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  • Paper, Ink, and Achievement

    Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship

    During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Editing Lives

    Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

    Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Community and Solitude

    New Essays on Johnson’s Circle

    Collections series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, ... En savoir plus

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  • Swiftly Sterneward

    Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New

    These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of ... En savoir plus

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  • New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

    'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'

    New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss ... En savoir plus

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  • The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770

    par Ashley Marshall ...
    An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

    Modifié par Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • At Vanity Fair

    From Bunyan to Thackeray

    At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to ... En savoir plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Modifié par Jack Lynch ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Books and Readers in Early Modern England

    Material Studies

    par Stephen Orgel ...
    Collections series Material Texts
    Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious ... En savoir plus

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  • Literary Names

    Personal Names in English Literature

    par Alastair Fowler ...
    Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Modifié par Greg Clingham ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... En savoir plus

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