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This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. -- .

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This is a one-stop aid that will enable students and readers of Johnson to locate almost any fact about him quickly and easily.

Samuel Johnson was one of the most important literary figures of the 18th century, which was sometimes known as the Age of Johnson.

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This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic. -- .

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The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches. -- .

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Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equalit

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Part one of this bibliography includes both publications by women during the 17th century and works written by women during the period but published later. The second part lists both works for and about women, some of which were mistakenly attributed to women authors, and serials.

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"Women Reading Shakespeare", 1660-1900 rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Many found in Shakespeare criticism the opportunity to raise a variety of issues, ranging from the use of literary sources to girls' education, the role of women in society, family life, social relationship and ethnic difference.

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Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

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Analyses the pervasive use of early American themes in contemporary culture, including literature, television series, film, theatre, graphic novels and video games.

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Showcases how the Tudor printed edition can help us to relearn our assumptions about, and imagined relationships with, the ideal readers of early modern fiction.

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Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes' evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women's struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British patriarchy and its growing global imperialism.

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A gift edition of Shakespeare's famous cycle of poems.

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The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches. -- .

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Part of a series of volumes outlining the history and development of Welsh literature from its beginnings in the 6th century to the late 20th century. This volume provides a critical introduction to the literature of the Welsh language in the 18th century.

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Eighteenth-century English fictions are full of stereotypical images of Wales and the Welsh. This volume explores a selection of 18th-century texts that have recieved little critical attention in Wales, even as they record a part of the history of Welsh people.

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