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An Annotated Edition of Joshua Barnes The Academie, or, The Cambridge Dunns
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 149.95An annotated edition of Joshua Barnes The Academie, or The Cambridge Dunns, with a new essay on the place of Barnes in 17th English Theatre. Swanson examines the bawdy and dark satire of the Cambridge playwright Joshua Barnes whose play savages the university and town. Barnes annotated version of this play sheds new light on English satire and... more...
Milton: Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 13.50The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Milton contains selections from Milton's work, including sonnets, occasional poems, portions of Comus, Samson Agonistes , as well as Books I--XII of Paradise Lost . more...
The Debt to Pleasure
Carcanet 2012; US$ 14.51Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and the words of those who loved or loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with a startling, ribald and riotous clarity. As John Evelyn recalls: 'Mr Andrew Marvell... more...
The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding?s criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding?s own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth-century life and literature at large. The volume includes many of Fielding?s well-known and important... more...
Milton and the Rabbis
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 32.99Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson's analysis moves back and forth between Milton's writings and Jewish writings of the first five... more...
Laughing at the King
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2009; US$ 20.95Reveling in the sycophancy and classist pretensions of England’s courts in the late 18th century, this ribald collection of satirical verse specializes in lampooning the public and private lives of the decadent British monarchy. Containing the bitingly controversial social commentary of medical man turned political satirist, Dr. John... more...
The Celebrated Hannah Cowley
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00Hannah Cowley (17431809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowleys writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowleys life and work. more...
A New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume VIII: Parts One and Two
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 209.95This eighth volume of the New Edition of George Osborns nineteenth-century collection of The Poetry of John and Charles Wesley widens considerably the entrance into access of the original poems of the eighteenth-century Wesleys, as well as their translations and altered versions of others poetical works. This New Edition... more...
A New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume II
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 179.95A New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume V, Parts I and II
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 199.95This fifth volume of the New Edition of George Osborns nineteenth-century collection of The Poetry of John and Charles Wesley continues to widen the access of the original poems of the eighteenth-century Wesleys, as well as their translations and altered versions of others poetical works. Although the total of thirteen volumes... more...









