Author: Lynn Enterline
This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes t ... |
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Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland
Author: Todd Kontje
In this 1998 book, Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers t ... |
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Author: David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner & others
Drawing upon the expertise of both historians and literary critics, this volume examines the classical sources of Milton's republicanism, the genesis of that republicanism in the 1640s, its disappointment in the 1650s an ... |
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The Infantilization of British Literary Culture
Author: Ann Wierda Rowland
How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. Ann Wierda Rowland discovers new answers to this question in t ... |
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Author: Ullrich Langer
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques ... |
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Author: David Loewenstein
This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton's imaginative daring as he boldly revises the epic tradition, brillia ... |
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Author: Megan Matchinske
In 1603 an English gentlewoman, Elizabeth Grymeston, composed for her young son a series of meditations - meditations that would offer posthumous advice and reflection on everything from the nature of sin to the limits o ... |
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Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Author: Markman Ellis
The sentimental novel has long been noted for its liberal and humanitarian interests, but also for its predilection for refined feeling, the privilege it accords emotion over reason, and its preference for the private ov ... |
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Materiality and the Construction of Meaning
Author: John N. King
The consumption of books is closely intertwined with the material conditions of their production. The Tudor period saw both revolutionary progress in printing technology and the survival of traditional forms of communica ... |
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Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
Author: Bernard Rosenthal
Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to exp ... |
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Heterodox Writing and Cultural Response, 1660-1750
Author: Roger D. Lund
The struggle between orthodox Anglicans and the deists, freethinkers, and 'atheists' who opposed their exclusive claims to religious power and political authority reveals cultural practices and ideological assumptions ce ... |
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Author: Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels is one of the few works of English literature which is also a landmark in world literature. Jonathan Swift's account of Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in the fantastical societies of 'remote nations' was ... |
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Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism
Author: J. C. D. Clark
This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint, reversing the orthodoxy which has dominated the subject for over thirty years. Jonathan Clark, who has writ ... |
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Poetry, Politics and Culture from Sidney to Milton
Author: Anthony Low
In The Reinvention of Love Anthony Low argues that cultural, economic and political change transformed the way poets from Sidney to Milton thought and wrote about love. Examining the interface between social, political a ... |
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Author: Steven N. Zwicker
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, R ... |
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Author: Nicholas Hudson
Writing and European Thought 1600-1830 argues for the central importance of writing to conceptions of language, technological progress, and Western civilization during the early modern era. Attitudes to the written langu ... |
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A Critical Guide
Author: Lisa Hopkins & Andrew Hiscock
This is a comprehensive critical guide to "King Lear", including critical and performance history, adaptation, new directions in research and an annotated bibliography. "King Lear" is one of Shakespeare's most performed ... |
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Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature
Author: Laura Caroline Stevenson
Praise and Paradox explores the relationship of language, literary structure, and social ideology in the popular Elizabethan literature that praised merchants, industrialists and craftsmen. Part I defines a canon of 296 ... |
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Author: Cyndia Susan Clegg
This is a revisionist history of press censorship in the rapidly expanding print culture of the sixteenth century. Professor Clegg establishes the nature and source of the controls, and evaluates their means and effectiv ... |
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Author: Achsah Guibbory
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, first published in 2006, introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array o ... |
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