EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book A Toile for Tvvo legged Foxes

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Baxter (preacher of the word of God.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1600
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book A Toile for Tvvo legged Foxes written by J. Baxter (preacher of the word of God.) and published by . This book was released on 1600 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion  Culture and National Community in the 1670s

Download or read book Religion Culture and National Community in the 1670s written by Tony Claydon and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant collection of essays by leading scholars on the vital decade of the 1670s in Britain, Ireland and North America. This was a period of profound tension and uncertainty (culminating in the exclusion crisis of 1678-83),, in which the 1660s restoration settlement began to break down, and debates came to seem much more complex and ambiguous than the earlier simple polarity between royalist Anglicanism and a radical, non-conformist opposition. New issues included the disturbing prospect of open catholicism at court, realisation that religious dissent would not simply be persecuted out of existence, confusion over the correct response to the rise of Louis XIV’s France on the continent, the evident emergence of public opinion in the form of the press and coffee house culture;, new questions about the proper relationship between England, Ireland, Scotland and the North American colonies, and refashionings of national identities connected to all these issues. These essays explore the political, cultural and religious turbulence which resulted; and break new ground in the interdisciplinary study of the newly confusing, but highly innovative world. Taken together they suggest the 1670s was a crucial period in the emergence of ‘modern’ assumptions and concerns.

Book The Reformation of Romance

Download or read book The Reformation of Romance written by Christina Wald and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes a fresh look at the abundant scenarios of disguise in early modern prose fiction and suggests reading them in the light of the contemporary religio-political developments. More specifically, it argues that Elizabethan narratives adopt aspects of the heated Eucharist debate during the Reformation, including officially renounced notions like transubstantiation, to negotiate culturally pressing concerns regarding identity change. Drawing on the rich field of research on the adaptation of pre-Reformation concerns in Anglican England, the book traces a cross-fertilisation between the Reformation and the literary mode of romance. The study brings together topics which are currently being strongly debated in early modern studies: the turn to religion, a renewed interest in aesthetics, and a growing engagement with prose fiction. Narratives which are discussed in detail are William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat, Robert Greene’s Pandosto and Menaphon, Philip Sidney’s Old and New Arcadia, and Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynd and A Margarite of America, George Gascoigne’s Steele Glas, John Lyly’s Euphues: An Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, Barnabe Riche’s Farewell, Greene’s A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, and Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller.

Book The Making of Englishmen

Download or read book The Making of Englishmen written by Hilary M. Larkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650.

Book Shakespeare Survey  Volume 57  Macbeth and Its Afterlife

Download or read book Shakespeare Survey Volume 57 Macbeth and Its Afterlife written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print. Backnumbers are gradually being reissued in paperback.

Book Forensic Shakespeare

Download or read book Forensic Shakespeare written by Quentin Skinner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case, either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.

Book The Subject of Elizabeth

Download or read book The Subject of Elizabeth written by Louis Montrose and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of 16th century patriarchal English society. This text illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction.

Book Almost Completely Baxter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glen Baxter
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 1590179862
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Almost Completely Baxter written by Glen Baxter and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over four decades and a multitude of books, “Colonel” Glen Baxter has built a world and a language all his own—slightly familiar, decidedly abnormal, irresistibly funny. Have you felt the terror of a failed Szechuan dinner? Have you seen what happens at precisely 6:15? Do you know where the beards are stored? Either way, this is the book for you. Baxter’s drawings are a delicious stew of pulp adventure novels, highbrow hjinks, and outright absurdity: lonesome cowboys confront the latest in modern art, brave men tremble before moussaka, schoolgirls hoard hashish, and the world’s fruits are in constant peril. Wimples abound. This new selection of Baxter’s work brings together highlights from the full sweep of his long career, and is sure to enchant both confirmed Baxterians and those iin dire need of an introduction. This NYRC edition is a hardcover with printed endpapers, debossed cover design, and extra-thick paper.

Book Bibliography of Early English Literature  Bibliographical collections and notes on early English literature made during the years 1893 1903

Download or read book Bibliography of Early English Literature Bibliographical collections and notes on early English literature made during the years 1893 1903 written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholicism and Anti Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts

Download or read book Catholicism and Anti Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts written by A. Marotti and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. They foreground some major literary authors and canonical texts, but also examine non-canonical literature as well as other writings that embody ideological fantasies connecting the political and religious discourses of the time with their literary manifestations.

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Error  Misuse  Failure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julian Yates
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780816639618
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Error Misuse Failure written by Julian Yates and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with "black boxes, " their success may be gauged by their relative invisibility -- and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian Yates considers here: the portrait miniature, the relic, the privy (flush toilet), the printed text, and the priest-hole (a secret hiding place for Catholic priests in Protestant England). Because each of these contrivances was prone to error, misuse, and sometimes catastrophic failure, they become in Yates's analysis an occasion for recasting the history of the English Renaissance as object lessons -- "knowing from the point of view of the known." It is through such lapses -- the texts and stories generated to explain away a relic that is too easily faked, a miniature that is too curiously real, the stench of a failing privy, a book that persistently sheds its pages, or the presence of so much "papist trash" in an ostensibly reformed England -- that Yates recovers the silent work of "things" in cultural production. Drawing object lessons from failing technological devices, Error, Misuse, Failure plumbs the foundations of Renaissance culture in England, recovering a curious language of mistakes, dirt, and parasitism that associates the failures of these "things" with the figures of Rome, Catholicism, and Sodom. Yates offers a mode of historical inquiry rooted in material culture, sensitive to the way humans induct nonhumans (animals, plants, and manufactured things) into their communities. Historically, the book offers a new set of stories about the rise of printing, the development of domestic architecture, and England's Catholic community -- stories that remind readers of the ways in whichattending to the history of nonhumans requires a radical rethinking of historical landmarks and boundaries.

Book A Catalogue of Rare  Valuable and Curious Books  Manuscripts Relating to Scotland  Particularly to Many of the Most Ancient Families  Medals  and Near 4000 Curious Pamphlets Relating to the Times for the Last 100 Years  All Collected with the Greatest Care by the Late Celebrated Antiquarian Mr  Robert Miln Writer in Edinburgh  The Auction Begins on Tuesday March 22nd

Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare Valuable and Curious Books Manuscripts Relating to Scotland Particularly to Many of the Most Ancient Families Medals and Near 4000 Curious Pamphlets Relating to the Times for the Last 100 Years All Collected with the Greatest Care by the Late Celebrated Antiquarian Mr Robert Miln Writer in Edinburgh The Auction Begins on Tuesday March 22nd written by and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greeks  Romans  and Pilgrims

Download or read book Greeks Romans and Pilgrims written by David A. Lupher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims examines the availability, circulation, and uses of classical knowledge in the earliest period of the settlement of New England, demonstrating the surprising awareness of Greek and Roman culture by the socially humble “Pilgrims” of Plymouth Plantation.