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  • Keats and Negative Capability

    by Ms Li Ou ...
    Series series Continuum Literary Studies
    "Negative capability", the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book is the first book-length study of this central concept in seventy years. As well as clarifying the meaning of the term and giving an anatomy of its key components, the book gives a full account of the history of ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded

    Or Virtue Rewarded

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The publication of Pamela in 1740 marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. It vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. It is a work of pioneering psychological complexity and a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. This edition is based on the original text of 1740, that aroused widespread ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Castle of Otranto

    A Gothic Story

    by Horace Walpole ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Sara M. Deats ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Complementing other volumes in the Shakespeare Criticism Series, this collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater. The essays will cover a wide spectrum of topics and utilize a diversity of scholarly methodologies, including textual and performance-oriented approaches, intertextual studies, as ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • 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

  • Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England

    Literature and the Erotics of Recollection

    Edited by John S. Garrison, Kyle Pivetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Theatre, Magic and Philosophy

    William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy

    by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath ...
    Series series Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
    Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history. In an interdisciplinary and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Early Modern Cultures of Translation

    Edited by Karen Newman, Sophia Bevacqua ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
    "Would there have been a Renaissance without translation?" Karen Newman and Jane Tylus ask in their Introduction to this wide-ranging group of essays on the uses of translation in an era formative for the modern age. The early modern period saw cross-cultural translation on a massive scale. Humanists negotiated status by means of their literary skills as translators of culturally prestigious Greek ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Milton and Maternal Mortality

    by Louis Schwartz ...
    All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Milton's life and work, uncovering evidence of the poet's engagement with maternal mortality and the dilemmas it presented. Drawing on both literary scholarship and historical research, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Wordplay

    by Professor M M Mahood ...
    `Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings and dramatic significance.' - Revue des Langues Vivantes ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Barbarous Antiquity

    Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England

    by Miriam Jacobson ...
    In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD