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  • The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

    by Brian Corman ...
    The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction and full annotation. The editor’s Introduction provides a rich historical and literary context for the plays’ composition and production. A glossary of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Queen Anne and the Arts

    by Barbara Benedict, Brian Corman, Julia Fawcett, Jayne Lewis, Estelle Murphy, Nicholas Seager, Philip Smallwood, Abigail Williams, Amanda Winkler, Kevin L. Cope, Juan Christian Pellicer0, James A. Winn1, Cedric D. Reverand II3 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but before the ... Read more

    $52.69 USD

  • Women Novelists Before Jane Austen

    The Critics and Their Canons

    by Brian Corman ...
    By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question of how and why this came about. Corman provides a systematic survey of the reputations of early women ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

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    by Daniel Defoe ...
    These are the fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders: born in Newgate Prison, twelve years a prostitute, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief and eight years a transported felon in Her Majesty's colony of Virginia. Daniel Defoe's rollicking tale presents life in the prisons, alleyways and underworlds of eighteenth-century London, and gives us Moll - scandalous, ... Read more

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  • The Vicar of Wakefield

    by Oliver Goldsmith ...
    CHAPTER 1The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of personsI was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife ... Read more

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  • The Year of Lear

    Shakespeare in 1606

    by James Shapiro ...
    Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America**, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth,** and Antony and Cleopatra. **“**The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (<strong... ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Delphi Classics)

    by Henry Fielding, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 14 - Delphi Series Three
    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Henry Fielding, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Fielding's life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* ALL the novels, with individual contents tables* Images of how the books were first ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Delphi Classics)

    by Samuel Richardson, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 6 - Delphi Series Five
    Regarded by some as the leading novelist of the Eighteenth Century, Samuel Richardson is best known for his epistolary novels, which changed the course of English literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Samuel Richardson, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    by Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Pamela, Volume II

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    In "Pamela," the protagonist, Pamela, is a young maidservant who resists the advances of her employer, Mr. B, and strives to maintain her virtue. The novel is presented in the form of letters, providing an intimate look into Pamela's thoughts and experiences.The work is considered one of the earliest novels in English literature and is known for its exploration of themes such as class, virtue, and ... Read more

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  • The Heart and Stomach of a King

    Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power

    by Carole Levin ...
    In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most ... Read more

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  • Sir Charles Grandison

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    Samuel Richardson was an English author best known for his epistolary novels. Richardson was one of the first writers of epistolary novels and also one of the most famous. This edition of Sir Charles Grandison includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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