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Basingstoke Boy by John Arlott 9780006377375
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A one-time Southampton policeman and BBC literary producer working with such writers as E.M. Forster, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas, who became a close friend, John Arlott has always considered... -
Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921 by Anindyo Roy
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian... -
Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali 9780811212670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Set in nineteenth-century India between two revolutionary moments of change, Twilight in Delhi brings history alive, depicting most movingly the loss of an entire culture and way of life. As Bonamy... -
Queer Forster by Robert K. Martin
Booksplease Price: £28.55This volume presents a revision of gay criticism and focuses on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. Many previous critics of Forster downplayed his homosexuality or read... -
Maurice by E. M. Forster
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster's Maurice is edited by... -
Literature by Peter Widdowson
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us... -
Sail Away by Lena Lencek 9781569245842
Booksplease Price: £17.54Something happens when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. Now Sail Away brings together the very finest writing about... -
The Alchemy of Laughter: Comedy in English Fiction by Glen Cavaliero 9780333770481
Booksplease Price: £92.17This is the only contemporary critical study to discuss the nature of comedy with exclusive reference to novels. It examines the comic styles of novelists from Fielding and Jane Austen to Waugh and... -
After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain Peter Mandler 9781138006584
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation',... -
Queer Forster by Robert K. Martin 9780226508016
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60This volume presents a radical revision of gay criticism and focuses on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. This collection situates Forster within the Bloomsbury Group, and... -
Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing by Joseph Bristow
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James... -
English Literature Between the Wars by B. Ifor Evans 9781032169316
Booksplease Price: £108.12First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the years between the two wars constitute a period in literature? Its exploration leads... -
English Literature Between the Wars by B. Ifor Evans 9781032169323
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the years between the two wars constitute a period in literature? Its exploration leads... -
Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East by John Keay 9780393335088
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.40Sowing the Wind tells of how and why this happened. The subject is painful and essentially sombre, but John Keay illuminates it with lucid analysis and anecdotes. This is that rarest of works, a... -
Sisters in Literature: Female Sexuality in Antigone , Middlemarch , Howards End and Women in Love by Masako Hirai 9780333731451
Booksplease Price: £92.25A unique study of how novels by Lawrence, Forster and George Eliot can be read as rewritings of Sophocles's Antigone : each is presented as a socially and sexually involving argument between two... -
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The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780192825841 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.63This anthology of 250 war poems was first published in 1988 to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the Armistice of 1918. They range from Homer and the Bible to John Betjeman, Randell Jarrell,... -
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice' Emma Sutton (School of English, University of St Andrews (United Kingdom)) 9781802077865
Booksplease Price: £35.54This is the first book-length study of Forster's posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the... -
Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf by Erin Speese 9780367346461
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese shows how William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H... -
Tuscan Spaces: Literary Constructions of Space by Silvia M. Ross 9781442639980
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £32.86An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in... -
A D.H. Lawrence Chronology by P. Preston 9780333531334
Booksplease Price: £92.10'Peter Preston has written and made thoroughly accessible to its readers a book which no-one working on Lawrence can now afford to have far from their work-table. How ever did we live without it? It... -
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal J. R. Ackerley 9780141189253
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in IndiaIn the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary to the Maharajah of... -
What to Believe When You Don't: A secular guide to life, the universe, and happiness Paul Rogers 9781917673563
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04'What to Believe When You Don't' invites you to explore the vibrant tapestry of human existence without the prop of supernatural belief. You'll explore a wide range of topics and see how all are... -
Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience Angeliki Sioli 9781138224278
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £57.53Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments?... -
Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between Modernism and the First World War by Allyson Booth 9780195102116
Booksplease Price: £114.88Booth offers a complex portrait of the relation between British Great War culture and modernist writings. She notes that unlike civilians, modernist writers and combatants shared a concern with the... -
Where You Find It by Janice Galloway 9780099453116
Booksplease Price: £25.29In her latest collection of stories, Janice Galloway turns her unflinching gaze on relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster 9780141441696
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This... -
Maurice by David Greven 9780228018780
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Maurice, James Ivory's 1987 adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel, follows an Edwardian man's journey from the awakening of his desire for and love of men to self-acceptance. One of the most... -
Reality Check Dennis O'Driscoll 9780856464027
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Dennis O'Driscoll lends his transformative vision to everyday 'bread and butter' routines and the insidious forces that imperil them. From the entertaining mixture of shorter poems which opens his... -
The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis' Christian Reich by Prof Michael Lackey 9781441197597
Booksplease Price: £37.42The Modernist God State seeks to overturn the traditional secularization approach to intellectual and political history and to replace it with a fuller understanding of the religious basis of... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 by Peter Parker 9780241370612
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated.In a... -
Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism by Andrew Thacker
Booksplease Price: £23.54Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of postmodernism and postcolonialism. 'Moving Through Modernity' offers the... -
On Poetry Glyn Maxwell (Author) 9781350248359
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.29'The most compelling, original, charismatic and poetic guide to poetry that I can remember. A handbook written from the heart by one of the true modern masters of the craft.' Simon Armitage A... -
The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells by Daniel Born 9780807845448
Booksplease Price: £40.19The author of this study explores the concept of liberal guilt as it first developed in British political and literary culture between the late-Romantic period and World War I. Disturbed by the twin... -
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The Dark Film by Paul Farley 9780330461238 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.99The Dark Film, Paul Farley's first collection since the highly acclaimed Tramp in Flames, expands the poet's research into 'the art of seeing', and all that humans project of themselves into the... -
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'.'Ghosting' introduces us to the Wikileaks founder Julian... -
New and Selected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll 9780856463730
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is... -
Swithering by Robin Robertson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40WINNER OF THE 2006 FORWARD PRIZE In Scots, the verb 'swither' has two meanings: to be doubtful, to waver, to be in two minds; and to appear in shifting forms - indeterminate and volatile. From... -
River Stories 9781841596396
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43River gods and nymphs frolic in Ovid's mythic telling. The trickster Coyote reroutes a river in a Native American tale. A set of stone steps at the shore of the Ganges bears witness to heartbreak in... -
The Art of Fiction: and Modern Fiction Virginia Woolf 9781804471265
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62'That fiction is a lady, and a lady who has somehow got herself in to trouble, is a thought that must often have struck her admirers.' Penned in 1927 but first published posthumously in The Moment... -
Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature by Kara Watts 9780813056289
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.00Affective Materialities breaks ground by reexamining modernist theorizations of the body, opening up artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and...