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Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364293
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
Shakespeare's Hamlet by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776601Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare's King Lear by Valentine Cunningham
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776236Author Valentine CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare's Othello by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776007Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell 9780198183112
£68.08The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
RRP: £12.99£9.09What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? What do the characters call each other, and why? And which important Austen characters never speak? In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's... -
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Poole
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776144Author Adrian PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare's Money: How much did he make and what did this mean? by Robert Bearman 9780198822240
RRP: £20.49£20.39There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life. This is true if we wish to know about Shakespeare's... -
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael Gill
RRP: £35.00£27.74An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in... -
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by Peter Corbin 9780719019531
RRP: £15.99£14.47For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: £25.00£16.78'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
Thomas Browne: Selected Writings by Kevin Killeen 9780198797654
RRP: £20.99£20.69This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition demonstrates the breadth of the... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff
£47.92The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198818359
£35.51This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. In early... -
The Equality of Flesh: Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern Culture by Brent Dawson 9781501775659
RRP: £45.00£39.58The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized... -
The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England by Erin Webster 9780198850199
£89.34The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? In our everyday lives, we rely on optical technology to provide... -
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John C. Farrell 9780801444104
RRP: £47.00£41.28"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's... -
Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne James
RRP: £68.00£59.01On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to... -
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment by Kent Cartwright 9780198868897
RRP: £87.00£78.91Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society... -
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost by Bjoern Quiring
RRP: £39.99£35.06Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In... -
Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage by Laura Jayne Wright 9781526159182
RRP: £85.00£74.51This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly... -
Global Milton and Visual Art by Angelica Duran 9781793617064
RRP: £107.00£93.85Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital... -
Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion by Laura L. Runge 9781839982002
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839982002Author Laura L. RungeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Gluttony and Gratitude: Milton's Philosophy of Eating by Emily E. Stelzer 9780271081007
RRP: £74.95£64.98Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve's sin as one of gluttony-and the evidence for Milton's adaptation of this tradition-has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily... -
Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton's Writings by David V. Urban 9780271080994
RRP: £83.95£72.84In Milton and the Parables of Jesus, David V. Urban examines Milton's self-referential use of figures from the New Testament parables in his works of poetry and prose. Urban's informative introduction explores the history of parable interpretation and... -
Scholarly Milton by Thomas Festa 9781942954811
RRP: £109.50£34.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954811Author Thomas FestaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
g: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler by Alex Garganigo 9781487500986
RRP: £66.00£57.33In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson's Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had... -
Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution by Niall Allsopp 9780198861065
RRP: £86.00£78.01Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the... -
Milton in Translation by Angelica Duran 9780192895875
£45.37Milton in Translation represents an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton's international reception, from the seventeenth century through today. This book collects in one volume new essays written on the translation of... -
Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters by Greg Miller 9781526164094
RRP: £85.00£60.57The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593-1633) and Edward Herbert (1583-1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters in a moment of transition, before and during the Thirty Years War. Each in his own way conceived of his... -
English Literary Criticism: 17th & 18th Centuries by J. W. H. Atkins 9780367763565
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1951, this volume covers the transition period between the years of Renaissance influence and the dawn of 19th Century Romanticism. The book analyses the theories and judgments of various critics and their bearing on literary... -
Gluttony and Gratitude: Milton's Philosophy of Eating by Emily E. Stelzer
RRP: £38.95£35.03Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve's sin as one of gluttony-and the evidence for Milton's adaptation of this tradition-has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily... -
A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations by Lady Anne Halkett
RRP: £56.00£53.83The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal... -
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture by William Cook Miller
RRP: £45.00£39.18The Enthusiast tells the story of a character type that was developed in early modern Britain to discredit radical prophets during an era that witnessed the dismantling of the Church of England's traditional means for punishing heresy. As William Cook... -
Averrunci or The Skowrers - Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Ca Edmund Bolton 9780866985635
RRP: £64.00£61.27Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Caesar (Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, MS. A IV 5) This edition makes available for the first time a recently discovered and provocative work by... -
Scholarly Milton Thomas Festa 9781802070293
£32.94Following the editors' introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine the nature of Milton's own formidable scholarship and its implications for his prose and poetry-"scholarly Milton" the writer-as well as subsequent scholars'... -
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John C. Farrell
RRP: £27.99£24.14"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's... -
Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton's Writings by David V. Urban
RRP: £33.95£30.34In Milton and the Parables of Jesus, David V. Urban examines Milton's self-referential use of figures from the New Testament parables in his works of poetry and prose. Urban's informative introduction explores the history of parable interpretation and... -
Literatur im Dialog mit den Naturwissenschaften: Konkurrierende Ansprüche von der frühen Neuzeit bis zum 20. Jahrhundert Christoph Strosetzki 9783662698945
RRP: £59.99£50.99Die These des Buches ist, dass in der frühen Neuzeit die Literatur den Vorrang vor der Naturbetrachtung beanspruchte. Verschiebungen gab es über Phasen zeitweiliger Parität, der Priorität der Naturwissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert bis zu deren Kritik im...