many artists explored issues of how art represents the world. These works are... -
The Collected Works of John Dewey v. 11; 1918-1919, Journal Articles, Essays, and Miscellany Published in the 1918-1919 Period: The Middle Works, 1899-1924 by John Dewey 9780809328062
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.82Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and... -
A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell 9780802065131
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92A Guide to Old English has established itself as the most thorough and most stimulating introduction to the language of Anglo-Saxon England. This revised edition adds ten basic texts, together with... -
Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity Gene A. Plunka (University of Memphis) 9780521494250
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £80.25The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene... -
From the Still Empty Grave: Collected Poems 9780874172720
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.96In this masterful collection of poems, Las Vegas poet Stevens explores the complex connections between life and death, place and experience, the world of books, and the quotidian world of work, pain,... -
Tomb of Sand Geetanjali Shree 9781911284611
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £8.99An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking...