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Medieval Institute Publications The Wisdom of Poetry
Book SynopsisA collection of wise and witty essays by some of our wisest and wittiest scholars in honor of one of our field's wisest wits.Table of ContentsPreface Understanding an Old English Wisdom Verse: Maxims II, Lines 10ff by Fred C. Robinson Sapientia et Fortitudo in the Old English Judith by Robert E. Kaske The Drama of The Wanderer by William Alfred Of Words and Deeds: The Coastguard's Maxim Once More by Stanley B. Greenfield The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History by Roberta Frank Langland and Some Scriptural Quotations by E. Talbot Donaldson The Perplexities of William Langland by George Kane Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman by Anne Middleton The Occasion of The Parliament of Fowls by Larry D. Benson Venus in the "north-north-west"? Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, 117 by Alan J. Lazarus The Philosophies in Chaucer's Troilus by Donald R. Howard Miracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and the "Prioress's Tale" by Robert Worth Frank Jr. Chaucer's Lists by Stephen A. Barney The Wisdom of the Fool by Siegfried Wenzel The Publications of Morton W. Bloomfield: 1939–1981 by George Hardin Brown Notes
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NeWest Press Canadian Literary Power Writer as Critic Writer
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Black Rose Books Aphra Benn
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Ariadne Press Crime at Mayerling
Book SynopsisCrime at Mayerling deals with two of the most sensational crimes committed during the past century. Although separated in time by a hundred years, the two events are inextricably connected. In January 1889 the corpses of Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and the Baroness Mary Vetsera were discovered in the prince''s hunting lodge at Mayerling, near Vienna. The circumstances were hushed up and for decades scientists and historians had been trying to solve the mystery of what had happened at Mayerling. An Austrian Mayerling buff felt compelled to reach an explanation in his own way: in December 1992 he stole the coffin with the Baroness''s remains and had them examined by forensic specialists. Markus describes the remarkable findings which finally resolve the mystery of Mayerling.
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Readers International Literature and Tolerance Views from Prague
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Readers International New Portuguese Letters
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The New Chaucer Society Studies in the Age of Chaucer Volume 22
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Phanes Press,U.S. Key of Jacob Boehme Magnum opus hermetic
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Mage Publishers Fathers and Sons Stories from the Shahnameh of
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Associated University Presses History of the Abderites
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Associated University Presses Machiavelli Redeemed Retrieving His Humanist
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Entwhistle Books,U.S. Only Apparently Real
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Italica Press Cosima
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Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts Collections The Enigma of Egill
Book SynopsisEgil''s Saga, composed some eight hundred years ago to relate the life and times of Egill Skallagrimsson, the Viking poet and Icelander of the tenth century, is a major prose narrative thought by many scholars to be written by Snorri Sturluson, the great medieval historiographer of Iceland. Essential elements for understanding Egils saga in its time and place include, among others, the settlement of Iceland, the relationship between Icelanders and Norwegian kings, and the Christianization of the Norse world as pagan beliefs receded. The saga, one of the longest and best-structured in the medieval Icelandic literary canon, is, in the words of Torfi Tulinius, a story of how people create an image of their past to give meaning to what is happening in their lives or of those that surround them.In a close reading of the saga, Tulinius brings forth the complex relationship between structure and meaning in the saga, as well as hitherto unnoticed references to Scripture that suggest
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Art of Revolution Kurt Eisners Agitprop
Book SynopsisThe first major study of the neglected fiction works of the well-known revolutionary politician Kurt Eisner.This fascinating study analyzes the fiction (including the didactic political Märchen) of Kurt Eisner, who is best known as a revolutionary politician of the Wilhelminian and Weimar periods. Eisner's literary work has been little studied, even in the German Democratic Republic, where he was revered as a political martyr. This is the first major study of this neglected aspect of Eisner's production.Trade ReviewAn intelligent, well-written, and necessary introduction to the literary works of Kurt Eisner. * SOUTH ATLANTIC REVIEW *Since Eisner's activities before World War I ... are seldom examined, we can be grateful to receive new and interesting information in the monograph. It develops Eisner's concept of propagandistic art, and presents his own literary output ... A welcome addition to our knowledge. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *
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Zephyr Press Sleeper at Harvest Time Zephyr Russian Prose
Book SynopsisRussian history through a reworking of mythology and folktales.
