Studies in Early Modern English Literature – serie
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Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama
The Work of a Forgotten Writer
Av John McVeagh
Inbunden, 2000
1750 kr
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Though once a favourite of no fewer than four English monarchs, Restoration playwright Thomas Durfey has long been neglected by scholars. In his own day he had a lowly reputation in the world of polite letters - before his death his plays had more or less ceased to be produced; his 'serious' poems …
English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century
Exploring Genres
Av Jean Viviès
Inbunden, 2002
2890 kr
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The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Récit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with …
Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding
The State of Nature and the Nature of the State
Inbunden, 2003
2890 kr
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In this new study the authors examine a range of theories about the state of nature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, considering the contribution they made to the period's discourse on sovereignty and their impact on literary activity. Texts examined include Leviathan, Oceana, …
Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper
An English Genre and Discourse
Inbunden, 2005
2890 kr
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Mock-heroic is the exemplary genre of the English Augustan era: it is one of the few genres that the Augustans invented themselves, and it stands in a symbolic relation to a culture still reverential of the grandeurs of the classical past and uneasy about its ability to emulate them. Mock-Heroic …
Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian
Myth, Genre and Cultural Change
Av Dafydd Moore
Inbunden, 2003
2890 kr
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This study examines the relationship between Enlightenment and romance through the work of James Macpherson and in particular his The Poems of Ossian. By re-reading Macpherson's work in ways not restricted by the sterile and by now largely settled debates over authenticity, Moore establishes …
Sterne’s Whimsical Theatres of Language
Orality, Gesture, Literacy
Av Alexis Tadié
Inbunden, 2003
879 kr
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This study addresses the intricate links between oral culture and literate culture in the eighteenth century. Tadié traces how perceptions and representations of language move from a dominance of the spoken work to a dominance of the written word; and this is echoed in the order of the five …
Johnson's Critical Presence
Image, History, Judgment
Inbunden, 2004
2198 kr
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Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have allowed for little evaluative commerce between the needs of the critical present and the voices of …
English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century
Exploring Genres
Av Jean Viviès
Häftad, 2016
995 kr
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The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Récit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with …
