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  • 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

  • Milton's Visual Imagination

    Imagery in Paradise Lost

    by Stephen B. Dobranski ...
    Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton's imagery - traditionally ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reading John Milton

    How to Persist in Troubled Times

    by Stephen Dobranski ...
    A captivating biography that celebrates the audacious, inspiring life and works of John Milton, revealing how he speaks to our times.John Milton is unrivalled—for the music of his verse and the breadth of his learning. In this brisk, topical, and engaging biography, Stephen B. Dobranski brushes the scholarly dust from the portrait of the artist to reveal Milton's essential humanity and his ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660: Volume 2

    Edited by Stephen B. Dobranski ...
    Series series Early Modern Literature in Transition
    The early modern period in Britain was defined by tremendous upheaval - the upending of monarchy, the unsettling of church doctrine, and the pursuit of a new method of inquiry based on an inductive experimental model. Political Turmoil: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1623–1660 offers an innovative and ambitious re-appraisal of seventeenth-century British literature and history. Each of the ... Read more

    $149.99 CAD

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    A critical guide

    by Professor Christina Luckyj ...
    Series series Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides
    John Webster's classic revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi was first performed in 1613 and published in 1623. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays presenting new critical positions that offer ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • 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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  • Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded

    Or Virtue Rewarded

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The publication of Pamela in 1740 marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. It vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. It is a work of pioneering psychological complexity and a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. This edition is based on the original text of 1740, that aroused widespread ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    A Gothic Story

    by Horace Walpole ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More

    Edited by George M. Logan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

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  • 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