Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added "Byromania". Byron's Struggle With Celebrity Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: When George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, sails from Dover to Ostend on 25... RRP: $71.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Reading the Goddess into Austen Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A*, , language: English, abstract: The novel as the ultimate feminine genre, reading novels as a spiritual experience - this paper offers a brief look at Jane... RRP: $74.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden, a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and... RRP: $373.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Dr Johnson Chronology RRP: $184.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added English Romantic Writers and the West Country Foreword List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Preface; R.Holmes Introduction; N.Roe PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDS 'More wondrous far than Egypt's boasted pyramids': The South West's Megaliths in the Romantic Period; J.Parker 'Al... RRP: $151.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Die Großstadt als Spiegelbild der Gesellschaft im modernen Roman bei Fontane, Kafka und Kästner Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Deutsches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts kam es zu einer... RRP: $74.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Polyphones Erzählen in Theodor Fontanes Roman "Irrungen, Wirrungen" Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Deutsches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Meine ganze Aufmerksamkeit ist darauf gerichtet, die... RRP: $72.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Echtheit und Verwirrung des Gefühls. Die schwierige Liebesbeziehung zwischen dem Grafen und der Marquise von O bei Heinrich von Kleist Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 18, Université libre de Bruxelles, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die ersten Bemerkungen zu Heinrich von Kleists "Die Marquise von O...", veröffentlicht 1808,... RRP: $66.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J .Batchelor & C.Kaplan SECTION I: DRESS AND ADORNMENT Women and their Jewels; M.Pointon Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850; B.Burman & J.White... RRP: $200.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Textual and Critical Intersections In this collection of wide-ranging essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne into conversation with other authors from the past three centuries. RRP: $194.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sound effects This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 176090 'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 17601790' explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human... RRP: $159.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Three Metaphors for Life The poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in which he lived. The Palladian villa he occupied, the British service placed on the table before him, the English spinning... RRP: $270.00 $169.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Thomas 'Jupiter' Harris This is the first biography of Thomas Harris. Until now, little has been known about his life. He was most visible as the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades, one of only two venues in London allowed by law to perform spoken... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Disastrous Subjectivities In sharply original readings of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Disastrous Subjectivities explores modernity's failed promise to bring about a just social order under the ongoing threat of... RRP: $162.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Romantic Revelations Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long... RRP: $132.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Crowning Glories Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV's propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century three historical touchstones to examine what it would have meant for France's elite to... RRP: $142.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fruit of the Orchard Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete... RRP: $152.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Curious Encounters With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery,... RRP: $152.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Theophile Gautier, Conteur Fantastique et Merveilleux Between 1831 and 1866, Theophile Gautier published two dozen tales which can be designated contes fantastiques or contes merveilleux. These works are examined in chronological sequence, in French, in order to follow the development of Gautier as a writer... RRP: $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Malherbe, Thophile de Viau and Saint-Amant This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make... RRP: $36.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Confabulationes tironum litterariorum (Cologne, 1525) The humanist Hermann Schotten, or Hermannus Schottennius Hessus (c. 1503-1546), student, schoolmaster, and university lecturer in Cologne, was the author of a number of works on humanist pedagogy. His Confabulationes tironum litterariorum of 1525, a... RRP: $85.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Scepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 15381681 Winner of the 2019 Warburg Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for an outstanding work of literary historyThis is a study of the representation of witches in early modern English drama, organised around the themes of... RRP: $62.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Relics, Dreams, Voyages Relics, Dreams, Voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book... RRP: $265.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Russian Ideational Roots of Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature. Through a comparative analysis of an extensive corpus of writings by renowned Russian and Jewish... RRP: $270.00 $246.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added David, Donne and Thirsty Deer For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her... RRP: $265.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Medieval Afterlives A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth... RRP: $281.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Myth and (mis)information This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches,... RRP: $265.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Satire, Comedy and Tragedy The first four chapters of the book provide a close reading of the satiric, comic, and tragic action of Sterne's novel in the context of criticism from the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Chapter 5 provides a summary of chapters 1-4, focusing on... RRP: $217.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost A poet who crafted thegreatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. HisParadise Lost is a touchstone of English literature.In the latest entry in... RRP: $28.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn This book explores the works of Aphra Behn (16401689) synchronically through word counts and statistical measures.It analyses, by genre, poetry, drama, and prose, examining the quantification of Behn's literary style. The conclusion applies thematic... RRP: $229.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Reading It Wrong How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation-and how this still shapes the way we readReading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about:... RRP: $64.99 $63.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Witnessing to the faith This study utilises John Donne's works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that this topic... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Imagining the Irish child This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on different varieties of the child found in the work of a range of... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 17641832 Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 17641832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic.Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how... RRP: $229.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve William Congreve was deeply involved in the events of his turbulent times. That involvement reveals itself in works which have sometimes been regarded as entirely unengaged with the realities of his society. This book attempts to read Congreve's plays... RRP: $170.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin A study of the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth centuryFocusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry... RRP: $95.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The genres of Renaissance tragedy This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of issues ranging from gender to race to religious conflict, as well as providing us with some of the earliest... RRP: $247.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Shakespeare's liminal spaces This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties.In seeking to expose the dynamics and fluctuations of power on the... RRP: $265.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Edward and George Herbert in the European republic of letters The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (15931633) and Edward Herbert (15831648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters in a moment of transition, before and during the Thirty Years War.Each in his own way conceived of his... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Perception and analogy Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the period, drawing novel connections between treatments of perception as an embodied phenomenon... RRP: $220.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The pastor in print The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Frontier narratives This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages. The Muslim-Christian divide in the region produced an unusual kind of slavery, fostered a... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Northern memories and the English Middle Ages This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Conversions Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary... RRP: $72.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sinister histories Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the... RRP: $57.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Thomas Heywood and the classical tradition The first in-depth consideration of Thomas Heywood's engagement with the classical world, this is a timely reappraisal of the notably diverse output of Heywood, his better-known works are discussed alongside critically neglected ones Illuminates the role... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture Exploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by affect theory, history of emotions research, and the contemporary cognitive sciences to... RRP: $233.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
