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Shakespeare's King Lear by Valentine Cunningham 9781907776236
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776236Author Valentine CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING... -
Victorian Poetry Valentine Cunningham (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) 9780631230762
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $36.91This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically,... -
Reading After Theory Valentine Cunningham (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) 9780631221685
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $43.49Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.About the Author Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and... -
The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present Christopher Harvie 9780044455929
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $46.18`This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary ReviewReviews`... an extraordinarily busy, exfoliating book, bursting its banks with plot summaries and potted historical... -
Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice by Susan M. Hockey 9780198711940
Booksplease Price: $108.33With word processing and the Internet, computing is much more part and parcel of the everyday life of the humanities scholar, but computers can do much more than assist with writing or Internet... -
Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice by Susan M. Hockey 9780198711957
Booksplease Price: $73.10With word processing and the Internet, computing is much more part and parcel of the everyday life of the humanities scholar, but computers can do much more than assist with writing or Internet... -
Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature by Ronald Paulson 9780300120141
Booksplease Price: $80.10A needed and timely book on sin and evil, and how they have been discussed and represented in Western literature from antiquity to the present day The confusion of sin and evil, or religious and... -
Leviticus as Literature by Professor Mary Douglas 9780199244195
RRP: $56.10Booksplease Price: $40.03This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world-renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical... -
Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet by Bridget Bennett 9780198184126
Booksplease Price: $34.17Literary criticism has been called a story of reading. In what conditions have the best critical stories been told? From Jenny Uglow's account of literary journalism in the world of Henry Fielding to... -
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance by Glyn P. Norton 9780521317191
Booksplease Price: $65.83This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on... -
Holden's Performance by Murray Bail 9781860465925
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34.Model: Australian. No frills.Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to... -
'The Map of All My Youth': Early Works, Friends, and Influences by Katherine Bucknell 9780198129646
Booksplease Price: $94.98This is the first volume in a new series on the work of the poet W. H. Auden. The volume contains a large amount of Unpublished material by Auden, notably six poems written in German in the early... -
New Selected Poems by Christina Rossetti
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Since C.H. Sisson's ground-breaking Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1984), Christina Rossetti's readership has burgeoned. Almost a century ago Ford Madox Ford claimed her as 'the most valuable poet that... -
Love Under Lockdown Michael Estorick 9781911350989
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'A very funny and original novel about political correctness and the fury between the generations with brilliant dialogue and characters who keep surprising. I read it all in one evening and laughed... -
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a... -
Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green by H. Gustav Klaus
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $68.74Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While... -
Adventures in Realism Matthew Beaumont (University College, London) 9781405135771
RRP: $112.17Booksplease Price: $99.56Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9780099470458
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFYIn this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to... -
Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928 - Expanded Paperback Edition by W. H. Auden
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44You know the terror that for poets lurks Beyond the ferry when to Minos brought. Poets must utter their Collected Works, Including Juvenilia...--from "Letter to Lord Byron" (1936) Regardless of how... -
The Oxford Companion to the Bible by Bruce M. Metzger
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $67.12The Bible has had an immeasurable influence on Western culture, touching on virtually every aspect of our lives. It is one of the great wellsprings of Western religious, ethical, and philosophical... -
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Ian Hamilton 9780198661474
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $142.09This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain,... -
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Ian Hamilton
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $15.88This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in... -
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Jeremy Noel-Tod 9780199640256
Booksplease Price: $65.73This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in... -
John Ruskin, the Later Years by Tim Hilton 9780300194852
Booksplease Price: $77.25Selected by New York Times Book Review as a Best Book Since 2000 "The finest and fairest life of Ruskin that has yet been written. . . . To every phase of Ruskin's highly variegated literary oeuvre...