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Alexander Pope
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 33.95Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer. more...
Alexander Pope
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's... more...
Milton and Ecology
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 24.00Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton's rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern subjectivism, Hiltner argues that Milton anticipates certain essential modern ecological arguments. more...
Milton and the Idea of the Fall
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00In Paradise Lost (1667), Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man. In this wide-ranging study, William Poole analyses the origin, evolution, and contemporary discussion of the Fall, and offers many new insights into the originality and sophistication of Milton's work. more...
The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 47.95One of the most popular poets of her time, Charlotte Smith revived the sonnet form in England, influencing Wordsworth and Keats. Equally popular as a novelist, she experimented with many genres, and even her children's books were highly regarded by her contemporaries. Charlotte Smith's letters enlarge... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 25.00Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures in Restoration literature. With its full bibliography, detailed chronology and biographical information, this Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker. more...
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 27.00John Dryden was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at the full range of Dryden's work in the context of his time, and includes a chronology of Dryden's life and times and a guide to further reading. more...
Pope and Berkeley
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 103.00The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain. It shows how Berkeley's idea that the... more...
Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 32.00This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. more...
The Age of Milton
Greenwood Publishing Group 2004; US$ 111.00Presents profiles of seventeenth-century British and American writers and thinkers, each one with a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographical sources. more...









