Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Cambridge University Press Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England 25 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 25
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Cambridge University Press The Limits of Eroticism in PostPetrarchan Narrative
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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 Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Culture in Renaissance England
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Cambridge University Press Reformation of the Subject Spenser Milton and the English Protestant Epic 6 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
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Cambridge University Press Elizabethan Mythologies
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Cambridge University Press Travel and Drama in Shakespeares Time
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Cambridge University Press Defending Literature in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Colonial Writing and the New World Allegories of Desire
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Cambridge University Press Writing Gender and State in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThe early modern period saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book offers four illuminating case studies, centred on the work of women writers in the act of self-definition, illustrating the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining male and female identities.Trade Review'… is a bold and much-needed attempt to analyse the relationship between women and the state.' The Times Literary Supplement'… succeed[s] in emphasising the variety of early modern women's writing.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Resistance, Reformation, and the remaining narratives; 2. Framing recusant identity in counter-Reformation England; 3. Legislating morality in the marriage market; 4. Gender formation in English apocalyptic writing; 5. Connections, qualifications, and agendas; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Metaphysical Wit
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Cambridge University Press Milton and the Drama of History
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Cambridge University Press Textual Performances
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Cambridge University Press Francis Bacon The State and Reform
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the American Nation
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Cambridge University Press Speech and Performance in Shakespeares Sonnets and Plays
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Cambridge University Press Voyages in Print
Book SynopsisAmerican colonial voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure - as noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism; this study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.Trade Review"Mary C. Fuller has written a wonderful account of the early English Voyages....We who are interested to read and write those other histories have in Fuller's book a model combination of historical insight, thorough research, lively writing, and good ideas about the function of the aesthetic and the rhetorical in the psychodramas of nation-building." Mary Baine Campbell, American Historical Review"Mary Fuller's book is an invigorating addition to the current discussion of travel writing and its relationship to colonial theory which has captivated the critical community of late. What is so refreshing about Fuller's argument is her focus on 'demystifying the early history of English America as glorious expansion....Fuller's book has many strengths to recommend it....Fuller's welcome book points the way toward as yet unexplored territory that will undoubtedly be probed by critics well into the twenty first century-critics who like the the travelers Fuller profiles, will be in pursuit of textual gold for themselves." Lora Edmister Geriguis, JOurnal of English and Germanic Philology"The great virtue of the book is...that it provides yet further demonstration of the extent to which literary scholars have made their own the entire subject of English overseas exploration which was studied by successive generations of historians ranging from Froude and Seeley in the ninteenth to A.L. Rowse in the present century, but which is now ignored by most practitioners of the history of early modern Britain." Nicholas Canny, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Early ventures: writing under the Gilbert and Ralegh patents; 2. Ralegh's discoveries: the two voyages to Guiana; 3. Mastering words: the Jamestown colonists and John Smith; 4. The 'great prose epic': Hakluyt's Voyages; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworths Reading 1770 1799
Book SynopsisThis directory of the authors and books known to have been read by William Wordsworth up to the age of twenty-nine provides an essential reference tool - in a compact, easy-to-use form - for all scholars and students of Wordsworth's work.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Dates of readings; A note on texts; Wordsworth's reading 1770–1799; Appendix I: possible readings; Appendix II: Wordsworth's Hawkshead and classical educations, and his College examinations at Cambridge; Appendix III: books purchased for Wordsworth, 1784–6; Appendix IV: Wrangham and his library; Appendix V: Thomas Poole's library and the Stowey Book Society; Appendix VI: Coleridge's Bristol Library borrowings; Appendix VII: Joseph Cottle's Bristol Library borrowings; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworths Reading 1800 1815
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Cambridge University Press Science Reading Renaissance Lit The Art of Making Knowledge 15801670 46 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press Michel de Montaigne
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Cambridge University Press Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
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Cambridge University Press The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
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Cambridge University Press The 18C Hymn in England 19 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication
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Cambridge University Press Robert South 1634 1716
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Cambridge University Press Family and Law in 18C Fiction The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere 15 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press The Texts of King Lear and Their Origins
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Cambridge University Press Arguments of Augustan Wit 11 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Serial History Plays
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Cambridge University Press Samuel Johnson and The Making of Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Animal Rights 58 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 58
Book SynopsisIn England in the second half of the eighteenth century an unprecedented amount of writing urged kindness to animals. This theme was carried in many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, from scientific works to literature for children, and in the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others. Romanticism and Animal Rights discusses the arguments writers used, and the particular meanings of these arguments in a social and economic context so different from the present. After introductory chapters, the material is divided according to specific practices that particularly influenced feeling or aroused protest: pet keeping, hunting, baiting, working animals, eating them, and the various harms inflicted on wild birds. The book shows how extensively English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights. In this respect it joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for our own ecological concerns.Trade Review'This is a welcome book … he not only provides the kind of scholarship that is necessary to inform the more general picture of animal studies, he also leaves plenty of scope for more detailed accounts of particular issues. What is more he does it through in an engagingly frank and clear approach to his reader.' Literature & HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. In the beginning of animal rights; 2. Grounds of argument; 3. Keeping pets: William Cowper and his hares; 4. Barbarian pleasures: against hunting; 5. Savage amusements of the poor: John Clare's badger sonnets; 6. Work animals, slaves, servants: Coleridge's young ass; 7. The slaughterhouse and the kitchen: Charles Lamb's 'Dissertation upon Roast Pig'; 8. Caged birds and wild; Notes; Bibliographical essay; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey v55 An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production King Lear and Its Afterlife Shakespeare Survey Series Number 55
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey v56 An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production Shakespeare and Comedy Shakespeare Survey Series Number 56
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey v57 An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production Macbeth and Its Afterlife Shakespeare Survey Series Number 57
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Cambridge University Press The Visaladevar Aasa A Restoration of the Text 26 University of Cambridge Oriental Publications Series Number 26
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Cambridge University Press Gender on Stage Early Mod England 28 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 28
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Cambridge University Press Authors to Themselves
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Cambridge University Press Crime and Defoe A New Kind of Writing 16 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 16
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the 'literary', even 'aesthetic' qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analysing the ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of 'literary' texts against those of a more 'ordinary' form of narrative.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Romancing the real: the field of criminal biography; 2. Defoe's realism: rough frames, strange voices, surprisingly various subjects and readers made more present to themselves; 3. The copious text: opening the door to inference, or, room for those who know how to read it; 4. Imitations of an invisible hand: the mind exercised, enlarged and kept in play by strange concurrences; 5. The general scandal upon business: unanswerable doubts, and the texts as a field supporting very nice distinctions; 6. The frontiers of dishonesty, the additions and concurrence of circumstances: more on the strategic situating of names; 7. Notions different from all the world: criminal stupidity, the self, and the symbolic order; Closing comments: truth, complexity, common sense and empty spaces.
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Cambridge University Press Philip Massinger
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Cambridge University Press Making the English Canon
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Cambridge University Press The Scottish Invention of English Literature
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Cambridge University Press Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature
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