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  • Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert

    Combined Lights

    by Robert W. Reeder, Kirsten Stirling, Angela Balla, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Kimberly Johnson, Greg Miller, Kate Narveson, Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Christopher T. Hodgkins0, Helen Wilcox1 ...
    This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches and insights ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England

    Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture

    by Kate Narveson ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England studies how immersion in the Bible among layfolk gave rise to a non-professional writing culture, one of the first instances of ordinary people taking up the pen as part of their daily lives. Kate Narveson examines the development of the culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender, and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820

    The Import of Terror

    by Angela Wright ...
    Series Book 99 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton

    Language, Memory, and Musical Representation

    by Erin Minear ...
    In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well as individual ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

    by Marcus Tomalin ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756 ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Religion

    by Professor Alison Shell ...
    Series series Arden Critical Companions
    This book sets Shakespeare in the religious context of his times, presenting a balanced, up-to-date account of current biographical and critical debates, and addressing the fascinating, under-studied topic of how Shakespeare's writing was perceived by literary contemporaries - both Catholic and Protestant - whose priorities were more obviously religious than his own. It advances new readings of ... Read more

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  • Virgil in the Renaissance

    by David Scott Wilson-Okamura ...
    The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? ... Read more

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  • Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830

    by Daniel Cook ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare

    Edited by Jason Powell, William T. Rossiter ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    A detailed examination of the relationship between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the late medieval and early modern periods, Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare interrogates the persistent duality of the roles of author and ambassador. The volume approaches its subject from a literary-historical perspective, drawing upon late medieval and early modern ... Read more

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  • Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

    The Maternal Imagination

    by Jenifer Buckley ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and literary ramifications, this book engages critically with the notion that a pregnant woman could alter the development of her foetus ... Read more

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  • Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century

    by Cedric C. Brown ...
    Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and sees these practices as often co-terminous with gift exchange. Failure to recognize the inter ... Read more

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  • Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama

    Criticism, History, and Performance 1594-1998

    Edited by S. P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies ...
    Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection ... Read more

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