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  • Marvell and Milton

    Poets in a Fallen World

    by Warren Chernaik ...
    Both John Milton and Andrew Marvell have been revaluated in recent years. Yet this is the first sustained scholarly work to compare the two great seventeenth-century poets. In his new book, which stands as the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik examines the relationship of the two writers and their complex responses to their troubled times. The poets were close friends ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Milton and the Burden of Freedom

    by Warren Chernaik ...
    Throughout his writings, Milton, deeply engaged in political and theological controversy, sought to clear a space for human freedom in a world ruled by an omniscient and omnipotent deity. Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, as well as other works by Milton in verse and prose, explore the problematical aspects of a universe ruled by an Old Testament God of wrath, demanding obedience, who allows his ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

    Volume 36

    by S. P. Cerasano, Edward Gieskes, Heather Anne Hirschfeld, David M. Bergeron, Warren Chernaik, Douglas Clark, James Hirsh, Michael Menase, Noah Gene Peterson, Eric Pudney0, June Schlueter1, Marina Tarlinskaja2, Jessica Tooker3, Jeffrey R. Wilson4, Derek Witten5 ...
    Series series Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
    Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

    by Warren Chernaik ...
    When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are characteristically Roman. The use of the terms 'Rome' and 'Roman' in Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra or Jonson's Sejanus often carry the implication that most people fail to live up to this ideal of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edited by Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    Edited by Nicholas McDowell, Nigel Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • John Milton

    A Biography

    by Neil Forsyth ...
    John Milton has usually been regarded as 'the other great poet' in English literature, after Shakespeare. He is the only one of the world's great poets also to have been actively engaged in politics. A radical Protestant and staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of Charles II, his life was probably saved by his fame as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Milton

    by Stephen B. Dobranski ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive overview of the author's life, times and writings. It describes essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    by Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Milton in the Long Restoration

    Edited by Blair Hoxby, Ann Baynes Coiro ...
    Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that reaches its climax with the French Revolution or the Reform Bill of 1832. What gets overlooked in such accounts is the rich story of ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

    by Marshall Grossman ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK“Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.”Thomas Corns, Bangor UniversityThe seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • A New Companion to Milton

    Edited by Thomas N. Corns ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field.Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholarRetains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first ... Read more

    $174.00 USD