Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Anna Letitia Barbauld and EighteenthCentury
Book SynopsisScholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century's foremost writers.Trade ReviewWatkins makes a solid case for treating Barbauld as a major poet. Choice Watkin's own vision of Barbauld, presented in Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics, is a useful one. His detailed exploration of the intellectual and visionary scope of Barbauld's poetry will no doubt have a significant impact on the way in which this still underappreciated writer is subsequently viewed. -- Claire Knowles European Romantic Review Daniel Watkins's Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics makes a convincing case for reading Barbauld's published volumes as volumes, rather than as atomized poems... It is a bold claim, but one borne out by the quality of Barbauld's poetry. The Year's Work in English Studies Watkins's work offers a remarkable guide to [Barbaul's Poems], and a fine celebration of Barbauld's distinctive political and poetic intellect. The Year's Work in English Studies Thoughtfully engaging with major trends in critical perspectives on female poetics, Watkin's goal, explored in his introduction, is to enlarge our discussions of women's writing in the period... This, indeed, is the great strength of his discussion of Barbauld as visionary and as poet: he seeks to bring out the allusive richness of each poem while remaining alert t the larger aims of the volume as a whole. -- Felicity James Modern Language Review ... Watkins is the reader Barbauld deserves. -- Harriet Kramer Linkin Tulsa Studies in Women's LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Barbauld's Poems in Context2. Politics, Vision, and Pastoral3. Satire, Antipastoral, and Visionary Poetics4. Personal Life and Visionary Poetics5. Reflections on Writing6. The Personal and Biblical Principles of Poetic Vision7. God, Vision, and the Political MomentConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£54.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Literature Religion and the Evolution of Culture
Book SynopsisLiterature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780 analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord George Gordon, Nathaniel Lancaster, Henry Sacheverell, Tobias Smollett, and Edward Synge.Trade ReviewEach chapter is brilliant, informed by Weinbrot's astonishingly wide reading and ability to make the past come alive... As he has done before, Weinbrot makes serious intellectual history fun... Highly recommended. Choice Professor Weinbrot ranges wide and delves deep in this study, which could nostalgically be called intellectual history... Moreover, Weinbrot provides accurate and succinct historical summaries along the way. -- Robert G. Walker Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture is a formidable work of scholarship written by one of the period's sharpest critics. Its erudition is pronounced, its analysis acute... Digital Defoe Weinbrot's examination of the gradual evolution of English cultural perceptions of religious "others" makes an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. The University of Chicago Press Mr. Weinbrot's study is an infinitely rewarding sourcebook for important eighteenth-century religious concepts (including passive obedience, the Thirtieth of January Sermon, or Augustinianism) and movements (such as Methodism). Without doubt, he offers a most impressive reconstruc- tion of the raging religious feuds. Moreover, his study of Defoe's monumental Shortest Way with the Dissenters is as careful as it is penetrating. His book is informed by his keen sense of injustice: its pages are suffused with his indignation about cruelties, such as the "state terrorism"... Scriblerian ... a watershed moment in our field. Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Groundwork of ChangeA Note on NotesPart I: Threats to the Species: Madness, Discontent, and the Danger of Dissolution1. Causation and Contexts of Hatred: Savage Beasts Mortal and Deadly2. Madness, Extirpation, and Defoe's Shortest Way withthe DissentersPart II: Taking the Cure and Improving the Species: Sermons, Compulsion, and Methodists3. The Thirtieth of January Sermon: From Exterminationto Inclusion4. "Compel Them to Come In," Luke 14:23: From Persecution toPersuasion; Against Augustinian Compulsion5. Adopt Men From All the Nations of the Earth: Equiano's ConversionPart III: Evolutionary Reversion: The Gordon Riots, Return to Rage, and Reinventing a Cure6. Déjà Vu All Over Again? The Gordon Riots; Bedlam Revisited, Restoration of Order, and a Trial on Trial7. A Very Near Thing: State Terrorism, the Fury of the Aggrieved, and Incompatibility with the Safety of Millions8. Coping, Repairing, and Dickens' Barnaby RudgeIllustrating EvolutionIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Monstrous Motherhood
Book SynopsisMonstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields.Trade ReviewThe virtues of this study are too many to recite here. Francus's work is a pleasure to read; it is thoroughly researched and very carefully planned... Monstrous Motherhood is a significant study with a great deal to add to our understanding of the representation of mothers in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. -- Jennifer Golightly Women's History Review In short, Francus' book is an important insight into a complex topic. It uncovers fascinating material drawn from both historical and literary sources, delivering an invaluable and compelling study. -- Teresa Barnard BARS Bulletin and Review One doesn't need to be an expert on eighteenth-century literature to appreciate the extent of Marilyn Francus's study. -- Allen Zhang MAKE: A Literary Magazine With her deft interweaving of the literary and historical and expansive overview of a broad number of complex texts, Marilyn Francus develops, through her nuanced readings, our understanding of imperatives and anxieties surrounding the domestic ideal in eighteenth-century Britain. Her book is an invaluable addition to women's studies as well as literature and culture of the eighteenth century. -- Tanya M. Caldwell New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century Francus complicates discourses on domesticity prevalent in literary and historical contexts by analyzing texts in various genres written by both male and female authors. In so doing, she rightly asks us to rethink what critics and theorists have called "domestic ideology." -- Natalia Roxburgh Eighteenth-Century Fiction Francus's readings employ a broadly psychoanalytical hermeneutic, with much interesting textual, contextual, and critical matter. Years Work in English Studies Marilyn Francus's Monstrous Motherhood is a meticulously researched and comprehensive study that will change the way our field discusses domesticity and is essential reading for scholars of literature, women's studies, and cultural studies. -- Phyllis Ann Thompson ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts In Monstrous Motherhood, Marilyn Francus offers a provocative examination of 18th-century domestic ideology... In the way of groundbreaking studies, Monstrous Motherhood is replete with intriguing opportunities for future work. -- Karen Gevirtz Wordsworth Circle Marilyn Francus's Monstrous Motherhood is a wide-reaching, deeply researched and vitally important look at the construction of motherhood. The Eighteenth-Century IntelligencerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Ideology of Domesticity Reexamined1. Mothers of the Apocalypse: Maternal Allegory and Myth in Swift and Pope2. All Too Human: Maternal Monstrosity and Hester Thrale3. Suffer the Little Children? The Infanticidal Motherin Literature4. Until Proven Innocent: Infanticide in the Public Record and in Court5. Be Monstrous or Be Marginal: Stepmothers in Literature6. Pin the Tale on the Stepmother: Elizabeth Allen and the Burneys7. But She's Not There: The Rise of theSpectral MotherNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sounding Imperial
Book SynopsisSounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry's unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book, and one that will appeal not just to lovers of poetry but to historians of the Empire and sociologists who study trans-national influences. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Miami Sounding Imperial is a very readable book. It will be mainly of interest to students and scholars of English literature and history. -- Sadhana Naithani Journal of Folklore Research James Mulholland has produced an important new study of eighteenth-century British poetry... -- Evan Gottlieb Review of English Studies James Mulholland's Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820 brings the context of British imperialism to Romantic-era poetics, illuminating the concerns of orientalism within the history of print culture. -- Adela Pinch Studies in English Literature What Sounding Imperial tells us about colonialism and culture is that we need to look again at their relationship with fresh eyes. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Aesthetics of Poetic Voice1. Thomas Gray, Virtual Authorship, and the Performed VoiceAuthoring Gray's "Elegy"Performing Gray's "Elegy"Impersonating the Bard?Wildness and Welsh ProsodyQuotation Marks(Un)Editing the Bards2. Wales, Public Poetry, and the Politics of Collective VoiceBardic Nationalism ReconsideredThe Aboriginal Aesthetics of Iolo MorganwgListening to the Welsh PastDead Voices Reanimated3. Scotland and the Invention of VoicePrimitive Passions, Poetry Addiction, HistoryAmbiguous SpeechWriting, Re- performance, and Restored VoicesIntimate HailingOssian's Afterlife4. Impersonating Native Voices in Anglo- Indian PoetryWilliam Jones and the Fountainhead of VerseMaking the Subaltern SpeakRewriting Gray's "The Bard" in IndiaDislocated OrientalismCoda: Reading the Archive of the InauthenticNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Let There Be Enlightenment
Book SynopsisChallenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism. According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought. The essays probe a wide range of subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius's quest for universal enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor, Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza's theology, and the unexpected persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. ETrade ReviewThis book has many merits. All of its chapters are very original and even groundbreaking in several respects. By employing interdisciplinary approaches that pay due attention to both texts and contexts, the contributors to this volume rediscover and revalue several intellectual currents and figures traditionally neglected by historiography . . . [Let There Be Enlightenment] provides excellent food for thought for both specialists in the field and educated lay readers willing to acquire a deeper insight into this fascinating and complex period of human history.—Diego Lucci, American University in Bulgaria, Journal of Jesuit StudiesI am delighted to have this collection in my library . . . [Let There Be Enlightenment] asserts stronger and more complex continuities between medieval thought and the Enlightenment, making it worth noting for not only specialists in early modern history, but more broadly scholars of religion and ideas in pre-nineteenth-century Europe.—Chad Denton, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. LuxChapter 1. Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light Chapter 2. Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French EnlightenmentChapter 3. The "Lights" before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public OpinionChapter 4. Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of LightPart II. VeritasChapter 5. Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on "Christ's Disciples" and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Chapter 6. A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of PowerChapter 7. Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early-Modern ScholasticismChapter 8. The Aristotelian EnlightenmentPart III: TenebraeChapter 9. Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660–1740Chapter 10. Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century CultureChapter 11. Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century FranceChapter 12. Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment's EnlightenmentContributorsIndex
£47.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Artifacts
Book SynopsisA literary history of the old, broken, rusty, dusty, and moldy stuff that people dug up in England during the long eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century, antiquarieswary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historiansused old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning was not self-evident, tell people about the past?In Artifacts, Crystal B. Lake unearths the four kinds of old objects that were most frequently found and cataloged in Enlightenment-era England: coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods. Following these prized objects as they made their way into popular culture, Lake develops new interpretations of works by Joseph Addison, John Dryden, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, among others. Rereading these authors with the artifact in Trade ReviewWhile this review singles out only a few, Lake's examination of the narratives generated by many eighteenth-century first responders to coins, weapons, manuscripts and grave goods, is thorough and illuminating, as are her detailed and scholarly readings of literary texts where artifacts shape form and content.—Frances Singh, Hostos Community College, CUNY (emerita), Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer[A] engaging and thought-provoking study.—Kate Smith, University of Birmingham, Journal of British Studies..., the book is a powerful reminder of the nuances that paying more attention to objects can bring to the study of the intersections between literature and politics in the long eighteenth century.—Giacomo Savani, University College Dublin, Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsPrologue. Things Speaking for ThemselvesPart I. Terms and ContextsChapter 1. Leaving Room to Guess Chapter 2. Ten Thousand GimcracksPart II. Case StudiesChapter 3. Coins: The Most Vocal Monuments Chapter 4. Manuscripts: Burnt to a Crust Chapter 5. Weapons: A Wilderness of Arms Chapter 6. Grave Goods: The Kings' Four BodiesAfterword. The Artifactual FormNotesWorks CitedIndex
£76.47
Johns Hopkins University Press Downward Mobility
Book SynopsisHow do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells the tale of bankruptcy and financial failure, of people losing everything and ending up in debtor's prison, of inheritances lost and daughters left orphaned and poor. In Downward Mobility, Katherine Binhammer argues that these stories of ruin are not simple tales about the losers of capitalism but narratives that help manage speculation of capital's inevitable collapse. Bringing together contemporary critical finance studies with eighteenth-century literary history, Binhammer demonstrates the centrality of the myth of downward mobility to the cultural history of capitalismand to the emergence of the novel in Britain. Deftly weaving economic history and formal analysis, Binhammer reveals how capitalism requires the novel's complex techTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Fictitious Capital and the Social History of Debt 2. Leveraging Fiction: When Debt Becomes Equity 3. Narrative Exchange: The Value of Stories-within-Stories 4. The Plot of Capital I: Cecilia and Risk Management 5. The Plot of Capital II: Camilla, Closure, and the Realization of Capital Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Chronicle Books You Kiss by th Book New Poems from Shakespeares
Book SynopsisIn his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare in the Theatre The American
Book SynopsisPaul Menzer is Professor and the Director of the Mary Baldwin College MLitt/MFA Shakespeare and Performance graduate programTable of ContentsChapter 1: Revolutionary Nostalgia Chapter 2: A Peculiar Institution Chapter 3: Bringing History to Light Chapter 4: Ready or not Chapter 5: In Others’ Words Appendices: Timelines; Performance history; Architectural History Bibliography Notes Index
£33.22
Ave Maria University Press Jacobean Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe eminent Shakespeare scholar Peter Milward, S.J. here presents an analysis of Shakespeare’s late plays that is both accessible to beginners and beneficial to seasoned scholars.
£23.70
Ave Maria University Press Elizabethan Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTo know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together—or what T. S. Eliot calls ""the pattern in his carpet”.
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