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The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing Domna C. Stanton 9781032924458
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the... -
Staging Technology: Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama by Craig N. Owens 9781350168572
Booksplease Price: £96.35Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the... -
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert by Iggy Cortez 9781474479844
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert argues that the career of this singular French actor-constituting a corpus of well over a hundred films-offers a unique testing ground for current... -
British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology by Paula R. Backscheider
Booksplease Price: £44.63This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding... -
The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature by John Moran Gonzalez
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £31.25The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a... -
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory by Professor Ann Rosalind Jones
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57During the late sixteenth century 'fashion' first took on the sense of restless change in contrast to the older sense of fashioning or making. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms... -
Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies by Michael Berube
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large? In recent years, debates about the role and direction of... -
Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.Within months... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy by Priya Joshi 9780231169608
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £90.70Bollywood 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... -
British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology by Paula R. Backscheider 9780801892776
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £53.20This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding... -
Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance by Belinda Edmondson 9780198914648
Booksplease Price: £25.19Creole 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... -
Reading Shakespeare Reading Me by Leonard Barkan 9781531507312
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they... -
Post-Imperial Brecht: Politics and Performance, East and South by Loren Kruger 9780521817080
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £99.73Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht's theatre and politics. Most political theatre critics place Brecht between West and East in the Cold War, and a few have recently explored... -
Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives: Engaging Domestic and International Students in the Composition Classroom by Julia Kiernan 9781646421114
Booksplease Price: £30.34Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives addresses the movement toward translingualism in the writing classroom and demonstrates the practical pedagogical strategies faculty can take to represent both... -
An Alchemy of Living Culture: Collected Writings on Double Edge Theatre Stacy Klein 9781350449367
Booksplease Price: £65.97This volume captures the theatrical and cultural practice to have come out of Double Edge Theatre, which Stacy Klein founded in 1982. It showcases the company's dedication to collective artistic... -
Jews and Science by Sander L. Gilman 9781612498010
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08Jews 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry by Jahan Ramazani 9781107090712
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.49The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative... -
China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature by Duncan M. Yoon 9781009300278
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £80.83China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope... -
Picaresque Narrative, Picaresque Fictions: A Theory and Research Guide by Ulrich Wicks 9780313249341
Booksplease Price: £66.27Wicks has made a number of important contributions to the study of the picaresque. . . . Wicks's book does not attempt to answer all questions posed by the term, but it provides the most... -
Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace by R. White 9780230553170
Booksplease Price: £46.28This timely book traces ideas of pacifism in English literature, particularly poetry. Early chapters, drawing on religious and secular traditions, provide intellectual contexts. There follows a... -
Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin by Claire Colebrook 9780415604536
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Paul de Man is often associated with an era of 'high theory', an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript... -
New Collected Poems by Charles Tomlinson 9781903039946
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.87Charles Tomlinson's "New Collected Poems" gathers a lifetime's work, from the 1950s to 2006. A poet deeply responsive to English landscape, grounded in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge,... -
The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature by Maria José Somerlate Barbosa 9781612498539
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74In 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... -
Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books by B. Venkat Mani 9780823273416
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik... -
Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper 9781438485362
Booksplease Price: £29.95A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.Within months... -
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... -
The Politics of Realism by Prof. Thomas Docherty 9781350228573
Booksplease Price: £31.52Exploring the controversial history of an aesthetic - realism - this book examines the role that realism plays in the negotiation of social, political, and material realities from the mid-19th... -
Transnational Cervantes by William Childers 9781442615113
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free... -
Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China by Ying Qian 9780231204460
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Winner, 2025 Lionel Trilling Book Award, Columbia CollegeWinner, 2024 Book Award, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationHonorable Mention, 2024 Aldo and... -
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China by Margaret Hillenbrand 9780231212144
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.23Winner, 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, Modern Language AssociationCharismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without... -
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine 9780691173436
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context... -
Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers by Lewis C Seifert 9780772720771
Booksplease Price: £42.57This is a superb book on all levels. The translations of the tales are excellent. The research is impeccable. The introduction and notes are highly informative. Most important, Lewis Seifert and... -
Language as Symbolic Power by Claire Kramsch 9781108835862
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.11Language is not simply a tool for communication - symbolic power struggles underlie any speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face conversations, online tweets or...