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  • The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

    Robert Burton in Context

    by Angus Gowland ...
    Series Book 78 - Ideas in Context
    Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy, Gowland examines the ways in which Burton exploited ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

    by Delphine Bellis, Zvi Biener, Justin E. H. Smith, Angus Gowland, Ruth Hagengruber, Hiro Hirai, Martin Lenz, Gideon Manning, Silvia Manzo, Cesare Pastorino, Marius Stan, Kirsten Walsh ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ... Read more

    $1,156.99 CAD

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    by John Bunyan ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • The Complete Essays

    by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. ... Read more

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  • Lyrical Ballads

    1798 and 1802

    by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above ... Read more

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    by Daniel Defoe, James Kelly ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's ... Read more

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    by Bram Stoker ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • How to Live

    A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

    by Sarah Bakewell ...
    How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, ... Read more

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  • The Complete Essays of Montaigne

    by Michel Eyquem Montaigne ...
    Translated by Donald M Frame ...
    "One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style . . . one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself." —Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book ReviewThis new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that ... Read more

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  • Gargantua and Pantagruel

    by Francois Rabelais, M. A. Screech ...
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    The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is ... Read more

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  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    by Anicius Boethius ...
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