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The Visitors by Jane Harrison
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760626761Author Jane HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison 9781760628505
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760628505Author Jane HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint -
The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard 9780674008076
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British... -
First Nations Monologues by Jane Harrison 9781760627836
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760627836Author Jane HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Paris: A Poem by Hope Mirrlees
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.98Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.Modernism's lost masterpiece.About the AuthorHope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in... -
Myths of Greece and Rome: illustrated with fine art classics paintings by Jane Harrison 9791029907746
Booksplease Price: £18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791029907746Author Jane HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint < -
Becoming Kirrali Lewis [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition] by Jane Harrison 9781038758040
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038758040Author Jane HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint -
Myths of Greece and Rome: New Large Print Edition for enhanced readability by Jane Harrison 9782384551989
Booksplease Price: £9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782384551989Author Jane HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Myths of Greece and Rome: New Large Print Edition for enhanced readability by Jane Harrison 9782384551996
Booksplease Price: £15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782384551996Author Jane HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf by Ira B. Nadel 9781350115019
Booksplease Price: £98.79Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this... -
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Chemistry for Kids: Homemade Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Chemists, Past and Present by Liz Lee Heinecke
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50* 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in Middle Grade Longlist * 2021 NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book * 2021 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children's Honor BookAspiring young... -
Homer, the Iliad by Walter Leaf 9781108016865
Booksplease Price: £49.54Walter Leaf (1852-1927) was a banker and classicist, whose various positions as chairman of the Westminster Bank, founder of the London Chamber of Commerce and president of the Hellenic Society... -
Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination by Shanyn Fiske 9780821418178
Booksplease Price: £39.52The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians' relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women... -
Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought by Adam Lecznar 9781108710671
Booksplease Price: £25.63Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's... -
Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits by Edward Shils 9780521483445
Booksplease Price: £39.40This is a collection of portraits of twelve outstanding women who lived and worked in Cambridge during the century before women were admitted fully to membership of the University. The subjects... -
Homer, the Iliad by Walter Leaf 9781108016872
Booksplease Price: £55.45Walter Leaf (1852-1927) was a banker and classicist, whose various positions as chairman of the Westminster Bank, founder of the London Chamber of Commerce and president of the Hellenic Society... -
Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments by Dolly Jorgensen
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the... -
The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists by Robert Ackerman 9780415939638
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The enduring importance of his book The Golden Bough keeps J.G. Frazer's name prominent on the list of the most significant figures in modern religious studies. But by no means was Fraser the sole... -
Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments by Dolly Jørgensen 9780774825719
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.42This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the... -
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.73Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In... -
Theorizing About Myth by Robert Alan Segal 9781558491915
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66For two hundred years the subject of myth its origin, function, and significance has been addressed again and again, first by theologians and philosophers and then by anthropologists, sociologists,... -
Gilbert Murray's Euripides: The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Gilbert Murray 9781904675358
Booksplease Price: £28.84In the story of the reception of Greek tragedy throughout the English-speaking world, Murray is a figure of immense importance. He unlocked the gates of commercial theatre to its performance - and... -
The Role of Anglo-Saxon Great Hall Complexes in Kingdom Formation, in Comparison and in Context AD 500-750 by Adam McBride 9781789693874
Booksplease Price: £56.93Following the collapse of Roman Britain, early medieval England shows little evidence for complex hierarchy or supra-regional socio-political units for nearly two hundred years, until the turn of the... -
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama by Eric Csapo 9780521748339
Booksplease Price: £35.77The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond examines the evidence for the pre-history and origin of drama. The belief that drama developed from religious ritual has been commonplace since the... -
Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf Ira B Nadel 9781350425583
Booksplease Price: £30.54Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century - whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this... -
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama by Eric Csapo
Booksplease Price: £82.52The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond examines the evidence for the pre-history and origin of drama. The belief that drama developed from religious ritual has been commonplace since the... -
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE... -
Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus by Laura McClure 9780198883678
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £94.75The disappearance of the chorus after antiquity--along with its association with female marginality, lyricism, and ritual authority in the Athenian drama that preserved it--rendered it an enigmatic... -
Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India by Srirupa Chatterjee 9781032635491
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been... -
Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2022 by Rob Collins
Booksplease Price: £13.09The Hadrian's Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to promote the value of heritage - specifically of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site -... -
Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870 1920 Marysa Demoor 9780754601180
Booksplease Price: £119.06Their Fair Share identifies and contextualises many previously unknown critical writings by a selection of well-known turn-of-the-century women. It reveals the networks behind an influential journal... -
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth by Craig E. Stephenson
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work... -
Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870 1920 Marysa Demoor 9780367882587
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Their Fair Share identifies and contextualises many previously unknown critical writings by a selection of well-known turn-of-the-century women. It reveals the networks behind an influential journal... -
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy Sara Brill 9781032626987
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.98The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features... -
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth by Craig E. Stephenson 9780415572309
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work... -
Constance Rourke and American Culture by Professor Joan Shelley Rubin 9780807857526
Booksplease Price: £48.09The career of Constance Rourke (1885-1941) is one of the richest examples of the American writer's search for a ""usable past."" In this first full-length study of Rourke, Joan Shelley Rubin... -
Details of Consequence: Ornament, Music, and Art in Paris by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal 9780199795055
Booksplease Price: £95.20Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siecle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy,... -
Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age by Hans G. Kippenberg
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93This book makes an unparalleled attempt to analyze the rise of comparative religion as a particular response to modernization. In the mid-nineteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, Western... -
Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine by David Leeming 9780195104622
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £15.98An old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Paso,... -
Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees by Hope Mirrlees 9781847770752
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First World War Paris, was considered by Virginia...