Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Cambridge University Press Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Milton Authorship and the Book Trade
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Colonial Writing and the New World 15831671
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Hamlet
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Cambridge University Press MILTON AND REPUBLICANISM IDEAS IN CONTEXT 035 By Armitage David Author Sep241998 Paperback
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Cambridge University Press Women and Property in the EighteenthCentury English Novel
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Cambridge University Press Reading the French Enlightenment System and Subversion 60 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 60
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Cambridge University Press The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s Print Culture and the Public Sphere 36 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press The Grammar of Empire in EighteenthCentury British Writing
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey Volume 52 Shakespeare and The Globe
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Cambridge University Press The Geography of Empire in English Literature 15801745
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Cambridge University Press Theatre Court and City 15951610
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Cambridge University Press Writing and Political Engagement in SeventeenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature 33 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 33
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Masculinity
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Cambridge University Press The American Puritan Elegy A Literary and Cultural Study 123 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 123
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Cambridge University Press Constructing Cromwell
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 17621800
Book SynopsisThis book questions the historical reasons for the improbable popularity of supernatural fiction in the Age of Enlightenment, examining Gothic novels in the context of contemporary theatrical ghosts, and drawing out the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism.Trade Review'Clery's breadth recalls Raymond Williams who could also have written a powerful statement like this … The Rise of Supernatural Fiction should be read by an audience far wider than one concerned with Gothic culture alone.' The Wordsworth Circle'… superbly articulate and engaging … this latest addition to the excellent Cambridge Studies in Romanticism series is a refreshingly new 'empirical' approach to fantastic literature that relates its contents to issues of social, political and economic change'. The Byron Journal'… a thoroughly and widely researched book … intermittently witty as well as given to acute and insightful analysis'. Romanticism on the Net'The best book to appear on the Gothic this year.' Year's Work in English Studies'Clery's is one of the best books on the novel in the Romantic period which I have recently read. [Clery] provides splendidly selected and marshalled evidence in support of her thesis. But perhaps best of all, she situates her discussions within, and constantly refers to the power of, the novel-reading market-place of the Romantic period. This allows Clery, more successfully than any other critic I have read, to establish the institutional links between the providers and consumers of supernatural fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, authoritatively to present the cultural expectations of audiences concerning the Gothic novels and romances they read and thus to trace the emergence of something like the modern literary industry. This is the single most vitalizing and illuminating element in Clery's work, and permits her a perspective on her materials of which all later students will have to take account … She is entirely expert and au fait in her handling of both the historical and cultural, and the literary aspects of her study. Her writing is informed by theory but remains clean and lucid, and she has a talent for aphorism which she uses to great effect … To add to its many other charms, The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800 has fascinating and extensive notes and an excellent bibliography. Altogether, Clery's book is a landmark'. RomanticismTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Techniques of Ghost-Seeing: 1. The case of the Cock Lane ghost; 2. Producing enthusiastic terror; Part II. The Business of Romance: 3. The advantages of history; 4. Back to the future; 5. The value of the supernatural in a commercial society; Part III. The Strange Luxury of Artificial Terror: 6. Women, luxury and the sublime; 7. The supernatural explained; 8. Like a heroine; Part IV. Magico-Political Tales: 9. The terrorist system; 10. Conspiracy, subversion, supernaturalism; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Professional Career
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Cambridge University Press The Taming of the Shrew
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Cambridge University Press Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare in Production
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Cambridge University Press Bodies Selves Early Mod England Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser Shakespeare Herbert and Milton 34 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 34
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeares History Plays Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.Trade Review'… a dazzling, reader-friendly tutorial in reading Shakespearean drama.' Emily Bartels, Rutgers University, New Jersey'I'll be entirely happy to recommend this to students. It's accessible, it's divided up by topic in a way that reflects the different approaches one might take to Shakespeare in class (e.g. structure/genre, historical context), the suggestions for further reading are realistic and helpful and include well-chosen online materials, and it's framed in a way that invites further discussion either in the classroom or in the study.' Tom Rutter, Sheffield Hallam UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Character; 2. Performance; 3. Texts; 4. Language; 5. Structure; 6. Sources; 7. History.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeares Comedies
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Cambridge University Press THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARES TRAGEDIES
Book SynopsisA lively and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies, this 2007 book begins with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considers each of Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically. It includes helpful text boxes and detailed chapters on Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear, among other plays.Trade Review'Dillon provides an excellent brief account of English tragedies before Shakespeare.' Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Tragedy before Shakespeare; 2. Titus Andronicus; 3. Romeo and Juliet; 4. Julius Caesar; 5. Hamlet; 6. Othello; 7. Timon of Athens; 8. King Lear; 9. Macbeth; 10. Antony and Cleopatra; 11. Coriolanus.
