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  • The Ring and the Cross

    Christianity and the Lord of the Rings

    by Nils Ivar Agoy, Jason Boffetti, Marjorie Burns, Carson L. Holloway, John R. Holmes, Catherine Madsen, Chris Mooney, Stephen Morillo, Michael Tomko, Joseph Pearce, Bradley J. Birzer, Ronald Hutton, Ralph C. Wood ...
    The conversation, sometimes heated, about the influence of Christianity on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien has a long history. What has been lacking is a forum for a civilized discussion about the topic, as well as a chronological overview of the major arguments and themes that have engaged scholars about the impact of Christianity on Tolkien's oeuvre, with particular reference to The Lord of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief

    Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien

    by Dr Michael Tomko ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations of a new theologically oriented mode of literary criticism. Bringing Coleridge into dialogue with thinkers ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    by William Shakespeare ...
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  • Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

    by Gavin Alexander ...
    Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for ... Read more

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  • Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840

    Cockney Adventures

    by Gregory Dart ...
    Series Book 94 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Gregory Dart expands upon existing notions of Cockneys and the 'Cockney School' in the late Romantic period by exploring some of the broader ramifications of the phenomenon in art and periodical literature. He argues that the term was not confined to discussion of the Leigh Hunt circle, but was fast becoming a way of gesturing towards everything in modern metropolitan life that seemed discrepant ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • King John (Mis)Remembered

    by Igor Djordjevic ...
    King John’s evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespeare’s portrayal of him. The paradox is even greater when we realize that this portrait of John endures despite Shakespeare’s portrait of him in the play King John, where he hardly comes off as a villain at all. Here Igor Djordjevic argues that the story of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

    by D. Downey ...
    Series series Palgrave Gothic
    This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new perspective on an old genre. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Volpone

    A critical guide

    Edited by Dr Matthew Steggle ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    A comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's Volpone, introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Teresa Barnard ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male intellectual achievement in the long eighteenth century. Disseminating their knowledge through ... Read more

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  • Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

    by Mary E Barnard ...
    Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the “new poetry” of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity, Garcilaso was fully attuned to the collection and circulation of luxury artefacts and other worldly ... Read more

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  • King Edward III

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    King Edward III is increasingly thought to have been written in significant part by Shakespeare. This landmark new edition by textual expert and General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, offers a full account of the play's text and the evidence of Shakespeare's hand at work in it. Fully annotated with on-page notes and a lengthy critical introduction which also explores the play ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Bradley, Greg, Folger

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume IX

    by Cary DiPietro ...
    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by Bradley, Greg and Folger. ... Read more

    $210.99 USD