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Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love by William A. Ulmer 9780691600376
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of... -
The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle by William C. Dowling 9780691608655
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on... -
Ugo Foscolo: Poet of Exile by Glauco Cambon 9780691615714
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.35Contemporary with the Romantic generation, peer of Keats, Holderlin, and Goethe, and forerunner of Valery and Pound, Ugo Foscolo is nevertheless little known outside Italy. In an endeavor to... -
Atlantic Wall and Other Poems by Rosalie Littell Colie 9780691618234
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A noted historian of Renaissance English literature and scholar of comparative literature, Rosalie L. Colie was also a serious poet. This volume brings together 31 of her poems, illustrating the... -
Samothracian Reflections: Aspects of the Revival of the Antique by Karl Lehmann 9780691619149
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.05These three essays were inspired by the Samothracian discoveries. Cyriacus of Ancona's visit to the island and his assessment of what he saw are the subject of the opening essay. This is followed by... -
Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance by Laurence Stapleton 9780691634623
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £98.55This book provides a full-scale interpretation of Marianne Moore's poetry and prose, starting with her early experiments and exploring the range and variety of her artistic achievement. It portrays... -
Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture by Teodolinda Barolini 9780823227044
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.28In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its "three crowns": Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins... -
The Language of History in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism by Professor Nancy S. Struever
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of... -
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres: A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity by Henry Adams
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A... -
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner 9780691160092
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.82A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer,... -
The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, Part II: Republican Patriotism and the Empires of the East by Franco Venturi
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multi-volume work, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen... -
The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1: The Hebrew Bible to John Milton by Margaret L. King
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.92This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes excerpts from seventy texts composed in eight ancient... -
Franz Liszt and His World by Christopher H. Gibbs 9780691129020
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and... -
Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts by Murray Roston 9780691602981
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and... -
The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy by Joan M. Ferrante 9780691612317
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.55Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of... -
The Illustrated A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau 9780691610658
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.59This book offers a selection of superb photographs by the famous turn-of-the-century photographer Herbert Gleason. Retracing one of Thoreau's early journeys, Gleason produced moving and dramatic... -
Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination by Joanne Feit Diehl 9780691614670
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Evaluating Emily Dickinson's poetry within the context of Romanticism, Joanne Diehl demonstrates how the poet both manifests and boldly subverts this literary tradition. One of the most important... -
Fictions of Form in American Poetry by Stephen Cushman 9780691602035
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.52In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was... -
The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel by Herman Meyer 9780691622583
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.47This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil... -
Commentary on Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: With a new introduction by Niels Thulstrup 9780691612478
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £52.17In the first comprehensive commentary on Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript the eminent Kierkegaard specialist Niels Thulstrup clarifies the book's intricate allusions to the... -
The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691610870
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics Originally published in 1986. The... -
Going Abroad: European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by William W. Stowe 9780691600208
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In a nation struggling to establish its own identity, all kinds of Americans, for all kinds of reasons, were enchanted with Europe. A European trip, whether extravagant or modest, could serve social... -
Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World by John M. Headley 9780691655758
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £59.78Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and... -
A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul 9781107029293
Booksplease Price: £106.48Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and... -
Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics by Brendan Dooley
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £69.38One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court... -
A Documentary History of Art, Volume 2: Michelangelo and the Mannerists, The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The theory and practice of art underwent a number of fascinating changes between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, changes which are clearly revealed in this unique collection of letters,... -
Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western... -
Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece by Maurizio Viroli 9780691160016
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western... -
Aesthetic and Critical Theory of John Ruskin by George P. Landow 9780691620671
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.59This book traces the sources and development of Ruskin's aesthetic and critical theories. In his attempt to skirt the danger of excessive emotion and association in art, Ruskin's struggle with the... -
Essays on English and American Literature by Leo Spitzer 9780691622637
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.68The late Leo Spitzer enjoyed a reputation as one of the twentieth century's outstanding philologists and linguists. His writings in the field of the romance languages and of comparative philology... -
What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch 9780691049861
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category... -
Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes by Graeme Tytler 9780691614632
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.45After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and... -
Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany by James H. Overfield 9780691655338
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.59This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in... -
The Flaming Heart: Essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and Other Studies of the Relations between Italian and English Literature from Chaucer to T. S. Eliot by Mario Praz 9780393006698
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.80Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life's work, in a continuous study of the vital currents... -
A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul 9781108820066
Booksplease Price: £38.72Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and... -
Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600 by 9781472530769
Booksplease Price: £40.38Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome first created what is now known as 'the Classical tradition' - the pervasive influence of ancient art and thought on later... -
Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past by James Longenbach 9780691609720
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies... -
In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, Volume 2: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought by Hans Baron 9780691656366
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian REnaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in... -
The Science and Art of Renaissance Music by James Haar 9780691608402
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.59As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the... -
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret L. King 9780691611006
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.64In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of...