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Popular Fiction before Richardson
Narrative Patterns 1700-1739
Häftad, 1992
844 kr
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Now issued for the first time in paperback with a new introduction by the author, this is a study of those narratives which were written and widely read in England during the first forty years of the eighteenth century, but which have been hitherto neglected or despised by historians of the novel. …
Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730
An Anthology
Av Paula R. Backscheider, John J. Richetti
Häftad, 1996
1845 kr
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Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 gathers together for the first time a representative selection of shorter fiction by the most successful women writers of the period, from Aphra Behn, the first important English female professional writer, to Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood, who with Daniel …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
Swift's Parody
Av Robert Phiddian, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1704 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 …
Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment
Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
Av Michael Prince, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1797 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 …
Shakespeare, Milton and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing
The Beginnings of Interpretative Scholarship
Av Marcus Walsh, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
654 kr
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The first developments in the editing of English literary texts in the eighteenth century were remarkable and important, and they have recently begun to attract considerable interest, particularly in relation to conditions and constructions of scholarship in the period. This study sets out to …
The Story of the Voyage
Sea-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England
Av Philip Edwards, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
787 kr
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This is the first full study of one of the most popular and extensive forms of eighteenth-century literature, the voyage narrative. It illustrates the wide variety of published and unpublished material in this field, from self-satisfied official accounts to the little-known narratives of victims of …
Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry
Av John Goodridge, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has begun to offer a radically new dimension to our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. In this important new study John Goodridge offers a detailed reading of key rural poems of the …
Writing and the Rise of Finance
Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century
Av Colin Nicholson, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
804 kr
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The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England, whose impact on the literature of the period has hitherto been relatively unexplored. In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver's Travels, The Beggar's Opera and The Dunciad as …
Plots and Counterplots
Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730
Av Richard Braverman, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Richard Braverman's study of literary and political plots looks at the ways in which the rhetoric of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dynastic politics finds its formal expression in narrative evocations of the family romance. Its point of departure is the political conflict that led to the …
Narratives of Enlightenment
Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
Av Karen O'Brien, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
767 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 …
Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar
A Literary Biography
Av Peter Martin, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
727 kr
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Edmond Malone (1741-1812) was the greatest early editor of Shakespeare's works, the first historian of early English drama, the biographer of Shakespeare, Dryden and Reynolds, and a relentless exposer of literary fraud and forgery. His dedication to discovering the facts of literary history through …
