Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire in light of contemporary theory.
Das Sonett konstituiert in seiner langen Geschichte immer wieder soziale Räume für spezifische Gemeinschaften – zwischen Lebenden, aber auch über die Jahrhunderte hinweg mit historischen Personen.
Walter Clyde Curry, a well-known student of Milton, analyzes the origins and unique construction of the grand stage upon which Milton presents the drama of human destiny in Paradise Lost.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course.
In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time.
Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen.
Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen.
This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley's contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context.
This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley's contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context.
Although Pedro Caldern de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias118 in allhave remained unknown.
In eighteenth-century Britain, the study of history was understood first and foremost as the study of how states developed-and lost-their political coherence.
First published in 1987, The New Eighteenth Century (now with a new preface by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown) examines eighteenth century English literature's resistance to the application of new theoretical approaches and presents new work by leading scholars which both challenges this resistance and demonstrates the usefulness of feminist, Marxist, new-historicist, and psychoanalytic approaches to the analysis of eighteenth-century texts.
This interdisciplinary collection of ten essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of "e;loneliness"e; in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern textual sources.
This interdisciplinary collection of ten essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of "e;loneliness"e; in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern textual sources.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
