Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Cambridge University Press Boxes and Books in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisRazzall offers close readings of literary texts alongside artefacts from chests to book-bindings and reliquaries, to reveal the importance of the box as object and idea in early modern culture. This book is for students and researchers in English Literature, History, and Art History, as well as book historians and librarians.Table of Contents1. Chests of the Mind in Early Modern England; 2. The Renaissance of the Box: Metaphors of Interpretation; 3. The Word in a Box: Reforming the Book; 4. How to Read a Reliquary; 5. 'Because This Box We Know': Embodying the Box.
£21.84
Cambridge University Press Sleep Romance and Human Embodiment
Book SynopsisContributing to the histories of genre, embodiment and vitality, this study shows the impact of Aristotelian and Cartesian conceptions of humanness on works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Sidney. Sullivan shows how, through the representation of sleep, epic and romance model the distinctive relationships between man, plant and animal.Trade Review'This is a major new study with wide ranging implications for a variety of early modern interests - in the contested category of the human, in the ecological place of the human body in relation to its environment, in the legacy of Aristotelianism against the advent of Cartesianism, and in the relations between epic and romance.' Gail Paster, Folger Shakespeare Library'… a scholarly, intelligent and provocative study that raises many important questions about the relationship between genre and content that are certain to invite further debate.' Richard A. McCabe, Milton QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Aristotelian Vitality Ascendant: 1. 'Both plant and beast together': temperance, vitality and the romance alternative in Spenser's Bower of Bliss; 2. Sleeping minds: romance, affect and environment in Sidney's The Old Arcadia; 3. Sleep, history and 'life indeed' in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V; Part II. Aristotelian Vitality Embattled: 4. 'From the root springs lighter the green stalk': vegetality and humanness in Milton's Paradise Lost; Part III. Aristotelian Vitality Undead: 5. 'Desperate sloth, miscalled philosophy': Descartes and the post-Aristotelian romance episode in Dryden's All for Love; Coda: beyond undeath.
£31.90
Cambridge University Press Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
Book SynopsisBetween 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as ''herbals''. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed to serve readers across the social spectrum, these rich material artifacts represented both a profitable investment for publishers and an opportunity for authors to establish their credibility as botanists. Highlighting the shifting contingencies and regulations surrounding herbals and English printing during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the book argues that the construction of scientific authority in Renaissance England was inextricably tied up with the circumstances governing print. This title is also available as Open Trade Review'Sarah Neville's fascinating account of how stationers contributed to the creation of botanical texts brings English herbals and the early modern book trade together for the first time. Her reframing of their history irrevocably alters our sense of their importance for the publishers who commissioned them, the printers who manufactured them, and the booksellers who retailed herbals as well as for the Renaissance physicians, lay medical practitioners, and elite and common readers who so frequently consulted them. Early modern ecocritics will want to read this book along with book historians, historians of science, and those interested in Renaissance literature and culture.' Valerie Wayne, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa'In Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade, herbals come to life as dynamic objects taking meaning from their print environment. Focusing on the material form of the book provides Neville with a crucial and nuanced tool for unveiling the commercial landscape out of which attitudes toward natural history were indelibly shaped in the early modern era. Rather than relying on an author-centered approach, this book puts printers, booksellers, craftsmen, editors, licensors, translators, playwrights, and readers center stage in the production of botanical knowledge. What we learn is that herbals are much more than repositories of information that mark progress within traditional terms often used by historians of science.' Wendy Wall, Northwestern University'Informative, penetrating, and witty, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade helps us see anew a genre of book we're familiar with largely through their sumptuous illustrations. Immersing us in the fascinating world of botanical publications at the front end of the Enlightenment, Neville has produced a study that anyone interested in the early modern era's engagement with the natural world will want to read.' Douglas Bruster, The University of Texas at Austin'This is a unique text … Libraries with collections covering the history of the book and printing, the history of medicine, or Renaissance English literature would do well to add this volume to their shelves … Highly recommended.' R. C. Hedreen, ChoiceTable of ContentsPrologue. Milton's trees; Introduction. Authorizing English botany; Part I. A History of Herbals: 1. Authorship, book history, and the effects of artifacts; 2. The stationers' company and constraints on English printing; 3. Salubrious illustration and the economics of English herbals; Part II. Anonymity in the Printed English Herbal: 4. Reframing competition: the curious case of the little Herball; 5. The Grete Herball and evidence in the margins; 6. 'Unpublished virtues of the earth': books of healing on the English renaissance stage; Part III. Authors and the Printed English Herbal: 7. William Turner and the medical book trade; 8. John Norton and the redemption of John Gerard.
£71.25
Cambridge University Press Ann Radcliffe Romanticism and the Gothic
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of essays on the works of Ann Radcliffe (17641823) that provides compelling and highly original accounts of Radcliffe's position within the canon of Romantic poetry, her relationship with the political turbulence of the age, and the status of her authorship.Trade Review'… a timely contribution to the fields of Gothic studies and Romanticism through its multifaceted exploration of biography, literature, media, and art. Though Radcliffe has never disappeared from the view of Romanticists or Gothicists, this collection reaffirms her prominence in both fields …' Laura R. Kremmel, Keats-Shelley JournalTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Gothic and Romantic engagements: the critical reception of Ann Radcliffe, 1789–1850 Dale Townshend and Angela Wright; 2. Ann Radcliffe, precursors and portraits Joe Bray; 3. Ann Radcliffe and Romantic print culture Edward Jacobs; 4. Ann Radcliffe and politics James Watt; 5. Ways of seeing in Ann Radcliffe's early fiction: The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) and A Sicilian Romance (1790) Alison Milbank; 6. The heroine, the abbey and popular Romantic textuality: The Romance of the Forest (1791) Diane Long Hoeveler; 7. Popular Romanticism and the problem of belief: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) Robert Miles; 8. Transnational aesthetics in Ann Radcliffe's A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 [. . .] (1795) JoEllen DeLucia; 9. Recovering the Walpolean Gothic: The Italian: Or, the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1796–7) Jerrold E. Hogle; 10. Ann Radcliffe beyond the grave: Gaston de Blondeville and its accompanying texts Samuel Baker; 11. Ann Radcliffe's poetry: the poetics of refrain and inventory Jane Stabler; 12. Ann Radcliffe and Romantic-era fiction Sue Chaplin; 13. 'A portion of the name': stage adaptations of Radcliffe's fiction, 1794–1806 Diego Saglia.
£31.90
Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis edition of Shakespeare's complete works aims to combine accessibility with scholarship. Each play or poetry collection has an introduction which includes textual and literary-historical issues and there are same-page notes for ease of reference.Trade Review"Here is an elegant and clear text for either study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them, and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel, who understand that these are plays for performance as wellas great texts for contemplation." —Patrick Stewart“The perfect companion to enjoy the most profound stories of the human condition that Shakespeare has given us and that I have had the privilege to perform, from Othello to King Lear. "—James Earl Jones “Orgel and Braunmuller’s editions of the Pelican Shakespeare are an indispensable part of my library. These introductions by great Shakespearean scholars are erudite yet accessible, and the individual editions of the plays are perfect for the rehearsal room. They combine scholastic precision with an inspiring energy that fuels everyone making Shakespeare live today.” —Simon Godwin, Shakespeare Theatre Company and the National Theatre“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course–it’s invaluable.”—Marjorie Garber, Harvard University Table of ContentsEditorsAcknowledgmentsPublisher's NoteThe Opening Pages of the Folio of 1623The QuartosGeneral IntroductionThe Shakespearian Theater WorldWilliam Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, GentlemanThe Texts of ShakespeareA Comparative TableNondramatic PoetryThe Narrative Poems - edited by Jonathan Crewe:Venus and AdonisLucreceThe Phoenix and the TurtleThe Passionate PilgrimA Lover's ComplaintThe Sonnets - edited by Stephen Orgel with an Introduction by John HollanderIndex of First Lines to The SonnetsComediesThe Two Gentlemen of Verona - edited by Mary Beth RoseThe Taming of the Shrew - edited by Stephen OrgelThe Comedy of Errors - edited by Frances E. DolanLove's Labor's Lost - edited by Peter HollandA Midsummer Night's Dream - edited by Russ McDonaldThe Merchant of Venice - edited by A.R. BraunmullerThe Merry Wives of Windsow - edited by Russ McDonaldMuch Ado About Nothing - edited by Peter HollandAs You Like It - edited by Frances E. DolanTwelfth Night, or, What You Will - edited by Jonathan CreweThe History of Troilus and Cressida - edited by Jonathan CreweMeasure for Measure - edited by Jonathan CreweAll's Well That Ends Well - edited by Claire McEachernPericles Prince of Tyre - edited by Stephen OrgelCymbeline - edited by Peter HollandThe Winter's Tale - edited by Frances E. DolanThe Tempest - edited by Peter HollandHistoriesGenealogical ChartMonarchs of EnglandThe First Part of Henry the Sixth - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Janis LullThe Second Part of Henry the Sixth - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Janis LullThe Third Part of Henry the Sixth - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Janis LullThe Tragedy of King Richard the Third - edited by Peter HollandThe Tragedy of King Richard the Second - edited by Frances E. DolanThe Life and Death of King John - edited by Claire McEachernThe First Part of King Henry the Fourth - edited by Claire McEachernThe Second Part of King Henry the Fourth - edited by Claire McEachernThe Life of King Henry the Fifth - edited by Claire McEachernThe Life of King Henry the Eighth - edited by Jonathan CreweTragediesTitus Andronicus - edited by Russ McDonaldRomeo and Juliet - edited by Peter HollandThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Douglas TrevorThe Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark - edited by A.R. BraunmullerThe Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice - edited by Russ McDonaldThe Life of Timon of Athens - edited by Frances E. DolanKing Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts - edited by Stephen OrgelKing Lear: A Conflated Text - edited by Stephen OrgelMacbeth - edited by Stephen OrgelAntony and Cleopatra - edited by A.R. BraunmullerThe Tragedy of Coriolanus - edited by Jonathan CreweIndex of Songs
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The University of Chicago Press Blood Relations
Book SynopsisDrawing on a variety of cultural materials, this title demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its Christians, The Merchant of Venice reflects Christian anxiety and guilt about its simultaneous dependence on and disavowal of Judaism.Trade Review"This book is well-positioned to be the most important book-length study of The Merchant of Venice in all of the available scholarship. No one today is writing more trenchant criticism than Adelman. Her study of this deeply problematic play is fair and judicious while also passionately involved, learned, and wide-ranging while also attuned to painful moral issues." - David Bevington, University of Chicago"
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The University of Chicago Press This Wide and Universal Theater Shakespeare in
Book SynopsisExplores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. This book explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in As You Like It to the tavern in Henry IV, Part I.Trade Review"An eminent Shakespeare scholar and author, Bevington offers a concise, lucid, and unique overview of the history of Shakespeare in various modes of performance, from stage to film to television." - Choice "Bevington makes interesting, nuanced and original points about staging and interpretation that reveal the dynamism and complexity of Shakespeare's canon." - Financial Times "Even veteran Shakespeareans will profit from the varied reminders of how important performance and staging have always been to the interpretation of the plays." - Renaissance Quarterly"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Doctors Ambassadors Secretaries Humanists
Book SynopsisIn this volume Douglas Biow traces the role that humanists played in the development of professions and professionalism in Renaissance Italy, and vice versa. Examining a wide range of treatises, poems and essays, Biow shows how interaction between humanists and professionals was conducted.Trade Review"Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries is a formidable accomplishment. Biow traces the interactions of humanist culture with distinct areas of professional expertise and practice. His readings of key historical figures and works are compelling, even brilliant at times. Persuasively written, this work will attract a wide range of readers interested in the intertwined histories of the humanistic Renaissance and early modernity." - Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley
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The University of Chicago Press A Power to Do Justice
Book SynopsisEnglish law underwent transformation in sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation. This book shows how Renaissance writers engaged practical and conceptual dynamics of jurisdiction, both as a subject for critical investigation and as a frame for articulating literature's sense of itself.Trade Review"This is a work of enormous erudition, enviable rigor, and considerable consequence. A Power to Do Justice offers a new model of law and literature, and it will act as a humanizing presence within jurisprudence for many years to come." - Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Poor Tom
Book SynopsisOne of the most memorable Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. The author asks us to rethink all those received ideas - and thus to experience King Lear as never before. He argues that Edgar is Shakespeare's most radical experiment in characterization - and also his most exhaustive model of both human and theatrical possibility.Trade Review"Reading Poor Tom has the effect of watching a familiar landscape expand and morph in myriad, telling ways, opening up ever deeper reserves of strangeness in the much-discussed and much-estranged play of King Lear. This is a very rare sort of work." (Kenneth Gross, author of Shylock Is Shakespeare and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life)"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Frankenstein of 1790 and other Lost Chapters from
Book SynopsisThe French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. This book covers an account of politico-literary moment and its aftermath.Trade Review"Julia V. Douthwaite succeeds admirably in showing the interrelations between history and literature and introduces the reader to a long-neglected body of work. By showing the role of revolutionary fiction and its reinterpretation by later writers, this important book fills a significant gap in the history of literature." (Marie-Helene Huet, Princeton University)"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Animal Claim
Book SynopsisPlacing sensibility in dialogue with classical and early-modern antecedents as well as contemporary animal studies, this book uncovers crucial connections between eighteenth-century poetry; theories of communication; and post-absolutist, rights-based politics.Trade Review"Menely's passionately eloquent The Animal Claim accomplishes what many would consider the impossible feat of making eighteenth-century poetry a matter of pressing concern to a wide range of fields, extending beyond eighteenth-century studies and literary studies more generally to include political theory, philosophy, ecocriticism, and the growing field of animal studies. This book is one of the most convincing accounts of the enduring relevance of the eighteenth century to our own moment that I have ever read." (Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles)
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Floridoro A Chivalric Romance The Other Voice in
Book SynopsisThe first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristicsdark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceressesFloridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while ona quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (155592) vehemently defends women's capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women's lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in 1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.
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The University of Chicago Press Unrequited Conquests Love Empire in the
Book SynopsisArgues that love poetry in the Renaissance was not simply a reflection of the times but a means of cultural transformation. Using poetic examples and historical documentation, this book rewrites the relations between the Renaissance and colonial Latin America, and between poetry and history.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Editions and Translations Introduction: The Unrequitedness of Conquest 1. The Columbian First Person 2. "For Love of Pau-Brasil": Objectification in Colonial Brazil 3. Love Poetry in the World 4. The Imperial Sidney 5. Huaca, Love, and Conquest: The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Epilogue Notes Index
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Political Theology and Early Modernity
Book SynopsisPolitical theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book assembles scholars to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology.
