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Robert Capa by Abigail Pollak
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Robert Capa is one of four new titles published this September in Thames & Hudson's acclaimed 'Photofile' series. Each book brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an... -
The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy by Juliet Flower MacCannell
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to... -
Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates 9781841596228
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present,... -
Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745653914
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48In 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long since thrown away. Le Prenom de Dieu was the text that marked the start... -
From Goethe To Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the Literary Canon in France and Germany, 1770-1936 by Mary Orr 9780859897211
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays,... -
A Mirror on the High Road: Chapters from the History of Social Research in Poland by Antoni Sulek 9783631668856
RRP: £55.60Booksplease Price: £49.88The book is a collection of articles and essays devoted to important studies conducted by Polish sociologists in the course of more than a hundred years. It displays not only the discipline's... -
Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang by Helene Cixous 9780745653907
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55In 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long since thrown away. Le Prenom de Dieu was the text that marked the start... -
Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction: Readings in French Realism by Maria C Scott
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23This book takes its point of departure in recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, including Theory of Mind. Scott draws on literary theory and close... -
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?... -
Original Subjects: The Child, the Novel and the Nation by Ala A. Alryyes
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96Original Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English... -
Claire d'Albe by Margaret Cohen 9780873529259
Booksplease Price: £21.96Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frederic, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful... -
Claire d'Albe by Margaret Cohen 9780873529266
Booksplease Price: £21.96Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frederic, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful... -
Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola by Carol A. Mossman 9780521030984
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses... -
Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola by Carol A. Mossman 9780521415866
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £94.96This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses... -
The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche by Ralph Harper
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £18.60In these three predecessors of existentialism, all of whom were profoundly influenced by Stendhal, the author finds evidence of that spiritual isolation which leads ultimately to personal solitude... -
The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Patrick M. Bray
Booksplease Price: £35.72Focusing on Stendhal, Gerard de Nerval, George Sand, Emile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and... -
Culture and Society in France 1789-1848 by F. W. J. Hemmings 9781448205073
Booksplease Price: £18.48This book, first published in 1987, complements the author's earlier volume on Culture and Society in France 1848-1898. It deals with the interaction of social history and cultural history, covering... -
The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature: Writers from Rousseau to Roth by Myron Tuman 9783030157005
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman-one sometimes modeled on their own mother-forms the romantic core of their... -
Chinese Educational Migration and Student-Teacher Mobilities: Experiencing Otherness by Fred Dervin 9781137492906
Booksplease Price: £92.16This collected volume examines the multifaceted contexts and experiences of Chinese students, teachers and scholars in Australia, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK and the US. It can serve both as an... -
Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity by Clara Tuite 9781107442955
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.69The Regency period in general, and the aristocrat-poet Lord Byron in particular, were notorious for scandal, but the historical circumstances of this phenomenon have yet to be properly analysed. Lord... -
Humboldt, Worldview and Language by James W. Underhill
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04This title is a study of the linguistic philosophy of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian philologist and politician. From linguists such as Sapir, Whorf and Chomsky to philosophers such as Heidegger and... -
The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe by Susanne Schmid 9781474245975
Booksplease Price: £41.09The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses... -
Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe by Patricia Howe 9789042012363
Booksplease Price: £72.37On the centenary of Fontane's death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars... -
The Emperor's Body: A Novel by Peter Brooks 9780393079586
RRP: £36.50Booksplease Price: £32.85Against the historical backdrop of the French expedition in 1840 to retrieve Napoleon's body from Saint Helena, two men and a woman find themselves engulfed in long-dormant and dangerous political... -
The Eighteenth-Century French Novel: Techniques of Illusion by Vivienne G. Mylne 9780521282666
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book deals with the ways in which the French novel of the eighteenth century marks a transition from the long, implausible and often clumsy works of the seventeenth century to the masterpieces... -
Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction: Readings in French Realism by Maria Scott
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01Explores how and why narrative fiction engages empathy, including Theory of MindOffers a broad overview of current scientific work on the effects of fiction-reading on empathy, including Theory of... -
A Feeling of History Peter Zumthor 9783858818058
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38While completing the Almannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian scholar Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project... -
Salvator Rosa in French Literature: From the Bizarre to the Sublime by James S. Patty 9780813123301
Booksplease Price: £24.39Salvator Rosa (1615--1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings,... -
Volleys of Humanity: Essays 1972-2009 by Helene Cixous
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.72This major new collection of texts by Helene Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays. These essays deal with literature, politics,... -
On the Emotions Richard Wollheim 9780300079746
Booksplease Price: £52.13Leading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions... -
Surviving by Allan Massie 9781908251114
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £8.01Like The Death of Men, one of Massie's great novels, Surviving is set in contemporary Rome. The main characters, Belinda (the heroine of the Massie's second novel, The Last Peacock), Kate, an author... -
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393308181
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.09Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay... -
Heroic Imagination: The Creative Genius of Europe from Waterloo (1815) to the Revolution of 1848 by Frederic Ewen 9780814722251
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Heroic Imagination Describes the historical period and the wide manifistation of creativity that took place between 1815 and 1848 in Europe, from Napoleon's downfall in the battle of Waterloo in 1815... -
Supernatural Short Stories: Annotated Edition Walter Scott 9781847499301
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83One of the main forces in early nineteenth-century literature, Sir Walter Scott was not only among the greatest novelists of his time, but influenced generations of writers, including literary giants... -
Nietzsche's Earthbound Wisdom: The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage Keith Ansell-Pearson 9780226839257
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.79An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher. Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must... -
French Grammar in Context by Margaret Jubb 9781032820705
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar and this revised sixth edition includes new chapters on language registers and regional varieties, as well as... -
Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods by Elena Pierazzo 9780367598600
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book provides an up-to-date, coherent and comprehensive treatment of digital scholarly editing, organized according to the typical timeline and workflow of the preparation of an edition: from... -
The Maias by Eca de Queiros
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Carlos is the talented heir to a notable family in fin-de-siecle Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts and in politics. But he enters a society... -
Phantom Sentences: Essays in linguistics and literature presented to Ann Banfield by Gilles Philippe 9783039112227
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £91.86Ann Banfield - professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley - is best known for her groundbreaking contributions to narrative theory. Working within the paradigm... -
Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity by Catherine Ingraham 9780300071191
Booksplease Price: £47.40In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture. She...