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  • Mary Queen of Scots

    Romance and Nation

    by Jayne Lewis ...
    As an historical figure Mary Queen of Scots has been perpetually represented on canvas, page and stage, and has captured the British imagination since the time of her death in 1587. The 'real' Mary Stuart however has remained an enigma.Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation sheds light on Mary's life by exploring four main themes:* the history of Mary's representation in Britain from the late ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Air's Appearance

    Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660–1794

    by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis ...
    In Air's Appearance, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and immaterial worlds.Air's Appearance links the emergence ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden

    Edited by Jayne Lewis, Lisa Zunshine ...
    Series Book 126 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Which John Dryden should be brought into the twenty-first-century college classroom? The rehabilitator of the ancients? The first of the moderns? The ambivalent laureate? The sidelined convert to Rome? The literary theorist? The translator? The playwright? The poet? This volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature addresses the tensions, contradictions, and versatility of a ... Read more

    $52.22 CAD

  • Histories of Science

    Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

    by Jess Keiser, Melissa Bailes, Vivian Zuluaga Papp, Professor Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Anne M. Thell, Aaron R. Hanlon, Laura Miller, Dr. Al Coppola, Professor Helen Thompson, Professor Lisa Forman Cody, Frank Boyle, Kristin M. Girten, Adela Ramos, Ramesh Mallipeddi, Eric Gidal, Anna K. Sagal, Rajani Sudan, Professor Tobias Menely, PhD ...
    Spreading the news of scientific breakthroughs in the eighteenth centuryHistories of Science shows how different forms of media communicated scientific breakthroughs during the long eighteenth century, bringing together eighteen humanities scholars to discuss the representation, reception, and application of natural philosophy in the Atlantic world. In particular, the authors focus on descriptions ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Intellectual Base of Social Work Practice

    Tools for Thought in a Helping Profession

    by Harold Lewis, Jayne Silberman ...
    This much-needed exploration of the cognitive side of social work practice provides a framework for improving social work practice and education. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Organic Supplements

    Bodies and Things of the Natural World, 1580–1790

    by Rebecca Laroche, Kevin Lambert, Jessica Wolfe, Professor Lynn Festa, Michael Yonan, Diane Purkiss, Professor Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Julia Reinhard Lupton ...
    From the hair of a famous dead poet to botanical ornaments and meat pies, the subjects of this book are dynamic, organic artifacts. A cross-disciplinary collection of essays, Organic Supplements examines the interlaced relationships between natural things and human beings in early modern and eighteenth-century Europe. The material qualities of things as living organisms—and things that originate ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Queen Anne and the Arts

    by Barbara Benedict, Brian Corman, Julia Fawcett, Jayne Lewis, Estelle Murphy, Nicholas Seager, Philip Smallwood, Abigail Williams, Amanda Winkler, Kevin L. Cope, Juan Christian Pellicer0, James A. Winn1, Cedric D. Reverand II3 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but before the ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

    Edited by Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary ... Read more

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  • 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

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

    Edited by Michael Hattaway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth I

    The Competition for Representation

    by Susan Frye ...
    Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. This revisionist study examines her struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. Based on a variety of extant historical and literary materials, Frye's interpretation focuses on ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD