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  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 31)

    by Kevin L. Cope, Samara Anne Cahill, Pat Rogers, Allison Muri, Duncan Samuel, Robert G. Walker, Anaclara Castro, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Leigh G. Dillard0, Daniel Crespo-Delgado1, Anne Betty Weinshenker2, Steff Nellis3, Christopher D. Johnson4, Kandice Sharren5, Donald W. Nichol6, William Stargard7, Malcolm Jack8, Heather Heckman-McKenna9, R.J.W. Mills0, Susan Spencer1, Anthony W Lee2 ...
    Series series 1650-1850
    Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • A Clubbable Man

    Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham

    by Anthony W. Lee, Philip Smallwood, David Hopkins, Adam Rounce, Aaron R. Hanlon, Robert G. Walker, Gordon Turnbull, Martine Brownley, Cedric D. Reverand II, John Richetti0, Clement Hawes1, Bärbel Czennia2, Kevin L. Cope3, Dominic Jermey4, Elaine Wood5, Caroline Fassett6, Joseph McNicholas7, Margaret Williams8, Erin Labbie9, Patrick Thomas Henry0, Adam Walker1, Kang Tchou2, Gary Sojka3, Nina Forsberg4, Daniel Little5, James Rice6, John Rickard7, Antjie Krog8, Kieron Winn9, Emily Grosholz0, Harry Thomas1, Kate Parker2 ...
    Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

    Resisting Secularism

    by Melvyn New, Donald R. Wehrs, John A. Dussinger, Regina Janes, E. Derek Taylor, Robert G. Walker, Patrick Müller, Steven Scherwatzky, Katherine Kickel0, Nicholas Seager1, Geoff Newton2, Ryan J. Stark3, Brett C. McInelly4, Paul Tankard5, Deborah Heller6, Frans de Bruyn7, Roger D. Lund8, Nathalie Zimpfer9 ...
    Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Swiftly Sterneward

    Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New

    by Joseph G. Kronick, Taylor Corse, James E. May, Martha F. Bowden, Eric Rothstein, Frank Palmeri, Elizabeth Kraft, W G. Day, Madeleine Descargues-Grant, Donald R. Wehrs ...
    These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of ... Read more

    $115.89 USD

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

    by Elizabeth Kantor ...
    What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . .- Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us- Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness- Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things)- Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin- Jane Austen: Most men ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • An Appetite for Poetry

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue – as all the best critics have done – of the necessarily occasional nature of his profession. That virtue is evident on every page of this collection of essays.In one group of essays he asks the reader to share his pleasure in a number of major ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Romanticism

    by Aidan Day ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edited by Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Children's Literature

    A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

    by Professor Seth Lerer ...
    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Smart Student's Guide to the GRE Literature in English Test

    by Martin Asiner ...
    Most English majors who take the GRE Literature in English test do not do particularly well, usually near the 50th percentile. To increase their acceptance into a graduate program (MA or PhD), test takers need at least to be over the 80th percentile. This is hard to do since ETS deliberately designs the test to befuddle most test takers. Quite frankly, these test takers simply do not know enough ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Authoring the Self

    Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

    by Scott Hess ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain.Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    by Linda K. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

    $27.89 USD