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  • George Frideric Handel

    A Life with Friends

    par Ellen T. Harris ...
    During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known to most as the composer of Messiah—is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives.One document—Handel’s will ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Literature and the Arts

    Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

    par Anna Battigelli, Steven N Zwicker, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Paul Hammond, Andrew Walkling, David Hopkins, Paula R. Backscheider, Ellen T Harris, Peter Sabor, Melissa A Schoenberger0, Cedric D Reverand II1 ...
    The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one another, ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

    par Ellen T. Harris ...
    Collections series
    Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth ... En savoir plus

    $54.39 CAD

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    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    par Abigail Williams ...
    Collections series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... En savoir plus

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  • Super-Infinite

    The Transformations of John Donne

    par Katherine Rundell ...
    Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch AwardA Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub</s... ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    par Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Modifié par Dinah Birch, Katy Hooper ...
    Collections series Oxford Quick Reference
    Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive feature entries supply a wealth of information about important genres in ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD

  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    par Janet Todd ...
    'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Modifié par Dinah Birch ...
    Collections series Oxford Companions
    The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. For the seventh ... En savoir plus

    $31.29 CAD

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    par Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... En savoir plus

    $11.89 CAD

  • Purcell

    A Biography

    par Jonathan Keates ...
    In the chaos of the English Civil War and Puritan Commonwealth, churches were defaced and organs broken, but the tradition of fine music survived. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, one of the first things he demanded was music, sacred and profane, anthems and motets, pavannes and gavottes. In 1659 Henry Purcell was born, and his genius would give the period and nation an unforgettable ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • English Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Jonathan Bate ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth ... En savoir plus

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