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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Harrison's British Classicks
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191063827
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, the volume is unprecedented in the breadth of its coverage of an age in which prose moved from the margins of cultural life in Britain to its centre. The volume also breaks new ground in the diversity of the prose writing it covers: its thirty-six chapters by an array of established literary critics and historians capture the excitingly multiple forms that prose took in what was a golden age for non-fictional writing, but which also saw the emergence of modes of prose fiction that became part of the origin story of the eighteenth-century novel. This Handbook reflects that multiplicity and diversity in its structure. Four longer introductory chapters map the changing contexts of the publication and reception of prose in the period, as well as the influence of the classical heritage and the role of relations with continental Europe. The subsequent thirty-two chapters are organized by different categories of prose writing. The contributors approach key authors and texts from various and often unconventional perspectives. The volume offers coverage of well-known writers and texts while also capturing the assortment of prose writing in a time of rapid political and social change: there are chapters on, for example, 'Bites and Shams'; 'Circulation Narratives'; 'Keys'; 'Pornography'; 'Recipe Books'; 'True Accounts', and even 'Handbooks'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191063827
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, the volume is unprecedented in the breadth of its coverage of an age in which prose moved from the margins of cultural life in Britain to its centre. The volume also breaks new ground in the diversity of the prose writing it covers: its thirty-six chapters by an array of established literary critics and historians capture the excitingly multiple forms that prose took in what was a golden age for non-fictional writing, but which also saw the emergence of modes of prose fiction that became part of the origin story of the eighteenth-century novel. This Handbook reflects that multiplicity and diversity in its structure. Four longer introductory chapters map the changing contexts of the publication and reception of prose in the period, as well as the influence of the classical heritage and the role of relations with continental Europe. The subsequent thirty-two chapters are organized by different categories of prose writing. The contributors approach key authors and texts from various and often unconventional perspectives. The volume offers coverage of well-known writers and texts while also capturing the assortment of prose writing in a time of rapid political and social change: there are chapters on, for example, 'Bites and Shams'; 'Circulation Narratives'; 'Keys'; 'Pornography'; 'Recipe Books'; 'True Accounts', and even 'Handbooks'.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitzosborne's Letters. Shenstone's Essays. Launcelot Temple's Sketches. The Lover
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones Essays. Launcelot Temple's Sketches. The Lover
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The House of Harrison
Author: Cecil Reeves Harrison
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Joseph Addison
Author: Paul Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019. Almost exclusively known now as the inventor and main author of The Spectator, probably the most widely read and imitated prose work of the eighteenth century, Addison also produced important and influential work across a broad gamut of other literary modes--poems, verse translations, literary criticism, periodical journalism, drama, opera, travel writing. Much of this work is little known nowadays even in specialist academic circles; Addison is often described as the most neglected of the eighteenth century's major writers. This volume is the first collection to address the full range and variety of Addison's career and writings. Its fifteen chapters fall into three groupings: the first set study Addison's work in modes other than the literary periodical (poetry, translation, travel writing, drama); the second set address The Spectator from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (literary-critical, sociological and political, bibliographical); and the final set explore Addison's reception within several cultural spheres (philosophy, horticulture, art history), by individual writers or across larger historical periods (the Romantic age, the Victorian age), and in Britain and Europe, especially France. The volume provides an overdue and appropriately diverse memorial to one of the dominant men of letters of the Georgian era.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019. Almost exclusively known now as the inventor and main author of The Spectator, probably the most widely read and imitated prose work of the eighteenth century, Addison also produced important and influential work across a broad gamut of other literary modes--poems, verse translations, literary criticism, periodical journalism, drama, opera, travel writing. Much of this work is little known nowadays even in specialist academic circles; Addison is often described as the most neglected of the eighteenth century's major writers. This volume is the first collection to address the full range and variety of Addison's career and writings. Its fifteen chapters fall into three groupings: the first set study Addison's work in modes other than the literary periodical (poetry, translation, travel writing, drama); the second set address The Spectator from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (literary-critical, sociological and political, bibliographical); and the final set explore Addison's reception within several cultural spheres (philosophy, horticulture, art history), by individual writers or across larger historical periods (the Romantic age, the Victorian age), and in Britain and Europe, especially France. The volume provides an overdue and appropriately diverse memorial to one of the dominant men of letters of the Georgian era.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in All Languages on Sale
Author: James Bohn
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Auction Catalogues
Author: Scott and O'Shaughnessy
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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