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  • Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745–1809

    Essays on His Works and Life

    by A.A. Markley ...
    Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, political philosophy-and to the project of revolutionary reform in the late ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Twelfth Night

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The Introduction explores the multiple factors that make up the play's rich textual, theatrical, critical and cultural history. Keir Elam surveys the play ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake

    by Kathryn Freeman ...
    It is not surprising that visitors to Blake’s cosmology – the most elaborate in the history of British text and design – often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information made available in recent decades regarding the relationship between Blake’s text and design and his biographical, political, social, and religious ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris

    Edited by Anna-Louise Milne ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Lyric Generations

    Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by G. Gabrielle Starr ...
    Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Virgil in the Renaissance

    by David Scott Wilson-Okamura ...
    The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Renaissance Poetry

    by Cristina Malcomson ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    This book, the first single volume to collate essays about sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry, explores the remarkable changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance poetry in the last twenty years. In the introduction Cristina Malcolmson argues that recent critical approaches have transformed traditional accounts of literary history by analysing the role of poetry ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace

    Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author

    by Holly Faith Nelson ...
    Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. Writing during a particularly complex time in Scottish literary history, Hogg, a working shepherd ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama

    Criticism, History, and Performance 1594-1998

    Edited by S. P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies ...
    Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

    by Elizabeth Teresa Howe ...
    Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Abraham

    by Ken Jackson ...
    In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision ... Read more

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