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  • The Good Place

    Comparative Perspectives on Utopia - Proceedings of Synapsis: European School of Comparative Studies XI

    Edited by Florian Mussgnug, Matthew Reza ...
    Series Book 2 - New Comparative Criticism
    Utopian literature provides a compelling vision of epistemological and moral clarity: a dream of harmony and justice. But in an age of surveillance, utopia is also the nightmare of a perfectly controlled, sealed and monitored world that leaves no room for ambivalence or discretion. In The Good Place, leading scholars of comparative literature explore this tension and examine the richness and ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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  • A History of the Japanese Language

    by Bjarke Frellesvig ...
    Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record. Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the language, Old Japanese (approximately the eighth century AD), and then tracing the changes which occurred through the Early Middle Japanese (800–1200), Late ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Medical Writing in Early Modern English

    Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Byron's War

    Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution

    by Roderick Beaton ...
    Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809–1811, Byron's War traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Healing Words

    The Printed Handbills of Early Modern London Quacks

    by Roberta Mullini ...
    Series Book 18 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    During the English Restoration, London unlicensed health carers printed handbills as the easiest way to advertise their medical practices. In order to increase our awareness of irregular medical practitioners as a cultural phenomenon and examine their language, two collections of handbills have been transcribed. The study analyses the lexicon used to address readers, the traits of orality in ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Outlaw Rhetoric

    Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England

    by Jenny C. Mann ...
    A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Immaterial Book

    Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

    by Sarah Wall-Randell ...
    In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and The Tempest, Wroth’s Urania, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It offers a ... Read more

    $35.99 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

  • Poets and the Visual Arts in Renaissance England

    by Norman K. Farmer Jr. ...
    In the twentieth century, the pioneering work of such art historians as Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind heightened our awareness of the relationship between Renaissance literature and the visual arts. By focusing on that relationship in the work of such poets as Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Edmund Waller, and Robert Herrick, Norman K. Farmer, Jr., convincingly shows that they and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Arabian Nights in Historical Context

    Between East and West

    Edited by Saree Makdisi, Felicity Nussbaum ...
    Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Peter J. Smith, Dr. Deborah Cartmell ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Milton

    by Stephen B. Dobranski ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive overview of the author's life, times and writings. It describes essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD