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Author: N. H. Keeble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-17
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521645225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to the writing produced by the English Revolution, with supporting chronology and guide to further reading.
Author: N. H. Keeble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-17
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1139825933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment were enacted and refigured in writing which both shaped and was shaped by the tumultuous times. The various strategies of this battle of the books are explored through essays on the course of events, intellectual trends and the publishing industry; in discussions of canonical figures such as Milton, Marvell, Bunyan and Clarendon; and in accounts of women's writing and of fictional and non-fictional prose. A full chronology, detailed guides to further reading and a glossary are included.
Author: Anne Dunan-Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0521733081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.
Author: Pamela Clemit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521516072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Author: Catherine Mary McLoughlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0521895685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion covers British and American war writing from Beowulf to Don DeLillo.
Author: Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-06-18
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780521564885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.
Author: Leslie Howsam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107023734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
Author: Pamela Clemit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1107493900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advanced researchers and scholars.
Author: Thomas Keymer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521007573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
