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  • Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850

    by Anaïs Pédron, Clare Siviter, Ariane Fichtl, Chris Haffenden, Emrys Jones, Miranda Kiek, Antoine Lilti, Margaret Mason, Laure Philip0, Anna Senkiw1, Blake Smith2, Gabriel Wick3 ...
    Series series Performing Celebrity
    Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing in dialogue the growing fields of celebrity studies in the two countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti’s seminal work, The ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    by William Shakespeare, Rene Weis ...
    'Shakespeare's play is death-haunted from the start, and its self-glorifying lovers exist in a dream of passion' GuardianA battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the tempestuous and alluring queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. And when their life of pleasure together is threatened by encroaching ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature

    The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole

    by Emrys Jones ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

    by Maureen N. McLane ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical ... Read more

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  • Coleridge and German Philosophy

    The Poet in the Land of Logic

    by Professor Paul Hamilton ...
    Series series Continuum Literary Studies
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. It argues that Coleridge found his philosophical adventures in the dominant idiom of his times ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

    by Christopher Flint ...
    Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those very developments. Authors in the period manipulated the appearance of the page and print technology more deliberately than has been supposed, prompting new forms of reception among ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy

    Rebellious Daughters, 1786–1826

    by Orianne Smith ...
    Series Book 98 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Milton's Angels

    The Early-Modern Imagination

    by Joad Raymond ...
    Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background. Milton's angels are real ... Read more

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  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism

    by Kirstin Hanley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized Wollstonecraft’s philosophical and polemic work, little attention has been given to her understanding and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Shakespeare And Comedy

    by Robert Maslen ...
    Series series Arden Critical Companions
    Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • A Ruler’s Consort in Early Modern Germany

    Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

    by Judith P. Aikin ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The wives of rulers in early modern Europe did far more than provide heirs for their principalities and adornment for their courts. In this study, Judith Aikin examines the exceptionally well-documented actions of one such woman, Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637-1706), in order to expand our understanding of the role of ruler’s consort in the small principalities characteristic of ... Read more

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