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  • A Tale in Two Cities

    Fanny Burney and Adèle, Comtesse de Boigne

    by Brian Unwin ...
    Fanny Burney and Adele, Comtesse de Boigne, were two of the most remarkable female writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: one a famous novelist, the other an aristocrat from one of France's most ancient families. This was the tumultuous era which saw the French Revolution, the Napoleonic years and the July 1830 Revolution in France; and in England the 'madness' of George ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • Shakespeare: A Life

    by Park Honan ...
    In the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life ever written, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Cymbeline

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    In Cymbeline, Ancient Britain's female heir to the throne is slandered by a decadent Italian while the Romans invade Britain to retain it as part of their empire. Shakespeare's late romance is full of unpredictable conjunctions that are explored in the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition. Valerie Wayne takes a transformative look at the play's critical and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

    by Maureen N. McLane ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The White Devil: A Critical Reader

    by Paul Frazer, Dr Adam Hansen ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notoriously challenging work; this volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the play, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's performance, beginning with its first staging in 1611 ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature

    by Raphael Lyne ...
    This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works. Using terms derived from psychology – implicit and explicit memory, interference and forgetting – Raphael Lyne shows how works by Renaissance writers such as Wyatt, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton interact with their sources. The poems and plays in ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Betty A. Schellenberg ...
    The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century. Using personal correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into contemporary print culture and sociological models of professionalisation, Betty A. ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

    by 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 ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • The Challenges of Orpheus

    Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England

    by Heather Dubrow ...
    This critical exploration of how we define lyric poetry is "thorough, penetrating, and on the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship" ( Choice).As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define. The term is conventionally applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts, but many critics have questioned the underlying assumptions of this definition. While many people ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Teresa Barnard ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male intellectual achievement in the long eighteenth century. Disseminating their knowledge through ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Theater of Experiment

    Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Al Coppola ...
    The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "staged" in a double sense. On the one hand, this study analyzes science in performance: the way that science and scientists ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750–1850

    by M. Nuss ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD