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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roger maioli”
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  • Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel

    Fielding to Austen

    by Roger Maioli ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge. This book argues that theorists of the novel, from Henry Fielding to Jane Austen, recognized the force of the empiricist challenge but refused to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Milieus of Minutiae

    Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science

    by Roger Maioli, Mareike Schildmann, Elena Fabietti, Carmen Schmechel, Dan Liu, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Andreas Mahler, Cynthia Wall, Christopher Johnson, Malte Rauch, Margareta Ingrid Christian, Marianne Schuller ...
    The long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and cultureWinner of the Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited CollectionFrom catastrophic weather and steady warming caused by the accumulation of carbon particles in the Earth’s atmosphere to societies brought to a standstill by microscopic viruses, the new millennium has reminded us of how the minutest of phenomena can have ... Read more

    $35.59 USD

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  • Christopher Marlowe

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Crimes of Love

    Heroic and tragic Tales, Preceded by an Essay on Novels

    by Marquis de Sade ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Of Bondage

    Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England

    by Amanda Bailey ...
    The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature

    1485-1603

    Edited by Mike Pincombe, Cathy Shrank ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public; the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cleopatra

    I Am Fire and Air

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters—in “a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play’s endless wonders” (*Kirkus Reviews*).**Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history—and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Narratives of the Self

    Edited by Pawel Schreiber, Joanna Malicka ...
    Series Book 1 - English Literature and Culture in Context
    This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different literary concerns and discusses literary works from the 17th century to the present day. The first part approaches the issue of ... Read more

    $60.59 USD

  • Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity

    Edited by T. Milnes, K. Sinanan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their complexities, showing how they can become meaningful to current critical debates. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Desire and Domestic Fiction

    A Political History of the Novel

    by Nancy Armstrong ...
    Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems

    by A. D. Cousins ...
    Series series Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
    Alongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Byron

    by Richard Lansdown ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists, musicians and politicians - but also everyday readers - was second to none. His poems seduced and scandalized readers, and his life and legend ... Read more

    $23.79 USD