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  • Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture

    The Politics of Reaction and the Poetics of Place

    de Dafydd Moore ...
    Series series Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature
    Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex’d Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an indigent Cornish gentleman clergyman and JP, his extensive written output encompassed sermons, open letters, and even headstone verse. This book recovers the lost Polwhele, locating him within an ... Leer más

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  • Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian

    Myth, Genre and Cultural Change

    de Dafydd Moore ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern English Literature
    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 Ossian's credentials to be considered as romance, in its manner of construction, its represented ... Leer más

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  • Authoring the Self

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    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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  • Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

    Edición de Derek Hughes, Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Edición de Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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