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  • The Imprisoned Traveler

    Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy

    de Keith Crook ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy plundered by Napoleon, was unjustly imprisoned in 1803 by the French as an enemy alien. Out of his arduous eleven-year “detention” came his only book, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813). Written as an ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • A Preface to Swift

    de Keith Crook ...
    Series series Preface Books
    Jonathan Swift's moral and political satires astonished his contemporaries and still have the power to disturb, with their compelling images and unsettling turns of argument, and to delight, with their charm and inventive wit. A Preface to Swift examines the complex appeal of this fierce critic of oppression.While thematically arranged, the text follows a broadly chronological account of Swift's ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

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  • Clarissa

    The History of a Young Lady (Complete Vol 1-9)

    de Samuel Richardson ...
    The following History is given in a series of letters, written Principally in a double yet separate correspondence; Between two young ladies of virtue and honor, bearing an inviolable friendship for each other, and writing not merely for amusement, but upon the most interesting subjects; in which every private family, more or less, may find itself concerned; and, Between two gentlemen of free ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edición de Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Reading Dante

    de Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta ...
    Series series The Open Yale Courses Series
    A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works.Based on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Of Bondage

    Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England

    de Amanda Bailey ...
    The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Romantic Crowd

    Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture

    de Mary Fairclough ...
    Series Libro 97 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as an emotional bond, but also as a physiological force, through which disruption in one part of the body produces instantaneous disruption in another. Building on this theory, Romantic writers explored sympathy as a disruptive social phenomenon, which functioned to spread disorder between individuals and even across nations like a ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

    Edición de David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore ...
    Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Religion

    de Professor Alison Shell ...
    Series series Arden Critical Companions
    This book sets Shakespeare in the religious context of his times, presenting a balanced, up-to-date account of current biographical and critical debates, and addressing the fascinating, under-studied topic of how Shakespeare's writing was perceived by literary contemporaries - both Catholic and Protestant - whose priorities were more obviously religious than his own. It advances new readings of ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • King Henry IV Part 2

    Third Series

    de William Shakespeare ...
    Series Libro 2 - The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff's revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry Hal sloughs off his tavern companions to become King Henry V.James C. Bulman's authoritative ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation

    de Ambra Moroncini ...
    Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious Zeitgeist of his era, this study investigates his poetic production to shed new light on the artist’s religious beliefs and unique language of art. Author Ambra Moroncini looks first and foremost at Michelangelo the poet and proposes a thought-provoking reading of Michelangelo’s most controversial artistic ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD