Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisThis study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.Table of Contents1. The end of politics and the end of the world; 2. The last Whigs; 3. Byron, Brougham, and the end of slavery; 4. 'Crowns in the Dust': the ends of politics in The Last Man; 5. New worlds: Frankenstein, The Island, and the ends of the earth.

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Book SynopsisLiterary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.Trade Review"In addition to her acknowledgement of critics and theorists who have come before, Sanders generously opens up new avenues-paths-waterways for future inquiry. One can imagine a raft of scholarship that will draw on her insights and apply them elsewhere." -Gavin Hollis,The City University of New York, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama; 1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period; 2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest; 3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household; 4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation; 5. Neighbourhoods and networks; 6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the literary and historical relations between Britain and China during the Romantic period and based on extensive archival investigations, this book shows how British knowledge was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women.Trade Review'[A] detailed study.' Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China; 2. 'A wonderful stateliness': William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology; 3. 'They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike': Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China; 4. 'Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts': the Canton School of Romantic Sinology: Staunton and Davis; 5. Establishing the 'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy; 6. 'You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China; 7. Chinese gardens, Confucius, and the prelude; 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisLooking at Shakespeare's depictions of moral deliberation and individual choice in light of Renaissance debates about ethics, this collection illuminates Shakespeare's engagement with the most pressing moral questions of his time. It is of great interest to scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies, and the history of ethics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: rethinking Shakespeare and ethics Patrick Gray and John D. Cox; Part I. Shakespeare and Classical Ethics: 1. Fame, eternity, and Shakespeare's Romans Gordon Braden; 2. Shakespeare and the ethics of laughter Indira Ghose; 3. Aristotelian shame and Christian mortification in Love's Labour's Lost Jane Kingsley-Smith; 4. Shakespeare's Vergil: empathy and The Tempest Leah Whittington; Part II. Shakespeare and Christian Ethics: 5. Shakespeare's prayers John D. Cox; 6. The morality of milk: Shakespeare and the ethics of nursing Beatrice Groves; 7. Hamlet the rough-hewer: moral agency and the consolations of Reformation thought Russell M. Hillier; 8. 'Wrying but a little'? Marriage, punishment, and forgiveness in Cymbeline Robert S. Miola; Part III. Shakespeare and the Ethical Thinking of Montaigne: 9. 'Hide thy selfe': Montaigne, Hamlet, and Epicurean ethics Patrick Gray; 10. Conscience and the god-surrogate in Montaigne and Measure for Measure William M. Hamlin; 11. Shakespeare, Montaigne, and classical reason Peter Holbrook; 12. Madness, proverbial wisdom, and philosophy in King Lear Peter Mack.

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Book SynopsisClara Tuite explores Lord Byron's life and work, his public image and the reception of his writings through the idea of scandalous celebrity. Tuite analyses Byron's role in the literary, political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture.Trade Review'Tuite traces the human relationships involved in the manufacture of a popular (or unpopular) idol […] bringing her expertise as a Jane Austen scholar into sophisticated decodings of social space.' Jane Stabler, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPrologue: proverbially notorious; Introduction: the meteor's milieu; Part I. Worldlings: 1. Caroline Lamb, more like a beast; 2. Stendhal, on his knees; 3. Napoleon, that fallen star; 4. Bloody Castlereagh; Part II. Writings: 5. Childe Harold IV and the pageant of his bleeding heart; 6. Don Juan: the life and work of infamous poems; Part III. After-Warriors: 7. Byron's Head and the pirate sphere; Epilogue: you may be devil; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisPioneering exciting methodologies, in this book Grenby looks at the first users of the new children's literature that developed in the eighteenth century. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of reading, of childhood, and of children's literature.Trade Review'Fascinating … [a] very readable scholarly work.' The Herald'For the specialist, it is an original and scholarly resource; for the non-specialist, it is an intriguing and often entertaining piece of detective work.' Carousel'Grenby's focus on the traces revealing how children actually used their books provides an astute counterbalance to current approaches to imagining the child reader.' Times Higher Education Supplement'A wonderful book - and beautifully produced … a very important contribution to children's literature, the history of the book, and the history of reading … it's certainly the kind of book which scholars in the field will want to buy … but also some dissertation students in literature and history.' Helen Rogers'… a welcome and long-awaited contribution to the historical study of children's literature. [This] thoroughly researched volume demonstrates that it is essential to extend the horizon of children's literature studies, endorsing a more decidedly cultural studies approach which considers all actors in the literary field.' Anja Müller, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'Grenby's study marks a turning point in children's literature scholarship.' SharpTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Owners; 3. Books; 4. Acquisition; 5. Use; 6. Attitudes; 7. Conclusions; Select bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the various ways in which Milton's works and experiences emerged from the culture and events of his time. In a series of concise, engaging essays, an international group of scholars examines both the social conditions and the broader intellectual currents that shaped his writings and reputation.Trade Review'… the quality of the essays in Milton in Context is almost uniformly high, with each essay providing a stimulating point of departure for further investigation.' Annotated Bibliography of English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Annabel Patterson; 2. Composition: process and chronology Juliet Lucy; 3. Early lives Edward Jones; 4. Letters, verse letters, and gift-texts Cedric C. Brown; 5. Milton on himself Stephen M. Fallon; 6. Poetic tradition, dramatic Ann Baynes Coiro; 7. Poetic tradition, epic Anthony Welch; 8. Poetic tradition, pastoral Barbara K. Lewalski; 9. Prose style Walter S. H. Lim; 10. Verse and rhyme John Creaser; Part II. Critical Legacy: 11. Critical responses, early John Rumrich; 12. Critical responses, 1825–1970 P. J. Klemp; 13. Critical responses, recent J. Martin Evans; 14. Later publishing history John T. Shawcross; 15. Translations Christophe Tournu; 16. Visual arts Wendy Furman-Adams; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 17. Astronomy Dennis Danielson; 18. The book trade Stephen B. Dobranski; 19. The Caroline court Nicholas McDowell; 20. Catholicism Joan S. Bennett; 21. The civil wars James Loxley; 22. Classical literature and learning Stella P. Revard; 23. Education Gregory Chaplin; 24. The English Church Neil Forsyth; 25. The Interregnum David Loewenstein; 26. Italy Catherine Gimelli Martin; 27. Law Lynne Greenberg; 28. Literary contemporaries Albert C. Labriola; 29. Logic Phillip J. Donnelly; 30. London Ian W. Archer; 31. Manuscript transmission Randall Ingram; 32. Marriage and divorce Shigeo Suzuki; 33. Music Diane McColley; 34. The natural world Karen L. Edwards; 35. The New World Amy Boesky; 36. Pamphlet wars N. H. Keeble; 37. Philosophy Pitt Harding; 38. Reading practices Elizabeth Sauer; 39. The Restoration Joad Raymond; 40. Theology William Poole; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisFor this third edition of Julius Caesar Jeremy Lopez has written a completely new Introduction and has also revised the textual commentary with an eye, and ear, to the contemporary student reader. The list of further readings has been updated to reflect the latest developments in scholarly criticism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jeremy Lopez; Note on the text; Note on the commentary; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: excerpts from Plutarch; Reading list.

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Book SynopsisLina Wilder argues that the 'places' and 'objects' of the memory arts inform Shakespeare's conception of theatre, and vice versa. Ranging from Yorick's skull to Desdemona's handkerchief, Shakespeare's mnemonic objects help audiences to recall, or imagine, staged and unstaged pasts.Trade Review'Wilder makes a convincing argument that invention and recollection were frequently figured as feminine reproductive activities.' The European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Staging memory; 1. Mnemonic desire and place-based memory systems: body, book, and theatre; 2. 'I do remember': the nurse, the apothecary, and Romeo; 3. Wasting memory: competing mnemonics in the Henry plays; 4. 'Baser matter' and mnemonic pedagogy in Hamlet; 5. 'The handkerchief, my mind misgives': false past in Othello; 6. 'Flaws and starts': fragmented recollection in Macbeth; 7. Mnemonic control and watery disorder in The Tempest; Conclusion. A 'most small fault': feminine 'nothings' and the spaces of memory; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisBringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Trade Review"Poole navigates herself deftly though the minefield of ambiguities of literal and metaphorical language of the early modern supernatural....Supernatural Environments certainly succeeds in bringing to attention the important role of cartographic and mathematical developments in changing concepts of supernatural spaces and how these conflicting ideas are addressed in the theater. While much of the book’s introductory material on the need to reevaluate “the decline of magic” sounds all too familiar, the arguments that Poole follows with are significant as the implications of Clark’s monumental study have yet to be fully addressed in a theatrical context. Poole writes engagingly and the argument is fascinating. Supernatural Environments is an ambitious project and Poole quite rightly reveals the possibility of more research in the area. It will be interesting to see what follows." --Marlowe Society of America Newsletter"This is an important, clever, and well-written book that makes a striking contribution to early modern studies, and its epilogue offers a vision of a ‘‘reenchanted geography’’ (219) that is richly suggestive and should inspire new thinking about the period." --Renaissance Society of AmericaTable of ContentsPrologue: setting – and unsettling – the stage; Introduction: the space of the supernatural; 1. The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus; 2. Scene at the deathbed: Ars Moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural; 3. When hell freezes over: the fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography; 4. Metamorphic cosmologies: the world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth; 5. Divine geometry in a geodetic age: surveying, God, and The Tempest; Epilogue: re-enchanting geography.

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Book SynopsisCritics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton''s poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton''s Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton''s imagery - traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic''s narrative while expressing the author''s heterodox beliefs. In particular, Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton''s material philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton''s epic.Trade Review'Dobranski finds Milton to have drawn much more on the material, visible, workaday world around him, for the conveyance of those impossible descriptions, than has been recognized until now.' Roberta Klimt, The Times Literary Supplement'Despite Dobranski's erudition and engagement with previous criticism, his prose is always lucid.' B. E. Brandt, Choice'Readers will welcome Dobranski's careful readings and explanations of the images and their functions as well as his inclusion of many clearly reproduced illustrations. Milton scholars will appreciate his ongoing engagement with the critical history and present state of his subject. The book itself is notably readable. Dobranski explains many difficult points with admirable clarity. Thus, this study deserves and should find a wide audience of scholars and students.' Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Renaissance Quarterly'Stephen B. Dobranski's splendid Milton's Visual Imagination: Imagery in 'Paradise Lost' draws upon the materialist turn in early modern studies, and specifically the vitalist turn in Milton studies, to confute an accusation prevalent since the days of Samuel Johnson: that Paradise Lost's visual imagery is impoverished. Dobranski's purpose, however, is not simply to demonstrate that Milton's imagery is vivid. Rather, he explicates the theological, cultural, and poetic import of the nature of visual imagery in Paradise Lost's Heaven, Hell, and Eden.' Katherine Eggert, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'Milton's Visual Imagination has the strengths that we have come to expect from Stephen Dobranski's writing: sensitive close readings, careful research, and a staunch return to issues left unresolved or insufficiently considered by Milton scholars … The value of Milton's Visual Imagination lies in its eloquent, subtle demonstration of how images work in Milton's poem.' Karen L. Edwards, Modern Philology'It is full of vividly presented material things that often cast direct or associative light on Paradise Lost. Dobranski always astutely positions his own claims in relation to those made by others... an extremely illuminating and thought-provoking book.' Colin Burrow, Milton QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction: of things invisible; 2. Free will and God's scales; 3. Heaven's gates; 4. Pondering Satan's shield; 5. What do bad angels look like?; 6. Transported touch; 7. Clustering and curling locks; 8. Images of the future and the son.

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Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, Shakespeare achieved the status of international pre-eminence that we recognise today. He and his major characters were depicted in statues, paintings and illustrations, and in Stratford-upon-Avon the house where he was born was purchased for the nation and the first Memorial Theatre was built. His words were read, quoted and declaimed in domestic drawing rooms and theatres all around the world, as well as in the works of the leading writers of the day, in intimate love letters and in the pages of radical newspapers. As these new essays show, his was a voice that resonated tellingly throughout the century's cultural, political and literary arenas. The unique reference guide also shows just how popular he was in a number of London theatres and how integral a part he played in the publishing industry of the day and in the burgeoning field of literary criticism.Trade Review'… gives excellent coverage of many aspects of the reception, treatment, dramatisation and proliferation of attention given to the Shakespearean corpus in the nineteenth century … it includes a reference guide to nineteenth works about Shakespeare, play publication and an invaluable guide to performances of Shakespeare's plays in nineteenth century London. It contains an extensive bibliography, and Gail Marshall provides a very useful introduction … Anyone seeking to understand the complex nature of the social and intellectual life of the nineteenth century needs to take into account the popularity and esteem afforded to Shakespeare and his dramatic works through all segments of society. This excellent selection of essays assists in addressing that need. Each contribution is well researched, lucid and full of insights concerning the inescapable influence of England's greatest playwright. Collectively, they provide an extremely valuable resource for all readers with an interest in this period.' The Glass'… the significance of the collection lies in the varied approaches it opens for a scholar new to the territory. …Marshall's authors animate familiar narratives with lively details … But the volume is at its best in resisting received wisdom about 'Victorian Values' …' Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Gail Marshall; 1. Shakespeare editions Christopher Decker; 2. Shakespeare criticism Mark Hollingsworth; 3. Shakespeare in the periodicals Kathryn Prince; 4. Shakespeare our (nineteenth-century) contemporary Russell Jackson; 5. Shakespeare and nineteenth-century fiction Gail Marshall; 6. Shakespeare and nineteenth-century poetry Philip Shaw and Gail Marshall; 7. Shakespeare and drama David Taylor; 8. Shakespeare in London Russell Jackson; 9. Shakespeare in the provinces Richard Foulkes; 10. Shakespeare and music Julie Sanders; 11. Women and Shakespeare Georgianna Ziegler; 12. Shakespeare and politics William Greenslade; 13. Shakespeare and commercialism Julia Thomas; 14. Shakespeare and the visual arts Stuart Sillars; 15. Shakespeare in Europe John Stokes; 16. Shakespeare and Germany Frederick Burwick; 17. Shakespeare in America's Gilded Age Virginia Mason Vaughan; Reference guide: performances of Shakespeare's plays in nineteenth-century London Janice Norwood; Nineteenth-century works about Shakespeare: criticism, editions, reference works, biographies, play publication by year Mark Hollingsworth; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This Companion surveys the critical methods brought to bear on the Folio and equips readers with the tools to understand it and to develop their skills in early modern book culture more generally. A team of international scholars surveys the range of bibliographic, historical and textual material relating to the Folio, its editors, collectors and critical reception. This revealing volume will be of wide interest to scholars of Shakespeare, the history of the book and early modern drama.Trade Review'… takes the reader on a journey through the history of perhaps the book world's most famous literary edition. … Readers of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio are lucky. Not only because they have in their hands an excellent resource that will elucidate many aspects of the edition, but also because modern digital renderings of the First Folio are now more accessible than ever.' William J. Humphries, The Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsPreface Emma Smith; 1. Shakespeare in print before 1623 Tara L. Lyons; 2. Publishing the First Folio Eric Rasmussen; 3. Printing the First Folio B. D. R. Higgins; 4. The prefatorial material Chris Laoutaris; 5. The provenance of the Folio texts Gabriel Egan; 6. 'Complete' works: the Folio and all of Shakespeare Peter Kirwan; 7. Early buyers and readers Jean-Christophe Mayer; 8. Editors Edmund G. C. King; 9. Collectors Steven K. Galbraith; 10. Reading the First Folio Emma Smith; 11. Digital First Folios Sarah Werner; 12. Afterword: the Folio as fetish Adam G. Hooks.

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Book SynopsisEarly Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare argues for editing Shakespeare's plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions. Drawing on the work of the influential scholars A. W. Pollard and W. W. Greg, Werstine tackles the difficult issues surrounding 'foul papers' and 'promptbooks' to redefine these fundamental categories of current Shakespeare editing. In an extensive and detailed analysis, this book offers insight into the methods of theatrical personnel and a reconstruction of backstage practices in playhouses of Shakespeare's time. The book also includes a detailed analysis of nineteen manuscripts and three quartos marked up for performance - documents that together provide precious insight into how plays were put into production. Using these surviving manuscripts as a framework, Werstine goes on to explore editorial choices about what to give today's readers as 'Shakespeare'.Trade Review'… a remarkable scholarly achievement.' Ivan Lupić, Sharp NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: reading W. W. Greg; 1. The discovery of 'foul papers'; 2. Redefining foul papers; 3. Playhouse MSS: what bookkeepers did not do; 4. Playhouse MSS: what bookkeepers did; 5. Behind the stage/in the tiring house; Conclusion; The manuscripts; Appendix A. Characteristics of Gregian 'foul papers' in playhouse texts; Appendix B. Knight's placement of stage directions in Beleeue; Appendix C. Physical evidence of dramatist-bookkeeper collaboration.

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Book SynopsisPre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawing from book history and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone reconstructs the world of manuscript pamphleteering to explain how contemporaries came to see their world as political.Trade Review'In this learned and impressive book, Millstone provides scholars with such a survey [of scribal pamphleteering in the early Stuart era] and, more importantly, a persuasive argument about the different ways in which the circulation of manuscript pamphlets created, shaped and informed early modern English men and women's participation in and interpretation of politics … a groundbreaking contribution to the study of manuscripts, politics, and practices of dissemination and interpretation. To offer a thorough account of the nature and circulation of key scribal pamphlets in early seventeenth-century England is a significant contribution to scholarship, to simultaneously provide new ways of thinking about the invention of politics in the period is a remarkable achievement.' Alison Searle, Renaissance Studies'Millstone offers a series of compelling arguments about the nature of early Stuart politics while posing fascinating questions about the long-term origins of the English Revolution. Lucidly written, robustly argued and theoretically informed, this is one of the most impressive debuts I have read in many years. … marvelous.' Alastair Bellany, The Spenser Review'Noah Millstone's outstanding work supplies an invaluable survey of scribal pamphleteering during the Stuart era and provides rich new insights concerning the significance of their circulation. … By expertly addressing the manner by which 'collectors and diarists treated the texts themselves as forming a … political history of their own times' (167), Millstone bestows us with a modern equivalent that will prove useful to scholars with an interest in Stuart politics, regardless of their discipline.' Mark Kaethler, Renaissance Quarterly'Millstone has produced a deeply researched and highly sophisticated book that will be of the greatest interest to scholars and students of early seventeenth-century England. He has an admirable capacity to delineate detail without ever losing sight of the broader picture. … In guiding us elegantly through the surviving products of early Stuart scribes it whets the appetite for future works from the author's own pen.' David L. Smith, The English Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Conditions of Production: 2. The social life of handwriting; 3. Tuning the instrument; 4. Performance and parliament; Part II. Subjects and Subjectivity: 5. Bristol's revenge; 6. Historians of the present; Part III. The Secret History of the State: 7. The antiquary and the malcontent; 8. The drift of the personal rule; 9. The ill-affected; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Shakespeare wrote his plays and how the players revised them by examining manuscripts that have survived from use in early modern theatres. Looking at collaboration, theatre practice and the Shakespeare canon, it will greatly interest researchers and advanced students of Shakespeare studies, manuscript studies, and textual history.Trade Review'This is a temperate, scrupulous and exhaustive study, which deserves a longer review. … [Purkis's] meticulously detailed analyses, which represent a significant advance in our understanding of dramatic manuscripts generally, and Shakespeare's professional activities in particular.' Paul Dean, English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Text, Collaboration, Evidence: 1. The theatrical text and the new bibliography: John a Kent and John a Cumber; 2. 'Foul papers', 'prompt books', and textual sufficiency: The Captives; 3. Attribution, collaboration, and The Second Maiden's Tragedy; Part II. Shakespearean Coincidences: 4. Curious coincidences: the collaborations of Sir Thomas More; 5. Singularly Shakespearean: attributing the Hand-D addition of More; 6. Canon, apocrypha, and Sir Thomas More; Works cited; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis lively and accessible collection of essays explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature's impact on audiences' bodies, minds and emotions. Readers and theatregoers have always sought out literature for its emotional power, and this book shows how seriously early modern writers took their relationships with their audiences.Trade Review'The volume's contributors engage in meaningful dialogues with drama, poetry, and primary sources; with a growing body of secondary materials; and above all with one another. Both uninitiated readers and long-time students of embodiment in literature will find much to deepen their understanding of the physiological impacts of reading and playgoing … Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.' P. D. Collington, Choice'… while each chapter offers a fascinating series of close readings in its own right, as a whole the book reminds us of the importance of thinking about theatre and reading as transitive acts - that is, things that impact upon something else.' Erin Sullivan, Cahiers Élisabéthains'Scholars and students alike will benefit from the lucid writing and strong, productive reinterpretations to be found in these essays - and in many other arguments throughout the collection as well. Together, the essays demonstrate that early modern conceptions of the body as a porous, volatile, affectible organism have surprising continuities as well as discontinuities with our own.' Jeremy Lopez, Sharp NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: imagining audiences Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard; Part I. Plays: 1. Feeling fear in Macbeth Allison P. Hobgood; 2. Hearing Iago's withheld confession Allison Deutermann; 3. Self-love, spirituality, and the senses in Twelfth Night Douglas Trevor; Part II. Playhouses: 4. Conceiving tragedy Tanya Pollard; 5. Playing with appetite in early modern comedy Hillary Nunn; 6. Notes towards an analysis of early modern applause Matthew Steggle; 7. Catharsis as 'purgation' in Shakespearean drama Thomas Rist; Part III. Poems: 8. Epigrammatic commotions William Kerwin; 9. Poetic 'making' and moving the soul Margaret Healy; 10. Shakespearean pain Michael Schoenfeldt; Afterword: senses of an ending Bruce R. Smith.

