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  • Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

    Resisting Secularism

    Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington

    Series Book 3 - The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), renowned master printer and celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his lifetime. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of these letters. This volume contains his correspondences, many published for the first time, with three very different young women, all seeking to find their voice ... Read more

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  • Romeo and Juliet

    Third Series

    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare's use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging insights into the play. The richly illustrated introduction looks at the play's exceptionally beautiful and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, ... Read more

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  • The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

    Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Andrea’s thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and ... Read more

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  • Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences

    Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age

    by Jon Klancher ...
    Series Book 100 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In this important and innovative study, Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of poets, lecturers, moral philosophers, scientists and literary critics - including Coleridge, Godwin, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Fame and Failure 1720–1800

    The Unfulfilled Literary Life

    by Adam Rounce ...
    Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers, including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival Stockdale, Rounce discusses the inefficacy of apparent literary success, the forms of vanity and ... Read more

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  • Allegory and Enchantment

    An Early Modern Poetics

    What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by considering,in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, many ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth-Century England

    by Shannon Gayk ...
    Series Book 81 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, ... Read more

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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