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"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 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" set is
available as a set of 67 volumes, as mini-sets selected by period
(in slipcase boxes) or as individual volumes.
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 student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader involves a complex
interaction of rhetorical, orthographical and visual mediating
skills. At issue are the nature of 'authority', the creation of a
readership attuned to the writer's poetic resonances, and a
delicate negotiation between literary tradition and individual
talent. In a series of detailed readings leading scholars focus on
the presentation of work by Spenser, Herbert, Milton, Dryden, Pope,
Smart, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Newman, Yeats, Lawrence and
David Jones. The wide chronological range enables unusually
extensive comparison across the boundaries of generic form, and
between the varying emotional, aesthetic and rhetorical emphases of
specific periods: from the creation of fictitious personae to the
construction of autobiographical 'self', from the interaction of
printed word and visual image to the arrangements and
rearrangements of structure and sequence.
Court studies and Jacobitism have both received considerable
attention from historians in recent years, yet so far no attempt
has been made to provide a comprehensive examination of the
Jacobite court in exile after the revolution of 1688-9. This book
takes a completely fresh look at the Stuart court in France during
the years when the Jacobite movement posed its greatest threat to
the post-revolution governments in London. The Stuart court at
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is revealed as not only large and well
financed, but also magnificently located in a spectacular royal
palace vacated only recently by Louis XIV and in very close contact
with the French court at Versailles - yet maintaining the
traditions, organisation and ceremonial of the English court at
Whitehall. The book also shows how the Stuart court in France came
to an end, and explains why and how it has since been so badly
misrepresented.
The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader involves a complex
interaction of rhetorical, orthographical and visual mediating
skills. At issue are the nature of 'authority', the creation of a
readership attuned to the writer's poetic resonances, and a
delicate negotiation between literary tradition and individual
talent. In a series of detailed readings leading scholars focus on
the presentation of work by Spenser, Herbert, Milton, Dryden, Pope,
Smart, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats, Lawrence and David
Jones. The wide chronological range enables unusually extensive
comparison across the boundaries of generic form, and between the
varying emotional, aesthetic and rhetorical emphases of specific
periods: from the creation of fictitious 'persona' to the
construction of autobiographical 'self', from the interaction of
printed word and visual image to the arrangements and
rearrangements of structure and sequence.
Pope's letters reveal the life, colour, personalities, and ideas of his time. They show his poetry in the making, and they also show Pope in the process of fashioning his own life. This selection features especially some of the letters that he revised and re-directed before publishing them himself. It also includes many recently discovered letters, here collected for the first time, which throw new light on his character, relationships, and taste. The first selection of Pope's correspondence for nearly fifty years, this volume also provides an introduction, detailed commentary, and biographical index.
This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading.
Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to
selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth
to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This volume is concerned with
radical prose from the period 1642-60 and comprises political
pamphlets covering the years of the Civil War and the Commonwealth.
All the pamphlets are revolutionary in varying degrees: two by
Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and The Readie and the
Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth; one each by the three
Leveller leaders, Lilburne, Walwyn and Overton; one by the Digger,
Winstanley and one by the Republican, Harrington. There is a
substantial introduction to the whole volume in which the editors
offer a historical survey of the period, consider the intellectual
and political context of the pamphlets, sketch in significant
biographical details and examine the various styles which the
writers employ. This book will prove to be an indispensable tool
for all serious students of seventeenth-century literature, history
and political theory.
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