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Book SynopsisAngela Wright sheds new light upon the genesis of the Gothic, examining the roles translation and military conflict played in its development in Britain. The author combines contextual and literary perspectives to situate the Gothic in relation to the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution and the Treaty of Amiens.Trade Review'Contributes to a far more nuanced understanding of the politics of the genre.' The Times Literary Supplement'Wright's elegantly written volume offers original perspectives and insights at every turn … Consistently and convincingly argued throughout, Britain, France and the Gothic avoids the pitfalls of unspecified 'influences' and general similarities. Instead it maps channels of contact, borrowing, adaptation, rewriting and translation in order to demonstrate how Gothic fully participated in the many networks of Franco-British cultural exchange between the Seven Years' War and the post-Napoleonic era. A crucial contribution to studies of Gothic and the cross-cultural dimensions of British Romanticism, Wright's book is set to change how we study and discuss these literary manifestations beyond purely national boundaries.' Diego Saglia, BARS Bulletin and Review'Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820 is packed with precise textual analysis, clear historical investigation and contextualization, and many a well-turned sentence.' The Year's Work in English Studies'Wright's book traces the French influences that Walpole felt compelled to play down, as did subsequent Gothic authors from Clara Reeve and Sophia Lee to Anne Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, whose work appeared just as the British antipathy toward France rose to a fever pitch of anti-Jacobin hysteria. Her book is thus a history of writers' secret love for a culture that their own surroundings required them to hate or at least to denigrate. It offers up to the reader the less evident aspects of the way Gothic fiction crossed the Channel back and forth in the form of influences, translations, parodies, borrowings, and outright plagiarisms.' Yael Shapira, Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The mysterious author Horace Walpole; 2. The translator cloak'd: Sophia Lee, Clara Reeve and Charlotte Smith; 3. Versions of Gothic and terror; 4. The castle under threat: Ann Radcliffe's system and the romance of Europe; 5. 'The order disorder'd': French convents and British liberty; Conclusion: afterlives; Works cited.

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Book SynopsisSevered heads emblemise the vexed relationship between the aesthetic and the atrocious. During the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, colonisers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Harington and Sir George Carew wrote or translated epic romances replete with beheadings even as they countenanced - or conducted - similar deeds on the battlefield. This study juxtaposes the archival record of actual violence with literary depictions of decapitation to explore how violence gets transcribed into art. Patricia Palmer brings the colonial world of Renaissance England face to face with Irish literary culture. She surveys a broad linguistic and geographical range of texts, from translations of Virgil's Aeneid to the Renaissance epics of Ariosto and Ercilla and makes Irish-language responses to conquest and colonisation available in readable translations. In doing so, she offers literary and political historians access not only to colonial brutality but also to its ethical reservations, while providingTrade Review'Palmer makes use of an impressive literary assortment ranging from the Iliad, through Irish- language poets to W. B. Yeats, Seanus Heaney, Sarah Broom, Padraic Fallon and John Montagu.' The Times Literary Supplement''Palmer [has] rare linguistic expertise …' Thomas Herron, Sixteenth Century Journal'Patricia Palmer's intelligent and eloquent new book has brought the life and literature of early modern Ireland to the foreground, illuminating the present through her revelation of the past and cementing her own place as one of our foremost cultural interpreters … this is a detailed and careful historical account, which owes a great deal to the author's painstaking work with original documents. One of its great virtues is Palmer's eye for the telling detail. She is capable of seeing through official memoranda to the story beyond.' Deirdre Serjeantson, Dublin Review of Books'Patricia Palmer has written a passionate, erudite and original book … her treatment of Carew in particular is welcome, and new to me. … She gives us a new approach to the motives and purposes of translation, applied to a striking instance of bodily involvement in struggle that is like the struggle with language, if less lethal.' Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Translation IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'A Horses Loade of Heades': conquest and atrocity in early modern Ireland; 2. The romance of the severed head: Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso; 3. Defaced: allegory, violence and romance recognition in The Faerie Queene; 4. The head in a bag: Sir George Carew's translation of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana; 5. Elegy and afterlives.

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Book SynopsisFor nearly forty years Deirdre Le Faye, one of the world's leading authorities on Jane Austen, has been gathering and organising every single piece of information available about the Austen family before, during and after Jane's lifetime. She has now collected all this material together to produce a unique chronology, containing some 15,000 entries. For the first time, those interested in Jane Austen can discover where she was and what she was doing at many precise moments of her life. The entries, many taken from hitherto unexplored and unpublished documents, are presented in a clear and readable form, and each item of information is linked to its source. The volume includes family trees for the extended Austen and Knight families from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. This is a key work of reference that every scholar and reader of Austen will find fascinating and indispensable.Trade Review'… an indispensable addition to all libraries with humanities collections and those concerned with the facts relating to one of our greatest literary figures.' William Baker, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsPrologue; Chronology of Jane Austen and her family; Bibliographies; Index of personal names; Family trees.

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Book SynopsisThere has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought. This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning. Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience. Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency.Table of ContentsIntroduction: feeling Romanticism Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha; 1. The motion behind Romantic emotion: towards a chemistry and physics of feeling Richard C. Sha; 2. 'A certain mediocrity': Adam Smith's moral behaviourism Thomas Pfau; 3. Like love: the feel of Shelley's similes Julie Carlson; 4. Jane Austen and the persuasion of happiness Joel Faflak; 5. The general fast and humiliation: tracking feeling in wartime Mary A. Favret; 6. A peculiar community: Mary Shelley, Godwin, and the abyss of emotion Tilottama Rajan; 7. Emotion without content: primary affect and pure potentiality in Wordsworth David Collings; 8. Kant's peace, Wordsworth's slumber Jacques Khalip; 9. Living a ruined life: De Quincey's damage Rei Terada.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its guises. A significant strand of this spiritual alchemy is working the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and intense imagination. Healy demonstrates how this process of anguished soul work - construed as essential to inspired poetic making - is woven into these poems, accounting for their most enigmatic imagery and urgency of tone. The esoteric philosophy of late Renaissance Neoplatonic alchemy, which embraced bawdy sexual symbolism and was highly fashionable in European intellectual circles, facilitated Shakespeare's poetry. Arguing that Shakespeare's incorporation of alchemical textures throughout his late works is indicative of an artistic stance promoting religious toleration and unity, this book sets out a crucial new framework for interpreting the 1609 poems and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.Trade Review"Healy displaysconsiderable erudition in a broad array of topics, including Neoplatonism, esoteric, as well as practical alchemy, theological allegory, and much of the critical tradition of interpreting these poems." -Katherine Eggert,University of Colorado"...treats Shakespeare's poetry as an allegory of the alchemical processes of soul making." --Recent Studies in the English RenaissanceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Alchemical contexts; 2. Lovely boy; 3. The Dark Mistress and the art of blackness; 4. A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare; 5. Inner looking, alchemy and the creative imagination; 6. Conclusion: Shakespeare's poetics of love and religious toleration.

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Book SynopsisBoiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades pioneered and fostered the exploration of it and its people through his research. His seminal publications have covered all aspects of its history, institutions, cults, and literature from late Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire, revealing a mastery of the epigraphic evidence, archaeological data, and the literary tradition. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers (two previously unpublished, others revised and updated) which display a compelling intellectual coherence and a narrative style refreshingly immune to jargon. All major topics of Boiotian history from early Greece to Roman times are touched upon, and the book can be read as a history of Boiotia, in pieces.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Boiotian beginnings: the creation of an ethnos; Part II. History: Boiotian: 2. Kadmos and the implications of the tradition for Boiotian history; 3. Boiotia in the sixth century BC; 4. The early Boiotoi: from alliance to federation; 5. Politics and personalities in classical Thebes; 6. Tanagra: the geographical and historical context; 7. From hegemony to disaster: Thebes from 362 to 335; 8. Pausanias and Boiotia; Part III. History: Boiotian and Other: 9. The politics of dedication: two Athenian dedications at the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoieus in Boiotia; 10. The seer Tisamenos and the Klytiadai; Part IV. Boiotian Institutions: 11. Gods in the service of the state: the Boiotian experience; 12. Boiotian military elites (with an appendix on the funereal stelai); 13. Three generations of magistrates from Akraiphia; Part V. Literature: 14. Simonides' elegy on Plataia: the occasion of its performance; 15. The singing contest of Kithairon and Helikon: Korinna fr. 654 PMG col. i and ii.1-11: content and context; 16. Ovid and Boiotia; Part VI. Cult: 17. The Daphnephoria of Thebes; 18. Reflections on an inscription from Tanagra; 19. Egyptian cults and local elites in Boiotia; 20. Evolutions of a mystery cult: the Theban Kabiroi; 21. The Mouseia of Thespiai: organization and development; 22. Tilphossa: the site and its cults; 23. A consultation of Trophonios (IG 7.4136).

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Book SynopsisFifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the poem itself unfolds, offering exactly what readers need as they approach each movement of its grand design. Part I introduces the characters who frame the poem's story and set its plot and theological dynamics in motion. Part II deals with contextual issues raised by the early books, while Part III examines the epic's central and final episodes. The volume concludes with a meditation on the history of the poem's reception and a detailed guide to further reading, offering students and teachers of Milton fresh critical insights and resources for continuing scholarship.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. Milton as narrator in Paradise Lost Stephen M. Fallon; 2. Satan Neil Forsyth; 3. Things of darkness: sin, death, chaos John Rumrich; 4. The problem of God Victoria Silver; Part II: 5. Classical models Maggie Kilgour; 6. Milton's Bible Jeffrey Shoulson; 7. The line in Paradise Lost John Creaser; 8. The pre-secular politics of Paradise Lost Paul Stevens; 9. Cosmology Karen L. Edwards; Part III: 10. Imagining Eden William Shullenberger; 11. Milton's angels Joad Raymond; 12. Gender Shannon Miller; 13. Temptation W. Gardner Campbell; 14. Regeneration in Books 11 and 12 Mary C. Fenton; Part IV: 15. Reception William Kolbrener.

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Book SynopsisCovering the whole of the newly redefined Middleton canon, this collection of essays provides essential historical, legal, religious, theatrical and linguistic contexts for students and scholars. It includes original interpretations of frequently taught and performed works, such as The Changeling, and of newer attributions, such as A Yorkshire Tragedy.Trade Review".. is a fine collection, its thirty-eight short, well-illustrated chapters giving a variety of new perspectives." -- Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsMiddleton timeline Tripthi Pillai; Introduction Suzanne Gossett; Part I. Middleton and the London Context: 1. Thomas Middleton, chronologer of his time Mark Hutchings; 2. Middleton's comedy and the geography of London Darryll Grantley; 3. The Puritan Widow and the spatial arts of Middleton's urban drama Andrew Gordon; 4. The populations of London Ian Munro; 5. Domestic life in Jacobean London Catherine Richardson; 6. Life and death in Middleton's London Elizabeth Furdell; 7. The city's money: made, lost, stolen, lent, invested Aaron W. Kitch; 8. Trade, work, and workers Natasha Korda; 9. Supplying the city Ceri Sullivan; 10. Celebrating the city Karen Newman; 11. Violence and the city Jennifer Low; 12. Middleton and the law Subha Mukherji; Part II. The National and International Context: 13. The court Alastair Bellany; 14. States and their pawns: political tensions from the Armada to the Thirty Years War Thomas Cogswell; 15. Religious identities Ian Archer; 16. The obsession with Spain Trudi Darby; Part III. The Theatrical Context: 17. The social cartography of Middleton's theatres Andrew Gurr; 18. The boys' plays and the boy players David Kathman; 19. The adult companies and the dynamics of commerce Roslyn L. Knutson; 20. The theatre and political control Janet Clare; 21. Music on the Jacobean stage Linda Austern; Part IV. The Context and Conditions of Authorship: 22. Middleton and 'modern use': case studies in the language of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Sylvia Adamson with Hannah Kirby, Laurence Peacock and Elizabeth Pearl; 23. Collaboration: the shadow of Shakespeare James Bednarz; 24. Collaboration: sustained Heather Hirschfeld; 25. Collaboration: Middleton and the determination of authorship Eric Rasmussen; 26. Middleton and dramatic genre Suzanne Gossett; 27. Writing outside the theatre Alison A. Chapman; 28. Medieval remains in Middleton's writings Anke Bernau; Part V. Social and Psychological Contexts: 29. Gender and sexuality Caroline Bicks; 30. Women's life stages: maid, wife, widow (whore) Jennifer Panek; 31. Playing, disguise, and identity Farah Karim-Cooper; 32. Drugs, remedies, poisons, and the theatre Tanya Pollard; 33. Middleton and the supernatural Michael Neill; 34. 'Distracted measures': madness and theatricality in Middleton Carol Thomas Neely; Part VI. Afterlives: 35. Invisible Middleton and the bibliographical context Sonia Massai; 36. Afterlives: stages and beyond Diana E. Henderson; 37. Middleton in the cinema Pascale Aebischer; 38. Middleton's presence Simon Palfrey; Works cited.

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Book SynopsisFiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, cTrade Review'This compelling and original book enriches and complicates the history of Shakespeare's reputation. Fiona Ritchie expands traditional notions of literary criticism beyond the printed page to include play-going, patronage and performance, at the same time introducing new evidence of the range and depth of women's cultural work in the eighteenth century.' Elizabeth Eger, King's College London'In a lively and engaging book Fiona Ritchie explores the construction of Shakespeare's reputation in the eighteenth century and the active and substantial role women played in this as performers, critics, editors and playgoers. This book provides an important contribution to the fields of Shakespeare and women's studies.' Antonia Forster, University of Akron'In this groundbreaking book, Ritchie explores the role of eighteenth-century women in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's national playwright. … This volume is a fine addition to the scholarship on Shakespeare, theater history, and women's intellectual history. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' L. J. Larson, Choice'This is an important intervention in studies of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century, and we are indebted to Ritchie for turning the spotlight on women. … Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century is hopefully just the beginning of a much needed conversation that problematizes all three categories: women, Shakespeare, and the eighteenth century. It raises a series of fascinating questions for future scholarship: were these radical adaptations really presented as and considered to be Shakespeare? How does women's engagement with Shakespeare - as actresses, as critics, as audiences - change over the course of the eighteenth century? And how did their engagement with Shakespeare differ from other canonical authors?' Elaine McGirr, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: women and Shakespeare in the Restoration; 1. Actresses in the age of Garrick; 2. Female critics in the age of Johnson; 3. Theatrical women respond to Shakespeare; 4. Jordan and Siddons: beyond Thalia and Melpomene; 5. Women playgoers: historical repertory and sentimental response; Conclusion: part of an Englishwoman's constitution; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in this Cambridge edition during 1907, as the first volume in The Complete Works of George Gascoigne, this book contains the 1575 text of The Posies of George Gascoigne, Esquire in its totality. An index of titles and first lines is included, together with a short appendix section.Table of ContentsTo the reverende divines; To al yong gentlemen; To the readers generally; Commendatory verses; Flowers: Dan Bartholemew of Bathe; The fruites of warre; Hearbes: Supposes; Jocasta; Weedes: The pleasant fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi and Leonora de Valasca; Certayne notes of instruction concerning the making of verse; Appendix; Index of titles; Index of first lines.

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Book SynopsisIn his introduction to this 1924 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, T. G. Tucker addresses key issues including the publication history of the Sonnets, the question of whether they are autobiographical and factors of punctuation, spelling and misprints. The edition contains detailed commentary and notes to assist the reader.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Sonnets; 4. Commentary; Index.

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Book SynopsisLewes' 1855 biography (reissued here in the second, 1858 edition) paints a balanced picture of this great German intellectual. Drawing on personal letters and recollections provided by Goethe's colleagues, friends and family, Lewes probes the connections between Goethe's life and work, and highlights the continuing relevance of his thought.Table of ContentsPreface; Book I. The Child is Father to the Man. 1749–1765: 1. Parentage; 2. The precocious child; 3. Early experiences; 4. Various studies; 5. The child is father to the man; Book II. Student Days. 1765–1771: 1. The Leipzig student; 2. Mental characteristics; 3. Art studies; 4. Return home; 5. Strasburg; 6. Herder and Frederika; Book III. Sturm und Drang. 1771–1775: 1. Dr. Goethe's return; 2. Götz van Berlichingen; 3. Wetzlar; 4. Preparations of Werther; 5. Werther; 6. Survey of German literature; 7. Clavigo; 8. The literary lion; 9. Lili; Book IV. The Genialisch Period in Weimar. 1775–1779: 1. Weimar in the eighteenth century; 2. The notabilities of Weimar; 3. The first wild weeks at Weimar; 4. The Frau von Stein; 5. The Gartenhaus; 6. Private theatricals; 7. Many-coloured threads; 8. The real philanthropist.

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Book SynopsisLewes' 1855 biography (reissued here in the second, 1858 edition) paints a balanced picture of this great German intellectual. Drawing on personal letters and recollections provided by Goethe's colleagues, friends and family, Lewes probes the connections between Goethe's life and work, and highlights the continuing relevance of his thought.Table of ContentsBook V. Crystals. 1779–1793: 1. New birth; 2. Iphigenia; 3. Progress; 4. Preparations for Italy; 5. Italy; 6. Egmont; 7. Return home; 8. Christiane Vulpius; 9. Tasso; 10. The poet as a man of science; 11. The campaign in France; 12. Home once again; Book VI. Friendship with Schiller. 1794–1805: 1. The Dioscuri; 2. Wilhelm Meister; 3. The romantic school; 4. Hermann und Dorothea; 5. The theatrical manager; 6. Schiller's last years; 7. Faust; 8. The lyrical poems; Book VII. Sunset. 1805–1832: 1. The Battle of Jena; 2. Bettina and Napoleon; 3. Elective affinities; 4. Politics and religion; 5. The activity of age; 6. Second part of Faust; 7. The closing scenes; Index.

