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James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook by Mark A. Wollaeger 9780195150766
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $64.35James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to a landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers,... -
The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts 9781137569592
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $34.11This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.33A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a fascinating exploration of what it is to be human. This Penguin Classics... -
Utopian Spaces of Modernism: Literature and Culture, 1885-1945 by Rosalyn Gregory 9780230303720
Booksplease Price: $91.14This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their... -
Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture by Bernard Bergonzi 9780198112617
Booksplease Price: $73.22What is going on in English studies? Bernard Bergonzi, a literary critic and teacher, who has also published poetry and fiction and has been involved in university administration, seeks to answer... -
Teaching Science Fiction by Andy Sawyer 9780230228511
Booksplease Price: $176.59Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction... -
The History of Science Fiction A. Roberts 9780333970225
Booksplease Price: $187.77The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative... -
Post-traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties by Kirby Farrell 9780801857874
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $41.94According to Kirby Farrell, the concept of trauma has shaped some of the central narratives of the 1990s-from the war stories of Vietnam vets to the video farewells of Heaven's Gate cult members,... -
The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature: Englishness and Nostalgia Christine Berberich 9781138246812
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.29Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for... -
Teaching Science Fiction by Andy Sawyer 9780230228504
Booksplease Price: $176.59Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198829454
RRP: $209.63Booksplease Price: $134.02This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to... -
Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 by Max Saunders 9780198886440
Booksplease Price: $53.18This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to... -
The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State Maxim Shadurski 9781032090139
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places. Early in the twentieth century, H. G. Wells linked utopia to... -
Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century by Sarah Cole
RRP: $261.30Booksplease Price: $207.15H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as "time machine,"...