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First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study
of English literary reviewing during the fifteen years before the
founding in1802 of the Edinburgh Review, and an assessment of the
reviewers’ achievement. The long introductory chapter describes
the aims, methods, staffing, readership, influence, and development
of the five important Reviews of the 1790s: the Monthly Review,
Critical Review, English Review, Analytical Review, and British
Critic. The author argues that this type of Review declined during
the 19th century, not because of poor performance, but because the
ambitious aim of comprehensive reviewing had become impossible to
achieve. The remaining chapters discuss and evaluate the work of
these Reviews, chiefly in the fields of poetry, fiction, and
political and religious controversy. The book fills a gap in the
literary and political history of the period; provides a compact
summary of its review criticism; and gives a better perspective on
both reviewers and reviewed in years that were unusually fertile in
political controversy and literary experiment. It will be of
interest to students of literature and history.
John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major
English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled:
fulfilled incest between brother and sister. It is one of the most
studied and performed of all plays of the period, and has been
successfully adapted for film and radio. The Revels plays edition
by Derek Roper has been the standard scholarly edition since it
appeared in 1975. This new edition uses the same authoritative
text, but with notes designed for modern undergraduate use. The
substantial introduction has been completely rewritten to take
account of the studies and new approaches of the last twenty years.
it presents the play as an 'interrogative text', in which
subversive meanings are inscribed within an apparently orthodox
narrative; as a courageous treatment of forbidden love; and as an
achieved work of Baroque art.
Shakespeare is the national poet of many nations besides his own,
though a peculiarly subversive one in both east and west. This
volume contains a score of essays by scholars from Britain,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and the
USA, written to show how the momentous changes of 1989 were
mirrored in the way Shakespeare has been interpreted and produced.
The collection offers a valuable record of what Shakespeare has
meant in the modern world and some pointers to what he may mean in
the future.
The Poems of Emily Brontë is the first edition to appear with full scholarly apparatus, and to preserve the writer's original (sometimes unorthodox) presentation and revisions. With no manuscript of Wuthering Heights extant, this edition of the often under-valued poetry gives the reader the rare chance of seeing the writer's creative mind at work. Recreating the literary context of the poems, this edition also takes into account recent critical insights.
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