Author: Walter Scott (Sir)
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Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Author: Andrew Marvell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129971
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 535

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Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious toleration, and what he called arbitrary as distinct from parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly Anglo-American edition. From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier, more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.

Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Author: Robert Burns
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Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Francis William Pitt Greenwood
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Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Zouheir Jamoussi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381542X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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This comparative study of Defoe’s and Swift’s treatments of liberty embraces what seemed the most significant parts of their vast, multifaceted oeuvres, both non-fictional and fictional. Defoe’s and Swift’s positions with regard to the English constitution and liberties are assessed here through a close examination of their views on contemporary religious and political issues. Moreover, their involvement in the debates on the liberties and constitutions of Scotland and Ireland, respectively, could not be left out of this comparative approach to their treatments of liberty in the broader sense. Also of primary concern is the liberty of expression and of the press underlined (though ambiguously) by both authors as an essential precondition for any debate, political or otherwise. The antithetic relationship between “snare” and “liberty” is examined in the context of the analogy between the political constitution (the body politic) and the human constitution (the natural body) commonly drawn in early 18th century political writings, including Defoe’s and Swift’s. This analogy provides appropriate means of identifying important links within, as well as between, the two authors’ works, since both focused on “snares” in the political and human constitutions. The part of the study devoted to the “snare” in human nature mainly considers the fictional works. Much attention has been given in this regard to the contrasting ways in which both authors have dealt with those “snares” and the interaction between the human and the political constitutions.

Author: G. A. MARQUIS
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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