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  • av William Walker
    466,-

    William Walker's original analysis of John Locke's An Essay concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work.

  • - An Introduction to his Life and Sermons
    av Gerard Reedy
    466,-

    Robert South (1634-1716) was one of the great Anglican writers and preachers of his age. Gerard Reedy's book, the first major study of South, makes a strong case for the importance of his sermons (their complexity, beauty and wit, and their place in the history of post-Restoration English literature).

  • - English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson
    av Blanford (College of Staten Island) Parker
    507,-

    This book offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Analysing works by Butler, Pope, Thomson, Johnson, and many others, Blanford Parker's account explains the origins of Augustan satire, its momentous departure from earlier models, and the subsequent creation of a new poetry of nature and everyday life.

  • av Simon (University of California & Los Angeles) Varey
    566 - 1 543,-

    In this challenging study, first published in 1990, Simon Varey relates the idea of spatial design in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. He draws on a wide range of architectural books, as well as such novels as Robinson Crusoe and Tom Jones.

  • av Peter Walmsley
    467,-

    The works of George Berkeley (1685-1753) have been the object of much philosophical analysis; but philosophers are writers as well as thinkers, and Berkeley was himself positively interested in the functions of language and style. This 1990 book offers rhetorical and literary analyses of his four major philosophical texts.

  • av Bangor) Rumbold & Valerie (University of Wales
    557,-

    How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry, and how in turn did he and his writing figure in the lives of the women he wrote about? How characteristic of his age was Pope's attitude towards women? What exactly was the role in his life of individual women such as his mother, Patty Blount and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?

  • - Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
    av Michael (Boston University) Prince
    466,-

    This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.

  • - A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660-1780
    av Isabel Rivers
    537 - 1 178,-

    The period 1660-1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism.

  • - Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'
    av Manuel Schonhorn
    552,-

    This study restores Defoe's writings and ideas to their seventeenth-century context.

  • av Robert (Flinders University of South Australia) Phiddian
    466,-

    Parody has not received the attention it deserves as the major structural element of Jonathan Swift's prose. Robert Phiddian explores the parody in Swift's early texts, especially A Tale of a Tub, and throws new light both on the theory of parody and on developments in British culture in the eighteenth century.

  • - A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780
    av Oxford) Rivers & Isabel (St Hugh's College
    596 - 1 417,-

    This volume completes a widely acclaimed exploration of religion and ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It investigates attempts to separate ethics from religion, and instead to locate the morals in human nature. Meticulously researched and accessibly written, this study makes a vital contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century thought.

  • av Tom (Chancellor Jackman Professor of English) Keymer
    521,-

    Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.

  • av Murray G. H. (University of Edinburgh) Pittock
    596,-

    This book questions assumptions about the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology in canonical and non-canonical literature. The 'four nations' literary history emerges, defined in terms of a struggle for control of the language of authority between Jacobite and Hanoverian writers.

  • - Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
    av Dr. Karen O'Brien
    492,-

    Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the eighteenth century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon, and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - and reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national issues.

  • - Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730
    av Richard (Columbia University Braverman
    507,-

    This study relates literary and political plots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the notion of sexual politics. From the restoration in 1660 to the rise of oligarchy in the 1720s, it traverses a wide range of authors and literary genres, including satire, tragedy, comedy, romance, georgic and the novel.

  • - The Beginnings of Interpretative Scholarship
    av Marcus (University of Birmingham) Walsh
    466,-

    Marcus Walsh demonstrates that the work of pioneering editors of Milton and Shakespeare in the eighteenth century, was based on sophisticated and clearly articulated theories and methods. He relates these to contemporary interpretations of the Bible and key issues in modern editorial theory.

  • av David Womersley
    544,-

    David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history.

  • - A Literary Biography
    av Peter (Principia College Martin
    507,-

    Edmond Malone (1741-1812) laid the foundations for the scholarly study of literature; yet he was also gregarious, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography illuminates the private world of the scholar and the public world of the late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.

  • - Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe
    av Robert Mayer
    507,-

    Robert Mayer explores the meaning of 'history' in the seventeenth century and shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe, unlike those of Aphra Behn, were read in their own time as history. Mayer's study makes an important contribution to the debate about the origins of the modern novel in Britain.

  • - The Senses in Social Context
    av Ann Jessie Van Sant
    471,-

    This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period.

  • - The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart
    av Carbondale) Hawes & Clement (Southern Illinois University
    467,-

    This highly original study identifies a line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart, and offers a powerful critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.

  • av Ilse (University College London) Vickers
    566 - 1 232,-

    Ilse Vickers shows that the ideas and concepts of Baconian science were a major influence on Daniel Defoe's thinking and writing. She outlines the intellectual principles behind Baconian science, and considers a wide range of Defoe's work from the point of view of his familiarity with the ideals of experimental philosophy.

  • - Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century
    av Colin Nicholson
    507,-

    In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver's Travels, The Beggar's Opera and The Dunciad as 'capital satires', responding to the social and political effects of London's new capitalist financial institutions: the Bank of England, the National Debt and the South Sea Bubble disaster of 1721.

  • - Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740
    av Los Angeles) Lewis & Jayne Elizabeth (University of California
    570,-

    Between 1651 and 1740 there was in England an explosion of interest in Aesop's fables, and in the fable as a literary form. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis shows how the fable, often underestimated because of its links with popular non-literary forms, played a major role in the formation of modern English culture.

  • - Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth
    av Tim Fulford
    492,-

    Dr Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others, showing how such descriptions formed part of a larger debate about liberty and authority, and offering connections between eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and politics.

  • - A New Kind of Writing
    av Lincoln B. Faller
    466,-

    In this sequel to his earlier book on English criminal biography in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England, Lincoln Faller describes and discusses some of the ways in which Defoe's crime fiction relates to the ordinary, popular narrative form which it imitates.

  • - The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere
    av John P. Zomchick
    466,-

    This book draws upon social, political and legal history to show that law and family play a central role in shaping the fictional world of six eighteenth-century English novels.

  • - Sea-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England
    av Philip Edwards
    507,-

    The first study of a century of sea-going narratives, which puts the accounts of Captain Cook and Captain Bligh in the context of narratives of convicts, passengers, and victims of the press-gang. It is a book about writing rather than explorations which reveals narratives of great energy and vitality.

  • av John Sitter
    466,-

    Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the word play of Augustan wit. John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden, Rochester, Prior, Berkeley, Gay, Pope and Swift, as an analytic mode as well as one of stylistic sophistication.

  • av Donald Davie
    471,-

    Donald Davie is one of the foremost literary critics of his generation and a poet of some renown. His study of the eighteenth-century English hymn reclaims a rich and important literary genre which has been strangely neglected by literary critics.

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