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A Clubbable Man

Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham

by Anthony W. Lee, Philip Smallwood, David Hopkins, Adam Rounce, Aaron R. Hanlon, Robert G. Walker, Gordon Turnbull, Martine Brownley, Cedric D. Reverand II, John Richetti0, Clement Hawes1, Bärbel Czennia2, Kevin L. Cope3, Dominic Jermey4, Elaine Wood5, Caroline Fassett6, Joseph McNicholas7, Margaret Williams8, Erin Labbie9, Patrick Thomas Henry0, Adam Walker1, Kang Tchou2, Gary Sojka3, Nina Forsberg4, Daniel Little5, James Rice6, John Rickard7, Antjie Krog8, Kieron Winn9, Emily Grosholz0, Harry Thomas1, Kate Parker2 ...

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines
... Read more
Beyond Sense and Sensibility

Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth

by Leslie A. Chilton, Timothy Erwin, Evan Gottlieb, Christopher D. Johnson, Heather King, Rhona Brown, James Noggle, Adrianne Wadewitz, Adam Rounce ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How ... Read more

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During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How
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Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

by Barbara M. Benedict, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins, William Jones, Sandro Jung, Tom Mason, Mark A. Pedreira, Jeff Strabone, Alex Watson, Karina Williamson, Adam Rounce ...

Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous studies have also been restricted to notes by or for canonical figures; they have neglected ... Read more

$39.69 USD

Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous studies have also been restricted to notes by or for canonical figures; they have neglected
... Read more
New Essays on Samuel Johnson

Revaluation

by Greg Clingham, Anthony W. Lee, Thomas M. Curley, Emily C. Friedman, Katherine Kickel, Lynda Mugglestone, John Richetti, Steven Scherwatzky, John Sitter, Paul Tankard0, Adam Rounce1 ...

New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson ... Read more

$94.79 USD

New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson
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Fame and Failure 1720–1800

The Unfulfilled Literary Life

by Adam Rounce ...

Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers, including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival Stockdale, Rounce discusses the inefficacy of apparent literary success, the forms of vanity and ... Read more

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Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers, including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival Stockdale, Rounce discusses the inefficacy of apparent literary success, the forms of vanity and
... Read more
1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26)

by Norbert Col, Andrew Connell, Taylor Corse, Matthew Davis, Michael Edson, Melvyn New, Mark A. Pedreira, Linda L. Reesman, Adam Rounce, Robin Runia, Jacob Sider Jost, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Ashley Bender, John Burke, Greg Clingham, Gloria Eive, Sören Hammerschmidt, Malcolm Jack, Christopher Johnson, Robin Mills, John Sitter, Paul deGategno ...

Series Book 26 - 1650-1850
Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s ... Read more

$107.99 USD

Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s
... Read more

Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded

Or Virtue Rewarded

by Samuel Richardson ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
The publication of Pamela in 1740 marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. It vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. It is a work of pioneering psychological complexity and a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. This edition is based on the original text of 1740, that aroused widespread ... Read more

$5.99 USD

The publication of Pamela in 1740 marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. It vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. It is a work of pioneering psychological complexity and a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. This edition is based on the original text of 1740, that aroused widespread
... Read more
The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy, Tony Slade, Patricia Ingham ...

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's tragic vision is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live on it. Set against the backdrop of the Heath and the impersonal and eternal forces it represents, the fates of Eustacia Vye, ... Read more

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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's tragic vision is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live on it. Set against the backdrop of the Heath and the impersonal and eternal forces it represents, the fates of Eustacia Vye,
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Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

by Stanley Wells ...

How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of ... Read more

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How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of
... Read more
Barry Lyndon

by William Makepeace Thackeray ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of a gambler ... Read more

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Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of a gambler
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Edited by Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, ... Read more

$23.79 USD

This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study,
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Dante and Islam

by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...

Series series Dante's World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento
Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad.Dante scholars have increasingly returned to ... Read more

$30.59 USD

Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad.Dante scholars have increasingly returned to
... Read more

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