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Book SynopsisEckermann's recollections of his conversations with Goethe during the last nine years of his life were originally published in three volumes in Germany in 1836 and 1848. This two-volume English edition, published in 1850, helped to reawaken interest in Goethe. Volume 1 covers the period from 1822 to 1827.Table of ContentsTranslator's preface; Author's preface; Introduction; 1822–7.

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Book SynopsisEckermann's recollections of his conversations with Goethe during the last nine years of his life were originally published in three volumes in Germany in 1836 and 1848. This two-volume English edition, published in 1850, helped to reawaken interest in Goethe. Volume 2 covers 1827 to 1832.Table of Contents1827–32; Index.

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Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the ''grave of Europeans''. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.Table of ContentsCommunicating disease: literature and medicine in the Atlantic World; Part I. Health, Geography and Aesthetics: 1. 'What new forms of death': the poetics of disease and cure; 2. The diagnostics of description: medical topography and the colonial picturesque; Part II. Colonial Bodies: 3. Skin, textuality and colonial feeling; 4. 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World': White West Indians and Atlantic medical knowledge; Part III. Revolution and Abolition: 5. The 'intimate union of medicine and magic': Obeah, revolution and colonial modernity; Afterword: colonial modernities and after abolition.

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Book SynopsisAs a literary genre, the sentimental novel reached the height of its vogue in the 1770s and 1780s and was still popular as the eighteenth century drew to a close. This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century, beginning with its origins in the so-called amatory fiction of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Chapters from leading scholars combine the various aspects and contexts of the genre, from politics, slavery, women writers, and the Gothic to the sentimental novel in America, France and Germany, with historically informed close readings of novels by writers including Samuel Richardson (16891761), Laurence Sterne (171368) and Jane Austen (17751817). This volume demonstrates that the sentimental novel continues to engage readers and critics and that, far from being obsolete or only of antiquary interest, it remains a vibrant and exciting area of study.Trade Review'… this collection is well worth having on one's shelf, offering as it does much to both new and established scholars concerning the long history, complex aesthetics, and ambivalent politics of the sentimental narrative mode. So much has been written over the past few decades on the sentimental novel in English that it would be reasonable to think little new could be added and yet this coherent collection produced by scholars at the top of their game offers fresh perspectives, often eloquent readings, and a lot for the rest of us to build on.' Stephen Ahern, Project Muse'… impressive and informative …' Colette Davies and Ruby Hawley-Sibbett, TYWES'This collection is a thoughtful and comprehensive extension of the scholarship, as it not only brings together various strands of criticism but also builds on them in imaginative ways. Rivero asserts that 'far from being obsolete or only of antiquary interest, the sentimental novel remains a vibrant and exciting area of study.' The strength of this enterprising collection proves Rivero's claim, and scholars will no doubt turn to this volume to enrich future studies of the sentimental novel.' Philip Trotter, The Scriblerian and the Kit-CatsTable of ContentsIntroduction Albert J. Rivero; 1. The sentimental novel and politics Gary Kelly; 2. Sensible readers: experiments in feeling in early prose fiction by women Ros Ballaster; 3. Reading for the sentiment: Richardson's novels Bonnie Latimer; 4. The virtuous in distress: David Simple, Amelia, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph Barbara M. Benedict; 5. Sentiment from abroad: French novels after 1748 Gillian Dow; 6. Sterne's sentimental empiricism Jonathan Lamb; 7. Virtue not rewarded: The Man of Feeling and The Sorrows of Young Werther Maureen Harkin; 8. Slavery and the novel of sentiment Brycchan Carey; 9. Sentiment and the Gothic: failures of emotion in the novels of Mrs Radcliffe and the Minerva Press Hannah Doherty Hudson; 10. The sentimental novel in America: The History of Emily Montague, Charlotte Temple, The Power of Sympathy, The Coquette Joseph F. Bartolomeo; 11. Novel anachronisms: Sophia Lee's The Life of a Lover and Frances Burney's The Wanderer Melissa Sodeman; 12. Jane Austen and the sentimental novel Albert J. Rivero; Select bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance examines how rapid changes in performance technologies affect modes of spectatorship for early modern drama. It argues that seemingly disparate developments such as the revival of early modern architectural and lighting technologies, digital performance technologies and the hybrid medium of theatre broadcast are fundamentally related. How spectators experience performances is not only affected in medium-specific ways by particular technologies, but is also connected to the plays'' roots in early modern performance environments. Aebischer''s examples range from the use of candlelight and re-imagined early modern architecture, to set design, performance capture technologies, digital video, social media, hologram projection, biotechnologies and theatre broadcasts. This book argues that digital and analogue performance technologies alike activate modes of ethical spectatorship, requiring audiences to adopt an ethical standpoiTrade Review'This is a brilliant, timely and provocative work of criticism, and a delight to read. Pascale Aebischer is leading the conversation in this field, and she continues to blaze a trail for the rest of us. This book is exemplary performance scholarship: rigorously argued and theoretically-informed, yet written with such a readable style and attention to detail that the performances described really come alive in the mind of the reader.' Stephen Purcell, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction. Shakespeare, spectatorship and technologies of performance; Part I. Candlelight and Architecture at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: 1. Dominic Dromgoole's The Changeling (2015): social division and anamorphic vision; 2. Dominic Dromgoole's The Tempest (2016): labour, technology and the gender of theatrical magic; Part II. Digital Technologies and Early Modern Drama at the National Theatre and the RSC: 3. Stanislavski in the closet: Joe Hill-Gibbins' Edward II (National Theatre, 2013); 4. 'Tech-enabled' theatre at the RSC: digital performance and Gregory Doran's Tempest (RSC, 2016); Part III. 'Invisible' Technology and 'Liveness' in Digital Theatre Broadcasting: 5. Hamlet in parts: Robin Lough's RSC live cinema broadcast of Simon Godwin's Hamlet (8 June 2016); 6. Offstage dynamics and the virtual public sphere in Cheek by Jowl's live stream of Measure for Measure (2015); Concluding most obscenely: offstage technophelias.

