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Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain Sharon Keefe Ugalde 9781786835987
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.17It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has been woven into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts - from her first appearance in eighteenth-century translations of Hamlet,... -
Utopia and Reality: Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds by Simon Spiegel
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.40Since publication of Thomas More's Utopia more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better world; positive utopias in film, however, have been... -
Kant and the Theory and Practice of International Right Georg Cavallar 9781786835529
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.84This book argues that Kant's theory of international relations should be interpreted as an attempt to apply the principles of reason to history in general, and in particular to political conditions... -
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches Miranda Corcoran 9781786838926
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long... -
Cognitive Science and Medieval Studies: An Introduction Juliana Dresvina 9781786836748
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.71With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a... -
The Arthur of the Low Countries: The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature by Bart Besamusca
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.64In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material... -
Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror Todd K. Platts 9781786838636
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse's cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic... -
Treasures: The Special Collections of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David by John Morgan-Guy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00The University of Wales Trinity Saint David was originally founded in 1822 as St David's College, Lampeter. It is now the oldest higher education collegiate institution in Wales, and in its two... -
The Nature of the Beast: Transformations of the Werewolf from the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century Carys Crossen 9781786834560
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03The werewolf in popular fiction has begun to change rapidly. Literary critics have observed this development and its impact on the werewolf in fiction, with theorists arguing that the modern werewolf... -
Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema by Lindsey Decker
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres - as a... -
Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction: Palabra de Mujer by Gustavo Carvajal
Booksplease Price: £54.09In what ways do the politics of memory perpetuate gendered images of those directly affected by political violence in Chile? Can the literary rewriting of painful experiences contest existing... -
Cyfri'n Cewri: Hanes Mawrion ein Mathemateg by Gareth Ffowc Roberts
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Mae'r llyfr hwn yn dathlu bywyd a gwaith rhai mathemategwyr a aned yng Nghymru, ac eraill a gyflawnodd eu gwaith yng Nghymru, gan gyfoethogi ein hanes a'n diwylliant fel gwlad. Pan gyfansoddodd Evan... -
Hegel on Freedom and Authority by Renato Cristi 9780708318737
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Hegel's concept of civil society endorses a market economy and a liberal outlook. But his concept of state culminates in an authoritarian prince who is protector of the constitution. The tensions and... -
Trysorau: Casgliadau Arbennig Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant by John Morgan-Guy 9781786839251
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786839251Author John Morgan-GuyFormat HardbackImprint University of Wales PressPublisher... -
Y Gymraeg a Gweithle'r Gymru Gyfoes by Rhiannon Williams 9781786838803
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Mae'r byd gwaith yng Nghymru a'r Gymraeg fel disgyblaeth yn esblygu yn sgil y galw cynyddol am weithwyr proffesiynol a sgiliau dwyieithog. Mae'r gyfrol ryngddisgyblaethol hon yn cyfuno lleisiau o'r... -
Living Off-Grid in Wales: Eco-Villages in Policy and Practice by Elaine Forde 9781786836588
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Living Off-grid in Wales examines the new policy context for off-grid rural development by contrasting the policy approach with the activist version of going off-grid. The examples examined in the... -
Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power by Helena Buffery 9781783160457
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between... -
Le Bone Florence of Rome: A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale by Jonathan Stavsky 9781786830623
Booksplease Price: £75.65Le Bone Florence of Rome is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, it follows the adventures of a... -
Y Dychymyg Ol-Fodern: Agweddau ar ffuglen fer Mihangel Morgan by Rhiannon Marks 9781786835901
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Cyfrol arbrofol o feirniadaeth greadigol yw hon, sy'n cynnig golwg ffres ar ffuglen fer y llenor nodedig Mihangel Morgan (1955-). Hon yw'r astudiaeth estynedig gyntaf o'i waith, a rhoddir sylw... -
The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918 by Aled Eirug 9781786833143
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain. It is, therefore,... -
Locating Lynette Roberts: `Always Observant and Slightly Obscure' by Siriol McAvoy 9781786833822
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Lynette Roberts is an extraordinary modernist poet and novelist, with her vivid imagery and restless experimentalism. Her writing displays a kind of double longing - for Wales, and for the Argentina... -
Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms Paul Michael Melo e Castro 9781786833907
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.17This collection of essays brings together established scholars of Lusophone Goan literature from India, Brazil, Portugal and Great Britain. For the first time in English, this volume traces the key... -
Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897 Laurence Talairach 9781786834607
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror - the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton - capable of creating a... -
Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay by Louise Steel 9781837721351
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.34Earthy Matters is a lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our... -
The Political Thought of Aneurin Bevan Nye Davies 9781837721412
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Despite his contemporary legacy as an institutional pioneer, there remain fundamental disagreements concerning Aneurin Bevan’s politics. During times of intense internal Labour Party conflict, Bevan... -
Stolen Limelight: Gender, Display and Displacement In Modern Fiction in French by 9781786838605
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £49.98Who has not, in a favored moment, 'stolen the limelight', whether inadvertently or by design? The implications of such an act of display - its illicitness, its verve, its vertiginous reversal of... -
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator by Heather O. Petrocelli 9781837723096
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror’s queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and... -
Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic by Madeline Potter 9781837723546
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature. The relationship between religion and Gothic literature has traditionally been... -
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance by Jonathan Adams
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.86The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative... -
Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836-1861 by Brian Hamnett
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.71Between 1836 and 1861, Mexico's difficulties as a sovereign state became fully exposed. Its example provides a case study for all similarly emerging independent states that have broken away from... -
Videogames and Horror: From Amnesia to Zombies, Run! Dawn Stobbart 9781786834362
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93Videogames are full of horrors - and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked in the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast growing field of videogame... -
A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. On the one hand, critics have considered weird... -
South Asian Gothic: Haunted cultures, histories and media Katarzyna Ancuta 9781786838001
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The volume... -
Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing Louise Campion 9781786838308
Booksplease Price: £62.71This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and... -
Introducing the Medieval Swan by Natalie Jayne Goodison
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and possibly even the phrase 'swan song'. This book... -
For the Recorde: A History of Welsh Mathematical Greats by Gareth Ffowc Roberts
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This book celebrates the life and work of twelve mathematicians who were either born in Wales or who worked in Wales. When the Welsh national anthem was composed in 1856, Wales was at the centre of... -
Dona Barbara Unleashed: From Venezuelan Plains to International Screen Jenni M. Lehtinen 9781786836861
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.65Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen. Dona Barbara... -
A Little Gay History of Wales by Daryl Leeworthy
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68A Little Gay History of Wales tells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from across Britain, together with... -
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332: Centuries of Ambiguity by David Stephenson 9781786833860
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.49After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the... -
Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America by Vivienne Sanders 9781786837905
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that 'very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of...