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  • Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances

    Exploring the Diversity of Seventeenth-Century Romance Prose

    de Nathaniel Ingelo, George Mackenzie, Roger Earl of Orrery Boyle ...
    Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances presents a compelling exploration into the diverse literary landscape of the seventeenth century. Featured within this anthology are the critical introductions'Äîor prefaces'Äîof pivotal romances that capture the nuanced interplay between burgeoning literary styles and thematic innovation. Through these prefaces, readers are given a unique glimpse into ... Leer más

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  • World-Building and the New Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Prose Fictions of Cosmic Voyage

    de Evelyn Koch ...
    Series Libro 39 - Bayreuther Beitraege zur Literaturwissenschaft
    The book looks at ways of world-building in prose fictions of cosmic voyage in the seventeenth century. With the rise of the New Astronomy, there equally was a resurgence of the cosmic voyage in fiction. Various models of the universe were reimagined in prose form. Most of these voyages explore imagined versions of a world in the moon, such as the cosmic voyages by Johannes Kepler, Francis Godwin ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700

    de Roger Pooley ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Pleasure in Profit

    Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan

    de Laura Moretti ...
    In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of this period position the writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Pleasure in Profit

    Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan

    de Laura Moretti ...
    In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of this period position the writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Information

    A History, a Theory, a Flood

    de James Gleick ...
    From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey ... Leer más

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  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    And Select Poems

    de Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
    A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance ... Leer más

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  • The Fable of the Bees

    Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits

    de Bernard Mandeville ...
    If you think 18th century economic philosophy is by definition dry and boring, check out Bernard Mandeville's 1714 poem "The Fable of the Bees." It espouses the benefits of selfishness as a way of increasing economic prosperity -- a common enough idea today, but one that was so scandalous at the time of its publication that Mandeville was convicted by a grand jury and widely denounced by the most ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of Science

    A New History of the Scientific Revolution

    de David Wootton ...
    This "fantastic revisionist history . . . captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in" ( Financial Times).We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. In The Invention of Science, historian David Wootton reveals why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. Spanning continents and centuries ... Leer más

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  • Troilus And Cressida (Mobi Classics)

    de Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Troilus and Criseyde (circa 1380-87) is Geoffrey Chaucer's poem in rhyme royal (rime royale) re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde. Scholarly consensus is that Chaucer completed Troilus and Criseyde by the mid 1380's. Many Chaucer scholars regard this as his best work, even including the better known but incomplete Canterbury Tales.Troilus and Criseyde is an ... Leer más

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  • The Gutenberg Galaxy

    de Marshall McLuhan ...
    The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Erasmus

    Life of a humanist

    de Richard C. Jebb, Desiderius Erasmus ...
    This book presents the history of Erasmus, an European humanist; and his essay against war."With Erasmus a new period opens. Two things broadly distinguish him, as a scholar, from the men before and after him. First, he was not only a refined humanist, writing for the fastidious few, and prizing no judgment but theirs; he took the most profitable authors of antiquity,—profitable in a moral as well ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD