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The Love of David and Jonathan: Ideology, Text, Reception James E. Harding 9781138661141
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73Were David and Jonathan 'gay' lovers? This very modern question lies behind the recent explosion of studies of the David and Jonathan narrative. Interpreters differ in their assessment of whether 1... -
Libertarian Thought in Nineteenth Century Britain: Freedom, Equality and Authority William R. McKercher 9781138680371
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €32.05This book, first published in 1987, aims to characterise and identify the intellectual heritage of the proponents of the libertarian tradition. To set this within a theoretical framework, these ideas... -
Being the Body of Christ: Towards a Twenty-First Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church by Chris Mounsey
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32The book explores the preoccupation of key twentieth-century English writers with theology and sexuality and how the Anglican Church has responded and continues to respond to the issue of... -
Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities by Jeffrey Weeks
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €58.36Few topics evoke so much anxiety and pleasure, pain and hope, discussion and silence as sexuality. Throughout the Christian era it has been a major moral preoccupation. Since the eighteenth century... -
Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook by Chris White 9780415153065
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.59Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality is a comprehensive collection which provides, for the first time in one volume, many texts unavailable outside specialised academic libraries. Chris White... -
Walt Whitman and British Socialism: 'The Love of Comrades' Kirsten Harris (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) 9780367870515
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman's reception with focused close readings of a variety... -
Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth Century Society by Gordon Marsden 9780582292895
Booksplease Price: €68.54Victorian Values is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens,... -
Workers' Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain by Michael Rosen 9780691175348
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.29A collection of political tales-first published in British workers' magazines-selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,... -
Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science by Ralph M. Leck 9780252040009
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €96.18Karl Ulrichs's studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century. But in the years since, his groundbreaking activism has overshadowed his... -
Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science by Ralph M. Leck
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Karl Ulrichs's studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century. But in the years since, his groundbreaking activism has overshadowed his... -
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy by Michael Robertson 9780691202860
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.10The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayIn this lively literary history,... -
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy by Michael Robertson
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.60The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian... -
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven 9780691128009
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.95In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into... -
Animal Sensibility and Inclusive Justice in the Age of Bernard Shaw by Rod Preece 9780774821094
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €81.30In the late nineteenth century, a number of prominent reformers wereinfluenced by what Edward Carpenter called "the largersocialism," a philosophy that promised to completely transformsociety,... -
The Making of British Socialism by Mark Bevir
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.13The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition by Andrew Hodges 9780691164724
Booksplease Price: €20.53A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say... -
Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples by Michael Robertson
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.10Despite his protests, Anne Gilchrist, distinguished woman of letters, moved her entire household from London to Philadelphia in an effort to marry him. John Addington Symonds, historian and theorist... -
The Making of British Socialism by Mark Bevir 9780691150833
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.56"The Making of British Socialism" provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding... -
Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century Walt Whitman 9780486855455
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.53The nineteenth century brought sweeping changes, from industrialization to social reform movements, yet queerness remained taboo. While societal norms often dictated secrecy, a brave subculture of... -
Alexandria Still: Forster, Durrell, and Cavafy by Jane Lagoudis Pinchin 9780691616599
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of... -
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part B: 1885-1888 by William Morris 9780691607641
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €82.92These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and... -
Queer Forster by Robert K. Martin
Booksplease Price: €33.97This 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... -
Queer Forster by Robert K. Martin 9780226508016
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €92.34This 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... -
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World by Sheila Rowbotham
Booksplease Price: €17.42A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points -... -
Women, resistance and revolution: A history of women and revolution in the modern world by Sheila Rowbotham
Booksplease Price: €28.64This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the... -
British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States by Benjamin Kohlmann 9780198836179
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €105.34British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about... -
Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It Sheila Rowbotham 9780904383560
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €23.61In this classic study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s, Sheila Rowbotham shows how class and sex, work and the family, personal life and... -
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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi 9780822337034 [USED COPY]
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €10.73"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy... -
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy... -
From Swan Sonnenschein to George Allen & Unwin Ltd F. A. Mumby 9781041112297
Booksplease Price: €129.02Originally published in 1955, From Swan Sonnenschein to George Allen & Unwin Ltd states that the lives of certain publishing houses are a direct reflection of the cultural history of the period in... -
Owen the Poet by Dominic Hibberd 9780333384480
Booksplease Price: €55.07Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War. But much about the poet and his work has not been fully understood. This book, based on unrivalled... -
Owen the Poet by Dominic Hibberd 9781349077007
Booksplease Price: €55.07Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War. But much about the poet and his work has not been fully understood. This book, based on unrivalled... -
Blue Helmet: My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan Edward H. Carpenter 9781640125995
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.88Blue Helmet: My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan tells the story of a country, a conflict, and the institution of peacekeeping through the eyes of a senior American military officer working on... -
LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives by Simon Joyce 9780192858399
Booksplease Price: €133.70It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term... -
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity Robert Aldrich 9781138491502
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants - the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay... -
Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George by Sheila Rowbotham 9780745335759
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.14This play re-enacts the 1917 trial and imprisonment of Alice Wheeldon, the renowned suffragist, for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George. It is prefaced by an... -
LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives Simon Joyce 9780198980650
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €34.22LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the Victorian era's thinking about gender and sexual identity. We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men,... -
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Sheila Rowbotham
Booksplease Price: €26.16From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production,... -
Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters by Kate Thomas 9780199731169
RRP: €39.85Booksplease Price: €30.49In 1889 uniformed post boys were found moonlighting in a West End brothel frequented by men of the upper classes. "The Cleveland Street Scandal" erupted and Victorian Britain was gripped by the... -
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice' Emma Sutton (School of English, University of St Andrews (United Kingdom)) 9781802077865
Booksplease Price: €42.29This 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...