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  • Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760

    Treacherous Objects, Secret Places

    by M. Pittock ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh theoretical model it presents challenges existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Elizabethan World Picture

    Edited by E.M.W. Tillyard ...
    This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Tillyard in the process of its various ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • How To Read Montaigne

    by Terence Cave ...
    Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the Essais (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental landscape: the project of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

    Edited by Arthur F Kinney ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750–1830

    by Richard Adelman ...
    Series Book 89 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response to Smith's political economy with that of contemporary German Idealists, Richard Adelman also uses ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto

    by Jo Ann Cavallo ...
    This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo ... Read more

    $77.79 USD

  • The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse

    Reissue

    Edited by Roger Lonsdale ...
    Series series Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
    No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

    A Literature of Fragments

    by Jonathan David Bradbury ...
    Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne

    Edited by Thomas Keymer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by ... 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

  • Moral Play and Counterpublic

    by Ineke Murakami ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • George Herbert and Post-phenomenology

    A Gift for Our Times

    by Małgorzata Grzegorzewska ...
    Series Book 16 - Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
    This reading of George Herbert’s poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert’s poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet’s response to a call which originates in the Word made flesh and at the same time resounds within the depths of an individual self. The focus of this analysis falls on the essential ... Read more

    $69.39 USD