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Metaphor by David Punter
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the... -
Modernity by David Punter 9780333914564
Booksplease Price: $79.40This exciting volume in the Transitions series explores both history and contemporary ideas, pushing forward the boundaries of what we understand by 'modernity'. This book is distinguished from its... -
Metaphor by David Punter 9780415281652
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $231.82Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the... -
A Companion to the Gothic David Punter 9780631231998
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $82.13This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy,... -
Writing the Passions by David Punter 9781138159778
RRP: $203.68Booksplease Price: $190.43Writing the Passions is a book of literary criticism, of philosophy and of the politics of modernity. It explores the arguments on the location of feeling in literature; on the fragmentation of the... -
Writing the Passions by David Punter 9780582304598
Booksplease Price: $82.22Writing the Passions is a book of literary criticism, of philosophy and of the politics of modernity. It explores the arguments on the location of feeling in literature; on the fragmentation of the... -
Rapture: Literature, Secrecy, Addiction by David Punter
Booksplease Price: $63.57Rapture': The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in words. The concept of rapture in literature... -
The Gothic David Punter (University of Bristol) 9780631220626
RRP: $233.00Booksplease Price: $208.87This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Explains the origins... -
The Gothic David Punter (University of Bristol) 9780631220633
RRP: $65.00Booksplease Price: $60.21This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Explains the origins... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts David Punter 9781474432368
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $73.06Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity... -
The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche David Punter 9781783168217
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $140.76This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic to academic and general acclaim for over thirty years... -
William Blake: Contemporary Critical Essays by David Punter 9780333545973
Booksplease Price: $74.47This New Casebook contains ten essays written about Blake's poetry since 1970 selected to show the diversity of Blake criticism during the last twenty years and the ways in which contemporary... -
A New Companion to The Gothic David Punter (University of Bristol, UK) 9781119062509
RRP: $75.50Booksplease Price: $71.42The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section... -
The Literature of Terror: Volume 2: The Modern Gothic by David Punter 9780582290556
Booksplease Price: $164.26The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded... -
Space(s) of the Fantastic: A 21st Century Manifesto David Punter 9780367681692
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $92.72This book provides a series of new addresses to the enduring problem of how to categorize the Fantastic. The approach taken is through the lens of spatiality; the Fantastic gives us new worlds,... -
The Literature of Terror: Volume 1: The Gothic Tradition by David Punter 9780582237148
Booksplease Price: $120.96The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so... -
Ship's Log: Poems For The SS Great Britain by David Punter 9781909446335
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446335Author David PunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism by Alison Yarrington 9781138190634
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64Reflections of Revolution, first published in 1993, demonstrates the interdisciplinarity that had been emerging from cultural and historical studies. Taking the French Revolution as its focus, the... -
Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Lisa Kasmer
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature from the emergence of... -
New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable Lands by Anna Jackson
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06Children's literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children's gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This... -
Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture by Sandra Casanova-Vizcaino
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the... -
Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies by Jane Stabler 9781403945921
Booksplease Price: $97.19This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the USA, Canada and the UK including Steven Bruhm, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Caroline Franklin, Peter Kitson,... -
The Gothic World Glennis Byron 9781138488274
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.98The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in... -
Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies by Jane Stabler 9781403945938
Booksplease Price: $97.19This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the USA, Canada and the UK including Steven Bruhm, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Caroline Franklin, Peter Kitson,... -
Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law by D. Punter 9780333658024
Booksplease Price: $193.47This is a wide-ranging book about aspects of the Gothic, from classic texts such as Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights to contemporary fiction by Iain Banks, William Gibson and many others. It... -
Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law by D. Punter 9780333658017
Booksplease Price: $191.81This is a wide-ranging book about aspects of the Gothic, from classic texts such as Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights to contemporary fiction by Iain Banks, William Gibson and many others. It... -
Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre by Prof Andrew Smith 9780333984055
Booksplease Price: $193.64This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala... -
Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre by A. Smith 9781349430574
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.18This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala... -
Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties by Jo Collins 9780230517714
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern... -
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story Scott Brewster 9781032242019
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.48The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a... -
Issues in the North: Volume II by Jill Oakes 9781896445045
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $34.29Cultural and economic benefits of Aboriginal resource management; Effects of contaminants on Aboriginal lifestyles; Aboriginal self-government' Decolonization; Implications of restructuring... -
Gothic Modernisms A. Smith 9780333918739
Booksplease Price: $101.64This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830 by J. Labbe 9780333760321
Booksplease Price: $193.56Why are there so few 'happily ever afters' in the Romantic-period verse romance? Why do so many poets utilise the romance and its parts to such devastating effect? Why is gender so often the first... -
Authorship in Context: From the Theoretical to the Material by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi 9781403949011
Booksplease Price: $97.19Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in... -
Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood by Tabish Khair 9781137272614
Booksplease Price: $97.19Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that... -
Gothic Modernisms by A. Smith 9781349423651
Booksplease Price: $101.64This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the... -
Authorship in Context: From the Theoretical to the Material by K. Hadjiafxendi 9781349525362
Booksplease Price: $97.19Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in... -
The Gothic Fred Botting 9780859916196
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $142.65The popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the genre is the norm as much as the dark underside of contemporary cultural production. Having endured for over two hundred years... -
The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion by Simon Bacon 9781789977363
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacon’s editorial definition of the concept of being «undead» generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with the... -
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination by Avril Horner 9780312211462
Booksplease Price: $193.49Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and...