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  • Ambition, A History

    From Vice to Virtue

    par William Casey King ...
    Is "ambitious" a compliment? It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."—David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New WorldFrom rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    par Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Modifié par Dennis Danielson ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Modifié par Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... En savoir plus

    $159.99 CAD

  • 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

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

    Modifié par Arthur F. Kinney ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • 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

    Prix courant $37.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature

    Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden

    par Molly Murray ...
    Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross - and often recross - the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This 2009 study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

    Modifié par Andrew Hadfield ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of ... En savoir plus

    $48.79 CAD

  • Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

    par Sarah Irving ...
    Collections series Empires in Perspective
    Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion. ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • Taking Exception to the Law

    Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

    Modifié par Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, Grant Williams ...
    Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.Justice ... En savoir plus

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

    par Marshall Grossman ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD