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Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Chloe Wigston Smith 9781316600931
Booksplease Price: $45.76This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress's transformative potential, it charts the... -
Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Chloe Wigston Smith 9781107035003
Booksplease Price: $128.65This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress's transformative potential, it charts the... -
Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self by Misty G. Anderson 9781421404806
Booksplease Price: $80.95In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints... -
Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Paul Kelleher 9781611486957
Booksplease Price: $66.05In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism... -
Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814 by Ellen Pollak 9780801872044
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $49.01From the inadvertent marriage of a brother and sister in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders to the sexually charged intrafamilial relationships in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, a remarkable number of... -
Captains of the Sands by 9780143106357
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.They call themselves 'Captains of the Sands', a gang of orphans and runaways who live by... -
Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel by Helen Thompson
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $64.59In a groundbreaking study of the relationship between chemistry and literary history, Helen Thompson explores the ways in which chemical conceptions of matter shaped eighteenth-century British... -
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett 9780820321653
RRP: $171.51Booksplease Price: $122.32This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett's first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also,... -
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett 9780820346038
RRP: $73.47Booksplease Price: $61.96This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett's first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also,... -
History of the Middle Temple by Richard O. Havery 9781841134215
Booksplease Price: $117.87The history of the Middle Temple is a long and fascinating one. Templars held the estate of the Temple from the twelfth century until their suppression in the early fourteenth century; thereafter the... -
The Lives of the Novel: A History by Thomas G. Pavel 9780691121895
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.70This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force... -
Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel by Stephanie Insley Hershinow 9781421429670
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $39.33The early novel was not the coming-of-age story we know today-eighteenth-century adolescent protagonists remained in a constant state of arrested development, never truly maturing.Between the... -
Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel by Stephanie Insley Hershinow 9781421438832
Booksplease Price: $34.96The early novel was not the coming-of-age story we know today-eighteenth-century adolescent protagonists remained in a constant state of arrested development, never truly maturing.Between the... -
The Lives of the Novel: A History by Thomas G. Pavel 9780691165783
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.56This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force... -
Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century by Christina Lupton 9781421425764
Booksplease Price: $61.40How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read?Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century-when working hours increased... -
Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Tom Keymer 9780198861904
RRP: $17.40Booksplease Price: $13.49It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the... -
Kitty Clive, or The Fair Songster by Berta Joncus
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $70.52Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. She dominated spoken as well as musical comedy. From the 1740s onwards, her reputation suffered a sharp decline. For anyone curious about star... -
Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches by Chris Nicholson
Booksplease Price: $40.42Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools. The... -
Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Magda Romanska 9781474247887
Booksplease Price: $51.81This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged... -
Emma: An Annotated Edition by Jane Austen 9780674048843
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $35.09Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the... -
An Appetite for Violets Martine Bailey 9781444768732
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. A writing desk lies open and... -
Little by ,Edward Carey 9781910709535 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $3.48LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE... -
Fictional Minds by Alan Palmer 9780803218352
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the...