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  • Infinite Variety

    Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730

    by Wolfram Schmidgen ...
    Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Infinite Variety

    Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730

    by Wolfram Schmidgen ...
    Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered

    by Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, Shelley King, Christina Lupton, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. Thenovel poached from and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Rhetoric

    by Jennifer Richards ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history as well as elements of philosophy, politics and culture. The nature and practise of rhetoric was central to Classical, Renaissance and Enlightenment cultures and its relevance continues in our own ... Read more

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  • Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology

    Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.Elegantly written and wide ranging, ... Read more

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  • The Corporate Commonwealth

    Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651

    by Henry S. Turner ...
    The history of the rise and transformation of corporations—and their political power—in Renaissance England.Winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for the Best Book in Renaissance StudiesThe Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important ... Read more

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  • The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Steven Mullaney ...
    The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith.As Steven Mullaney shows in The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume

    Edited by David Fate Norton, Jacqueline Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Sublime

    by Philip Shaw ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines.In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chaptersThe legacy of the earliest ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740

    by Michael McKeon ...
    "This may well be the most important study of the development of prose fiction in England since Ian Watt's classic Rise of the Novel, on which it builds." — Library JournalThe Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Beauty

    Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art

    by Michael B. Gill ...
    An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English. It revolutionized Western philosophy. In A Philosophy of Beauty, Michael Gill presents an engaging account of how Shaftesbury’s thought ... Read more

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