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Jonathan Swift’s «On Poetry: A Rapsody»
A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary
Av Melanie Just
Häftad, 2004
1101 kr
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On Poetry: A Rapsody is one of Jonathan Swift’s most complex and controversial poems. This study presents, for the first time, a detailed analysis and interpretation of what, on a surface level, has to be called a mock ars poetica, but which, on a deeper level, is a highly allusive political …
Latitudinarianism and Didacticism in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Moral Theology in Fielding, Sterne, and Goldsmith
Inbunden, 2009
1352 kr
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The relationship between Latitudinarian moral theology and eighteenth-century literature has been much debated among scholars. However, this issue can only be tackled if the exact objectives of the Latitudinarians’ moral theology are clearly delineated. In doing so, Patrick Müller unveils the …
Testaments, Donations, and the Values of Books as Gifts
A Study of Records from Medieval England before 1450
Inbunden, 2014
1086 kr
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Why were books considered valuable in the Middle Ages? This study focuses on medieval testaments and donation records from England before 1450 to investigate this question. The primary sources and datable records from before and after the Norman Conquest show that contemporary attitudes can be …
Jonathan Swift’s Allies
The Wood’s Halfpence Controversy in Ireland, 1724–1725. Second revised and augmented edition
Inbunden, 2017
1381 kr
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The patent for coining copper money granted by King George I to the English manufacturer William Wood aroused nationwide protest in Ireland. It led to the publication of Jonathan Swift’s «Drapier’s Letters», in which the Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, attacked both the patent and …
Poetry and Authority
Chaucer, Vernacular Fable and the Role of Readers in Fifteenth-Century England
Av David Nisters, Hermann Josef Real
Inbunden, 2018
754 kr
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This study argues that the vernacular fable constituted a productive site for negotiating scholastic poetics in late medieval England. On the basis of a close reading of Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale and Manciple’s Tale, the book analyses how the concept of textual authority came to be both …
Violent Language and Its Use in Religious Conflicts in Elizabethan England
Discourses on Values and Norms in the Marprelate Controversy (1588/89)
Av Sarah Ströer, Hermann Josef Real
Inbunden, 2019
790 kr
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Elizabethans saw eloquent language as the mark of the civilized gentleman. At the same time, they believed language to be able to harm, analogous to physical violence. Such concepts of language have important implications for the study of religious controversies of the time, in which the authors …
Book Value Categories and the Acceptance of Technological Changes in English Book Production
Av Simon Rosenberg, Hermann Josef Real
Inbunden, 2020
1037 kr
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For more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both the printing press and industrialized production methods vitally changed the book industry in their …
Supervision of Books in a Manuscript Culture: Theory and Practice of Censorship in Late Medieval England
Av Eva Schaten, Hermann Josef Real
Inbunden, 2025
1094 kr
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Did censorship exist before the invention of the printing press and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum? This study examines the attempted suppression of written religious and political dissent in pre-Reformation England, with a focus on legal aspects and historical context. A wide range of instruments …
John Evelyn’s Translation of Titus Lucretius Carus- «De rerum natura»
An Old-Spelling Critical Edition
Av Michael M. Repetzki, Hermann Josef Real
Häftad, 2000
625 kr
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«It remains, however, slightly surprising that Evelyn was attracted to Lucretius, for, despite his appeal to men like Gassendi and Charleton, Lucretius was a figure who had long been frowned on in orthodox circles,» Michael Hunter, the unrivalled expert on Evelyn’s philosophical and scientific …
Pamphlet Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism
Av Sabine Baltes-Ellermann, Hermann Josef Real
Häftad, 2003
900 kr
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The controversy about Wood’s Halfpence between 1722 and 1725 was an exceptional instance of Irish defiance of England’s imperial authority. In a heated public dispute, more than 100 pamphlets and broadsides in prose and verse protested against the English Government’s granting a patent for coining …
