Britain 16th and 17th Century
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
by Ian Watt  Publisher Comments Ian Watt's classic book on the early eighteenth-century novel. Accessible, straightforward, readable, The Rise of the Novel is as relevant and important today as when it was published....
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Stories of Chaos: Reason & Its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative
by Nick Davis Book News Annotation Davis (English, U. of Liverpool) finds that , , , and , each in its own way, confront the absolute limitation of reason in the face of a reality it cannot adequately represent to itself or recruit to its own purposes. He also compares their narrative...
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Margins & Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England
by Evelyn B Tribble Book News Annotation Examines commentary written in the margins of the text to show how the pages of the first printed books became the arena for struggled among authors, readers, and cultural authorities. Focuses on four controversies: the printed English Bible, two...
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The Uses of the Canon: Elizabethan Literature and Contemporary Theory
by Howard Felperin Publisher Comments An important contribution to the current rethinking of "English," and to the reconsideration of Shakespeare's role within it, this book focuses on the emergence of the New Historicism, clarifying a number of key positions in the criticism of the past...
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Lines of Authority: Politics & English Literary Culture, 1649-1689
by Steven N Zwicker Book News Annotation Focusing on the turbulent years between the execution of Charles I and the triumph of William III, Zwicker reads English literature as a series of brilliant and deeply engaged polemical contests. He juxtaposes overtly polemical writings--pamphlets...
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Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England
by Lori Humphr Newcomb Publisher Comments With the expansion of the publishing industry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people, not just the wealthy and educated. The growth of the book trade produced, alongside...
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Early Modern Englishwoman Ser 1 PT2 Volume 6
by Betty Travitsky Book News Annotation Volume 6 of a collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1750, both by women and for and about them. The series provides an extensive collection of the separately published writings reprinted so as to make available the texts upon which the field...
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The Rest Is Silence
by Robert Watson Synopsis How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The...
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Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance
by Tina Krontiris Publisher Comments A fascinating study of the writing of six women writers of the period. Encompassing their poetry, drama and romantic fiction, the study shows how gender ideology, economics and class, as well as literary convention, shaped their work....
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Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts
by Peter C Herman Publisher Comments Contributors to this first critical anthology devoted exclusively to the Henrician era show how contemporary theoretical approaches can enrich, complicate, and sometimes entirely revise our understanding of that period....
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Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic Verse & Prose, 1600-1660
by Hershel Baker
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The Romans of Lancelot of the Laik (Early English Text Society Original)
by W W Skeat
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Renaissance historicism :selections from English literary renaissance
by Arthur F. Kinney
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The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750
by Cameron Mcfarlane Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index....
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Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England
by Annabel Patterson Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278) and index....
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The High Road: Romantic Tourism, Scotland and Literature, 1720-1820
by John Glendening Publisher Comments "The High Road" situates romantic tourism in Scotland by studying texts that richly demonstrate relevant cultural developments and stand out as compelling intersections of history and personality. Six accounts distinguish a span of 100 years during which...
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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature
by Brian Lockey Publisher Comments A study of the role literature played in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism....
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Origins of English Tragedy
by J M R Margeson
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Macaulays Essays on Milton & Addison
by Alphonso Newcomer
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Elizabethan Poets
by Fred Inglis
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