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Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen 9781421440873
Booksplease Price: $164.76A fascinating study of how behavioral science shaped twentieth-century politics and the modernist literary period.The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political... -
Modernist Literature by Potter
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $46.18Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies. Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar... -
Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s: The Modernist Period by Faith Binckes 9781399546805
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $59.90New perspectives on women's contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernism This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in... -
Modernist War Poetry: Combat Gnosticism and the Sympathetic Imagination, 1914 19 Jamie Wood 9781474497756
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $46.18This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics - T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Edward Thomas and Wallace Stevens - and their response to... -
Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds by Andrew Gaedtke 9781108418003
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $169.71Modernism and the Machinery of Madness demonstrates the emergence of a technological form of paranoia within modernist culture which transformed much of the period's experimental fiction. Gaedtke... -
Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature by Sarah Davison
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $155.22Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and... -
Culloden: Battle & Aftermath by Paul O'Keeffe
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne... -
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell 9780198848424
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07'The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect'. A Clergyman's Daughter is George Orwell's least well-known, most unappreciated... -
Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War by Maria Tippett 9781442616042
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened in the galleries of the Royal Academy in Burlington House in January 1919. Featuring four hundred paintings and sculptures depicting the Canadian... -
Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism by Erik M. Bachman 9780271080055
Booksplease Price: $176.59This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with... -
A C. H. Sisson Reader by Charlie Louth 9781847772657
Booksplease Price: $47.89The great English, Anglican and modernist poet and writer C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol a hundred years ago. This Reader draws on his poetry, fiction, translations, and his literary, political and... -
The Bloater by Rosemarie Tonks
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.73Why do the only men I know carry wet umbrellas and say "Umm?" I'm being starved alive. Quick: the first bookshop for a copy of the Kama-Sutra. Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in theory... -
Bad Modernisms by Douglas Mao
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's most vibrant... -
Bad Modernisms by Douglas Mao 9780822337973
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's most vibrant... -
Shakespeare among the Moderns by Richard Halpern
Booksplease Price: $66.46Modernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and... -
The Halt During the Chase by Rosemary Tonks 9780811237451
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.63Sophie-a clever and charming young woman-is trying to get out from under her mother's thumb. She's in love with her childhood friend Philip (pragmatic, attractive, a bit of a bore), but she often... -
The Blood of the Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison 9780862411923
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $19.27Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast... -
The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin by James Laughlin 9780811216678
Booksplease Price: $41.32James Laughlin-poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions-was still at work on his autobiography when he died at 83. He left behind personal files crammed with... -
The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms by Peter Brooker 9780198778448
Booksplease Price: $104.07The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms situates literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with mass society and popular culture in both national and transnational... -
Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde by Mark Antliff
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $30.63Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists whose work transformed European modernism: Umberto... -
Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde by Mark Antliff 9780271089454
RRP: $60.43Booksplease Price: $58.25Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists whose work transformed European modernism: Umberto... -
The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts by Ann-Marie Einhaus 9781399546751
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $59.90A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the present This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide... -
Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography by Jerome Boyd Maunsell 9780198789369
Booksplease Price: $65.70What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels? How do they present themselves, and what do their self-portraits reveal? In a... -
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten 9780198869160
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $149.99This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of... -
Sexton Blake: Caribbean Crisis & Voodoo Island by Michael Moorcock 9781837860340
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Michael Moorcock's triumphant return to Britain's adventuring detective, Sexton Blake! His first published novel restored, revised, expanded... and presented with a brand new prequel story!A deep sea... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven 9781399414012
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North... -
Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film by Robert Sitton 9780231165785
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $61.62Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing... -
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RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $5.15`Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times `The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian `The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel... -
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The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 by Paul Beatty 9781786071460 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.13A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The... -
The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 by Paul Beatty 9781786071460
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.63A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The...