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Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form by George E. Haggerty 9780271026398
Booksplease Price: £37.39This work offers a new perspective on Gothic fiction and reassesses its place in literary history. After defining his concept of "affective form" and summarizing the problematic assumptions behind... -
Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature by George E. Haggerty 9780873525626
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £80.81Professions of Desire includes examples of lesbian and gay literary analysis and thoughtful discussions about what it means to be lesbian, gay, or queer in the literature classroom. The four essays... -
Queer Friendship: Male Intimacy in the English Literary Tradition by George E. Haggerty 9781108418751
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £81.97Friendship in the classical world was celebrated as among the highest human achievements: nothing was more likely to lead to the divine than looking for it in the eyes of a friend. In exploring the... -
Horace Walpole's Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century by George E. Haggerty 9781611480108
Booksplease Price: £85.65In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century... -
Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives by Frederick S. Roden, AOJN 9780230008311
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £81.72This study examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality and between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic... -
Conversing with Antiquity: English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope by David Hopkins 9780198706960
Booksplease Price: £46.96Conversing with Antiquity collects, in a substantially revised and updated form, studies of the reception of the classics by English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by one of the... -
Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800 by K. O'Donnell 9780333997437
Booksplease Price: £48.14This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in the field. By using the analytical tools of Queer Theory... -
Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800 by K. O'Donnell 9780230546790
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in the field. By using the analytical tools of Queer Theory... -
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Judith Halberstam
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of... -
Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era by Christopher C. Nagle 9781349539932
Booksplease Price: £46.28This is the first study to fully trace the influence of Sensibility on British Romanticism. Sensibility continually found new forms of expression in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century... -
Imagining Women Readers, 1789-1820: Well-Regulated Minds by Richard Ritter
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Imagining women readers reassesses the cultural significance of women's reading in the period 1789-1820. From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this... -
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity by Hans Turley
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70An examination into the homoerotic and other transgressive aspects of the pirate's world Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of... -
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity by Hans Turley 9780814782231
Booksplease Price: £90.57An examination into the homoerotic and other transgressive aspects of the pirate's world Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of... -
Novel Horizons: The Genre Making of Restoration Fiction by Gerd Bayer
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dramatic texts occasioned an intense debate within... -
Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures by George Haggerty 9781138867840
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £52.29First Published in 2000. A rich heritage that needs to be documentedBeginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia... -
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives by Mary Helen McMurran
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to the natural world - mechanistic materialism and vitalism - in the works of... -
The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater by Alisa Solomon
Booksplease Price: £90.57From Shakespeare's gender-bending play Twelfth Night to the the critically-acclaimed Broadway hit Angels in America, from 17th century kabuki theater of Japan performed by cross-dressing prostitutes... -
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England by Claire Preston 9780192867032
Booksplease Price: £31.43How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorical figures, neologisms, verse-forms, and generic... -
Staging "The Mysterious Mother" by Cynthia E. Roman 9780300263657
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.87The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition Horace Walpole's five-act tragedy The... -
The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835 by Laurie Langbauer 9780198739203
Booksplease Price: £117.72A juvenile tradition of young writers flourished in Britain between 1750-1835. Canonical Romantic poets as well as now-unknown youthful writers published as teenagers. These teenage writers reflected... -
The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.53'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah... -
Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma by Laura Westengard
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art,... -
Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century by Caroline Gonda
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24How are romantic and erotic relationships between women represented in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism surface in other contemporary discourses, including politics,... -
Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex by Robert Deam Tobin
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary... -
The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater by Alisa Solomon 9780814798119
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82From Shakespeare's gender-bending play Twelfth Night to the the critically-acclaimed Broadway hit Angels in America, from 17th century kabuki theater of Japan performed by cross-dressing prostitutes... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 by Jack Lynch 9780198861348
Booksplease Price: £53.72In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey... -
Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750-1832 by Richard C. Sha
RRP: £48.50Booksplease Price: £35.95Richard C. Sha's revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period. Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific... -
The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.11The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697-1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the... -
Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words by Lynda Mugglestone 9780199679904
Booksplease Price: £45.03Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's... -
Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words by Lynda Mugglestone 9780198830689
Booksplease Price: £26.61Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's... -
Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Paul Kelleher 9781611486957
Booksplease Price: £51.20In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism... -
The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic by Richard Godbeer 9780801891205
Booksplease Price: £38.86When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent... -
Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope by Philip Connell 9780199269587
Booksplease Price: £112.65Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and... -
Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope by Philip Connell 9780198861706
Booksplease Price: £44.06Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and... -
Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703 by Kate Loveman 9780198732686
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.19Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth... -
Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703 by Kate Loveman
Booksplease Price: £41.57Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth... -
Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole by Matthew M. Reeve 9780271085883
Booksplease Price: £26.63Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace... -
The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic by Richard Godbeer
Booksplease Price: £29.07When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent... -
The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Al Coppola
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £93.41The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the... -
Milton in the Long Restoration by Blair Hoxby
Booksplease Price: £42.89Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary...