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Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction by David P. Rando 9781350356122
Booksplease Price: £90.57Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures... -
Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations by Peimin Ni 9781438464503
Booksplease Price: £29.53A new translation and commentary of the Analects for contemporary audiences.Winner of the 2019 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature presented by the... -
Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith and Watson Autobiography Studies Reader by Sidonie Ann Smith 9781607854098
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.19Life Writing in the Long Run gathers twenty-one essays by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson written in collaboration or solo and published over the last quarter-century. It includes the introductions... -
Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition by Edward Alexander 9781138508200
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The incongruence if not antagonism between modern liberalism and the Jewish sense of the world has been most notably articulated by Lionel Trilling. Certainly the imaginative limitations and... -
A Greek Ballad: Selected Poems by Michalis Ganas
Booksplease Price: £32.78A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece's most lauded poets "Ganas skillfully melds loss with love. . . . A rich, rare view of a life spent in, or hoping... -
Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege by Adam Parkes 9780192866295
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £79.90During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain's hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's... -
The Sea Lions: Or, The Lost Sealers by James Fenimore Cooper 9781438489063
Booksplease Price: £28.23An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.The Sea Lions (1849) is the twelfth and last of... -
The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story by John T. Irwin
Booksplease Price: £28.88In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borges' efforts to "double" the genre's... -
The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World by Jerome J. McGann
Booksplease Price: £28.55For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In "The Scholar's... -
Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France by Philip Watts 9780804731850
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This book is about four writers-Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine-whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. It investigates how their... -
Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism by Richard Fantina 9781349531028
Booksplease Price: £46.28This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly submissive and masochistic posture toward women exhibited by many of Hemingway's heroes, from Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises to David... -
Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations by Peimin Ni 9781438464510
RRP: £76.50Booksplease Price: £73.49A new translation and commentary of the Analects for contemporary audiences.Winner of the 2019 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature presented by the... -
"They Say / I Say" with Readings by Gerald Graff 9781324070139
Booksplease Price: £52.08The essential little book that students love for demystifying academic writing, reading, and research Millions of students love "They Say / I Say" because it offers lively and practical advice they... -
"They Say / I Say" with Readings by Gerald Graff 9781324070344
Booksplease Price: £62.23Millions of students love "They Say / I Say" because it offers lively and practical advice they can use throughout high school (and beyond). Now, students can learn how to connect their "I Say" to... -
Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare by Paul Werstine 9781107515468
Booksplease Price: £41.67Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare argues for editing Shakespeare's plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions. Drawing on... -
Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing by Shalyn Claggett 9781438493152
RRP: £72.27Booksplease Price: £69.61Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award presented by the South Atlantic Modern... -
OuLiPo and the Mathematics of Literature by Natalie Berkman 9781789977806
RRP: £51.85Booksplease Price: £46.66The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. Comprised of authors, poets, mathematicians, and scientists, this quirky writer's... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876: Volume 2 by Henry James 9780803222977
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95Recipient of the "Approved Edition" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly EditionsThe Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by... -
Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 by Michele Birnbaum 9780521824255
Booksplease Price: £90.57Race, Work and Desire analyses literary representations of work relationships across the colour-line from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Michele Birnbaum examines... -
Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance by Belinda Edmondson 9780192856838
Booksplease Price: £86.85Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing... -
Spanish Fascist Writing by Justin Crumbaugh 9781487500979
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £48.32Spanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that... -
Milton's Imperial Epic: Paradise Lost and the Discourse of Colonialism by Martin Evans 9780801432118
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £62.75Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in... -
Survival Songs: Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror by Stephanie A. Sieburth
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? Stephanie Sieburth's Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer,... -
Recipe by Professor or Dr. Lynn Z. Bloom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious... -
World's Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 by Cristina Della Coletta
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France,... -
Unbroken Nostalgia: Haitian Kreyòl Poetry in Cuba Hilario Batista Félix 9798895060216
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.71Unbroken Nostalgia: Haitian Kreyol Poetry in Cuba is the first English translation and scholarly edition of the collection Nostalji san pwen ni vigil: pwezi kreyol nan peyi Kiba (2016) by Hilario... -
Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture by Graziella Parati 9781442626720
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a... -
The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood by Sara Lindey 9781496838667
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children's television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music,... -
Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Issues in the 1990s: An Annotated, Selected Bibliography by Joan P. Diana 9780313293559
Booksplease Price: £66.89A broadly annotated selected bibliography of monographs, periodical articles, and U.S. government documents on the pro-choice and pro-life question. Materials included were published in the United... -
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography Carmen E. Lamas 9780198950844
Booksplease Price: £32.32The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US... -
Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts by Roland Leander Williams 9781438489469
Booksplease Price: £25.65An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other... -
Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts by Roland Leander Williams 9781438489476
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other... -
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions by Lisa L. Moore 9780199743490
Booksplease Price: £58.91Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. As the English... -
Exemplary Figures / Fayan by Yang Xiong
RRP: £97.95Booksplease Price: £85.62Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, sponsored by the Modern Language Association Exemplary Figures (sometimes translated as Model... -
Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature by Jeremy Colangelo
Booksplease Price: £59.25Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the... -
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature by Sheila Marie Contreras
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.122009 - Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesBlood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature... -
The Book of John Mandeville: with Related Texts by Iain Macleod Higgins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. In addition to a fresh,... -
Immersive Words: Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839-1893 by Michelle Jarenski 9780817318673
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America's evolving... -
Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe Anna Brickhouse 9780198914143
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £98.18Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary... -
Richard's Himself Again: A Stage History of Richard III by J. Scott Colley 9780313262937
Booksplease Price: £61.93One of a handful of great Shakespearean roles, the part of Richard of Gloucester has maintained its importance from the beginning of its performance history in the late 1690s and has assumed an...