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Zephyr Press Fissures Chinese Writing Today
Book SynopsisSimply the best writing from China, Taiwan, and Chinese authors in exile.
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Zephyr Press Driftwood
Book SynopsisAn experience of exile; a personal epic.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Tale of Matsura
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Okagami The Great Mirror
Book SynopsisPresented here in a complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, a historical tale that mirrors a man’s life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Heian period.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Studies in Modern Japanese Literature
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Seduction And Betrayal
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Life Of Henry Brulard New York Review Books
Book SynopsisThe Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and bares his rebellious heart. His adored mother, who died when he was only seven; a father devoted only to his own social ambitions; the aunt whose daily cruelties passed for care: these are among the indelible portraits in a work that captures the sights, sounds, places, and characters of Stendhal's youth, its pleasures and sorrows, with preternatural clarity and immediacy. Full of dazzling images and burning emotions, The Life of Henry Brulard is a vivid memoir that is also an extraordinary work of the imagination.
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The Library of America Henry James Literary Criticism Vol 2 LOA 23
Book SynopsisHenry James, renowned as one of the world’s great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, and masterly critics of modern times. This Library of America volume is one of two volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, with many pieces never before available in book form. It includes reviews of a great number of European writers, especially French writers, along with more general essays and the Prefaces Henry James wrote for the New York Edition of his works, published between 1907 and 1909.More than one hundred reviews and essays are gathered by author, so that readers can trace the development of James’s complex, meditative, and highly volatile attitudes toward a wide spectrum of literature. James reviews the formidable Honoré de Balzac (with his “huge, all compassing, all desiring, all devouring love of reality”), Gustave Flaubert (“a pearl-diver, breathless in the thick elemen
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American Oriental Society Studies on the Han Fu
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University of Chicago Press Paradise Translation and Commentary v 3 Dantes
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Polebridge Press On StoryTelling Essays in Narratology Foundations Facets
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Galway of the Races Selected Essays
Book SynopsisAfter two posthumous collections Lynd’s reputation declined, but forty years on the work of this autobiographer, critic and social observer re-emerges with all its original vitality. These diverse and entertaining essays will give enduring pleasure to a new generation of readers.Trade ReviewAt times humorous, reflective and anecdotal, bearing witness to the political and cultural events of his day and yet, withal, holding a timeless appeal. It is an excellent selection of Lynd at his most forceful… Here is the voice of a truly great Ulsterman.’ – Peter Berresford Ellis, Irish Democrat ‘This selection of essays covers a host of topics with zest and elegance and humour.’ – Robert Greacen, Irish Independent ‘It can’t have been easy to choose the essays, since they all attain a high degree of competence and readability.’ – Patricia Craig, The Irish TimesAt times humorous, reflective and anecdotal, bearing witness to the political and cultural events of his day and yet, withal, holding a timeless appeal. It is an excellent selection of Lynd at his most forceful… Here is the voice of a truly great Ulsterman.’ – Peter Berresford Ellis, Irish Democrat ‘This selection of essays covers a host of topics with zest and elegance and humour.’ – Robert Greacen, Irish Independent ‘It can’t have been easy to choose the essays, since they all attain a high degree of competence and readability.’ – Patricia Craig, The Irish Times
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Karia Press Song for Simone and Other Stories
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Modern Humanities Research Association Histoire de La Duchesse de C by Stephanie de Genlis Mhra Critical Texts
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Backdam People
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies James Hoggs Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Scottish Ballads Scotnotes Study Guides
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Scottish Text Society The Works of Allan Ramsay
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Scottish Text Society James Watsons Choice Collection of Comic and
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Cambridge Pembroke College MS 25
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Cultures in Contact in Medieval Spain
Book SynopsisContributors: Samuel G. Armistead, Roger Boase, Charles Burnett, Alan Deyermond, John Edwards, Brenda Fish, T.J. Gorton, Richard Hitchcock, David Hook, Francisco Marcos Marín, Ralph Penny, Barry Taylor, Roger M. Walker, Milija Pavlovic
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Evangelistas Libro de Cetrería
Book SynopsisA fifteenth century satire of falconry booksA parody of falconry books by Evangelista de Carmona, a Comendador of the Order of St. John of Rhodes, whose style was based on tautologies or platitudes, puns, and irony.
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King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Las Mocedades de Rodrigo estudios críticos
Book SynopsisContributors: Alan Deyermond, Samuel G. Armistead, Thomas Montgomery, David Hook, Antonia Long, Vera Castro Lingl, Matthew Bailey, Mercedes Vaquero, Fernando Gómez Redondo, Fátima Alfonso Pinto
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Raymond Williams Society Key Words A Journal of Cultural Materialism 10
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Esse Publishing The Quotation Bank
Book SynopsisAn English Literature GCSE 9-1 Study and Revision Guide, providing key quotations with accompanying interpretations, literary techniques, analysis and revision activities. No clutter. No confusion. Just the key ingredients for exam success.Trade Review"They are very clearly laid out inside...your books speak plainly, whilst not spoon-feeding, which is a good thing." Coles BooksTable of ContentsWhat examiners are looking for; How The Quotation Bank can help you in your exams; How to use The Quotation Bank; The Science of Deduction to In Quest of a Solution; The Story of the Bald-headed Man to Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration; The Episode of the Barrel to The End of the Islander; The Great Agra Treasure to The Strange Story of Jonathan Small; Major Themes and Characters; How to revise effectively; Sample essay, potential essay questions and revision activities; Glossary.
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Esse Publishing The Quotation Bank
Book SynopsisAn English Literature GCSE 9-1 Study and Revision Guide, providing key quotations with accompanying interpretations, literary techniques, analysis and revision activities. No clutter. No confusion. Just the key ingredients for exam success.Trade Review"They are very clearly laid out inside...your books speak plainly, whilst not spoon-feeding, which is a good thing." Coles BooksTable of ContentsWhat examiners are looking for; How The Quotation Bank can help you in your exams; How to use The Quotation Bank; Act One; Act Two; Act Three; Act Four; Act Five; Major Themes and Characters; How to revise effectively; Sample essay, potential essay questions and revision activities; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press AntiRacist Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. It advances teaching Shakespeare through race and anti-racism in order to expose students to the unequal structures of power and domination that are systemically reproduced within society, culture, academic disciplines, and classrooms.Table of Contents1. Why an Anti-Racist Shakespeare?; 2. Shakespeare's Racial Invisibility; 3. Conceptualizing and Designing an Anti-Racist Shakespeare Course; 4. Building Shakespearean Communities; 5. The Salience of Shakespeare; 6. The Ongoing Work of Anti-Racist Shakespeares.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThis rich, expansive book reaches beyond philosophy to literature and the history of ideas. Nihilism is associated most frequently with twentieth-century movements, but Jon Stewart shows that a tradition of nineteenth-century nihilism actually predated and anticipated developments like existentialism and postmodernism.Trade Review'Jon Stewart's A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century presents a remarkable new interpretation of the development of thinking about the problem of the meaninglessness of the human condition that is referred to as nihilism. This concept is usually associated with twentieth-century existentialism, but Stewart traces how the crisis of meaning arose far earlier, namely as a result of the development of Enlightenment science which undermined traditional religious belief. Insight after insight is gained into the different dimensions of nihilism by means of close readings of key thinkers and writers of the nineteenth century. In experiencing the amazing amplitude of scope of the source-critical work and the creative interpretive turns that come as the narrative unfolds, one senses being in the presence of an author of significant humanity and erudition.' Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College'A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century delivers a comprehensive, balanced survey of the leading philosophical and literary attempts to grapple with the concept of nothingness. Stewart's erudition is on full display as he sheds new light on well-known theorists of nihilism, e.g., Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Turgenev, while elevating the contributions of neglected figures, e.g., Klingemann, Büchner, and Møller. Students and scholars alike will appreciate Stewart's clear, engaging, and jargon-free exposition of one of the defining ideas of the nineteenth century. An impressive achievement by any measure.' Daniel Conway, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Jean Paul's Vision of Nihilism and Plea for the Doctrine of Immortality; 2. Klingemann and the Absurdity of Nothingness in The Nightwatches; 3. Nihilism in English Romanticism: Byron and Shelley; 4. Schopenhauer's Theory of Human Suffering and Lack of Meaning; 5. Büchner's Account of the Reign of Terror as a Mirror of Human Existence; 6. Poul Martin Møller's Criticism of Hegelianism and the Danish Discussion of Nihilism; 7. Kierkegaard and the Indefinability and Inexplicability of Death; 8. Turgenev's Portrait of a Nihilist; 9. Nietzsche's Vision of the Past and the Future of Nihilism; 10. The Importance of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares White Others
Book SynopsisExploring the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare illustrates in characters like Hamlet, Antony and the Macbeths figures who are never quite 'white enough' this urgent, compelling work shows how such racial categorisation begets anti-Blackness and sustains white supremacy. An essential contribution to Shakespeare and critical race studies.Trade Review'Brown's much needed study powerfully and persuasively demonstrates how the policing of whiteness within Shakespeare's plays recruits and reproduces antiblackness at the heart of early modern English culture.' Patricia Akhimie, Director, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library'Premodern critical race studies is the most significant call to action for all Shakespeareans right now. David Sterling Brown's intervention is timely, unflinching, and provocative. It advances the field by bringing forward the figure of the white other, and draws together critical, personal and experiential modes of reading.' Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford'Shakespeare's White Others is stunning in its readings of plays from Macbeth to The Comedy of Errors with respect to the 'intraracial color line' and in the connections it makes to the deadly serious issue of racism. After Brown's book, no analysis of any of Shakespeare's plays will be able to efface race as a category of analysis.' Bernadette Andrea, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara and 2022-23 President of the Shakespeare Association of America'David Sterling Brown's precise scholarship is infused with unapologizing emotion - emotion, and scholarship, both rooted as they are in his Black humanity. Brown's articulate and adamant voice is the sound of indomitability shouting through the subterfuge.' Keith Hamilton Cobb, actor and playwright, American Moor'A remarkable work of scholarship by David Sterling Brown, Shakespeare's White Others is an in-depth examination of intraracial dynamics in Shakespeare's work that brilliantly articulates – and offers meaningful correctives – to historical practices. Dr. Brown audaciously illuminates the theatrical possibilities that emerge from a nuanced exploration of Shakespeare's infinite variety.' Simon Godwin, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC'With Shakespeare's White Others, David Sterling Brown engages racial whiteness and provokes interdisciplinary dialogue through his rhetorically accessible 'critical-personal-experiential' style. The book's unexpected final words, documenting Brown's own racial profiling experience, anticipate the depths of this brilliantly bold Shakespearean discourse that seamlessly blends genres while reimagining the scholarly monograph mode.' Claudia Rankine'David Sterling Brown takes us into the racial impact of an individual regarded by many as the greatest writer in the English language. In part, this praise is a result of William Shakespeare's contribution to racial thought. In Shakespeare's White Others we are presented with an outstanding contribution to understanding the logic of whiteness. Shakespearean reference to 'white others' helped foster the racial reasoning used to promote enslavement and colonialism. This work is essential and insightful reading for those interested in the invention of racism in modern literature and more generally in modern society.' Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, University of Pennsylvania'Maintaining that tensions between white characters are themselves racial conflicts, this paradigm-changing book establishes that all of Shakespeare's plays are about race. Rather than understand early modern race in binary terms, Shakespeare's White Others attends to the intraracial color line to reveal that whiteness is not an inalienable property, but rather an unstable commodity that is policed and confiscated through the deployment of anti-Black racism and white supremacy.' Melissa E. Sanchez, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Negotiating whiteness; 1. Somatic similarity; 2. Engendering the fall of white masculinity in Hamlet; 3. On the other hand; 4. 'Hear me, see me'; Conclusion: Artifactually.
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Cambridge University Press John Donne in Context
Book SynopsisJohn Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross misogyny. This book offers a comprehensive account of early modern life and culture as it relates to Donne''s richly varied body of work. Short, lively, and accessible chapters written by leading experts in early modern studies shed light on Donne''s literary career, language and works as well as exploring the social and intellectual contexts of his writing and its reception from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. These chapters provide the depth of interpretation that Donne demands, and the range of knowledge that his prodigiously learned works elicit. Supported by a chronology of Donne''s life and works and a comprehensive bibliography, this volume is a major new contribution to the study and criticism on the age of Donne and his writing.Trade Review'This collection will surely become an essential item on university and higher education reading lists. All undergraduate and postgraduate students of Donne will find stimulating material here on his songs and sonnets, elegies, satires and philosophical and divine poems … While this volume will certainly become essential student reading it also has much to offer to the many admirers of Donne's writings and reputation outside academia.' Michael Brennan, The Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology Kentston Bauman; Abbreviations; Introduction Michael Schoenfeldt; 1. Donne's literary career Patrick Cheney; 2. Donne's texts and materials Piers Brown; 3. Donne and print Katherine Rundell; 4. Language Douglas Trevor; 5. Donne's poetics of obstruction Kimberly Johnson; 6. Elegies and satires Melissa E. Sanchez; 7. The unity of the Songs and Sonnets Richard Strier; 8. Divine poems David Marno; 9. Letters James Daybell; 10. Orality and performance Ilona Bell; 11. Reading and interpretation Katrin Ettenhuber; 12. Education Adrew Wallace; 13. Law Gregory Kneidel; 14. Donne's prisons Molly Murray; 15. Donne and the natural world Rebecca Bushnell; 16. Money David Landreth; 17. Sexuality Catherine Bates; 18. Donne and the passions Christopher Tilmouth; 19. Pain Joseph Campana; 20. Medicine Stephen Pender; 21. Science, alchemy, and the new philosophy Margaret Healy; 22. Donne and skepticism Anita Gilman Sherman; 23. The metaphysics of the metaphysicals Gordon Teskey; 24. Controversial prose Andrew Hadfield; 25. Devotional prose Brooke Conti; 26. The sermons Lori Anne Ferrell; 27. The self Nancy Selleck; 28. Portraits Sarah Howe; 29. Donne in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Nicholas D. Nace; 30. Donne in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries James Longenbach; 31. Donne in the twenty-first century: thinking feeling Linda Gregerson; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe''s correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe''s epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document''s occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe''s letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe''s manuscript habits.Trade Review'This authoritative edition gives insights into a range of contemporary events and preoccupations: colonization, religious controversy, communication and transport networks, the publishing trade and relations between authors and printers, the operation of eighteenth-century spymasters and methods of political fact-finding. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of the period, not least the Union with Scotland and the Hanoverian Succession.' Margarette Lincoln, Times Literary Supplement'Nicholas Seager's outstanding and painstaking scholarship has created an edition that deserves to be the standard by which we measure for at least the next 50 years.' Kit Kincade, NPEC ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Editorial Principles and Practice; Chronology; Conventions and Abbreviations; Calendar of Letters; Introduction; The Letters I; Select Bibliography; Index.
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