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The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 1: Esprit Philosophique by Ira O. Wade 9780691616797
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $173.50The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.00From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by... -
The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries Terry V.F. Brogan 9780691001685
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $104.14Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major... -
Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography by John V. Fleming
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $82.01Since the Roman de la Rose had tremendous influence on the poetry of the fourteenth century, particularly on the works of Deschamps, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer, Professor Fleming maintains that... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691169118
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.98Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition by Roland Greene 9780691170435
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $64.30The 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: $220.50Booksplease Price: $173.50The 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... -
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography Joseph Luzzi 9780691156774
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes... -
Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance Anna Wainwright 9781644533604
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.67Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante,... -
The Inward Turn of Narrative by Erich Kahler
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $69.66Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $57.62Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and... -
Leopardi: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch 9780691134994
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by... -
Stoics and Neostoics: Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius by Mark P. O. Morford 9780691608860
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $87.53In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most original... -
Dante by John Took
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.75An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains... -
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by Roland Greene 9780691170510
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.57The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691161426
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $41.58Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism... -
Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars by Robert Mueller 9781793644800
Booksplease Price: $181.50Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars explores the work of prominent poets through a philosophical and theological lens. The book focuses on the well-travelled yet precarious achievement... -
Machiavelli's God by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in... -
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $69.55How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects... -
Lorenzo Ghiberti: Volume I by Richard Krautheimer
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $115.71Volume 1 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty... -
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History by Alice Crawford
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.19From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of... -
Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile by David M. Bethea 9780691605586
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $84.90Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of... -
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting by Malcolm Bull 9780691138848
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $98.36Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
The Great Feast of Language in Love's Labour's Lost by William C. Carroll
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author's critical reading shows that the characters are... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $83.43An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new... -
The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise by Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp 9780691610450
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores Dante's Christian rewriting of Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Republic at the center... -
Mythology in the Modern Novel: A Study of Prefigurative Techniques by John J. White 9780691620152
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $78.60J. J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. While concentrating on the German novel (Mann, Broch, and Nossack), he discusses the... -
Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World by Deborah Poole
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern... -
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert E. Lerner 9780691183022
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst... -
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780691203171
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $121.80The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly... -
Chaucerian Theatricality by John M. Ganim 9780691601434
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the... -
Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems by Ann E. Berthoff 9780691621319
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $72.14Intellectual 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... -
Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox by Rosalie Littell Colie 9780691623863
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $130.33Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $54.62From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than... -
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition by Gregory Vlastos
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $118.76Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that... -
Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials by Susan J. Wolfson
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $115.40The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of... -
Five Frames for the Decameron: Communication and Social Systems in the CORNICE by Joy Hambuechen Potter 9780691614250
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $65.73Using a fourfold approach derived from symbolic anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and philology, Joy Hambuechen Potter focuses on the cornice, or frame tale, of the Decameron, its purpose, and its...