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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062714
Booksplease Price: £64.92A 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... -
Beyond English: World Literature and India by Prof Bhavya Tiwari 9781501334641
Booksplease Price: £102.21Honorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association)Beyond English: World Literature and India radically alters the debates on world literature that hinge on the... -
Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature by Karen Laura Thornber 9780674036253
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £41.91By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia, drawing hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese students to the... -
In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing by Joel Porte 9780521110006
Booksplease Price: £32.12In this 1991 book, Joel Porte examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display,... -
The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century by Shoshana Felman 9780674009516
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.70Death, wrote Walter Benjamin, lends storytellers all their authority. How do trials, in turn, borrow their authority from death? This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising... -
Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962 by Gal Gvili
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Winner, 2023 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationBeginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities... -
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Jahan Ramazani 9780393977912
Booksplease Price: £84.92Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly... -
First Pages: A Poetics of Titles by Giancarlo Maiorino 9780271029962
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £62.14"Titology," a term first coined in 1977 by literary critic Harry Levin, is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the... -
First Pages: A Poetics of Titles by Giancarlo Maiorino 9780271058740
Booksplease Price: £28.53"Titology," a term first coined in 1977 by literary critic Harry Levin, is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the... -
Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish by Jeffrey Sacks 9780823264940
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £60.73In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and... -
Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures by Annette Damayanti Lienau 9780691249803
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.34How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and SenegalSacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic's... -
Eureka by Susan Levine 9780252028496
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.96Originally published in 1848, Eureka is Poe's book on how the universe was formed, how it functions, and what its future might be. Poe provides a physical, scientific explanation for the... -
The Novel and the Sea by Margaret Cohen
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the... -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll 9780393343410
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.98On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the... -
The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism by Adam Potkay 9780521178419
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Joy is an experience of reunion or fulfilment, of desire at least temporarily laid to rest, of a good thing that comes to pass or seems sure to happen soon. In this wide-ranging and highly original... -
Wordsworth's Ethics by Adam Potkay
Booksplease Price: £27.41Why read Wordsworth's poetry - indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William... -
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 Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921: Ideology and Innovation by Philip O'Leary 9780271025964
Booksplease Price: £44.33The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's... -
Wordsworth's Ethics by Adam Potkay 9781421407081
Booksplease Price: £54.50Why read, Wordsworth's poetry - indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William... -
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... -
Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics by John Shields 9781572337053
Booksplease Price: £35.29Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift... -
The Nature of Narrative: Fortieth Anniversary Edition a 40th Anniv. Ed. b 40th Anniv. Ed by Robert Scholes 9780195151763
Booksplease Price: £21.75For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of... -
The Nature of Narrative: Revised and Expanded by Robert Scholes 9780195151756
Booksplease Price: £29.81For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Stephen Greenblatt 9781324072812
Booksplease Price: £61.55From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062981
Booksplease Price: £40.44A 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, Shorter Eleventh Edition,... -
Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic by Simon During 9780674013711
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic... -
Grand River and Joy by Susan Messer 9780472034291
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.84Halloween morning 1966, Harry Levine arrives at his wholesale shoe warehouse to find an ethnic slur soaped on the front window. As he scavenges around the sprawling warehouse basement, looking for... -
An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal by Poulomi Saha
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In today's world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women... -
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he... -
Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life Jeffrey Sacks 9781531512330
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48"Will you not memorize a little poetry to halt the slaughter?" the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. Darwish's poetic statement points to world-evacuating and genocidal violences - in a... -
Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life Jeffrey Sacks 9781531512323
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52"Will you not memorize a little poetry to halt the slaughter?" the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. Darwish's poetic statement points to world-evacuating and genocidal violences -in a... -
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination by Tamara T. Chin
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.95Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding... -
Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky by Donald Fanger 9780300111668
Booksplease Price: £57.66Superb new translations of Gorky's classic memoirs of Tolstoy and other remarkable Russians, along with unforgettable characterizations of Gorky himself by his contemporaries Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)... -
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination by Tamara T. Chin 9780674417199
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding... -
Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism by Lawrence Rosenthal
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21From a leading scholar on conservatism, the extraordinary chronicle of how the transformation of the American far right made the Trump presidency possible-and what it portends for the future Since... -
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Constellation of Genius by Kevin Jackson 9780091930974 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.55Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding... -
Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism by Sunil M. Agnani
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £57.32In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers... -
Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism by Sunil M. Agnani 9780823267392
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.66In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers... -
Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 by Aarthi Vadde
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde vividly illustrates how modernist and contemporary writers reimagine the nation and internationalism in a period defined by globalization. She explains how... -
The Critic as Amateur by Saikat Majumdar
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.27Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves into a highly specialized discipline enshrined in the...