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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

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  • Barry Lyndon

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of a gambler ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Sara M. Deats ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Complementing other volumes in the Shakespeare Criticism Series, this collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater. The essays will cover a wide spectrum of topics and utilize a diversity of scholarly methodologies, including textual and performance-oriented approaches, intertextual studies, as ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Immaterial Book

    Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

    by Sarah Wall-Randell ...
    In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and The Tempest, Wroth’s Urania, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It offers a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... Read more

    $144.99 USD

  • The Moving Pageant

    A Literary Sourcebook on London Street Life, 1700-1914

    by Rick Allen ...
    The Moving Pageant is the first annotated anthology of writings on London street life. It comprises nearly one hundred extracts from over two centuries of literary life, including pieces by:* Alexander Pope* Jonathan Swift* Daniel Defoe* Samuel Johnson* Eliza Haywood* Horace Walpole* William Hazlitt* William Wordsworth* Charles Dickens* Flora Tristan* Edgar Allen Poe* Charlotte Bronte* Fyodo... ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Peter J. Smith, Dr. Deborah Cartmell ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Disknowledge

    Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England

    by Katherine Eggert ...
    Series series Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
    "Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear

    by Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time.This ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Shakespeare And The Victorians

    Edited by Adrian Poole ...
    Series series Arden Critical Companions
    Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known. ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Allegory and Enchantment

    An Early Modern Poetics

    by Jason Crawford ...
    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