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Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary
Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? Robert Matz analyzes...
Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost
Karen Edwards offers a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which Milton is shown to represent Eden's plants and animals in the light of the century's new, scientific natural history....
Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire
Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English...
Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship
This book offers an original study of lyric form and social custom in the Elizabethan age. Ilona Bell explores the tendency of Elizabethan love poems not only to represent an...
Shakespeare and Domestic Loss: Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and
This book re-examines some of Shakespeare's best-known texts in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation which threatened domestic security in early modern England. Burglary, the loss...
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes...
Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the
Victorian culture is famous for its idealization of mothers and families, yet the popular novels of this period frequently feature mothers who are dead or otherwise absent. Through an analysis...
Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England
When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery,' he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by...
Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in
Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing. Plays, pamphlets and political treatises of this period display an...
Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion
This book examines the relationship between literature and religious conflict in seventeenth-century England, showing how literary texts grew out of and addressed the contemporary controversy over ceremonial worship. Examining the...
The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of
Between 1550 and 1850, the great age of mercantilism, the English people remade themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities divided by feudal loyalties, dialects and even languages,...
The Scottish Invention of English Literature
The Scottish Invention of English Literature explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the academy. It demonstrates how the subject began in eighteenth-century Scottish universities before being...
The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early
Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining print culture, particularly the historical entanglement between the technology of print and a developing capitalism. Attention to the controversies surrounding...
Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England: Browne's Skull and
Howard Marchitello's study of narrative techniques in Renaissance discourse analyses imaginative conjunctions of literary texts, such as those by Shakespeare and Browne, with developments in scientific and technical writing. In...
The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of
It is a critical commonplace to note sharp cultural differences between Elizabethan and Jacobean England. But how and why did this transition take place? What kinds of decisions and assumptions...
An Introduction to Modern Literary Arabic
The lessons are clear, in non-technical language, and have generous examples, with plenty of exercises for translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. This is the manual...
Ezra Pound as Literary Critic
What literary historians describe as the modernist' movement in literature - in which Ezra Pound doubled as major poet and principal publicist - is currently being revalued by practitioners of...
STEVIE SMITH A BIOGRAPHY PA
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The book titled STEVIE SMITH A BIOGRAPHY PA by the author F Spalding. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise
English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and...
Nothing To Be Frightened Of
I don t believe in God, but I miss him. Julian Barnes new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation...
Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U. S.
Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British...
Maurice Bowra: A Life
Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and...
Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture
This volume trace ways in which time is represented in reverse forms throughout modernist culture, from the beginning of the twentieth century until the decade after World War II. Though...
Jonson's Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation
Ben Jonson was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. By the...
Devolving English Literature
Questions the manner in which, since the 18th century, a supposed English cultural centre has controlled the way we read. The author interrogates the Anglocentricity of the subject "English literature",...
Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet
The book titled Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet by the author Dr. Germaine Greer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Shelley: The Pursuit
The book titled Shelley: The Pursuit by the author Richard Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Uses of Error
The book titled The Uses of Error by the author Frank Kermode. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature, 1375-1707
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This anthology is intended to answer the need for a large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, which is felt particularly acutely in the academic field. It has been designed as...
Journey of No Return: Five German Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain,
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Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...
There Are Kermodians: A Liber Amicorum For Frank Kermode
CONTENTS WORDS AND MUSIC 1. Quiet Subversive John Updike 2. A Sonnet Setting Alexander Goehr 3. Brooksmith by Henry James Daniel Stern 4. Recollections Robert Tear 5. Afterwards Al Alvarez...
B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
Author of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and other popular novels about Mexico, B. Traven surrounded his identity with mysteries designed to confound biographers. Now Heidi Zogbaum has produced...
Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy
The book titled Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy by the author M.H. Zool. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Doris Lessing
This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content. From The Grass is Singing...
The Uncollected Dorothy Parker
During the early years of her literary career Dorothy Parker wrote more than 300 poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Many of these were collected...
Critical Enquiries: Essays on Literature
This collection brings together a group of Wallace Robson's most important essays, both published and unpublished, and carries an introduction reviewing the practice of criticism and critical theory today. The...
Impressions Of Theophrastus Such
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With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest George Eliot scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism and...
After Hannibal
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger, "a vivid, sinuous, profound, and entirely beguiling venture." -Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times. Set in the beautiful landscape and rich history of...
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess
WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider...
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction-a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He...
Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude
A re-reading of The Prelude in the light of post-structuralist and feminist theory, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference is the first major study of The Prelude by an author distinguished...
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present. Hart now presents...
Comedy
From Plautus, Cervantes and Dickens to Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller and Tom Stoppard, from "Midsummer Night's Dream" to "Arsenic and Old Lace" and Woody Allen, a wide range of novels,...
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of...
The Professor
Written before Jane Eyre, "The Professor" challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before and after marriage for its hero...
Tom Jones
Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines,...
The Prairie
Set in the immense landscape of the Great Plains, The Prairie (1827) addresses many questions raised by the penetration of the American west: the displacement of the Indians, the destruction...
The Pioneers
Originally published in 1823, "The Pioneers" is the first of Cooper's five "Leatherstocking Tales", and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town...