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King Lear in our Time by Maynard Mack
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This edition first published in 1966. Previous edition published 1965 by the University of California Press. Perhaps more than any other play of Shakespeare's King Lear has been subjected to almost... -
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack 9780393305296
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.25Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Robert Kirsch Award of the Los Angeles Times.About the AuthorMaynard Mack is Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University... -
Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies by Maynard Mack 9780803282148
Booksplease Price: £29.60Everybody's Shakespeare brings the insights and wisdom of one of the finest Shakespearean scholars of our century to the task of surveying why the Bard continues to flourish in modern times. Mack... -
The Garden and the City: Retirement and Politics in the Later Poetry of Pope 1731-1743 by Maynard Mack 9781487577414
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487577414Author Maynard MackFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint University of Toronto... -
Shakespeare: Hamlet by John D. Jump 9780333093092
Booksplease Price: £35.83This invaluable book includes a selection of early criticism and a wide range of informative essays from critics of the last twenty years. Contributors include: Ernest Jones, Wolfgang H. Clemen, D.G... -
The Life of Learning: The Charles Homer Haskins Lectures of the American Council of Learned Societies by Douglas Greenberg 9780195083392
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £85.04Each year, since 1983, the American Council of Learned Societies has invited one of America's leading scholars to deliver the Haskins Lecture, in honour of Charles Homer Haskins, a distinguished... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Rawson 9780521697033
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.10This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others,... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Rawson 9780521874342
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others,... -
Politics and Literature in the Age of Swift: English and Irish Perspectives by Claude Rawson 9780521190152
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Jonathan Swift was the most influential political commentator of his time, in both England and Ireland. His writings are a major source for historians of the eighteenth century, as well as including... -
The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding by Claude Rawson
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707-54) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as... -
Rethinking Modernism by Marianne Thormahlen 9781349724031
Booksplease Price: £90.56Around 1970, scholars adopted the term 'modernism' as a designation for the radical changes that took place in Anglo-American literature in the early twentieth century. The concept lent prestige to... -
Rethinking Modernism by Marianne Thormahlen 9781403911803
Booksplease Price: £90.56Around 1970, scholars adopted the term 'modernism' as a designation for the radical changes that took place in Anglo-American literature in the early twentieth century. The concept lent prestige to... -
Swift and Others by Claude Rawson 9781107610125
Booksplease Price: £32.12Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory forces: an authoritarian attachment to tradition and rule, and a vivid... -
Swift's Angers by Claude Rawson 9781107610101
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative... -
Swift's Angers by Claude Rawson
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative... -
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 Haptic Arts: How Touch Shapes Our Place in the World Ronald Schleifer 9781350589483
Booksplease Price: £85.65This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of "art" and "aesthetics" to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation building, and... -
The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift 9780393930658
Booksplease Price: £18.48"Contexts" features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism" provides readers with a wide... -
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams 9780300240252
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures,... -
God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson 9780198184256
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £104.87We are obsessed with 'barbarians'. They are the 'not us', who don't speak our language, or 'any language', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an... -
Pinter and Stoppard: A Director's View Carey Perloff 9781350243392
Booksplease Price: £24.88Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 A LA Times Best Theater Book of 2022 Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, by most accounts the leading British playwrights of our time, might seem to... -
Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling by Michael Bell 9780333721100
Booksplease Price: £90.56Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment, despite... -
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Professor Jonathan Kramnick 9780226830537
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.20A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice-close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan... -
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Professor Jonathan Kramnick 9780226830520
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice-close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan...