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Butler's The Way of All Fleshby Roger E. Parsell
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 1.25Ernest Pontifex, protagonist in The Way of All Flesh , battles his father's iron will in a personal struggle to fully realize the potential of the self. While taking the position of an intellectual gadfly determined to attack the shams of society, Pontifex also assumes the de facto role of spokesman for the author's unique anti-Victorian beliefs. more...
Byron and Romanticismby Jerome McGann; James Soderholm; Marilyn Butler; James Chandler
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00This collection represents twenty-five years of work by Jerome McGann, one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies. Many of these essays have previously been available only in specialist scholarly journals. Now McGann's influential work on Byron can be appreciated more widely by new generations of students and scholars. more...
Byron, Poetics and Historyby Jane Stabler; Marilyn Butler; James Chandler
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Drawing on new archive research into Byron's correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work. more...
Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century Englandby Robert Appelbaum
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics was engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics. more...
Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Englandby Reid Barbour
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 30.00Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625-1649) to offer an extensive reappraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period. more...
Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporariesby David Loewenstein
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 48.00Loewenstein's book is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades. more...
Writing And Societyby Nigel Wheale
Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 37.95Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. more...
The Songs of Robert Burnsby Robert Burns; Donald Low
Routledge 1993; US$ 335.00The Songs of Robert Burns were, in their author's eyes, the crown of his achievement as a poet. Donald Low, the leading expert on Burns' songs has brought together for the first time all the known songs, both 'polite' and bawdy. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Byronby Drummond Bone
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 24.00Byron's life and work and the interactions between them have fascinated readers for two hundred years. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life and times, these essays by eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron's writings. more...
Fictions of Disease in Early Modern Englandby Margaret Healy
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 130.00How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? This text illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, and others. more...