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The University of Chicago Press Soliciting Interpretation
Book SynopsisThis collection gathers new essays by critics and scholars who are currently reshaping our sense of the function and nature of seventeenth-century poetry. Contributors return to the New Critical canon of Renaissance poetry with fresh perspectives that emphasize considerations of gender, ideology, power, and language. In the first group of essays, David Norbrook, Annabel Patterson, John Guillory, Rosemary Kegl, and Stephen Orgel explore the various ways in which a text can be political. Next, Arthur Marotti, Jane Tylus, and Jonathan Goldberg consider the circumstances of textual production and reception in the seventeenth century. Finally, Stanley Fish, Gordon Braden, Michael C. Schoenfeldt, and Maureen Quilligan discuss the particular forms of anxiety that result when seventeenth-century poets modify the traditional rhetoric of sexual desire to serve what seem to be erotic or religious purposes. These essays, accompanied by an extensive editors' introduction, intersect less in their sh
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeare Only
Book SynopsisIntends to reconstruct Shakespeare's authorial identity as Shakespeare and his contemporaries actually understood it. This title argues that Shakespeare tried to adapt his own singular talent and ambition to the collaborative enterprise of drama by imagining himself as uniquely embodying the diverse, fractious energies of the popular theater.Trade Review"Overturns the new historicist position that authorial production by a singular individual is a mid-18th-century notion.... Essential." (Choice)"
£999.99
University of Chicago Press Zayde A Spanish Romance The Other Voice in Early
Book SynopsisUnfolding the medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula, this book takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances - from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again - with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the noble lovers.
£999.99
University of Chicago Press William Blake the Impossible History of the
Book SynopsisModern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. In this study, however, Makdisi develops a framework for understanding these peculiarities.
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The University of Chicago Press A Rule for Children Other Writings The Other
Book SynopsisThis work presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women.
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The University of Chicago Press The Transformation of Authorship in America
Book SynopsisMost critics and historians consider that the emergence of a free press liberated 18th century American authors. In this study, the author seeks to overturn this view, arguing that the emergence of economic liberalism transformed American authorship into a market-oriented profession.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Pt. I: The Transformation of Authorship 1: The World Turned Upside Down: Sociopolitical Criticism in Puritan America 2: The Rise of a Free Press and the Erosion of a Public Sphere: The Zenger Case Reconsidered 3: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Republican Print Rationality 4: Liberalism and Republication: The Problem of Copyright for Authorship in America Pt. II: The Aesthetic Response 5: Crevecoeur and Strategies of Accommodation 6: Brackenridge and the Resistance to Textual Authority Pt. III: The Rhetoric of Fiction 7: Authorial Coquetry and the Early American Novel Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press From Mother and Daughter Poems Dialogues and
Book SynopsisAmong the best-known and prolific French women writers of the 16th century, Madeleine (1520 - 87) and Catherine (1542 - 87) des Roches were celebrated for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles letters. This work contains selections from their celebrated oeuvre, suffused with an enduring feminist consciousness.
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The University of Chicago Press Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisIn this text, Mary Beth Rose argues that from the late 16th century to the late 17th century, a passive, more female, but equally potent dimension of heroic identity began to dominate English culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Sovereign Amity
Book SynopsisRenaissance formulations of friendship typically cast the friend as another self and idealized a pair of friends as one soul in two bodies. This work puts the stress on the likeness of friends into context and offers a historical account of its place in English culture and politics.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Tudor Autobiography Listening for Inwardness
Book SynopsisInvestigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories.Trade Review"Skura has read widely both in sixteenth-century literature and in critical and theoretical discussions of autobiography, and her survey of the field is excellent. But her book also expands that field, redefining the nature of autobiographical utterance." - Lois Potter, University of Delaware"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Key of Green Passion and Perception in
Book SynopsisFrom Shakespeare's 'green-eyed monster' to the 'green thought in a green shade' in Andrew Marvell's The Garden, the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture during the 16th and 17th centuries. This title considers the significance of the color in the literature, visual arts, and popular culture of early modern England.Trade Review"This is, quite simply, a brilliant and groundbreaking book. The Key of Green is immensely readable, fluent, quirky, and passionate, and always simultaneously intellectually rigorous and deeply learned." - Elizabeth D. Harvey, University of Toronto"
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The University of Chicago Press The Plight of Feeling Sympathy Dissent in the
Book SynopsisThis study shows that sentimental, melodramatic and gothic novels written in the wake of the American Revolution can be read as an emotional history of the early Republic, reflecting the hate, fear and grief which tormented the federalist era, and giving voice to a collective mourning process.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: The Plight of Feeling 2: Working through the Frame: The Dream of Transparency in Charlotte Temple 3: Beyond "A Play about Words": Tyrannies of Voice in The Coquette 4: A Lady Who Sheds No Tears: Liberty, Contagion, and the Demise of Fraternity in Ormond Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Libertines Friend
Book SynopsisUncovers the history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, this title offers an exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China.Trade Review"This is an ambitious study that analyzes a long list of erotic and romantic fiction from the late Ming to the late Qing to argue that male homosexuality provides a somewhat unlikely arena in which the notions and institutions of gender, love, ethics, law, and politics are brought into play." (David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University)"
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Image Government
Book SynopsisAn examination of the art of political 'spin' in late 17th century England, and how art and literature reflected the changing ideologies of the Stuart era and were used to manipulate political opinion.Table of ContentsPreface Part I 1. Prologue 2. In Medias Res: Panegyrical Economics 3. 'A Deluding Streame' gets Head 4. Rendering unto Caesar 5. Building upon an Old Frame 6. Troubling the Waters - Marvell's First Anniversary 7. More directed to the Monarchy than the Person 8. Non Angeli sed Angli 9. Restoration 10. No Force but Love, nor Bond but Bounty 11. Indulgent to the Occupant 12. Pious Times: Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel 13. The Exquisite Truth Part II 14. Wonder en is gheen Wonder 15. Restoration, Revolution 16. 'Bright Maria's Charms' 17. Machines and Machines 18. Peace and Plenty and Julian the Apostate 19. 'Saturnian Times' 20. More than Conqueror 21. A King Divine by Law and Sense 22. 'Cette folle Vanité d'Alexandre' 23. Funeral bak'd Meats and Gendres de Mérite 24. Retouchings 25.'Image Government' Plates Notes Bibliography Index
£89.83
Yale University Press Romeo and Juliet Annotated Shakespeare The
Book SynopsisThe Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatistTrade ReviewNamed a 2005 Outstanding Academic title by the Association of American University Presses“Raffel’s glossings are almost without exception accurate and scholarly and some of them will be downright revelatory. The attention he pays to sound and rhythm in his notes will remind students they should be reading Shakespeare aloud and that there is pleasure in doing so.”—Dale Richardson, University of the South“Burton Raffel is surely one of the profession’s top linguists and scholars, and the application here of his vast knowledge of linguistics to Romeo and Juliet provides any reader (whether specialist or not) with the best glimpse available of the great range of Shakespeare’s stunning use of the English language.”—Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University
£10.27
WW Norton & Co Shakespeare and Film
Book SynopsisThe book also includes a glossary of film and critical terminology as well as annotated selected bibliographies and filmographies.Trade Review"For teachers who have found their casual references to dolly shots and whip pans met with stupefied gazes, Shakespeare and Film will seem an answer to a pedagogical prayer." -- Todd Borlick - Literature/Film Quarterly"Crowl’s prose is pitched perfectly to the undergraduate ear: limpid, but not platitudinous, authoritative, yet never condescending." -- Todd Borlick - Literature/Film Quarterly
£35.48
The University of Michigan Press Major Women Writers of SeventeenthCentury England
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LUP - University of Michigan Press ONeills Shakespeare
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship of William Shakespeare and Eugene O’Neill through detailed, often surprising, intertextual readings of the two great playwrights’ work. This is the exploration of an ‘essential, basic, even natural’ connection, in which Shakespeare is shown to have fundamentally shaped O’Neill’s creative imagination.
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The University of Michigan Press Rogues and Early Modern English Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection emphasizes that rogue culture, in spite of the continuing controversy surrounding its origins, served an important role in letting ordinary citizens, especially those partially dislocated by emerging capitalism and urbanization, think through their places in a changing world.
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The University of Michigan Press Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton
Book SynopsisTraditional approaches to understanding sublimity and skepticism have often asserted the importance of one concept over the other. This book argues that literary and philosophical notions of skepticism and sublimity simultaneously developed and influenced one another. It includes selections from two Renaissance writers: Montaigne and Milton.
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The University of Michigan Press The Immaterial Book
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The University of Michigan Press Mediating Culture in the SeventeenthCentury
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The University of Michigan Press Virtuous Necessity
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The University of Michigan Press Ghostly Fragments
Book SynopsisGathers the essays of the late Barbara C. Hodgdon, a renowned scholar of Shakespeare and performance studies. The editors have selected essays that represent the wide sweep of Hodgdon's scholarship, including unpublished pieces and those from hard-to-access sources.
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Random House USA Inc Tristram Shandy Everymans Library Classics Series
Book SynopsisThis bawdy, high-spirited novel—whose author, Laurence Sterne, was described by Diderot as “the Rabelais of the English”—provoked a literary scandal when its first two volumes were published in 1759. A masterpiece of narrative absurdity, ribald humor, and philosophical playfulness, Tristram Shandy is famously studded with witty metafictional gambits—chapters out of order, blank and blacked-out pages, a preface that occurs in the middle of the book—that prefigured postmodernism by two centuries. Tristram Shandy, the hero of this fictional autobiography, purports to narrate the story of his life, but along the way he engages in so many colorful digressions and exuberant jokes that his birth does not even occur until Volume III. In the meantime, we meet an unforgettable supporting cast of characters—including Shandy’s father and mother, his uncle Toby, the servant Trim, Dr. Slop, an
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Random House USA Inc Tom Jones
Book SynopsisOne of the first and most influential of English novels—originally published in 1749—is blessed with a lively and endearing hero at the center of one of the most ingeniously constructed comic plots in fiction. • Inspiration for the PBS MASTERPIECE series Tom Jones starring Solly McLeod, Sophie Wilde and Hannah Waddingham Tom Jones, a foundling brought up in the household of the benevolent Squire Allworthy, falls in love with the beautiful heiress Sophia Western, whose father forbids them to marry on grounds of Tom’s low birth. Tom is a lusty, high-spirited yet good-hearted soul, and after he is banished by his guardian for youthful misbehavior he heads to London to make his own fortune, with the smitten Sophia in pursuit. A series of bawdy escapades and assorted scrapes ensues, including a duel and a stint in prison, before the mystery of Tom’s birth is unraveled. Fielding
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Random House USA Inc Tragedies Volume 1 Everymans Library Classics
Book Synopsis Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear are each so singular an achievement that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that this most uncanny of the world’s great writers invariably inspires. In these four plays, Shakespeare engages the problem that is central to tragedy and crucial to any human community—the problem of violence and revenge—on an unprecedented scale. No other literary texts have been more instrumental in deepening our knowledge of ourselves as individuals and as a civilization. This authoritative edition of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in context.
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Random House USA Inc Histories Vol 1 Volume 1 001 Everymans Library
Book Synopsis Shakespeare’s histories—containing within their crowded tableaux all of the tragedies, confusions, and beauties of human life—are not only drama of the highest order. They also serve as windows through which generations have made themselves familiar with crucial episodes in English history. For an Elizabethan England that had already emerged onto the stage of world power and was hungry to understand the sources and nature of its identity, Shakespeare provided a grandeur born of the transforming power of his art. This volume contains Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3; Richard III; and King John. The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare’s work.(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Rights of Man and Common Sense
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Random House USA Inc Histories Vol 2 Volume 2 002 Everymans Library
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order, these plays represent the Elizabethan historical drama in its full glory. And thanks to parts one and two of Henry IV our literature is graced—in the figure of the dissolute and boastful knight Sir John Falstaff—with one of the greatest comic creations in the history of the stage. This volume contains Richard II; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; Henry V; and Henry VIII. The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, a helpful family tree of the Houses of Lancaster and York, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar
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Random House USA Inc Romances Everymans Library Classics Contemporary
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare’s last four plays carry us across space and time—from classical antiquity to Roman Britain to pagan Sicily to a remote island—and they move as well into a wilder geography of the imagination, one dominated by the wondrous and fantastical, and by reconciliation and renewal. Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest are famously fraught with shipwrecks and adventures, magic and disguise, speaking statues and ethereal spirits, tragic deceptions and moving reunions, and they number among the most enduringly delightful of Shakespeare’s works. The texts of the plays, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented here with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare’s oeuvre.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Origins of the English Novel 16001740
Book SynopsisThe novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.Trade ReviewThe last two decades have been turbulent ones for the study of the novel, and most of the waves have been created by Michael McKeon... The fifteenth anniversary edition... offers the opportunity to reflect on McKeon's extraordinary contribution to studies of the novel... Because the work is so careful and the thinking so precise, I find the story he tells just as compelling now as in the 1980s and, if anything, more satisfying in its comprehension of issues and weaving them into a coherent whole. -- J. Paul Hunter Restoration 2003Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Introduction: Dialectical Method in Literary History PART I QUESTIONS OF TRUTH Chapter One: The Destabilization of Generic Categories Chapter Two: The Evidence of the Senses: Secularization and Epistemological Crisis Chapter Three: Histories of the Individual PART II QUESTIONS OF VIRTUE Chapter Four: The Destabilization of Social Categories Chapter Five: Absolutism and Capitalist Ideology: The Volatility of Reform Chapter Six: Stories of Virtue PART III THE DIALECTICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE NOVEL Chapter Seven: Romance Transformations (I) : Cervantes and the Disenchantment of the World Chapter Eight: Romance Transformations (II) : Bunyan and Literalization of Allegory Chapter Nine: Parables of the Younger Son (I) : Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire Chapter Ten: Parables of the Younger Son (II) : Swift and the Containment of Desire Chapter Eleven: The Institutionalization of Conflict (I) : Richardson and the Domestication of Service Chapter Twelve: The Institutionalization of Conflict (II) : Fielding and the Instrumentality of Belief Conclusion Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Staging Governance Theatrical Imperialism in
Book SynopsisThe economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and compelling book, notable for its command of divergent fields and discourses, its careful readings, and its theoretical reach. -- Betsy Bolton Comparative Drama O'Quinn's focus... is refreshing. -- Diedre Lynch Studies in English Literature A sophisticated exposition... useful and stimulating. -- Cheryl Wanko 1650-1850: Ideas, Esthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era An ambitious and important book. -- Michael Garner Studies in Romanticism The book as a whole is an impressive scholarly achievement and a major contribution to the fields of romantic theatre and imperial studies. Theatre Research International Groundbreaking, informative, and penetrating, and it [ Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800] offers significant new information about the role of the theater in late eighteenth-century debates about the Asian colonies and English government. -- Jeremy W. Webster Eighteenth-Century Life O'Quinn's book is one of great importance and significant innovation. His understanding of the situated nature and ideological function of performance is excellent. -- David Francis Taylor Huntington Library QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Supplementation of Imperial SovereigntyPart I: Ethnographic ActsChapter 1. Empire's Vicious Expenses: Samuel Foote's The Nabob and the Credit Crisis of 1772Chapter 2. "As Much as Science Can Approach Barbarity" Pantomimical Ethnography in Omai; or, A Trip round the WorldPart II: Women and the Trials of Imperial MasculinityChapter 3. Inchbald's Indies: Meditations on Despotism circa 1784Chapter 4. The Raree Show of ImpeachmentChapter 5. Molière's Old Woman: Judging and Being Judged with Frances BurneyPart III: A Theatre of Perpetual WarChapter 6. Starke Reforms: Martial Masculinity and the Perils of IndianizationChapter 7. War and Precinema: Tipu Sultan and the Allure of Mechanical DisplayAfterword: Recreational AlterityNotesIndex
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