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Cambridge University Press Players of Shakespeare 5
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Cambridge University Press thecambridgecompaniontorabelais
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisSome of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companion illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given to both texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and major genres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picture books. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children's literature and the impact of publishing practices. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this Companion will be essential reading for all students and scholars of children's literature, offering original readings and new reseTrade Review'… concise, stimulating comments on other school stories from the late 20th century, such as Diana Wynne Jones's Witch Week, help cast the conventions and conventionality of the Harry Potter books into relief and draw attention to the numerous alternative school stories out there.' www.parentcentral.ca'The Cambridge Companion, lucid, entertaining, and with hardly a word wasted, locates itself in an accessible, mainstream position, and generally does an outstanding job of playing critical and historical catch-up on its more established literary fellow disciplines … beautiful to behold - books to cheer the bookperson's heart, and the inclusion in the series of a volume on Children's Literature, especially one as good as this, should be the cause of unalloyed delight.' Modern Language Review' … excellent, straightforward collection that covers the fundamentals. It is also a collection that inspires readers to delve deeper … provides a perfect sampling of scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students, but this collection should also appeal to established scholars and experts in the field.' MuseTable of ContentsPreface M. O. Grenby and Andrea Immel; Chronology Eric J. Johnson; Part I. Contexts and Genres: 1. The origins of children's literature M. O. Grenby; 2. Children's books and the constructions of childhood Andrea Immel; 3. The making of children's books Brian Alderson; 4. Picture book worlds and ways of seeing Katie Trumpener; 5. The fear of poetry Richard Flynn; 6. Retelling stories across time and cultures John Stephens; 7. Classics and canons Deborah Stevenson; Part II. Audiences: 8. Learning to be literate Lissa Paul; 9. Gender roles in children's fiction Judy Simons; 10. Children's texts and the grown-up reader U. C. Knoepfelmacher; 11. Ideas of difference in children's literature Lynne Vallone; Part III. Forms and Themes: 12. Changing families in children's fiction Kimberley Reynolds; 13. Traditions of the school story Mavis Reimer; 14. Fantasy's alternative geography for children Andrea Immel, U. C. Knoepfelmacher and Julia Briggs; 15. Animal and object stories David Rudd; 16. Humour and the body in children's literature Roderick McGillis; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Novel Relations
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Cambridge University Press Hamlet without Hamlet
Book SynopsisThis book challenges the common-place conception of Hamlet as an introverted figure, estranged from the world around him. It reveals the play as a drama of princely dispossession set in a volatile political context, whose concerns are crucially those of land and empire, inheritance and religion.Trade Review'… boldly original and richly stimulating book … one of the most rewarding critical accounts of this over-interpreted play to have appeared for some time.' Professor Dr Dieter Mehl'… 'Hamlet' without Hamlet is a powerful, tremendously erudite, and often brilliantly inventive reckoning of what time has done to our ability to read, and to comprehend, Shakespeare's play.' Shakespeare Quarterly'De Grazia certainly blows some dust off this most familiar of plays.' Plays International'Anyone, at any level, interested in how drama engages with models of the mind will benefit from its author's combination of sophisticated and sensitive close-reading with compendious knowledge of the history of ideas and criticism.' New Theatre Quarterly'This fascinating book is full of genuine insight; its analysis of critical history is salutary and worthwhile.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface: Hamlet without Hamlet; 1. Modern Hamlet; 2. 'Old Mole': the modern Telos and the return to dust; 3. Empires of world history; 4. Generation and degeneracy; 5. Doomsday and domain; 6. Hamlet's delay; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeares Last Plays Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Womens Writing
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Cambridge University Press How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Republicanism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThe French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advancTrade Review'The questions [this book] raises are central to any adequate understanding of the literature of the 1790s, and central, I suspect, to an understanding of the relationship between literature and politics in any period. For that reason, and for the high quality of the individual essays, it is to be welcomed.' Richard Cronin, Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsChronology; Preface; 1. The political context H. T. Dickinson; 2. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France David Bromwich; 3. Paine, Rights of Man Mark Philp; 4. Burke and Paine: contrasts David Duff; 5. Wollstonecraft, Vindications and Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution Jane Rendall; 6. Godwin, Political Justice Pamela Clemit; 7. Wollstonecraft and Godwin: dialogues Nancy E. Johnson; 8. Popular radical culture Jon Mee; 9. Counter-revolutionary culture Kevin Gilmartin; 10. Women's voices Gina Luria Walker; 11. Novels of opinion M. O. Grenby; 12. Revolutionary drama Gillian Russell; 13. Politics and poetry Simon Bainbridge; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Workmanship
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Cambridge University Press Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Individualism
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Cambridge University Press Autobiography in Early Modern England
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