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  • Besieged

    Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722

    by Sharon Alker, Holly Faith Nelson ...
    Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the Great Northern War in Europe, a period in which literary texts reflected an urgent interest in siege mentality and tactics.Exploring the siege as represented in ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century

    by Sharon Alker, Emile Bojesen, Jess Domanico, Jason S. Farr, Jess Keiser, Paul Kelleher, Jamie Kinsley, Dana Gliserman Kopans, Holly Faith Nelson, Anna K. Sagal ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural philosophy rejected ideas of superiority or inferiority between individuals based upon physical or ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace

    Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author

    by Holly Faith Nelson ...
    Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. Writing during a particularly complex time in Scottish literary history, Hogg, a working shepherd ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko

    by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan, Ana de Freitas Boe, Erik Bond, Keith M. Botelho, VIncent Carretta, Ashley Cross, Laura Doyle, Karen Gevirtz, Derek Hughes, Scott J. Juengel, Thomas W. Krise, Joyce Green MacDonald, Roberta C. Martin, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Jane Milling, Jessica Muns, Holly Faith Nelson, Bill Overton, Leslie Richardson, Laura J. Rosenthal, Margarete Rubik, Laura L. Runge, Jane Spencer, Laura M. Stevens, James Grantham Turner, Rose Zimbardo ...
    Series Book 127 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography.Part ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture

    by Sharon Alker, Leith Davis ...
    While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site of cultural memory and of creative negotiation. Ambitious in its scope, the volume is divided into ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama

    by Jeremy Lopez ...
    For one hundred years the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries has been consistently represented in anthologies, edited texts, and the critical tradition by a familiar group of about two dozen plays running from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy to Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by way of Dekker, Jonson, Middleton and Webster. How was this canon created, and what ideological and institutional functions does ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • England in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Jeremy Black ...
    A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare's plays.How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and ... Read more

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  • Making Make-Believe Real

    Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time

    by Garry Wills ...
    Shakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe’s Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Claire McEachern ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe'

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War

    Edited by David Loewenstein, Paul Stevens ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war depicted as ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Military Honour and the Conduct of War

    From Ancient Greece to Iraq

    by Paul Robinson ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This study presents the first examination of the influence of ideas of honour on the causes, conduct and ending of wars from Ancient Greece to the present day.Paul Robinson begins with a theoretical examination of the concept of honour, to clearly explain the many contradictions and tensions inherent within honour systems. He then shows how honour has often contradictory and paradoxical effects on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD