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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 Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 29, 1881 by Charles Darwin
Booksplease Price: £107.78This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis by Caroline Levine 9780691250588
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.21An argument that humanists have the tools-and the responsibility-to mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars... -
Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination by John Hawley 9780823216376
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54These collected essays demonstrate the variegation of the religious imagination. By examining the works of philosophers, theologians and novelists, the essays seek to answer the question Jesus asked... -
The National Council of Teachers of English and Cold War Education Policies by Curtis Mason 9781641139465
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.12The launching of Sputnik in 1957 sparked an education movement that stressed the importance of curricular rigor and standardization as a means to improve education and bolster national defense... -
The Activist: A Daoist Protest Manual Daniel Fried 9781493091386
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.74The reason why protests have caused maximum pain for minimum gain is that they have done everything right. Well-developed consensus practices from activists have been put into practice in highly... -
The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France by Louisa MacKenzie 9781442642393
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £44.11The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the PlEiade poets, including Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim... -
Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy 9780691176093
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.99A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew... -
The Wing-and-Wing, Or Le Feu-Follet: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper 9781438474946
Booksplease Price: £29.83A thrilling novel of seafaring adventure, romance, and Napoleonic history, from the author of The Leatherstocking Tales.In 1842, James Fenimore Cooper returned to transatlantic themes with a... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy by Priya Joshi
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry by Jahan Ramazani
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative... -
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 28, 1880 by Charles Darwin
Booksplease Price: £118.88This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and... -
In Praise of Fragments by Meena Alexander 9781643620121
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592-1641), lyric essays about Venice, a... -
The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature by Maria José Somerlate Barbosa 9781612498522
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural... -
When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri by David Todd Lawrence 9781496818157
Booksplease Price: £31.89In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the... -
The National Council of Teachers of English and Cold War Education Policies by Curtis Mason 9781641139458
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.74The launching of Sputnik in 1957 sparked an education movement that stressed the importance of curricular rigor and standardization as a means to improve education and bolster national defense... -
Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings 9798214156729
Booksplease Price: £85.03Combining coverage of the writing process with professional readings, Wyrick/Field/Wick's "Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings" has helped students learn to write academic essays. It... -
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature Sonya Posmentier (Assistant Professor, New York University) 9781421437934
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £19.84A transformative literary history of black environmental writing.Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language AssociationAt the intersection of social and environmental history... -
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert by Iggy Cortez
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.22Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema Offers analytic frameworks for performance aesthetics in dialogue with critical theory Offers new... -
The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul by Leslie Barnes
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Nominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book award Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign of terror, which... -
Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition by Edward Alexander 9780765801531
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The 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... -
The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography by Robert DeMaria 9781557866646
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.21In this major revision of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's readers and admirers.About the AuthorRobert DeMaria... -
Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James by J. Hillis Miller 9780823225378
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.70The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and... -
Carolyn G Heilbrun by Susan Kress 9780813925363
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Carolyn G. Heilbrun is renowned as a provocative feminist critic of the culture and (as Amanda Cross) a writer of witty detective novels. In Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position, Susan... -
Jews and Science by Sander L. Gilman 9781612498003
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the...