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“dr nick davis”

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  • Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience

    by Dr Nick Davis ...
    Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience examines the shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's literary ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, ... Read more

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  • Emerson, Melville, James, Berryman

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume VIII

    Edited by Professor Peter Rawlings ...
    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by major American writers and poets. ... Read more

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  • Dante and Islam

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Dante's World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento
    Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad.Dante scholars have increasingly returned to ... Read more

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  • Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne

    by Joseph Hone ...
    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and laughter

    A cultural history

    by Indira Ghose ...
    This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Survey: Volume 67, Shakespeare's Collaborative Work

    Edited by Peter Holland ...
    Series Book 67 - Shakespeare Survey
    Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and productions. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major ... Read more

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  • Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664

    by Diana G. Barnes ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Epistolary Community in Print contends that the printed letter is an inherently sociable genre ideally suited to the theorisation of community in early modern England. In manual, prose or poetic form, printed letter collections make private matters public, and in so doing reveal, first how tenuous is the divide between these two realms in the early modern period and, second, how each collection ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550�1660

    by L.E. Semler ...
    The essays in Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550-1660, consider diverse historical contexts for writing about 'strangeness'. They draw on current practices of reading to present contrasts and analogies within and between various social understandings. In so doing they reveal an interplay of thematic and stylistic modes that tells us a great deal about how, and why, certain aspects of ... Read more

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  • Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth-Century England

    by Shannon Gayk ...
    Series Book 81 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, ... Read more

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  • The Arabian Nights in Historical Context

    Between East and West

    Edited by Saree Makdisi, Felicity Nussbaum ...
    Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European ... Read more

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  • The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe

    Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

    by Warren Boutcher ...
    This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume two ... Read more

    $31.49 USD