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The Collected Works of Henry Fielding - Edited with a biographical essay by Leslie Stephen (Hardcover): Leslie Stephen The Collected Works of Henry Fielding - Edited with a biographical essay by Leslie Stephen (Hardcover)
Leslie Stephen
R44,376 Discovery Miles 443 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Henry Fielding (1707-54) began his writing career as a playwright and before the age of 30 produced a great number of comedies, farces and burlesques. His wit was already apparent, and his admirers included Swift who particularly enjoyed his "Tom Thumb". His "Pasquin, A Dramatick Satire on the Times" was in part responsible for the ensuing restrictive censorship of plays with the Licensing Act of 1737. Fielding practised at law, wrote essays and poems, ran a few journals - but remains most famous for his novels. He began "Joseph Andrews" as a parody of the sentimentalism of Richardson's "Pamela", and quickly developed his humourous and satirical style in "Tom Jones", "Jonathan Wild" and "Amelia". Admired by writers and readers alike, Fielding is one of the true founders of the English novel whose influence can be traced into the 19th century and the works of Dickens and Thackeray. This boxed collection of ten volumes includes all his work and a biographical essay.

Revisiting The Tempest - The Capacity to Signify (Hardcover): Silvia Bigliazzi Revisiting The Tempest - The Capacity to Signify (Hardcover)
Silvia Bigliazzi; Edited by L. Calvi
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In critical history, Shakespeare's The Tempest has been interpreted as a reticent play, a fascinating and yet mysterious blend of magic and verisimilitude, narrative and drama, spectacle and meditation on death. The Tempest seems to raise fundamental issues without ever exhausting them, it captures and appropriates existing motifs and modes, and allows for later appropriations and re-mediations. Is its signifying potential still alive in the third millennium? Does it still speak to us? Revisiting The Tempest aims to explore that potential and examine the play's more 'intractable material' as a fertile source of significance.The essays that make up this collection range from investigations of the play's position within the European early modern dramatic heritage to its 'domestic' re-writings and/or adaptations in diverse theatrical contexts and media, while also interrogating the play's own resistance to interpretation. Rather than providing new meanings, Revisiting The Tempest explores how this drama makes meaning and reanimates it through time.

Unediting the Renaissance - Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton (Hardcover): Leah Marcus Unediting the Renaissance - Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton (Hardcover)
Leah Marcus
R4,486 Discovery Miles 44 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar.
Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works - Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet and poems by Milton, Donne and Herrick - to re-exmaine how editorial intervention shapes the texts which are widely accepted as `definitive'.
A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance will shift the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are edited and read.

Fragments of Union - Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (Hardcover, New): S. Manning Fragments of Union - Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (Hardcover, New)
S. Manning
R2,895 Discovery Miles 28 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fragments of Union, a new approach to comparative literary studies, examines forms of connections between nations, literatures, individuals, and words. It asks how, and why, connections get severed, and about the nature of the pieces that remain. Interdisciplinary readings of writings by Scots and Americans re-draw the literary map of both countries during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Political, philosophical, cultural, and grammatical dimensions give its analysis sharp relevance to the new conditions presented by devolved government in Britain.

John Donne: The Critical Heritage - Volume II (Hardcover): A.J. Smith John Donne: The Critical Heritage - Volume II (Hardcover)
A.J. Smith; Introduction by Catherine Phillips
R2,704 Discovery Miles 27 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and many others.
Together these works present a record of how, from the nineteenth century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of today's literary canon.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203416929

Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740 (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): S. Prescott Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740 (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
S. Prescott
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sarah Prescott discusses the careers of a number of key women writers of the period from 1690 to 1740, exploring the role played by geographical location, literary circles, patronage, the literary marketplace, and subscription publication in shaping patterns of female authorship. The volume also provides a wealth of detail about the circumstances which affected the careers of individual women as well as investigating the marketing, reception, and self-representation of women writers in general.

