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Anthony Trollope: A Companion Nicholas Birns 9781476677699
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £36.38Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel by Nicholas Birns 9781009087582
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the... -
Roberto Bolano as World Literature by Nicholas Birns 9781501343698
Booksplease Price: £37.81Roberto Bolano as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel by Nicholas Birns 9781316514481
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £66.72The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the... -
A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900 by Nicholas Birns 9781571134714
Booksplease Price: £40.39A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense. Australian literature is one of the world's richest, dealing not only with "local"... -
Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature by Nicholas Birns 9781603292870
Booksplease Price: £77.09Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity... -
Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead by Nicholas Birns 9781743324363
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £22.33Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire... -
The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space by Nicholas Birns 9781498599528
Booksplease Price: £91.39This book examines literary representations of hyperlocal spaces that subvert the idea of grounded and organic spatial identities. Figures such as the pond, the scientific particle, and Wedgwood... -
Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature by Nicholas Birns 9781137364555
Booksplease Price: £46.74An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late... -
Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory from 1950 to the Early 21st Century by Nicholas Birns 9781551119335
Booksplease Price: £33.79Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent... -
Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture by Michael R. Griffiths
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public... -
Key Thinkers on the Environment by Joy A. Palmer Cooper 9781138684720
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.49Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have... -
Key Thinkers on the Environment Joy A. Palmer Cooper (University of Durham, UK) 9781138684737
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have... -
Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands: Shelley's Poetic Development and Romantic Geography by Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley had a complicated relationship with the British Empire and the culture of colonialism. Considered politically radical and scandalous in Britain, Shelley... -
Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780823223602
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hoelderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hoelderlin's poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that... -
Terence Rattigan: The Playwright as Battlefield by Peter Wolfe 9781498598736
Booksplease Price: £86.43The theatrical world Terence Rattigan built is vital but disturbing and uniquely constructed. His sentences are not impacted or fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet his... -
Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780823223619
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £27.88Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hoelderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hoelderlin's poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that... -
The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature by Jean-Francois Vernay
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field. It... -
English Magic and Imperial Madness: The Anti-Colonial Politics of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Peter D. Mathews 9781476686271
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Regency England was a pivotal time, remembered for its political uncertainty with a changing monarchy, the Napoleonic Wars, and a population explosion in London. In Susanna Clarke's fantasy novel... -
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society by Lauren M. E. Goodlad 9780801869631
Booksplease Price: £44.62In this manuscript, Lauren Goodlad looks at Victorian literature as the means for a post-Foucauldian study of Victorian culture, arguing that Victorian Britain was a liberal society. She explores... -
Reading Greek Australian Literature through the Paramythi: Bridging Multiculturalism with World Literature by Anna Dimitriou 9781839991714
Booksplease Price: £77.09This is a comparative textual analysis of a body of relatively neglected works by Greek Australian writers Dimitris Tsaloumas, Antigone Kefala, Stylianos Charkianakis, Dean Kalimnios, Christos... -
Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £83.47This volume trace ways in which time is represented in reverse forms throughout modernist culture, from the beginning of the twentieth century until the decade after World War II. Though modernism is... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction by Christine Berberich 9781441134318
Booksplease Price: £38.80Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of... -
Shakespeare's Originality by John Kerrigan 9780198793755
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.93How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the... -
Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion by Douglas Charles Kane 9781611460896
Booksplease Price: £44.76Douglas C. Kane reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father's work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been...