Filter By
Books (780)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600 by Brian Richardson 9780521420327
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could... -
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 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... -
Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £62.06Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted effort by America's foremost harpsichordist and one of the... -
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 4: Mary Wroth by Clare R. Kinney
Booksplease Price: £91.48The last twenty-five years have seen exciting new developments in scholarly work on Lady Mary Wroth, whose Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus constitute the first romance and the first sonnet... -
Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples by Jerry H. Bentley
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Examining the cultural history of Renaissance Naples with an emphasis on humanism, the author also evaluates Naples in the broader context of fifteenth-century Italy and Renaissance Europe in general... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 13: March 1788 to October 1788 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045450
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £119.30From 1784 to 1789 Jefferson was in France, first as commissioner to negotiate peace treaties and then as American minister. Volume 13 continues the account of these years (which are covered in... -
Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance by Laurence Stapleton 9780691605692
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93This 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... -
Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism by George W. McClure 9780691606699
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in... -
The War Against Poetry by Russell A. Fraser 9780691620794
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The attack on poetry and the theater which occurred in England during the 16th and 17th centuries has been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations. This "war against poetry" was, 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... -
Galdos and the Art of the European Novel: 1867-1887 by Stephen Gilman 9780691614885
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 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... -
Chaucer's Italy by Richard Owen 9781909961838
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.65Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In fact, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch... -
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... -
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,... -
Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori and Rucellai by Francis William Kent 9780691616728
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic... -
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...