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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen provides a lively guide to film and television productions adapted from Shakespeare''s plays. Offering an essential resource for students of Shakespeare, the companion considers topics such as the early history of Shakespeare films, the development of ''live'' broadcasts from theatre to cinema, the influence of promotion and marketing, and the range of versions available in ''world cinema''. Chapters on the contexts, genres and critical issues of Shakespeare on screen offer a diverse range of close analyses, from ''Classical Hollywood'' films to the BBC''s Hollow Crown series. The companion also features sections on the work of individual directors Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Vishal Bhardwaj, and is supplemented by a guide to further reading and a filmography.Trade Review'… it includes both entirely new content and a more inclusive definition of screen adaptations.' A. Tureen, Choice'… an excellent starting point for any analytical exploration of the manifestations of Shakespeare on Screen. This is evidently a timely volume that both demonstrates that there is still analytical work to be done on established or older productions of Shakespeare on screen.' Sarah Carter, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies'… extensive and immensely useful' Sarah Carter, Cahiers ElisabethainsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Adaptation and its Contexts: 1. Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era Judith Buchanan; 2. Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood Deborah Cartmell; 3. Shakespeare 'live' Peter Holland; 4. Shakespearean cinemas/global directions Mark Thornton Burnett; Part II. Genres and Plays: 5. The comedies on screen Ramona Wray; 6. The environments of tragedy on screen: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth Peter Kirwan; 7. Two tragedies of love: Romeo and Juliet and Othello Victoria Bladen; 8. 'Sad stories of the death of kings': The Hollow Crown and the Shakespearean history play on screen Kinga Földváry; 9. The Roman plays on film Peter J. Smith; 10. Screening Shakespearean fantasy and romance in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest Antony Guy Patricia; Part III. Critical Issues: 11. Questions of racism: The Merchant of Venice and Othello Russell Jackson; 12. 'A wail in the silence': feminism, sexuality, and final meanings in King Lear films by Grigorii Kozintsev, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa Courtney Lehmann; 13. Violence, tragic and comic, in Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew Patricia Lennox; Part IV. Directors: 14. The Shakespeare films of Orson Welles Emma Smith; 15. Kurosawa's Shakespeare: mute heavens, merging worlds, or the metaphors of cruelty Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède; 16. Zeffirelli's Shakespearean motion pictures: living monuments Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; 17. Kenneth Branagh: mainstreaming Shakespeare in movie theatres Sarah Hatchuel; 18. Remaking Shakespeare in India: Vishal Bhardwaj's films Poonam Trivedi; Further reading; Filmography; Index.

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Book SynopsisShakespeare''s rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (16781682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare''s canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare''s plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare''s work in the national cultural imaginTrade Review'Emma Depledge's work displays a masterful synthesis of bibliographic expertise, dramatic close reading, theatre history, and cultural analysis. I find this a field-reshaping book, beautifully executed in all these various aspects. I plan to draw on its insights and envision assigning it in graduate and advanced undergraduate classes.' Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, Pennsylvania'… Depledge (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) skillfully combines theater history, bibliographic expertise, and careful reading of early book culture to examine previously unexplored paths by which Shakespeare became canonically necessary and politically useful during the interregnum and shortly thereafter. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' Choice'Depledge's adept handling of book and theatre history in the larger context of contemporary politics is a real strength of her monograph. Her positions are wellresearched and clearly stated; her prose is accessible and refreshingly jargon free.' Paul D. Cannan, The Review of English Studies'The value of Depledge's splendid book is enhanced by its impressive scholarly apparatus, with twenty-two pages of works cited, plus many further references in the text and in the endnotes. Her thoroughly researched book will appeal to all Shakespeare scholars, not solely to those who specialize in the Restoration.' Richard M. Waugaman, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Shakespeare in the civil war and Interregnum years, 1642–59; 2. Shakespeare on the early restoration stage and page, 1660–77; 3. Shakespeare and the Exclusion Crisis, 1678–82: the decision to alter his plays; 4. The politics of Shakespeare alterations of the Exclusion Crisis; 5. Selling Shakespeare on the Exclusion Crisis stage and page; 6. Shakespeare in the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, 1683–1700.

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare''s plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.

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Book SynopsisAddressing early modern scholars, classicists, historians, literary critics and scholars of imitation and adaptation of all levels, this book reveals how the work of Ovid, poet-philosopher of literary innovation and the liberty of speech, catalysed the extraordinary rise of new and audacious poetic forms during the English Renaissance.Trade Review'This is a truly excellent study. I am not sure there is anyone else who has Heather James's particular combination of critical gifts: here we see reading and writing with great purpose and freshness, clear and flexible thinking shedding new light on well-known texts and connections, and a strong and original argument that proceeds so smoothly and generously that it changes your mind decisively almost without you realising it.' Raphael Lyne, University of Cambridge'An erudite, pathbreaking achievement … Highly recommended.' N. Lukacher, Choice ConnectTable of Contents1. Flower power: political discontents in Spenser's flowerbeds; 2. Loving Ovid: Marlowe and the liberties of erotic elegy; 3. Shakespeare's Juliet: the Ovidian girlhood of the boy actor; 4. In pursuit of change: the Metamorphoses in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5. The trial of Ovid: Jonson's defense of poetic liberty.

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Book SynopsisUsing the lens of early modern social authorship and contemporary social media, this Element explores a new print genre popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the periodical. Traditionally, literary history has focused on only one aspect, the periodical essay. This Element returns the periodical to its original, complex literary ecosystem as an ephemeral text competing for an emerging audience, growing out of a social authorship culture. It argues that the relationship between authors, publishers, and audiences in the early periodicals is a dynamic participatory culture, similar to what modern readers encounter in the early phases of the transition from print to digital, as seen in social media. Like our current evolving digital environment, the periodical also experienced a shift from its original practices stressing sociability to a more commercially driven media ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the cultural and theatrical intersections of early modern temporal concepts and gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, across the genres of domestic comedy, city comedy and revenge tragedy, Sarah Lewis shows how temporal tropes are used to delineate masculinity and femininity on the early modern stage, and vice versa. She sets out the ways in which the temporal constructs of patience, prodigality and revenge, as well as the dramatic identities that are built from those constructs, and the experience of playgoing itself, negotiate a fraught opposition between action in the moment and delay in the duration. This book argues that looking at time through the lens of gender, and gender through the lens of time, is crucial if we are to develop our understanding of the early modern cultural construction of both.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Virtuous delay: the enduring patient wife; 2. Transgressive action: the impatient prodigal husband; 3. Waiting and taking: the temporally conflicted revenger; 4. The delay's the thing: patience, prodigality and revenge in Hamlet; Conclusion. Echoes.

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