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Book The Retrospective Review

Download or read book The Retrospective Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Retrospective Review

Download or read book Retrospective Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Retrospective Review

Download or read book Retrospective Review written by Henry Southern and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Retrospective Review

Download or read book The Retrospective Review written by Henry Southern and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser

Download or read book Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser written by Marco Nievergelt and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of sixteenth-century quest narratives, focussing on their conscious use of a medieval tradition to hold a mirror up to contemporary culture. Offers the first full study of the allegorical knightly quest tradition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Richly satisfying, as impressive in the detail of its scholarship as in the elegance of its critical formulations. It seamlessly moves between different literary traditions and across conventional period boundaries. In Dr Nievergelt's treatment of this theme, the successive retellings of the tale of the knight's quest come to stand as an emblemof shifting values and norms, both religious and worldly; and of our repeated failures to realise those ideals. Dr Alex Davis, Department of English, University of St Andrews. The literary motif of the "allegorical knightly quest" appears repeatedly in the literature of the late medieval/early modern period, notably in Spenser, but has hitherto been little examined. Here, in his examination of a number of sixteenth-century English allegorical-chivalric quest narratives, focussing on Spenser's Faerie Queene but including important, lesser-known works such as Stephen Bateman's Travayled Pylgrime and William Goodyear's Voyage of the Wandering Knight, the author argues that the tradition begins with the French writer Guillaume de Deguileville. His seminal Pèlerinage de la vie humaine was composed c.1331-1355; it was widely adapted, translated, rewritten and printed overthe next centuries. Dr Nievergelt goes on to demonstrate how this essentially "medieval" literary form could be adapted to articulate reflections on changing patterns of identity, society and religion during the early modern period; and how it becomes a vehicle of self-exploration and self-fashioning during a period of profound cultural crisis. Dr Marco Nievergelt is Lecturer (Maître Assitant) and SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Research Fellow in the English Department at the Université de Lausanne

Book Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance

Download or read book Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance written by Alex Davis and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what it says about contemporary attitudes to the medieval.

Book MLN

Download or read book MLN written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hand Book to the Popular  Poetical  and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain

Download or read book Hand Book to the Popular Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Book The Monthly Magazine

Download or read book The Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Select Works of John Bunyan  Containing The Pilgrim s Progress  The Holy War  Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners  The Jerusalem Sinner Saved  Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ  The Saints  Privilege and Profit  The Water of Life  and The Barren Fig tree  With a Life of the Author  by George Cheever     and an Introductory Essay on The Pilgrim s Progress  by James Montgomery  Esq  Illustrated     After Designs by T  Stothard

Download or read book The Select Works of John Bunyan Containing The Pilgrim s Progress The Holy War Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners The Jerusalem Sinner Saved Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ The Saints Privilege and Profit The Water of Life and The Barren Fig tree With a Life of the Author by George Cheever and an Introductory Essay on The Pilgrim s Progress by James Montgomery Esq Illustrated After Designs by T Stothard written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Britannica  Subjects

Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica Subjects written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Press and the People

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  • Author : Adam Fox
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 0192508814
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Press and the People written by Adam Fox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The book demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to British culture more widely.

Book The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era

Download or read book The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era written by David M. Whitford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, the biblical story of the Curse of Ham was marshalled as a justification of serfdom, slavery and human bondage. According to the myth, having seen his father Noah naked, Ham's is cursed to have his descendants be forever slaves. In this new book the Curse of Ham is explored in its Reformation context, revealing how it became the cornerstone of the Christian defence of slavery and the slave trade for the next four hundred years. It shows how broader medieval interpretations of the story became marginalized in the early modern period as writers such as Annius of Viterbo and George Best began to weave the legend of Ham into their own books, expanding and adding to the legend in ways that established a firm connection between Ham, Africa, slavery and race. For although in the original biblical text Ham himself is not cursed and race is never mentioned, these writers helped develop the story of Ham into an ideological and theological defence for African slavery, at the precise time that the Transatlantic Slave Trade began to establish itself as a major part of the European economy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Skilfully weaving together elements of theology, literature and history, this book provides a fascinating insight into the ways that issues of religion, economics and race could collide in the Reformation world. It will prove essential reading, not only for those with an interest in early modern history, but for anyone wishing to try to comprehend the origins of arguments used to justify slavery and segregation right up to the 1960s.

Book The Retrospective Review Vol 1

Download or read book The Retrospective Review Vol 1 written by Yasuo Deguchi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1820 by Henry Southern, "The Retrospective Review" aimed to recall the public from an exclusive attention to new books, by making the merit of old ones the subject of critical discussion. This edition reproduces in facsimile all 18 volumes of the periodical published between 1820-1854.

Book Cultural Representations of Piracy in England  Spain  and the Caribbean

Download or read book Cultural Representations of Piracy in England Spain and the Caribbean written by Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean. Drawing on historical accounts, literary texts, legal treatises, and maps, the book traces the visual and narrative representations of Sir Francis Drake, who serves as a case study to understand the various usages of the terms "pirate" and "corsair." Through a comparative analysis, the book considers the connotations of the categories related to maritime predation—pirate, corsair, buccaneer, and filibuster—and nationalistic and religious denominations—Lutheran, Catholic, heretic, Spaniard, English, and Creole—to argue that the flexible usage of these terms corresponds to unequal colonial and imperial relations and ideological struggles. The book chronologically records the process by which piracy changed from an unregulated phenomenon to becoming legally defined after the Treaty of London (1604) and the Treaty of Westphalia (1648). The research demonstrates that as piracy grew less ambiguous through legal and linguistic standardization, the concept of piracy lost its polemical utility. This interdisciplinary volume is ideal for researchers working in piracy studies, early modern history, and imperial history.