Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth...

Author: Geoffrey Brereton
ISBN: 9781032251554
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth...  Read More >>

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards God

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety:...

Author: Ceri Sullivan (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9780198906810
Format: Hardback
$149.95

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth...

Author: Geoffrey Brereton
ISBN: 9781032247434
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In tracing the course of French comedy from the Renaissance, through the age of Louis XIV and the 18th century,...  Read More >>

Desv�os de la naturaleza: O tratado del origen de los monstruos (1695)

Desv�os de la naturaleza: O tratado del origen de los...

Author: Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo ,  Jos� de Rivilla Bonet Y Pueyo
ISBN: 9781588713988
Format: Hardback
$124.08

David F. Slade's critical edition elucidates the 1695 Peruvian treatise on the birth of short-lived conjoined twins...  Read More >>

Frances Burney’s “Evelina”: The Book, its History, and its Paratext

Frances Burney’s “Evelina”: The Book, its History, and...

Author: Svetlana Kochkina
ISBN: 9783031177996
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public....  Read More >>

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment: The Genius of Every Place

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment:...

Author: Kevin L. Cope ,  Samara Anne Cahill
ISBN: 9781611463293
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British-and international-Enlightenment....  Read More >>

William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests

William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests...

Author: Mark Crosby ,  Josephine A. McQuail
ISBN: 9783031474354
Format: Hardback
$369.57

With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the largest digital...  Read More >>

The Merry Wives of Windsor: The New Oxford Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor: The New Oxford Shakespeare...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Callan Davies (Writer and researcher, Writer and researcher)
ISBN: 9780192873576
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction...  Read More >>

Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  John Jowett (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780192862426
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Terri Bourus (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780192865861
Format: Paperback
$16.95

A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most complex and enigmatic plays.  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Hannah August (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Massey University)
ISBN: 9780192866363
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet provides a fresh and authoritative introduction to one of...  Read More >>

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her...

Author: Brenda Ayres
ISBN: 9781032649399
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and...  Read More >>

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland
ISBN: 9781039187535
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland
ISBN: 9781039187542
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms...

Author: Michael Slater
ISBN: 9781032422718
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book uncovers the relation between figuration and science in the early modern world. It shows that changes...  Read More >>

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

Author: Sophie Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781526178879
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations,...  Read More >>

In Fielding′s Wake

In Fielding′s Wake

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781587314285
Format: Paperback
$36.95

"In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve...  Read More >>

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century...

Author: Clinton Bennett
ISBN: 9781032383217
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented...  Read More >>

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Author: Brian Russell Graham
ISBN: 9781032379197
Format: Paperback
$35.99

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

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