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  • Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics

    by P. Loscocco ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Letters 1697–1729

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 3

    by Paula Loscocco ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who became widely known for her innovative use of Donnean poetics to express passionate female friendship, her occasional verses on private friends and public figures, and her moral and political acuity. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Race and Work

    by Karyn Loscocco ...
    Series series Work & Society
    This book provides a reasoned, unflinching description of how race and paid work are linked in U.S. society. It offers readers the rich conceptual and empirical foundation needed to understand key issues surrounding both race and work.Loscocco trace current patterns to their historical roots, showing that the work lives of women and men from different race and ethnic groups have always been ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Poems 1667

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 2

    by Paula Loscocco ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who became widely known for her innovative use of Donnean poetics to express passionate female friendship, her occasional verses on private friends and public figures, and her moral and political acuity. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Publications 1651–1664

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 1

    by Paula Loscocco ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who became widely known for her innovative use of Donnean poetics to express passionate female friendship, her occasional verses on private friends and public figures, and her moral and political acuity. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

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    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw the development of English opera and the first public concerts. Pepys lived through a time of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Invisible Agents

    Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

    by Nadine Akkerman ...
    It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of civil strife in Britain can escape the historiographer's ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Heart and Stomach of a King

    Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power

    by Carole Levin ...
    In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Shakespeare Code

    by Virginia M. Fellows ...
    In October 1623 Sir Francis Bacon describes a new and ingenious method for writing in code. One month later the Shakespeare First Folio is published. A coincidence? Over 250 years later a brilliant young physician made a discovery about the works of Shakespeare—coded messages which offer an unsettling revision of history in the royal court of Elizabethan England. Hidden agendas, secret lives, ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Arcadia

    England and the Dream of Perfection (Text Only)

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    This ebook does not include illustrations.A fascinating depiction from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family and a country on the hinge of modernisation.Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an Arcadia, which now seems both ideal and remote?Through 16th- and 17th-century England, ... Read more

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  • The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

    Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight ...
    More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD