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The Practice of Realism: Change and Creativity in the Manuscript of Galdos's Fortunata Jacinta by James Whiston 9780838755785
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $83.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838755785Author WhistonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S... -
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Spain's Forgotten Novelist: Armando Palacio Valdes (1853-1938) by Brian J. Dendle 9780838752944 [USED COPY]
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $5.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838752944Author Brian J. DendleFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S... -
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: The Stoke Newington Edition by Maximillian E. Novak
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $201.92Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was almost always published together with The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Only after 1950 was the first volume printed... -
Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East by Yin Yuan
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious... -
Chateaubriand Across Empires Fabienne Moore 9781684485963
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.78What happens when the liberty of ancient nobility collides with the revolutionary ideals of equality? This groundbreaking study explores how the American, French, Haitian, and Greek Revolutions... -
Narrating Infertility in Spain Catherine Bourland Ross 9781684485741
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $201.92The drop in Spanish birth rates in 1998 to their lowest level of 1.1 births per woman was accompanied by a boom in publishing about motherhood. New narrative forms, ranging from blogs to diaries to... -
Alasdair Gray by Stephen Bernstein 9780838754146
Booksplease Price: $172.18Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's... -
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art by Matthew Pethers 9781684485079
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $83.79The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons... -
Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Brian T. Chandler 9781684485208
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $201.92Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study,... -
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement by Kate Parker 9781684485031
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century,” a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks... -
Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction Erik Larson 9781684485901
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27This philosophical study of Latin American noir fiction poses the question, What if precarity and uncertainty aren't just themes of the genre but ways of being in the world? Emerging from a region... -
Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America by Gabriel Horowitz 9781684484997
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature,... -
Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751 Dayne C. Riley 9781684485314
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Writers 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... -
Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production by Azariah Alfante 9781684484959
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $59.18In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts... -
Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction Erik Larson 9781684485918
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $200.13This philosophical study of Latin American noir fiction poses the question, What if precarity and uncertainty aren't just themes of the genre but ways of being in the world? Emerging from a region... -
Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches Ellen Scheible 9781684486038
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $213.15Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary... -
Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches Ellen Scheible 9781684486021
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $66.68Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary... -
Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Michael J. Mulryan 9781684484874
RRP: $77.70Booksplease Price: $65.75French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today... -
Globalizing Chocolate and Tobacco: Medical Exchange in the Early Modern World by Susan G. Polansky 9781684486007
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $200.13This groundbreaking volume explores two early and opposing Spanish medical perspectives on chocolate and other New World substances. In the early 1600s, doctors Bartolomé Marradón and Antonio... -
Narrating Infertility in Spain Catherine Bourland Ross 9781684485734
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88The drop in Spanish birth rates in 1998 to their lowest level of 1.1 births per woman was accompanied by a boom in publishing about motherhood. New narrative forms, ranging from blogs to diaries to... -
Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina Silvia R. Tandeciarz 9781684485833
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.92Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The sites, images, narratives, and practices it analyzes address the... -
Confidences Adela Zamudio (1854-1928) 9781684486052
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59Juan is a Bolivian poet at the turn of the century, visiting the city of Cochabamba and writing letters to his friend Armando about the masked sensuality and hostility he feels seething beneath the... -
Confidences Adela Zamudio (1854-1928) 9781684486069
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $135.03Juan is a Bolivian poet at the turn of the century, visiting the city of Cochabamba and writing letters to his friend Armando about the masked sensuality and hostility he feels seething beneath the... -
Globalizing Chocolate and Tobacco: Medical Exchange in the Early Modern World by Susan G. Polansky 9781684485994
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74This groundbreaking volume explores two early and opposing Spanish medical perspectives on chocolate and other New World substances. In the early 1600s, doctors Bartolomé Marradón and Antonio... -
The Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño: Radical Readings Benjamin Loy 9781684485949
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $213.15Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with... -
Biomythography Bayou Mel Michelle Lewis 9781684484812
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67When your stories flow from the brackish waters of the Gulf South, where the land and water merge, your narratives cannot be contained or constrained by the Eurocentric conventions of autobiography... -
Romantic Beasts: Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition Michael Demson 9781684485567
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $67.37By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted... -
Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene by Ryan Hediger 9781684484591
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.67Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not... -
British Romanticism and Prison Reform Jonas Cope 9781684485352
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $67.37In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century-with the War of American Independence and legal... -
Bernard MacLaverty Richard Rankin Russell 9781684485611
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.33This newly updated and expanded paperback edition of the first monograph in English on Northern Ireland-born Bernard MacLaverty discusses his fiction in its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and... -
The Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño: Radical Readings Benjamin Loy 9781684485932
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with... -
Emilia Pardo Bazán: "the White Horse" and Other Stories Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) 9781684485796
Booksplease Price: $48.80Spanish writer, intellectual, and feminist Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921) was a master of the short form and practitioner of the style that became known as naturalism. This collection of twenty-seven... -
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 31) Kevin L. Cope 9781684485888
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $213.15Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on... -
Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Shanee Stepakoff
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $75.58IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to... -
Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel Kathleen Tamayo Alves 9781684485710
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $200.13Body Language examines the complex intersections of British eighteenth-century comic fiction and medical discourse. By engaging medical writings of renowned and widely-read physicians of the... -
Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century Emrys D. Jones 9781684485765
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $66.68Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period's own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection... -
Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century Emrys D. Jones 9781684485772
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $200.13Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period's own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection... -
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change: Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder by Jennifer Smith 9781684480326
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder's invaluable scholarly... -
Medbh McGuckian Borbála Faragó 9781684485499
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckian's entire corpus, offering both an original contribution to... -
Revisiting Richardson Rebecca Anne Barr 9781684485659
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson-the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood;...