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The Political Writings of Dr Johnson
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding’s prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had …
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson
This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account of both Stevenson's …
The History of Sir Charles Grandison. in a Series of Letters. by Mr. Samuel Richardson, ... in Eight Volumes. ... the Seventh Edition. of 8; Volume 2
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29
In the twenty-two months covered by this volume, Jefferson spent most of his time at Monticello, where in his short-lived retirement from office he turned in earnest to the …
Reason's Muse
The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy …
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison
Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectual Toni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other …
Resonant Dissonance
In his original new study, Seth Graham analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment. The late Soviet period (1961-1986) hardly seems fertile ground …
Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives
This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in Defoe's work by probing his interest in rendering …
On Trial For Reason
In 1633 the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo as a suspected heretic for defending the astronomical theory that the earth moves, and implicitly assuming the theological principle …
Ben Jonson and Envy
In the early modern period, envy was often represented iconographically in the image of the Medusa, with snaky locks and a poisonous gaze. Ben Jonson and Envy investigates the …
A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and …