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  • Christopher Smart and Satire

    'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

    by Min Wild ...
    Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smart's audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ridiculous Critics

    Augustan Mockery of Critical Judgment

    Edited by Philip Smallwood, Min Wild ...
    Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic’s mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the history of eighteenth-century literary criticism. Including comic, vicious, heartfelt and absurd passages from critics, poets, novelists and ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century

    "By Succession of Delight"

    Edited by Min Wild, Noel Chevalier ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Front Flap:Poet, essayist, actor, hymn-writer, wit, magazine editor, transvestite stage performer: Christopher Smart, Georgian don-turned-writer, was all of these. He was, and remains, a mercurial individual, an idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar writer of spiritual heights and material depths. His paradoxical exuberance fascinates scholars of eighteenth-century culture, and this collection of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    by Louisa M. Alcott ...
    Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott. This edition contains more than 200 illustrations (full colour and monotone), interactive table of contents, and beautifully formatted. ... Read more

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  • Poetics of Character

    Transatlantic Encounters 1700–1900

    by Susan Manning ...
    Series Book 102 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    This study of character in a comparative context presents a new approach to transatlantic literary history. Rereading Romanticism across national, generic and chronological boundaries, and through close textual comparisons, it offers exciting possibilities for rediscovering how literature engages and persuades readers of the reality of character. Historically grounded in the eighteenth-century ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama

    by Wendy Sutherland ...
    Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Queen of the Pirate Isle, a short story

    by Bret Harte ...
    Short story. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. He was born in Albany, New York. ... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern ... Read more

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  • A Romantics Chronology, 1780-1832

    by Martin Garrett ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book covers the life and work of a wide range of writers from Coleridge to Wollstonecraft, Hemans, Beckford and their contemporaries. Also encompassing a wealth of material on contexts from the treason trials of 1794 to the coming of gas-light to the London stage in 1817, it provides a panorama of one of the richest periods in British culture. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Beauty and the Beast (Illustrated + Active TOC)

    by Charles Lamb ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary clazzics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse ... Read more

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  • Shakespearean Star

    Laurence Olivier and National Cinema

    by Jennifer Barnes ...
    Laurence Olivier was one of the best-known and most pioneering actor-directors of Shakespeare on screen. This is the first study to provide a comprehensive analysis of Olivier's Shakespearean feature films and his unique Shakespearean star image. Through an examination of Olivier's unmade film Macbeth, as well as his adaptations of Shakespeare's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III, Jennifer Barnes ... Read more

    $103.39 USD

  • Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama

    Enacting Family and Monarchy

    by Chanita Goodblatt ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifested as exegetical and performative strategies, these voices participate in the central Reformation project of biblical translation. Such translations and dramatic texts are certainly enriched by studying them within the wider context of medieval and early ... Read more

    $61.99 USD