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A History of Trees by Wills, Simon 9781526751577
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.62Have you ever wondered how trees got their names? What did our ancestors think about trees, and how were they used in the past? This fascinating book will answer many of your questions, but also... -
Unreal Aliens by Karthik Laxman 9780143423102
Booksplease Price: $13.93For the first time in human history, a nation is playing host to an alien delegation. And it is Modi-led India that has this high honour. Prime Minister Modi rolls out the red carpet for the aliens... -
Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning Carolyn D. Williams 9781138979062
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68The author here reassesses the concept of 'masculinity', and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models... -
Men of Letters and the English Public in the 18th Century: 1600-1744, Dryden, Addison, Pope by Alexandre Beljame 9780415176101
Booksplease Price: $81.49This is Volume VI of nine in collection on Historical Sociology. Originally published in 1948, volume includes the writings of John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Joseph Addison from 1660 to 1744.Book... -
Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751 Dayne C. Riley 9781684485321
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries-a period of vast economic change-recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for... -
Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of his Time by Joseph Spence 9781108074582
Booksplease Price: $51.21Joseph Spence (1699-1768) was ordained after graduating from Oxford, and having made the acquaintance of Alexander Pope, was helped by him to the professorship of poetry at Oxford, which he held for... -
Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture by Tita Chico
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.30Dressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally... -
Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature by Abigail Williams 9780691170688
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.74How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation-and how this still shapes the way we readReading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what... -
What is Literature?: A Critical Anthology Mark Robson 9781405182942
Booksplease Price: $41.23An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. 'What... -
The Period Positivity Book: A Guide to Demystifying and Destigmatizing the Menstrual Cycle Claire Chamberlain 9781837995073
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Embrace period positivity and take charge of your cycle with this frank and empowering guide to menstrual health Periods are a completely natural part of life, and yet they are often treated as... -
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition by Roland Greene 9780691170435
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.35The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition by Roland Greene 9780691171999
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $106.75The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the... -
British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology Robert DeMaria (Vassar College, USA) 9781118952481
Booksplease Price: $36.78Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of... -
A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature by John Richetti 9781405135023
RRP: $103.14Booksplease Price: $78.50A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era,... -
How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.58A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration... -
How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok 9780691177083
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.78A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration... -
: Gulliver and the Gentle Reader (1991): Studies in Swift and Our Time by C J Rawson 9781138558847
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43Originally published in 1973, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader critically examines the writing of Jonathan Swift. The book is predominately concerned with what Rawson coins 'the "unofficial" energies'... -
The Dunciad (revised first edition) Valerie Rumbold 9781408204160
Booksplease Price: $52.92The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a... -
The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More by Heather Catto Kohout
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.23The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original... -
The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition by J.Robert Barth 9780691616704
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35Studying 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... -
Literature and Crime in Augustan England by Ian A. Bell
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $41.77Eighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals.While the... -
Essays on Pope by Pat Rogers 9780521418690
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $111.51Leading literary historian and eighteenth-century specialist Pat Rogers has long been recognized as an authority on the poet Alexander Pope. This volume addresses the many facets of Pope's world and... -
The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9780691142951
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.61There are more statues of Robert Burns in the United States than there are of any American poet. Scotland's favorite poet has been loved by generations of Americans--from Abraham Lincoln and Walt... -
Essays on Pope by Pat Rogers 9780521026192
Booksplease Price: $41.43Leading literary historian and eighteenth-century specialist Pat Rogers has long been recognized as an authority on the poet Alexander Pope. This volume addresses the many facets of Pope's world and... -
The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle by William C. Dowling 9780691608655
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.48The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on... -
Ugo Foscolo: Poet of Exile by Glauco Cambon 9780691615714
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.41Contemporary with the Romantic generation, peer of Keats, Holderlin, and Goethe, and forerunner of Valery and Pound, Ugo Foscolo is nevertheless little known outside Italy. In an endeavor to... -
The Odyssey by 9781435171756
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95This ancient epic poem tells the story of Odysseus and his eventful voyage home after the Trojan War. This edition uses Alexander Pope's classic 1726 translation which perfectly captures the lyricism... -
Osip Mandelstam's Stone by Osip Mandelstam 9780691615400
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15CONTENTS Acknowledgments. A Note on the Text. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Mandelstam: The Poet as Builder. STONE. Notes.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the... -
Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination by Sophie Gee 9780691139845
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.24Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and... -
The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Laura Brown 9781501773242
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human... -
The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Laura Brown 9781501772559
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $120.38The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human... -
Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy by Tom Jones 9781403941725
Booksplease Price: $60.29The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence,... -
Eighteenth Century English Poetry by Nalini Jain
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $108.15This anthology of 18th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of readers. It combines the scope of a period anthology with the detailed annotations of an authoritative... -
Eighteenth Century English Poetry by Nalini Jain 9780745016078
Booksplease Price: $46.59This anthology of 18th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of readers. It combines the scope of a period anthology with the detailed annotations of an authoritative... -
Satire by Jane Ogborn 9780521787918
Booksplease Price: $11.93Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The purpose of satire is to expose human hypocrisy, vice and folly, and because these aspects of human behaviour are not particular... -
To Homer Through Pope by Harold Andrew Mason 9780862921569
Booksplease Price: $41.10As fewer and fewer people learn to read Ancient Greek, there is a need for a critical study of the most influential translations that have been made from the major works of ancient Greek literature... -
The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature by Rachel Stenner 9780367787035
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and... -
Jonathan Swift in Context by Joseph Hone 9781108831437
Booksplease Price: $123.57Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of... -
Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern Karen L. Edwards 9781138093850
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative,...