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The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition by J.Robert Barth 9780691616704
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds... -
Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A Geographical Text Analysis by Joanna E. Taylor
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08England's famed Lake District-best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers-is the locus of this pioneering study, which... -
Essays on Giordano Bruno by Hilary Gatti 9780691148397
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were... -
Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems by Ann E. Berthoff 9780691621319
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Intellectual power and subtlety are as important to a definition of Marvell's style as grace of feeling, says the author of this highly original study, which illuminates the philosophical character... -
Henry IV, Parts I and II: Critical Essays David Bevington 9781138850774
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Originally published in 1986. This volume points to the rich variety of critical responses to the Henry IV plays and their complexity. It includes selections from characteristic thought of the... -
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist: Selected Writings by Thomas Taylor 9780691622170
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.10This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of... -
Othello: Critical Essays Susan Snyder 9781138854949
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Originally published in 1988. Selections here are organised chronologically looking at both theatrical commentary and literary criticism. The organisation brings out the shifts in emphasis as each... -
Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood 9780691193304
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fictionNow praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the... -
Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere by Elleke Boehmer 9780691262048
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudesA northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south-the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia,... -
Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fictionNow praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the... -
Auden's Apologies for Poetry by Lucy McDiarmid 9780691603797
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Common wisdom has it that when Auden left England for New York in January 1939, he had already written his best poems. He left behind (most critics believe) all the idealisms of the 1930s and all... -
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk 9780895261717
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £17.60"It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." - WILLIAM F BUCKLEY "A profound critique of contemporary mass society,... -
Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World Erin Pearson 9780813953878
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world... -
Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love by William A. Ulmer 9780691600376
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of... -
Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World Erin Pearson 9780813953885
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world... -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.80Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers,... -
The Genesis of Ezra Pound's CANTOS by Ronald L. Bush 9780691605210
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Ronald Hush traces the organic development of the poem and demonstrates that what seems to be eccentricity in the Cantos frequently corresponds to the common practice of Pound's contemporaries. ... -
Aesthetic and Critical Theory of John Ruskin by George P. Landow 9780691620671
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.59This book traces the sources and development of Ruskin's aesthetic and critical theories. In his attempt to skirt the danger of excessive emotion and association in art, Ruskin's struggle with the... -
Fictions of Form in American Poetry by Stephen Cushman 9780691602035
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was... -
The Contemplative Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Maria R. Lichtmann
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82In 1989, the centenary of his death, Gerard Manley Hopkins continues to provoke fundamental questions among scholars: what major poetic strategy informs his work and how did his reflections on the... -
Keats the Poet by Stuart M. Sperry
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Keats the Poet was first published in 1973, just as the crest of all the New-Critical exegeses had passed, leaving the critical literature with a wealth of fine readings, but without a real... -
The Poet Shen Yueh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis by Richard B. Mather 9780691606262
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. The title "Reticient Marquis" (Yin-hou) was awarded posthumously by... -
Typologies in England, 1650-1820 by Paul J. Korshin 9780691613864
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £62.06Professor Korshin delineates the development of typology from the theological to the secular sphere through a study of abstracted typology, or types that writers transferred from their customary... -
Trereife: A House of Character and Characters by Le Grice, Tim 9781399012393
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Trereife, Tim Le Grice's historical Cornish residence, described by Pevsner as one of the most charming houses in Cornwall' has been home to a diverse range of characters over six generations of the... -
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international... -
Chopin and His World by Jonathan D. Bellman 9780691177762
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory... -
Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England by Lawrence I. Lipking 9780691620992
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £65.11By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been surveyed by an unprecedented series of major works on literature, music, and painting of which the author or this book provides a rich and... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms by Alex Preminger 9780691610146
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be... -
Coleridge and Wordsworth: A Lyrical Dialogue by Paul Magnuson 9780691608112
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Paul Magnuson contends that the relationship between Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poetry is so complex that a new criticism is required to trace its intricacies. This book demonstrates that their... -
Dazed and Confused by Mark Sanders 9781861541383
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.54London-based 'Dazed and Confused' magazine started life as a group voice for the capital's exploding creative scene. This volume combines the best of past 'Dazed' editorial and images with new... -
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I: 1848-1880 by William Morris
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.62The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously... -
The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Brian C. Wilson 9781625346445
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California-an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life... -
The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars by Evan Wilson 9781625347343
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12Few battles in world history provide a cleaner dividing line than Waterloo: before, there was Napoleon; after, there was the Pax Britannica. While Waterloo marked France's defeat and Britain's... -
Life, After Antoine Leiris 9781529925258
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The Heartbreaking French BestsellerWhen Antoine lost his wife, Helene, he was left to care for their baby alone. In this wry and honest book he writes about how they have fared since that terrible... -
The Horrible Peace: British Veterans and the End of the Napoleonic Wars by Evan Wilson 9781625347336
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Few battles in world history provide a cleaner dividing line than Waterloo: before, there was Napoleon; after, there was the Pax Britannica. While Waterloo marked France's defeat and Britain's... -
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Fifty Shades Darker: Official Movie tie-in edition, includes bonus material by E. L. James 9781784756857 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.46A special edition of E L James's #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Fifty Shades Darker, that includes her own photos and caption commentary from the making of the film-and an excerpt from her... -
Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read But Probably Didn't by John Atkinson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.82A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with... -
Civilisations by Laurent Binet 9781529112818
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99It's world history. But not as we know it.c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland1492: Columbus does not discover America1531: the Incas invade EuropeFreydis is the leader of a... -
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair: From the master of the plot twist Joël Dicker 9781529440263
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A CRIME STORY. A LOVE STORY. A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON. MORE THAN 7 MILLION COPIES SOLDAugust 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer,... -
Life, After by Antoine Leiris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'A beacon of hope in a dark world' Cathy Rentzenbrink, on international bestseller You Will Not Have My HateA moving account of single fatherhood in the wake of bereavement. When Antoine Leiris lost...