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The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature.

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Brink shows that Spenser began as the protege of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A -- .

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Brink shows that Spenser began as the protege of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A -- .

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Presents an introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century. This book includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; and, an overview of major critical approaches, and changes in the canon and directions of research.

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Presents an introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century. This book includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; and an overview of major critical approaches and changes in the canon and directions of research.

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In this short study Dr Tillyard not only elucidates such fairly familiar - though often mystifying - concepts as the four elements, the celestial harmony of 'nine enfolded Sphears', or macrocosm and microcosm;

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This book argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority - one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Connery makes a contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and of linguistic, intellectual, and institutional history.

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For a brief period of 20 years between the two World Wars, this pattern changed dramatically, with a flood of German books in translation threatening to engulf the British book market and triggering violently emotional reactions in the literary pages of the popular press.

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A period of tumultuous political and religious strife, the English Civil War has inspired writers for the past four centuries.

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The author rejects C.S. Lewis's theory of a "Drab" and a "Golden" school as unhistorical, and establishes the presence of an eloquent or courtly tradition and of a plain or contemplative tradition. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print

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The Restoration was a period surprisingly rich in fiction, and the period between 1660 and 1700 witnessed the decline of the epic and the birth of the English novel.

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All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience. A sequential study of these stories w

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The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on internal audience in poetry--the audience "inside" the poem, created by its discourse and belonging to its world--as this divides in epistolary poetry

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Focusing on what it means to study English in higher education, this book guides students through key aspects of English Studies including major topics and approaches, subject-specific study skills and assessment, including seminar presentations, assignments, and exams.

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Focusing on what it means to study English in higher education, this book guides students through key aspects of English Studies including major topics and approaches, subject-specific study skills and assessment, including seminar presentations, assignments, and exams.

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Covers the leading works and authors in the traditional canon of literature in English and in so doing gives the reader an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them - classic works written in English before World War I. Plot summary, analysis of major themes, techniques.

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