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Alexander Pope: Selected Letters
Av Alexander Pope, Howard Erskine-Hill
Inbunden, 2000
4491 kr
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Pope's letters are fascinating documents, apart from his importance as a poet. Highly revealing of his remarkable character–ambitious, dangerous, trimming, ridiculous, intelligent, generous yet antagonistic–they also comprise a body of writing of extraordinary interest for an understanding of his …
Poetry and the Realm of Politics
Shakespeare to Dryden
Inbunden, 1996
1845 kr
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This is a major study of the relation between poetry and politcs in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature, focusing in particular on the works of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Dryden.Howard Erskine-Hill argues that the major tradition of political allusion is not, as has …
Poetry of Opposition and Revolution
Dryden to Wordsworth
Inbunden, 1996
1320 kr
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Poetry of Opposition and Revolution is an important new study of the relation between poetry and politics in English literature from Dryden to Wordsworth. Building on his argument in Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden (also available from OUP), Howard Erskine-Hill reveals that …
William Congreve
The Critical Heritage
Av Howard Erskine-Hill, Alexander Lindsay
Inbunden, 1995
8679 kr
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
William Congreve
The Critical Heritage
Av Howard Erskine-Hill, Alexander Lindsay
Häftad, 2014
858 kr
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1, Whichcote to Wesley
A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660-1780
Av Isabel Rivers, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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The period 1660-1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. …
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 2, Shaftesbury to Hume
A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780
Av Isabel Rivers, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the …
Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment
Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
Av Michael Prince, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
606 kr
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This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth …
The Body in Swift and Defoe
Av Carol Houlihan Flynn, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
787 kr
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This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing …
Mania and Literary Style
The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart
Av Clement Hawes, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2005
640 kr
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This highly original study of the 'manic style' in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a literary tradition and line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan …
Defoe and the New Sciences
Av Ilse Vickers, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience; and he never wavered in his conviction that it is man's God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature. In this first major study of Bacon's legacy to Defoe, Ilse …
Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy
Av William Walker, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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William Walker's original analysis of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He presents Locke as a foundational …
Swift's Parody
Av Robert Phiddian, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
635 kr
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Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it deserves. Focusing mainly on works before 1714, and especially on A Tale of a Tub, this study explores Swift's writing primarily as parody. Robert Phiddian …
The English Fable
Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740
Av Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
823 kr
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Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. In The English Fable, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis describes the national obsession with Aesop's fables during this period as both a figural response to sociopolitical …
Swift's Politics
A Study in Disaffection
Av Ian Higgins, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins' contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing and recorded opinion considers the interpretative problems they present. It explores the consonance of Swift's political writing with …
Women's Place in Pope's World
Av Valerie Rumbold, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry, and how in turn did he and his writing figure in the lives of the women he wrote about? How characteristic of his age was Pope's attitude towards women? What exactly was the role in his life of individual women such as …
Landscape, Liberty and Authority
Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth
Av Tim Fulford, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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Eighteenth-century landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority which was vital to a Britain newly defining its nationhood in a period of growing imperial power and rapid economic change. Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of …
The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
Av Peter Walmsley, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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The works of George Berkeley (1685-1753) have been the object of much philosophical analysis; but philosophers are writers as well as thinkers, and Berkeley was himself positively interested in the functions of language and style. He recognized that words are used not just to convey ideas, but to …
The Triumph of Augustan Poetics
English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson
Av Blanford Parker, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Starting with Butler's Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes Augustan satire as a movement away from the 'controversial disputation' of the seventeenth century to a …
Defoe's Politics
Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'
Av Manuel Schonhorn, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical demand to see Defoe as a 'modern' and to counter misrepresentations of his political writings by restoring them to their seventeenth-century context. Offering a full examination of Defoe's years as a political reporter and journalist …
Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Av Murray G. H. Pittock, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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The aim of this book is to question assumptions about the nature of the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology. Taking as its starting point the fundamental ambivalence of the Augustan concept the author studies canonical and non-canonical literature and uncovers the 'four …
Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Av Simon Varey, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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In this challenging and illustrated study, first published in 1990, Simon Varey relates the idea of space in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. Concepts of divine design, expressed in the work of philosophers …
Presenting Poetry
Composition, Publication, Reception
Av Howard Erskine-Hill, Richard A. McCabe
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader involves a complex interaction of rhetorical, orthographical and visual mediating skills. At issue are the nature of 'authority', the creation of a readership attuned to the writer's poetic resonances, and a delicate negotiation between literary …
Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War
Av Howard Erskine-Hill, Graham Storey
Häftad, 1983
654 kr
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Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This volume is concerned with radical prose from the period 1642-60 and comprises political pamphlets covering the years of the Civil War …
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Av Howard Erskine-Hill, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1993
392 kr
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This critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels aims at giving a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It characterises the significant historical and literary background to the work, and explores the text itself in the reading order intended by Swift. It gives proper attention …
The Body in Swift and Defoe
Av Carol Houlihan Flynn, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1198 kr
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This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing …
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1, Whichcote to Wesley
A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660-1780
Av Isabel Rivers, Howard Erskine-Hill
Inbunden, 1991
1872 kr
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The period 1660-1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. …
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 2, Shaftesbury to Hume
A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780
Av Isabel Rivers, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2191 kr
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This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the …
Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Av Murray G. H. Pittock, Howard Erskine-Hill
Inbunden, 1994
1704 kr
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The aim of this book is to question assumptions about the nature of the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology. Taking as its starting point the fundamental ambivalence of the Augustan concept the author studies canonical and non-canonical literature and uncovers the 'four …
Narratives of Enlightenment
Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
Av Karen O'Brien, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1778 kr
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Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David …
