Author: Peter TalbotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A Treatise of Religion and Government with Reflexions Upon the Cause and Cure of England Late Distempers and Present Dangers
Author: Peter TalbotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A Treatise of Religion and Government with Reflexions Upon the Cause and Cure of England Late Distempers and Present Dangers
Author: Peter TalbotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century England
Author: Dale B. J. RandallPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191561584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century English readers (including four little-known abridgments), this new volume includes entries by such notable writers as Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, Thomas Hobbes, John Dryden, and John Locke, as well as many lesser-known and anonymous writers. A reader will find, among others, a counterfeiter, a midwife, an astrologer, a princess, a diarist, and a Harvard graduate. Altogether this broad range of writers, famed and forgotten alike, brings to light not only sectarian and political tensions of the day, but also glimpses of the arts-of weaving, singing, acting, engraving, and painting. Even dancing, for there was a dance called the "Sancho Panzo". The volume opens with a wide-ranging Introduction that among other things traces the English reception of both Cervantes's Don Quixote and his Novelas ejemplares, including the part they played in English drama. In the main body of the work, individual items are arranged chronologically by year and, within that framework, alphabetically by author, thus providing little-known seventeenth-century evidence regarding the nature and breadth of British interest in Cervantes in various decades. Thorough annotation helps readers to place individual entries in their historical, social, political, and in some instances religious contexts. The volume includes twenty-nine germane seventeenth-century pictures, an index of references to chapters in Don Quixote, and a full bibliography and index.
Floating Islands
Author: Richard J. HeggenPublisher: Richard Heggen
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1227
Book Description
Floating Islands in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere
Don Quixote as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois RichmondPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476673608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction. From its publication in 1605, Don Quixote--recently named the world's best book by authors from 54 countries--has been widely translated and imitated. Among its less acknowledged imitations are stories in children's literature. In context of English adaptation and critical response this book explores the noble and "mad" adventures retold for children by distinguished writers and artists in Edwardian books, collections, home libraries, schoolbooks and picture books. More recent adaptations including comics and graphic novels deviate from traditional retellings. All speak to the knight-errant's lasting influence and appeal to children.
The Faerie Queene as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois RichmondPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476666172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. In it he fused traditions of medieval romance and classical epic, his religious and political allegory creating a Protestant alternative to the Catholic romances rejected by humanists and Puritans. The poem was later made over as children's literature, retold in lavish volumes and schoolbooks and appreciated in pedagogical studies and literary histories. Distinguished writers for children simplified the stories and noted artists illustrated them. Children were less encouraged to consider the allegory than to be inspired to the moral virtues. This book studies The Faerie Queene's many adaptations for a young audience in order to provide a richer understanding of both the original and adapted texts.
A Catalogue of Books in various languages, containing a selection of early printed books, illuminated manuscripts, Fathers of the Church ... and general literature ... for sale ... by C. Dolman
Author: Charles DOLMANPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
P-Z. Single engravings. Manuscripts
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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