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Sexuality by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.81Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the... -
Sexuality by Joseph Bristow 9780415299282
RRP: $125.12Booksplease Price: $110.30Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $33.89This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics... -
Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.30Opening with an introduction by Joseph Bristow and featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and... -
The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of... -
Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions by Joseph Bristow 9781137597052
Booksplease Price: $104.13This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures - popular... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry by Joseph Bristow 9780521641159
RRP: $130.29Booksplease Price: $124.09This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics... -
Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions by Joseph Bristow 9781349955657
Booksplease Price: $104.13This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures - popular... -
The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories by Joseph Bristow 9780192142146
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $97.23`The love of adventure, and of mystery, and of a good fight lingers in the minds of men and women.' Thus wrote Andrew Lang in 1887, and the enduring popularity of a genre that was in its heyday at... -
Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood by Joseph Bristow 9783319604107
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $128.85This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde's interest in children's culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small... -
Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World Joseph Bristow 9781138953147
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43Originally published in 1991. Focusing on 'boys' own' literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire... -
Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives by Joseph Bristow 9781442646445
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $61.93The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the "Oscar Wilde and His Circle" archive at the University of California,... -
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend by Joseph Bristow 9780821418376
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $77.25Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American... -
Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James... -
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend by Joseph Bristow 9780821418383
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.68Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American... -
Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.58The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of "gross indecency" Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure... -
The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism by Joseph Bristow 9780582291911
Booksplease Price: $63.42Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of... -
The Fin-de-Siecle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s by Joseph Bristow 9780821416280
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in... -
The Fin-de-Siecle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s by Joseph Bristow 9780821416273
Booksplease Price: $69.67Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in... -
Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery by Joseph Bristow 9780300208306
Booksplease Price: $89.68In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of... -
Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture by Joseph Bristow 9781487546083
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $62.94The fin de siecle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from... -
Victorian Women Poets by Alison Chapman
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.14Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers. The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by... -
Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads by George Meredith 9780300173178
Booksplease Price: $83.88Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith's already unique body of work. Modern Love is now best known for the... -
Men of Letters, Writing Lives by Trev Lynn Broughton
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.13Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a... -
Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates Jonathan Herapath (Wadham College, Oxford, UK) 9780415831307
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.79This engaging volume provides readers with the essential criticism on nineteenth-century poetry, organised around key areas of debate in the field. The critical texts included in this volume reflect... -
Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914 by Ruth Livesey 9780197263983
Booksplease Price: $80.37This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was inseparable from a... -
Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life by Ryan Johnson
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780199535989
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.18'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry... -
Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies by Frederick S. Roden, AOJN 9781403921482
Booksplease Price: $116.82Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies is a comprehensive guide to recent critical approaches. Topics covered include Gay Studies, Feminist Criticism, Material Culture, Religion, Philosophy,... -
Salome: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde's play Salome (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue's new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde's shockingly radical... -
Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies by Frederick S. Roden, AOJN 9781403921475
Booksplease Price: $116.82Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies is a comprehensive guide to recent critical approaches. Topics covered include Gay Studies, Feminist Criticism, Material Culture, Religion, Philosophy,... -
Porn Archives by Tim Dean
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.34While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography-as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category-is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how... -
Porn Archives by Tim Dean 9780822356714
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $112.32While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography-as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category-is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how... -
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years by Nicholas Roe
Booksplease Price: $49.63This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition... -
Decadence in the Age of Modernism by Kate Hext 9781421429427
Booksplease Price: $63.27The first holistic reappraisal of the significance of the decadent movement, from the 1900s through the 1930s.Decadence in the Age of Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all... -
Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies by Lynne Vallone
Booksplease Price: $30.37A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child... -
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology by Isobel Armstrong 9780198112907
Booksplease Price: $60.36Nineteenth-Century Women Poets is a major new anthology, turning a wide focus on a period which has traditionally had only its most eminent writers examined in any depth. Beginning with Anna Laetitia... -
Michael Field: Decadent Moderns by Sarah Parker
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.58In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Through their collaborative partnership as "Michael Field," Katharine Bradley and Edith... -
Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody by Carolyn Williams 9780231148047
RRP: $172.86Booksplease Price: $137.69Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were the hottest send-ups of the day's political and cultural... -
Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody by Carolyn Williams 9780231148054
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were the hottest send-ups of the day's political and cultural...