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Swift's Parody
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00An exploration of parody in Swift's early prose, and in textual and cultural developments in Swift's Britain. more...
Milton and Republicanism
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 35.00Historians and literary critics offer a comprehensive thematic assessment of Milton's political and literary career. more...
John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95Adam Budd's critical edition presents John Armstrong's poem The Art of Preserving Health (1744) and other key sources of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. It also includes a comprehensive introduction and explanatory notes, clarifying Armstrong's classical, medical, and social references. Readers will come away convinced of the... more...
John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 60.00This new guide leads readers through the complexities of the text with detailed commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks and contexts. more...
Milton, Evil and Literary History
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 100.00Milton, Evil and Literary History addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. Goodness has always been aligned with a life of expansion, creation, production and fruition, while evil is associated with the inert, non-relational, static... more...
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Bucknell University Press 2011; US$ 79.99Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist. In the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. The book takes as... more...
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVIII
University of California Press 1975; US$ 85.00This volume contains Dryden's 1684 translation of Louis Maimbourg's "The History of the League," a work relating to the religious wars of France in the preceding century, and which Dryden used as a commentary on the religious persecutions of his own time in England. more...
Laughing at the King
Carcanet 2011; US$ 18.89Peter Pindar (1738-1819), the pen name of John Wolcot, dared to ridicule the foibles, corruptions and misdemeanours of King George III and those in power in his kingdom. His satire was merciless, but Wolcot survived accusations of treason, protected by his wit and readership. His admirers included Lord Nelson and the Prince Regent himself; to Robert... more...
Samuel Johnsons Attitude Toward Islam
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 169.95This study is the first to juxtapose pre-existing texts with Samuel Johnsons portrayal of the Orient, particularly Islam and Arab culture. Nassir asserts that Johnsons observations of Islam in both his writings and conversations prove that he did not look at it objectively and was highly biased against Islam and Arab culture in his assessment.... more...
Milton's Good God
Cambridge University Press 1982; US$ 37.00Milton's Good God is an interdisciplinary study, which will lead the student of literature to a deeper appreciation of Paradise Lost. more...









