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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Animals and Other People

    Literary Forms and Living Beings in the Long Eighteenth Century

    In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers—including ... Leer más

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    Literary Forms and Living Beings in the Long Eighteenth Century

    In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers—including ... Leer más

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  • Criticism

    Ideas in Profile

    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsAt the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics, making our own judgements and interpretations. Among the most fundamental of human intellectual activities, criticism offers a starting point for many ... Leer más

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  • Reading Poetry

    A Complete Coursebook

    Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight. This third edition has been significantly ... Leer más

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  • The Accommodated Animal

    Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

    Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "animal" itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes's famous formulation that reason sets ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edición de Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Leer más

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  • The Animal Claim

    Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

    de Tobias Menely ...
    This "passionately eloquent" study shows the influence of eighteenth-century poetry on political theory, philosophy, and early discourse on animal rights (Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles).During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in ... Leer más

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  • Against Better Judgment

    Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Winner--2022 Walker Cowen Memorial PrizeRobinson Crusoe recognizes it is foolish to leave for the open seas; nevertheless, he boards the ship. William Wordsworth of The Prelude sees the immense poetic task ahead of him, but instead of beginning work, he procrastinates by going for a walk. Centering on this sort of intentionally irrational action, originally defined as " akrasia" by the ancient ... Leer más

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  • Ventriloquized Voices

    Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts

    Patronage, medicine, madness and eroticism. Harvey explores the discourse of power and sexuality in a fascinating range of early modern texts, and examines the use of the feminine voice by male authors. ... Leer más

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  • Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form

    Series Libro 106 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less familiar verse, such as Limbo. Such work shows that the essential elements of poetic expression - a ... Leer más

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  • Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

    de Eric Langley ...
    The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves.Narcissus so himself himself forsook,And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self-absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative construction - 'himself himself' - that provides a keynote for this study of Renaissance reflexive subjectivity. Through close analysis of ... Leer más

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