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  • Goethe

    Journeys of the Mind

    by Gabrielle S. Bersier, Nancy Sanden Boerner, Peter Boerner ...
    Series series Armchair Traveller
    The German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often seen as the quintessential eighteenth-century tourist, though with the exception of a trip to Italy he hardly left his homeland. Compared to several of his peripatetic contemporaries, he took few actual journeys, and the list of European cities in which he never set foot is quite long. He never saw Vienna, Paris, or London, for example, and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Goethe

    by Peter Boerner ...
    Translated by Nancy Sanden Boerner ...
    Series series Life & Times
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest thinkers of the modern age: a world-famous writer, scientist, and statesman, his influence was already far-reaching during his lifetime, and his literary and intellectual legacy continues to reverberate throughout contemporary culture. In this book, newly updated, Peter Boerner, a highly respected authority on Goethe, presents the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Complete Essays

    by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

    by Marquis de Sade, David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the strong, and the strong are murderers, torturers, and tyrants. No quarter is given; compassion is the virtue of the weak. Yet Sade was ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ben Jonson

    A Life

    by Ian Donaldson ...
    Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare's use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging insights into the play. The richly illustrated introduction looks at the play's exceptionally beautiful and ... Read more

    $11.09 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

  • Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton

    Political Prose, 1644-1660

    by William Walker ...
    On the basis of a close reading of Milton's major published political prose works from 1644 through to the Restoration, William Walker presents the anti-formalist, unrevolutionary, illiberal Milton. Walker shows that Milton placed his faith not so much in particular forms of government as in statesmen he deemed to be virtuous. He reveals Milton's profound aversion to socio-political revolution and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Moving Pageant

    A Literary Sourcebook on London Street Life, 1700-1914

    by Rick Allen ...
    The Moving Pageant is the first annotated anthology of writings on London street life. It comprises nearly one hundred extracts from over two centuries of literary life, including pieces by:* Alexander Pope* Jonathan Swift* Daniel Defoe* Samuel Johnson* Eliza Haywood* Horace Walpole* William Hazlitt* William Wordsworth* Charles Dickens* Flora Tristan* Edgar Allen Poe* Charlotte Bronte* Fyodo... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama

    by Katrine Wong ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or musical dramaturgy, and complicates the current discussion of musical portrayal and construction of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Songs of Innocence - Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton

    by William Blake ...
    Originally published in 1912, Songs of Innocence, was written by the legendary William Blake (1757 – 1827), and illustrated with the stunning drawings of Honor Appleton. It is a collection of nineteen poems, including of ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Blossom’, ‘Night’, ‘Spring’, ‘Nurse’s Song’, and ‘The School-Boy’. The prequel to Songs of Experience, this book redefines our traditional notions of ‘paradise’ ... Read more

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  • Lyric in the Renaissance

    From Petrarch to Montaigne

    by Ullrich Langer ...
    Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orléans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne's understanding of the most striking poetry and its relation to his own prose. Instead of relying on conventional notions of Renaissance subjectivity, it ... Read more

    $38.59 USD