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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 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 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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Cambridge University Press Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V
Book SynopsisThis is the first stage history of Shakespeare''s King Henry V to cover the play''s theatrical life since its first performance in 1599. Staging this play has always been a political act, and the substantial introduction traces its theatrical interventions into conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and the Falklands crisis, offering a complete account of the play''s fortunes: from its absence in the seventeenth century to its dominant position as historical spectacle in the Victorian period, through twentieth-century productions, which include the popular films by Olivier and Branagh. Together they raise vital interpretative questions: is Henry V an epic of English nationalism, a knowing and cynical piece of power politics, or an anti-war manifesto? The volume also includes the play text, illustrations and detailed footnotes about major performances.Trade Review'I cannot recommend too highly the whole series (a bargain at £16.99 for each play) to all theatre lovers, theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.' Robert Tanitch, What's on in LondonTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Series editors' preface; List of abbreviations; Select chronology of English-language performances; Introduction; King Henry V and commentary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Romance of the New World Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism 27 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 27
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Globe Rebuilt
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Milton and EighteenthCentury Literary Editing The Beginnings of Interpretative Scholarship 35 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press The Story of the Voyage SeaNarratives in EighteenthCentury England 24 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Sensibility Race Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel 18 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Rural Life in 18th Century Poetry 27 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 27
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Cambridge University Press Richardsons Clarissa 18C Reader 13 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 13
Book SynopsisWritten as a collection of letters in which very different accounts of the action are unsupervised by sustained authorial comment, Richardson's novel Clarissa offers an extreme example of the capacity of narrative to give the reader final responsibility for resolving or construing meaning. It is paradoxical then that its author was a writer committed to avowedly didactic goals. Tom Keymer counters the tendency of recent critics to suggest that Clarissa's textual indeterminacy defeats these goals by arguing that Richardson pursues subtler and more generous means of educating his readers by making them 'if not Authors, Carvers' of the text. Discussing Richardson's use of the epistolary form throughout his career, Keymer goes on to focus in detail on the three instalments in which Clarissa was first published, drawing on the documented responses of its first readers to illuminate his technique as a writer and set the novel in its contemporary ethical, political and ideological context.Table of ContentsPreface; A note on references and abbreviations; 1.Reading epistolary fiction; 2. Casuistry in Clarissa; 3. The part of the serpent; 4. Forensic realism; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press History the Early English Novel Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe 33 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 33
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Cambridge University Press Writing and the Rise of Finance
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Cambridge University Press The Romantic Reformation Religious Politics in English Literature 17891824 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Slave Narratives Transatlantic Testimonies 38 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press 18th Century Sensibility and Novel The Senses in Social Context 14 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Rome
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Cambridge University Press Hamlet Versus Lear
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Cambridge University Press Drama and Market Age of Shakespeare 1 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 1
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