Hamlet's Problematic Revenge - Forging a Royal Mandate (Hardcover): William F. Zak Hamlet's Problematic Revenge - Forging a Royal Mandate (Hardcover)
William F. Zak
R2,360 Discovery Miles 23 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hamlet's Problematic Revenge: Forging a Royal Mandate provides a new argument within Shakespearean studies that argues the oft-noted arrest of the play's dramaturgical momentum, especially evident in Hamlet's much delayed enactment of his revenge, represents in fact a succinct emblem of the "arrested development" in the moral maturity of the entire cast, most notably, Hamlet himself-as the unifying disclosure and tragic problem in the play. Settling for unreflective and short-sighted personal gratifications and cold comforts, they truantly elbow aside a more considerable moral obligation. Again and again, all yield this duty's commanding priority to a childishly self-regarding fear of offending those in nominal positions of power and questionable positions of authority-figures, like Ophelia and Hamlet's fathers, for instance, demanding an unworthy deference. While Hamlet fails to consider with loving regard the improved well-being of the larger community to which he owes his existence and, fails to interrogate the moral adequacy of the Ghost's command of violent reprisal (two things he never does nor even contemplates doing), "all occasions" in the play "do inform against" him and merely "spur a dull revenge"-not, as he interprets his own words, arguing the need for greater urgency in his vendetta, but, instead, to "inform against" the criminality of that very course itself. His revenge therefore can be argued as "dull," not because he cannot summon the wherewithal to enact it more bloodily, but because in obsessing about it ceaselessly he remains unreceptive to its "dull" or "unenlightened" opposition to the evil he hopes to eradicate. Hamlet does not avenge his father; this book argues that he becomes him. Amidst a wealth of previously unremarked figurative mirrorings, as well as much of the seemingly digressive material in Hamlet within Shakespearean studies, Hamlet's Problematic Revenge brings to light a new interpretation of the tragic problem in the play.

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Hardcover, New Ed): Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Hardcover, New Ed)
R26,552 Discovery Miles 265 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A seminal text in English literature, the "Reliques" is a collection of ballads, songs, romances and historical poetry, annotated with Percy's literary-antiquarian observations. The Reliques profoundly influenced writers from Thomas Chatterton to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, and the Pre-Raphaelites. The publication of the "Reliques" marked the precise point at which early 18th-century neo-classicism became late- 18th-century Gothic Romanticism, and it encouraged the revival of interest in national folklore across Europe. Until now the first edition has not been available to scholars of the 18th century and British and European Romanticism. It contains additional scarce proofsheets, excluded from the original edition, and a new critical and bibliographical introduction.

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos - Person, Audience, Language (Paperback): Jonathan P. A Sell Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos - Person, Audience, Language (Paperback)
Jonathan P. A Sell
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. More specifically, it explores how Shakespeare generates experiences of sublime pathos, for which audiences have been prepared by the sublime ethos described in the companion volume, Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos. To do so, it examines Shakespeare's model of mutualistic character, in which "entangled" language brokers a psychic communion between fictive persons and real-life audiences and readers. In the process, Sublime Critical platitudes regarding Shakespeare's liberating ambiguity and invention of the human are challenged, while the sympathetic imagination is reinstated as the linchpin of the playwright's sublime effects. As the argument develops, the Shakespearean sublime emerges as an emotional state of vulnerable exhilaration leading to an ethically uplifting openness towards others and an epistemologically bracing awareness of human unknowability. Taken together, Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos and Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos show how Shakespearean drama integrates matter and spirit on hierarchical planes of cognition and argue that, ultimately, his is an immanent sublimity of the here-and-now enfolding a transcendence which may be imagined, simulated or evoked, but never achieved.

Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Hardcover, New Ed): Graham Rees Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Hardcover, New Ed)
Graham Rees; Edited by Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, James Spedding
R72,898 Discovery Miles 728 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sir Francis Bacon, statesman, essayist and philosopher, studied law and rose to high office as Lord Chancellor. He had enormous influence on the change of direction for scientific method from speculative and philosophical in the Aristotelian tradition to experimental and factual. Bacon's philosophical influence extended to Locke and through him to subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics. Abroad, his influence also extended to Leibniz, Huygens and Voltaire who called him 'le pere de la philosophie experimentale'.
This edition contains all Bacon's philosophical works as well as translations, plus literary and professional works, and includes illuminating introductions and explanatory footnotes by the three editors as well as a new introduction by Graham Rees.

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I - Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries (Hardcover): Chris Hart Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I - Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries (Hardcover)
Chris Hart
R14,406 Discovery Miles 144 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In recent years, under pressure from New Historicism and developments in the formal study of biography, scholars have become increasingly conscious of how deliberately fashioned were the images of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth. In Byron's case, this was often with his consent or collusion; in Shelley's case, it was the active efforts of his widow and friends who struggled to construct a particular picture of both man and poet. With Wordsworth the picture is less clear, since the kind of scrutiny that his two counterparts have recently received has rarely extended to him. The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains the original memoirs in facsimile together with introductions and headnotes. The headnotes set the relevant context for each document, cross-referencing controversial passages.

Victorian Religious Discourse - New Directions in Criticism (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): J. Nixon Victorian Religious Discourse - New Directions in Criticism (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
J. Nixon
R1,544 Discovery Miles 15 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays attempts to address the disparate historical and critical ways religion informs the literature and culture of nineteenth century England, showing how a representative group of major Victorians negotiated its impact. The collection attempts to present Victorian religious discourse not as monologic but as dialogic, if not protean. It seeks to make available new understandings of nineteenth-century British literature as well as to elucidate the extent to which religious discourse is vested in Victorian cultural thoughts and practice.

Speech Acts in Blake's Milton (Hardcover): Brian Russell Graham Speech Acts in Blake's Milton (Hardcover)
Brian Russell Graham
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin's understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer's work on how things are done with words in Milton's and Blake's poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blake's epic poem Milton. With the exception of what we learn about in the part of the poem known as the Bard's Song, Blake's Milton is dedicated to providing an incredibly detailed account of the numerous facets of the instant of time immediately prior to apocalypse, an instant in which Milton is the protagonist, and Blake himself a participant. This study explores how in the poem sacred history proceeds towards and through the instant by means of the speech act. This extended commentary is intended for not just Blake scholars but also the common reader who wishes to approach Blake's brief epic for the first time. For scholars, this monograph offers a full account of a crucial but previously unexplored theme in the scholarship about Milton. For the common reader, it offers a comprehensive introduction to what Northrop Frye called 'one of the most gigantic imaginative achievements in English poetry'.

Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents (Hardcover): S.P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents (Hardcover)
S.P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies
R4,483 Discovery Miles 44 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gathered for the first time in this unique volume are plays and documents suggesting that, contrary to traditional thinking, women participated in the theatrical culture of the English Renaissance--as authors, translators, performers, spectators, and even as part-owners of theaters. "Renaissance Drama by Women" includes 4 full length plays--"Love's Victory, The Concealed Fancies, The Tragedy of Marion, " and "The Tragedy of Antonie"--along with a fragment of a translation from Seneca by Queen Elizabeth I, an occasional masque written for performance by a ladies' school before Queen Anne, and a collection of historical documents illustration many fascinating ways that women participated in a range of theatrical activity between the 1570s and 1660.

John Clare - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Mark Storey John Clare - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Mark Storey
R8,867 Discovery Miles 88 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These volumes gather together a body of critical sources on the Jacobean dramatists. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Sir Thomas Malory - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Marylyn Parins Sir Thomas Malory - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Marylyn Parins
R8,239 Discovery Miles 82 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume in the series gathers together a body of critical sources on the literary figure of Thomas Malory. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.

John Milton - The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1732-1801 (Hardcover, New edition): John T. Shawcross John Milton - The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1732-1801 (Hardcover, New edition)
John T. Shawcross
R9,873 Discovery Miles 98 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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Laurence Sterne - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Alan B. Howes Laurence Sterne - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Alan B. Howes
R9,903 Discovery Miles 99 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D Bloom Joseph Addison and Richard Steele - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D Bloom
R7,970 Discovery Miles 79 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These volumes gather together a body of critical sources on the major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Samuel Johnson - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): James T. Boulton Samuel Johnson - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
James T. Boulton
R9,918 Discovery Miles 99 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The "Collected Critical Heritage" set is available as a set of 68 volumes, as mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.

Horace Walpole - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Peter Sabor Horace Walpole - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Peter Sabor
R9,904 Discovery Miles 99 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Oliver Goldsmith - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): G.S. Rousseau Oliver Goldsmith - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
G.S. Rousseau
R12,912 Discovery Miles 129 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

Robert Burns - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Donald A. Low Robert Burns - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Donald A. Low
R12,919 Discovery Miles 129 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage series is available as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.

William Blake - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): G.E. Bentley Jnr William Blake - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
G.E. Bentley Jnr
R10,651 Discovery Miles 106 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

John Skelton - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Anthony Edwards John Skelton - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Anthony Edwards
R2,619 Discovery Miles 26 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These volumes gather together a body of critical sources on the major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

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