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The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde Alyce Mahon 9780691264622
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine... -
The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work by Rey Chow 9780822337447
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked... -
Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist: The Curious Life of Gisele d'Estoc by Melanie C. Hawthorne 9780803240346
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Gisele d'Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing... -
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson 9780691141350
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73"The Indignant Generation" is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years... -
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley 9780691136790
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes,... -
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English by Professor Jody Enders
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.19Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool... -
The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text by Karl Kraus
Booksplease Price: £14.22Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time "[A] superb translation."-Bill Marx, Arts Fuse One hundred years after... -
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach by Erich Auerbach
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global... -
Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity by David Bradshaw 9780198714170
Booksplease Price: £112.65The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial,... -
The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today by Judith Nantell 9781684481576
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18Drawing on the poetry of four major voices in the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell explores the epistemic works of Luis Munoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodriguez, and Ada Salas, arguing that,... -
The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage by Soyica Diggs Colbert 9781107014381
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including... -
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India by Akshya Saxena 9780691219981
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.71How English has become a language of the people in India-one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English... -
The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language by Katie Chenoweth
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of... -
A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Supritha Rajan 9780472052554
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.13No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these... -
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic by Samantha Pinto
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Winner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature In this comparative study of contemporary Black... -
Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T. Irwin
Booksplease Price: £25.63Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously... -
Remembering the Reformation by Alexandra Walsham 9780367150761
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.Remembering the... -
Russia's Legal Fictions by Harriet Murav 9780472108794
Booksplease Price: £84.62Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions... -
James Joyce and the Ideal Reader by Joseph Valente 9781839981005
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This volume proposes to honor the trenchant, influential scholarship of Professor Margot Norris in essays that amplify her illumination of Joyce's oeuvre. The common denominator running through her... -
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanna Brooks 9780195332919
Booksplease Price: £31.45The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of colour in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, 'the spirit of... -
The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker by Mike Rose 9780143035572
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.15Featuring a new preface for the 10th anniversary As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose's revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands... -
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism Charles Bernheimer 9780801850059
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful-and controversial-influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced... -
The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage by Soyica Diggs Colbert
Booksplease Price: £24.15Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including... -
Late Victorian into Modern by Laura Marcus
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £62.57The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars... -
A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Supritha Rajan
Booksplease Price: £93.42No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these... -
The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today by Judith Nantell
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Drawing on the poetry of four major voices in the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell explores the epistemic works of Luis Munoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodriguez, and Ada Salas, arguing that,... -
The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity by Joseph Campana 9780823261680
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062653
Booksplease Price: £34.72A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases... -
Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon by Cheryl Finley
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.03How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving... -
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott 9780814740941
Booksplease Price: £90.57Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language Association Challenging the conception of empowerment... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula R. Backscheider 9780801887468
Booksplease Price: £40.86This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in... -
The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani by Gaetana Marrone
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07In this, the first comprehensive book on Liliana Cavani, Gaetana Marrone redraws the map of postwar Italian cinema to make room for this extraordinary filmmaker, whose representations of... -
Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U.S. Literature by Jordan Carroll
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48With Reading the Obscene, Jordan Carroll reveals new insights about the editors who fought the most famous anti-censorship battles of the twentieth century. While many critics have interpreted... -
The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto by Jo Ann Cavallo
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth... -
One Family's Shoah: Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe by Herbert S. Lindenberger 9780230341135
Booksplease Price: £46.28Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public,... -
Characters Before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Matthew H. Birkhold 9780198831976
Booksplease Price: £95.90How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author's character? Situated between the decline... -
The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho
Booksplease Price: £32.27Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2022 James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)Honorable Mention, 28th Annual Modern Language... -
Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations by Suresh Canagarajah
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Winner of the AAAL Book Award 2015Winner of the Modern Language Association's Thirty-Third Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2014Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and... -
University Reform: The Founding of the American Association of University Professors by Hans-Joerg Tiede 9781421418261
Booksplease Price: £29.08The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of America's faculty. University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that... -
Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture by Lynn Festa 9780812251319
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and...