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  • The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770

    by Ashley Marshall ...
    An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Swift and History

    Politics and the English Past

    by Ashley Marshall ...
    Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously in his own works. This study traces Swift's classical and modern historiographical inheritance; ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics

    Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson

    by John Barrell, Ann Bermingham, Robert Folkenflik, Robert D. Hume, Michael McKeon, Mary Poovey, William L. Pressly, Claude Rawson, J. Hillis Miller ...
    The chapters constituting this book are different in subject and method, striking testimony to the range of Paulson’s interests and the versatility of his critical powers. In his prolific career he has produced extensive analysis of art, poetry, fiction, and aesthetics produced in England between 1650 and 1830. Paulson’s unique contribution has to do with his understanding of “seeing” and “reading ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • Authoring the Self

    Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

    by Scott Hess ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain.Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    by Linda K. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

    Edited by Derek Hughes, Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in ... Read more

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  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

    by Kenneth R. Johnston ...
    Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for the American and ... Read more

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  • Gendering the Nation

    Identity Politics and English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Chandrava Chakravarty ...
    Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite, genteel nation. The book analyses certain popular comic plays of the time to ascertain the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare After Theory

    by David Scott Kastan ...
    The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

    Edited by Lorna Hutson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as ... Read more

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