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  • Milton among the Puritans

    The Case for Historical Revisionism

    by Catherine Gimelli Martin ...
    Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan poet" and reexamining the surprisingly tenuous Whig paradigm upon which this history has been ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • French Connections in the English Renaissance

    by Catherine Gimelli Martin, Hassan Melehy ...
    The study of literature still tends to be nation-based, even when direct evidence contradicts longstanding notions of an autonomous literary canon. In a time when current events make inevitable the acceptance of a global perspective, the essays in this volume suggest a corrective to such scholarly limitations: the contributors offer alternatives to received notions of 'influence' and the more or ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought

    Essays to Commemorate The Advancement of Learning (1605–2005)

    by Catherine Gimelli Martin ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. Like Bacon, all of the contributors to this volume confront an essential question: how to integrate intellectual traditions with emergent knowledges to forge new ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Beginning

    The Story of the King James Bible

    by Dr Alister E McGrath ...
    The King James Bible was a landmark in the history of the English language, and an inspiration to poets, dramatists, artists and politicians. Without the King James Bible there would have been no Paradise Lost, no Pilgrim's Progress, no Handel's Messiah. Yet more than a literary, even more than a religious influence, it was seen as a social, economic and political text. Those seeking to overthrow ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edited by Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Common Prayers

    The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age

    by Daniel Swift ...
    Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

    by Sarah Beckwith ...
    Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    Edited by Nicholas McDowell, Nigel Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion

    Edited by Andrew Hiscock, Helen Wilcox ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • In Search of Authority

    Anglican Theological Method from the Reformation to the Enlightenment

    by The Rev. Professor Paul Avis ...
    In this new three-part book series, Avis tackles a series of issues relevant to Anglicanism in the current day.The first book, In Search of Authority, seeks to examine Anglican Theology in relation to questions of authority. Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about the issue of authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to when attempting to decide matters of doctrine, ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD