Samuel Richardson in Context
Peter Sabor and Betty A. Schellenberg
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Since the publication of his novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded in 1740, Samuel Richardson's place in...
Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660
John Peter Rumrich and Gregory Chaplin
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A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry...
Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
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In the nineteenth century, Shakespeare achieved the status of international pre-eminence that we...
Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of the Pythagorean Music of the Universe
Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen
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This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony...
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
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'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful...
Socrates' Defence
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'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account...
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater
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Reflecting Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history and philosophy,...
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
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Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist...
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
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Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture
Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana
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India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised...