Literary Studies: 16th To 18th Centuries
BIC code: CSBD
See also: Literary History & Criticism
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Add to BasketRomantic Literatyure And Postcolonial Studies
£19.99
- Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
This book examines the relationship between romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism's concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries. - Add to BasketRomantic Literatyure And Postcolonial Studies
£70.00
- Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
This book examines the relationship between romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism's concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries. - Add to BasketOpen Subjects: English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods And The Virtue Of Vulnerability
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- Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
James Kuzner's study of writing by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Milton presents a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically. -
Add to BasketFriendship's Shadows: Woman's Friendship And The Politics Of Betrayal In England, 1640-1705
£75.00
- Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
Penelope Anderson's study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and the private forms of women's friendship of the 18th century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist friendship, showing its surprising resilience as a model for political obligation undone and remade. -
Add to BasketJohnson Agonistes And Other Essays
£22.99
- Paperback - Cambridge University Press
This concise volume gathers together two essays on Samuel Johnson and one on James Boswell. -
Add to BasketScotland And The Fictions Of Geography: North Britain, 1760-1830
£27.99
- Paperback - Cambridge University Press
Penny Fielding explores the literary and geographical relations between England and Scotland in the Romantic period. -
Add to BasketScottish And Irish Romanticism
£30.00
- Paperback - Oxford University Press
Murray Pittock provides a broad re-reading of British romanticism. Locating Scottish and Irish romantic writing in the wider context of the British Isles, he explores the dialogue between national traditions through a detailed consideration of a range of Scottish, Irish, and English writers. -
Add to BasketBoswell's Life Of Johnson: An Edition Of The Original Manuscript
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Add to BasketSentimental Literature And Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820
£56.00
- Hardback - Cambridge University Press
Examining the literary negotiation of Anglo-Scottish relations in the century following the 1707 Union between Scotland's and England's parliaments, this text explores the unexpected connections between the development of sentimental literature and British nationhood. -
Add to BasketLondon Journal 1762-1763
£12.74
- Paperback - Penguin
Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at 22, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank & artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first meeting with Samuel Johnson.
