Literary Studies: General
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Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia: Negotiating the Memory of Elizabeth I on the Jacobean Stage
Yuichi TsukadaCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During Jamess reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, co...
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Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume I: Mapping realism
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €156.59Original price €173.99Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on ...
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Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience
Professor Robert L. FowlerCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Pindarthe Theban eagle, as Thomas Gray famously called himhas often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wi...
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Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of en...
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An A-Z of Jane Austen
Michael GreaneyCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and s...
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David Peace
Katy ShawCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99This book is an exciting and accessible account of an author whose work has played a significant role in shaping contemporary British literature. D...
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The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera
Dr Sarah Van der LaanCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethicstools for living developed in poet...
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The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist
Margaret C. JonesCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wid...
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The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist
Margaret C. JonesCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wid...
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Reading Austen in America
Dr Juliette WellsCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austens novels originated and developed in Am...
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Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th21st Centuries)
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work...
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The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within...
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Orations, Volume I
Aelius AristidesCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Meticulous eloquence.Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential authors of the Second Sophistic...
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The Histories, Volume II: Books 34
PolybiusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served th...
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Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
Eleanor ParkerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Outstanding. - The Sunday Times Beautifully written. The Times Superbly adroit. The Spectator Excellent. BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastin...
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The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin: Volume 2, 10661500
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. Excerp...
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Fashioning the Victorians: A Critical Sourcebook
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us f...
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Reading In Memoriam
Timothy PeltasonCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99By making his argument about In Memoriam a continuous argument for it, Timothy Peltason brings to light a wider appreciation of its greatness and o...
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Shakespeare / Sense: Contemporary Readings in Sensory Culture
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and po...
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Ovid''s ''Metamorphoses'': A Reader''s Guide
Dr Genevieve LiveleyCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99This is an essential companion for undergraduate students studying Ovid and this popular epic Latin poem. Perhaps no other classical text has prove...
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Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Bloomsbury Publishing PlcCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as ...
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Shakespeare / Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeares texts in light of the m...
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