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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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Women and Literature in Britain, 1500–1700
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a period when it was...
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Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature
Natural law, whether grounded in human reason or divine edict, encourages men to follow virtue and shun vice. The concept dominated Renaissance...
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Print Politics
Print Politics is the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the...
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The Gothic Body
Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written...
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715
Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This book explores why...
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Romantic Identities
One of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long agreed, is its characterization of the self in terms of psychological depth. Many...
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Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800
This is the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England and it demonstrates that far from declining by 1750...
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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these...
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Myths of Modern Individualism
In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He...
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Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI
This is Ovid’s wittily imagined version of the letters exchanged by three famous pairs of lovers. Heroides XVI-XXI constitute an artfully...
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Aristotelian Explorations
This book challenges several widespread views concerning Aristotle’s methods and practices of scientific and philosophical research. Taking central...
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Reading the West
The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of...
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Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI
This is Ovid’s wittily imagined version of the letters exchanged by three famous pairs of lovers. Heroides XVI-XXI constitute an artfully...
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Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed...
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Plato on Poetry
Much has been written in recent years on Plato as a critic of literature, but no commentaries have appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening...
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Juvenal: Satires Book I
Satire was a genre of poetry invented and developed by the Romans. When it came into Juvenal’s hands, he stamped his mark upon it: indignation. His...
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Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized
This major work constitutes a significant attempt to provide a detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine’s thought as...
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism
Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism argues for realism as a genre committed to depicting the imperiled ecological system of soul and society. More...
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Ovid: Heroides
Ovid’s Heroides, a collection of twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse, consists of two groups, the first comprising fourteen poems addressed by...
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Adversaries and Authorities
This is a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and differences between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy,...
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The English Fable
Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. In The...
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