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Restoration Comedy by David Womersley
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $36.91The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700. Includes... -
Writings on Standing Armies by David Womersley
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979123Author David WomersleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 746Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher... -
Restoration Comedy by David Womersley 9780631234715
RRP: $114.75Booksplease Price: $100.50The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700. Includes... -
Writings on Standing Armies by David Womersley 9780865979116
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $23.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979116Author David WomersleyFormat HardbackPage Count 746Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher... -
Thinking Through Shakespeare by David Womersley 9780691154107
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.79How Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions—about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong—explains his lasting power, popularity and relevanceIn the eighteenth century, Samuel... -
Restoration Drama: An Anthology by David Womersley 9780631209027
RRP: $172.80Booksplease Price: $154.37This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.00Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly... -
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings by David Womersley 9780198859246
Booksplease Price: $38.74This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the... -
Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century by David Womersley
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976290Author David WomersleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher... -
Edward Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays: 1997 by David Womersley 9780729405522
Booksplease Price: $126.72In the summer of 1994, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Gibbon's death, a group of scholars gathered in Oxford to commemorate and explore his achievement, producing this volume of essays... -
Restoration Drama: An Anthology David Womersley (University of Oxford) 9780631209034
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $51.03This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts... -
The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley 9780521070966
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $46.01David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony, tracing its classical... -
A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake David Womersley (University of Oxford) 9780631212850
RRP: $60.57Booksplease Price: $55.48This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon... -
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"An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times" and Other Writings by David Womersley 9780865979093
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $29.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979093Author John BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 806Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty... -
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"An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times" and Other Writings by David Womersley 9780865979109
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979109Author John BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 806Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty... -
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 9781009159548
Booksplease Price: $40.44Gulliver's Travels is one of the few works of English literature which is also a landmark in world literature. Jonathan Swift's account of Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in the fantastical societies of... -
Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the... -
The Works of Thomas Southerne: Volume II by Thomas Southerne 9780198127987
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $71.52Southerne is one of the most important dramatists of the Restoration theatre, but until now there has been no modern edition of his works. The text is based on an exhaustive study of the earliest... -
Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought by Nicholas Hudson 9780198112143
Booksplease Price: $30.10Although there are many books on Johnson's moral and religious thought, none has provided a detailed analysis of his relationship with the ethics and theology of the eighteenth century. This study... -
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9780140436624
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.35In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and... -
Dryden:Selected Poems by Paul Hammond 9781405835459
Booksplease Price: $65.78Dryden: Selected Poems is drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden, and includes a generous selection of his most important work. The great satires,... -
Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes by Noel Malcolm 9780199575718
Booksplease Price: $63.06Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years'... -
The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser by Richard A. McCabe 9780198709671
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $46.47Written by a team of international experts, the forty-two essays in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examine the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in... -
Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes by Noel Malcolm 9780199215935
Booksplease Price: $84.86Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years'... -
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book by Paddy Bullard 9781316600955
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.15Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of... -
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution by Ian Duncan
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both... -
Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840: 'From an Antique Land' by Nigel Leask 9780199247004
Booksplease Price: $119.12The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which -... -
The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830 by David Francis Taylor
Booksplease Price: $49.20This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political... -
Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia by Pat Rogers 9780198182597
Booksplease Price: $84.66This is the first comprehensive treatment of Johnson and Boswell in relation to Scotland, as revealed in their accounts of their trip to the Hebrides in 1773, the Journey to the Western Islands and... -
Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner 9780199558247
Booksplease Price: $30.74Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative... -
The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace by Professor Brian Cummings 9780199226337
RRP: $81.27Booksplease Price: $66.51Brian Cummings examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering both how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments... -
Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820 by Thomas Keymer 9780198744498
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $40.43On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government'. It's... -
Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print by Hilary Havens
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.15Revisions form a natural part of the writing process, but is the concept of revision actually an intrinsic part of the formation of the novel genre? Through the recovery and analysis of material from... -
A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion by David Scott Kastan 9780199572892
Booksplease Price: $56.77On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded? I... -
Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print by Hilary Havens 9781108493857
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $105.42Revisions form a natural part of the writing process, but is the concept of revision actually an intrinsic part of the formation of the novel genre? Through the recovery and analysis of material from... -
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.03'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it... -
The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin by Geoffrey Hill 9780198829522
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $32.79At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, his last work, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthumously as his final statement... -
When Novels Were Books by Jordan Alexander Stein
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $38.88A literary scholar explains how eighteenth-century novels were manufactured, sold, bought, owned, collected, and read alongside Protestant religious texts. As the novel developed into a mature genre,... -
William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century by Wilfrid Prest 9780199652013
Booksplease Price: $59.03Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions...