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  • Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship

    Edited by A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin, Dani Napton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Pope’s Mythologies

    Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment

    Edited by A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. Pope did not merely use classical (along with non-classical) mythology in his verse as a traditional, richly diverse medium through which to represent the diversity of private and civic life in his day, but he was an ambitious translator as well as ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

    Reconsiderations of His Early Career

    by A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology

    Edited by Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

    by Daniel Derrin ...
    Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne’s ideas about the processes of mental image making, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama

    Edited by A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin ...
    Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

    Edited by Arthur F. Kinney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Timely Voices

    Romance Writing in English Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic ...
    From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing.Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Milton in the Long Restoration

    Edited by Blair Hoxby, Ann Baynes Coiro ...
    Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that reaches its climax with the French Revolution or the Reform Bill of 1832. What gets overlooked in such accounts is the rich story of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

    by Marshall Grossman ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK“Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.”Thomas Corns, Bangor UniversityThe seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

    by Chris Baldick ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD