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Translation and Gender: Translating in the 'Era of Feminism' Luise Von Flotow 9781900650052
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The last thirty years of intellectual and artistic creativity in the 20th century have been marked by gender issues. Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have also been... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Booksplease Price: £12.95"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the... -
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It Daisy Dunn 9781474615631
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the women of the ancient world are restored to the... -
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis 9781665926867
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68This young readers adaptation of The Queens' English is a nonfiction illustrated reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language.This playful, richly illustrated... -
Fear of Dying Erica Jong 9781782117476
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender and very wise and it made me feel more alive' RACHEL JOYCE, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Vanessa Wonderman is smart, sexy - and... -
Three Comedies by Carolyn Gage 9780557796878
Booksplease Price: £13.11A collection of three award-winning, full-length comedies by Carolyn Gage: The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, Sappho in Love, and Thanatron.Book InformationISBN 9780557796878Author Carolyn... -
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.12No, they weren't 'just friends'! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.76Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the... -
Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces Alice Butler 9781478033240
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44In Close Writing, Alice Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. While... -
The Ink Dark Moon by Izumi Shikibu
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and... -
Corporate Innovation: Marketing and Strategy by Gordon Foxall 9781138966826
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This volume is concerned with understanding the factors that determine innovation and its contribution to corporate achievement. It considers the whole range of innovation, consumer and industrial,... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.27What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781784878238
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.24Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780099518860
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREERShakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the... -
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann 9780691272023
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to... -
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann 9780691272016
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to... -
Word Witchery: Walking the Path of the Poetry Priestess Katie Ness 9781803417066
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Ancient priestesses of antiquity wrote and performed poetic incantations to the gods. Discover the forgotten magic of women s voices, of their poetry, and their word witchery! Poetry priestesses have... -
Ancient Greek Lyrics by William McCulloh
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry-including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative... -
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems J D McClatchy 9781841597454
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude... -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 9781784878207
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as... -
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser 9780691248769
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson 9780691250625
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the... -
The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry Phyllis Weliver 9781138263567
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.38How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand... -
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse Christopher Childers 9780141392134
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; priestesses and warriors; teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; drunkards and brawlers; grumpy old men and chic young things... -
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters Sacha Coward 9781807070397
Booksplease Price: £11.60A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy... -
A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New & Selected Poems by Gillian Conoley 9781643620114
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.45WINNER of the 39TH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the 89TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY SHORTLISTED for the 2019 GOLDEN POPPY BOOK AWARD IN POETRY Conoley's... -
The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry Phyllis Weliver 9780754605478
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.10How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand... -
The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden 9780691218656
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.04Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Award-winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles,... -
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore 9781925228113
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Drawing from an astonishing trove of documents, including... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd 9781138722156
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.99This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on... -
The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture Robin Sowerby 9780415727297
Booksplease Price: £40.23The Greeks has provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece. In this new and expanded third edition the best-selling volume offers a lucid survey that covers all... -
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack Richard Ovenden 9781529378771
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital... -
Ancient Greeks by Jane Lacey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun history series! Discover and Do! History is the perfect introduction to history for readers aged 7 and up who enjoy getting creative! Each book... -
Discover and Do: Ancient Greeks Jane Lacey 9781445177434
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun history series! Discover and Do! History is the perfect introduction to history for readers aged 7 and up who enjoy getting creative! Each book... -
The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame by D. Robinson 9781349286423
Booksplease Price: £46.28Once celebrated as 'the English Sappho,' Mary Robinson was a major figure in British Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a poet, a professional writer, a... -
Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Joan DeJean 9780231062305
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJean DeJean is a Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Fictions of... -
World-Changing Women: 150 Women who Rewrote the Histories of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome Paul Chrystal 9781399056465
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Countless books have been written about prominent women in Greece and Rome, so we know all about Medea, Sappho, Lucretia, Boudica and Cleopatra and their significant actions and achievements. This... -
Monitoring Penal Policy in Europe by Gaëtan Cliquennois 9780367228101
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies. This is particularly the case for prisons and... -
Poems for Tortured Souls by Liz Ison 9781444979190
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Dear Reader, these poems are an introduction to the passionate words of some of the English language's most renowned poets. Inspired by today's greatest lyricist, Taylor Swift, this collection...