Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Cambridge University Press Covenant and Republic
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Feminist Reading Early Modrn Cultre Emerging Subjects
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Cambridge University Press Salem Story
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
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Cambridge University Press Literary Patronage in England 16501800
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Othello The New Cambridge Shakespeare The Early Quartos
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Cambridge University Press English Shakespeares Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tragic Cosmos
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Cambridge University Press Impersonations
Book SynopsisWhy was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. Why were boys used to play female roles in drama, and how did such cross-dressing impact on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries? What was the place of women in the Renaissance theatre, either on the stage or in the audience? And what did society make of those women who significantly and successfully violated accepted gender boundaries? At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theatre, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.Trade Review'In [this] brilliant short book ... Orgel writes with unfailing clarity and authority, laying bare the steps of his own thinking step by step, encouraging us to entertain objections to his argument, each of which he carefully answers, while never losing sight of the central theme of his book.' New York Review of Books'Orgel's strength is in the sharp local perception - the scholarly insistence, for example, that despite the fantasies of critics and directors the text of Edward II does not call for an on-stage poker. Such rigour is a useful corrective to critical orthodoxies which abjure the unfashionably empirical.' New Theatre QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The performance of desire; 3. The eye of the beholder; 4. Call me Ganymede; 5. Masculine apparel; 6. Mankind witches; 7. Visible figures.
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Cambridge University Press The Romantic Reformation
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Cambridge University Press Constructing Christopher Marlowe
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Cambridge University Press Textual Intercourse
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Cambridge University Press Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Forest
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Jacobean Culture
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Cambridge University Press Printing Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
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Cambridge University Press Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England Brownes Skull and Other Histories 20 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 20
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Cambridge University Press Catholicism Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 15581660
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Cambridge University Press Miltons Warring Angels
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Spenser and the Crisis in Ireland 23 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 23
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Cambridge University Press The Marketplace of Print Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England 17 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1500 1600
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Cambridge University Press Women and Literature in Britain 17001800
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Cambridge University Press The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Culture in Renaissance England
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Cambridge University Press Womens Reading in Britain 17501835
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Cambridge University Press Myths of Modern Individualism Faust Don Quixote Don Juan Robinson Crusoe Canto original series
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, while the Romantic period two centuries later recreated them as admirable and even heroic. The twentieth century retained their prestige as mythical figures, but with a new note of criticism. Robinson Crusoe came much later than the other three, but his fate can be seen as representative of the new religious, economic and social attitudes which succeeded the Counter-Reformation. The four figures help to reveal problems of individualism in the modern period: solitude, narcissism, and the claims of the self versus the claims of society. They all pursue their own view of what they should be, raising strong questions about their heroes' character Trade Review'In its way this is as original a work as Watt's famous first book, The Rise of the Novel. It is a work of great maturity, testimony to the intelligence and civility of its author.' Frank Kermode'Ian Watt's magisterial Myths of Modern Individualism is a critical account - historical, cultural, moral and aesthetic - of how four great Western myths have insinuated themselves into the actualities of modern culture. Like all of Watt's work this is a remarkable work of the historical imagination, sympathetic without being fussy, erudite but always deft, analytic but very warm and witty. This is a book everyone should read.' Edward Said'Watt has dug deep and come up with indispensable revelations about where we come from and where we are now as we 'individuals' grapple with our inescapable complaints about, yet need for, 'society'.' The Boston Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Three Renaissance Myths: 1. From George Faust to Faustbuch; 2. The tragicall history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus; 3. Don Quixote of La Mancha; 4. El burlador and Don Juan; 5. Renaissance individualism and the Counter-Reformation; Part II. From Puritan Ethic To Romantic Apotheosis: 6. Robinson Crusoe; 7. Crusoe, ideology, and theory; 8. Romantic apotheosis of Renaissance myths; 9. Myth and individualism; Part III. Coda: Thoughts On The Twentieth Century: I. Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus; II. Michel Tournier's Friday; III. Some notes on the present; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of American Literature
Book SynopsisThis 1997 volume addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing. An interdisciplinary distillation of American literary history, it weds the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of interests that characterise contemporary literary studies. Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods.Trade Review'… this is, without doubt and without any serious rival, the scholarly history for our generation.' Journal of American Studies'… vast and eminently readable survey of twentieth century American literature …'. Use of EnglishTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The literature of colonisation Myra Jehlen; 2. New England puritan literature Emory Elliott; 3. British-American belles lettres David S. Shields; 4. The American enlightenment 1750–1820 Robert A. Ferguson; 5. The literature of the revolutionary and early national periods Michael T. Gilmore; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Imperialism Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity By Saree Makdisi published May 1998
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Cambridge University Press The Culture Of Slander in Early Mordern England
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Cambridge University Press Women and Literature in Britain 1700 1800
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Cambridge University Press homoeroticsofearlymoderndrama
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Cambridge University Press Othello
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press Textual Intercourse Collaboration authorship and sexualities in Renaissance drama 14 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit 18 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press The Scottish Invention of English Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Royal Image
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Cambridge University Press The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
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Cambridge University Press The Triumph of Augustan Poetics English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson 36 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press The Country and the City Revisited England and the Politics of Culture 15501850
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Cambridge University Press Stoicism Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Troy
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Cambridge University Press Gender and the Formation of Taste in EighteenthCentury Britain
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