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Gothic & Gender: An Introduction by D Heiland 9780631200499
RRP: $126.36Booksplease Price: $115.85Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically... -
Inventing the Gothic Corpse: The Thrill of Human Remains in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Yael Shapira 9783319764832
Booksplease Price: $116.82Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For... -
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful... -
The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film by Jack Morgan 9780809324712
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94In this study of fearful fictions and films, Jack Morgan rends the gothic's biological core from its oft-discussed psychological elements and argues for a more trans-historical conception of the... -
Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel by J. Carson 9780230621107
Booksplease Price: $60.29Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel is a richly historicized account that explores anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and unstable gender roles. James P... -
The Rose, the Bastard and the Saint King: The Murder of Henry VI Andrew Boardman 9781803997094
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.21The siege of London on 12-14 May 1471 is a largely forgotten episode in the Wars of the Roses, but its implications were far-reaching in that it sealed the fate of the Lancastrian dynasty.Edward IV's... -
Figures of the Imagination: Fiction and Song in Britain, 1790-1850 by Roger Hansford
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people's growing appetites for... -
The Animal Within: Masculinity and the Gothic by Cyndy Hendershot 9780472109401
Booksplease Price: $97.46As Cyndy Hendershot demonstrates, the Gothic is more a mode than a rigid historical period, an "invasive" tendency that reveals the imaginative limits of social realities and literary techniques far... -
Gothic Shakespeares by John Drakakis
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts,... -
Gothic Fiction by Angela Wright 9781403936677
Booksplease Price: $39.82What is the Gothic? Few literary genres have attracted so much praise and critical disdain simultaneously. This Guide returns to the Gothic novel's first wave of popularity, between 1764 and 1820,... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Jeffrey S. Ravel 9780801884160
Booksplease Price: $56.49This well-illustrated new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Contents include:... -
St Francis and Cultural Memory: The Franciscans and English National Identity from Chaucer to the Gothic by David Salter 9780199292097
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $99.23St Francis and Cultural Memory explores central aspects of English national, spiritual, and broader cultural identity through a detailed yet accessible analysis of a familiar figure: the Franciscan... -
The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98The Wars of the Roses saw family fight family over the greatest prize - the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.16By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror by Angela Wright 9781107566743
Booksplease Price: $41.43In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and... -
Determining Wuthering Heights: Ideology, Intertexts, Tradition by Maria Valero Redondo 9781433177477
RRP: $106.17Booksplease Price: $94.39Recent criticism on Emily Bronte and her novel has tried to correct the deep-rooted belief that Emily Bronte was a literary "genius" isolated in the moors of Haworth. Indeed, an overview of recent... -
Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain Steve Tibble 9780300279320
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring... -
Uncrowned: Royal Heirs Who Didn't Take the Throne by Ashley Mantle 9781445696478
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.23Through the centuries, succession to the English throne has largely been dictated by blood. Children were born to the role, their destinies entwined with that of the nation. They would be raised with... -
Uncrowned: Royal Heirs Who Didn't Take the Throne Ashley Mantle 9781398129108
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98Through the centuries, succession to the English throne has largely been dictated by blood. Children were born to the role, their destinies entwined with that of the nation. They would be raised with... -
Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830 by James Uden 9780190910273
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $78.28Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. But what about the ghosts of the classical past? Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study to describe the relationship... -
Too Many Reasons to Live by Rob Burrow
Booksplease Price: $24.54The huge Sunday Times number one bestselling inspirational memoir from rugby league legend Rob Burrow on his extraordinary career, his incredible friendship with fellow Rhino Kevin Sinfield, and his... -
Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816 David Ellis 9781846316432
Booksplease Price: $51.34In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe... -
Too Many Reasons to Live by Rob Burrow 9781035044979
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.44Winner of the Sports Book Awards 2022The updated edition of the huge Sunday Times number one bestselling inspirational memoir from rugby league legend Rob Burrow on his extraordinary career, his... -
Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War by Jonathan H. Ebel
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their... -
Romanticism and Colonial Disease by Alan Bewell
Booksplease Price: $37.67Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before... -
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents Dominic Selwood 9781472131898
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.51From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain... -
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents Dominic Selwood 9781472131904
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain...