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The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive,... -
The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot 9780415426626
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.57The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive,... -
Royalist Identities by Jerome de Groot 9781403919007
Booksplease Price: £46.28Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?' to 'What did Royalism want to be?' The texts analyzed show how Royalism was concerned with the construction of a set of... -
Royalist Identities by Jerome de Groot 9781349514397
Booksplease Price: £46.28Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question 'What is Royalism?' to 'What did Royalism want to be?' The texts analyzed show how Royalism was concerned with the construction of a set of... -
Double Helix History by Jerome De Groot
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of 'new' knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might... -
The Historical Novel Jerome de Groot 9781032443492
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In the second edition of The Historical Novel, Jerome de Groot expertly charts the evolution of one of literature's most beloved and complex forms. From its eighteenth-century origins to postmodern... -
Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions by Jerome de Groot
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with... -
Public and Popular History Jerome De Groot (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138110199
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with... -
Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture by Jerome de Groot 9781138905320
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which... -
Edwardians on Screen: From Downton Abbey to Parade's End by Katherine Byrne 9781349559381
Booksplease Price: £48.40This book explores television's current fascination with the Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such as Downton Abbey , it examines how the early twentieth century is represented on... -
Filming and Performing Renaissance History by Mark Thornton Burnett 9780230273436
Booksplease Price: £48.40Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these... -
Televising History: Mediating the Past in Postwar Europe by E. Bell 9780230222083
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and... -
From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century by Jim Cullen
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £50.35Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible images of previous times. Yet such historical... -
Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment by Rebecca Schneider
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and... -
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History by Hsu-Ming Teo 9781032797724
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to... -
Shakespeare and Memory by Hester Lees-Jeffries 9780199674268
Booksplease Price: £118.87Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern sources,... -
From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century by Jim Cullen 9781978813816
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible images of previous times. Yet such historical... -
Shakespeare and Memory by Hester Lees-Jeffries 9780199674251
Booksplease Price: £32.58Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern sources,... -
Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics by Jay Clayton 9781009263528
Booksplease Price: £95.89Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues... -
History on Television by Ann Gray
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and... -
1980: America's Pivotal Year by Jim Cullen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.451980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco... -
English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century by John D. Krugler
Booksplease Price: £28.90In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to be English and Catholic was to face persecution, financial penalties, and sometimes death. Yet some English Catholics prospered, reconciling their faith... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris 9780199209002
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £29.68A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and... -
Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts: Twenty-First-Century Screen Horror and the Historical Imagination Amanda Howell 9781501394447
Booksplease Price: £31.92Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of... -
Teaching the Early Modern Period by Derval Conroy 9780230284517
Booksplease Price: £46.74This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume... -
Little Green: Easy Rawlins 12 by Walter Mosley 9781780226057
Booksplease Price: £20.70We thought we'd seen the last of Easy Rawlins at the end of BLONDE FAITH. But it takes more than an oncoming car to stop LA's finest PI.As Easy wakes from his coma, the last thing he needs is an... -
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett 9780691146157
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just...