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Book Lives and Letters of the Devereux  Earls of Essex

Download or read book Lives and Letters of the Devereux Earls of Essex written by Walter Bourchier Devereux and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lives and Letters of the Devereux  Earls of Essex  in the Reigns of Elizabeth  James I   and Charles I  1540   1646

Download or read book Lives and Letters of the Devereux Earls of Essex in the Reigns of Elizabeth James I and Charles I 1540 1646 written by Walter Bourchier Devereux and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lives and Letters of the Devereux  Earls of Essex  in the Reigns of Elizabeth  James I   and Charles I  1540   1646

Download or read book Lives and Letters of the Devereux Earls of Essex in the Reigns of Elizabeth James I and Charles I 1540 1646 written by Walter Bourchier Devereux and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bodies  Politics and Transformations  John Donne s Metempsychosis

Download or read book Bodies Politics and Transformations John Donne s Metempsychosis written by Siobhán Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donne’s Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem as one of the most vital and energetic of Donne’s canon. Siobhán Collins appraises Metempsychosis for its extraordinary openness to and its inventive portrayal of conflict within identity. She situates this ludic verse as a text alert to and imbued with the Elizabethan fascination with the processes and properties of metamorphosis. Contesting the pervasive view that the poem is incomplete, this study illustrates how Metempsychosis is thematically linked with Donne’s other writings through its concern with the relationship between body and soul, and with temporality and transformation. Collins uses this genre-defying verse as a springboard to contribute significantly to our understanding of early modern concerns over the nature and borders of human identity, and the notion of selfhood as mutable and in process. Drawing on and contributing to recent scholarly work on the history of the body and on sexuality in the early modern period, Collins argues that Metempsychosis reveals the oft-violent processes of change involved in the author’s personal life and in the intellectual, religious and political environment of his time. She places the poem’s somatic representations of plants, beasts and humans within the context of early modern discourses: natural philosophy, medical, political and religious. Collins offers a far-reaching exploration of how Metempsychosis articulates philosophical inquiries that are central to early modern notions of self-identity and moral accountability, such as: the human capacity for autonomy; the place of the human in the ’great chain of being’; the relationship between cognition and embodiment, memory and selfhood; and the concept of wonder as a distinctly human phenomenon.

Book News Notes of California Libraries

Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.

Book A Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston upon Hull  containing the works admitted since the publication of the Supplement to Mr  Clarke s Catalogue  in 1836   Compiled by J  M  Stark

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston upon Hull containing the works admitted since the publication of the Supplement to Mr Clarke s Catalogue in 1836 Compiled by J M Stark written by John Mozley STARK and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A catalogue of the subscription library  at Kingston upon Hull  signed J C    A catalogue  containing the works admitted since 1836

Download or read book A catalogue of the subscription library at Kingston upon Hull signed J C A catalogue containing the works admitted since 1836 written by Joseph Clarke (of Hull.) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Return of the Armadas   The Last Years of the Elizabethan War against Spain 1595 1603

Download or read book The Return of the Armadas The Last Years of the Elizabethan War against Spain 1595 1603 written by R. B. Wernham and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defeat of the Spanish Armada did not put an end to Spanish sea power, nor to Spain's ambitions in northern Europe. By the mid-1590s Spain had recovered from the disaster of 1588, and the renewed naval wars together with the outbreak of rebellion in Ireland from the principal themes of this book. R B Wernham sets out to examine these major events of the last years of the Queen Elizabeth's reign and to assess their impact on English policy. Professor Wernham shows how much of the impetus in foreign policy derived from the Earl of Essex, whose personal ambition and practical incompetence brought frustration and danger, and ultimately led him through rebellion to the Scaffold. It was left to Mountjoy in Ireland, to Leveson and a new generation of sea commanders, and above all to Robert Cecil, to bring war and rebellion to a reasonably satisfactory conclusion. The Return of the Armadas is a superbly integrated and lucidly written study in grand strategy by a leading historian of Elizabethan affairs.

Book Celtic Shakespeare

Download or read book Celtic Shakespeare written by Rory Loughnane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of Shakespeare studies, this volume examines the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare. Celtic contexts have been established for many of Shakespeare's plays, and there has been interest too in the ways in which Irish, Scottish and Welsh critics, editors and translators have reimagined Shakespeare, claiming, connecting with and correcting him. This collection fills a major gap in literary criticism by bringing together the best scholarship on the individual nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a way that emphasizes cultural crossovers and crucibles of conflict. The volume is divided into three chronologically ordered sections: Tudor Reflections, Stuart Revisions and Celtic Afterlives. This division of essays directs attention to Shakespeare's transformed treatment of national identity in plays written respectively in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, but also takes account of later regional receptions and the cultural impact of the playwright's dramatic works. The first two sections contain fresh readings of a number of the individual plays, and pay particular attention to the ways in which Shakespeare attends to contemporary understandings of national identity in the light of recent history. Juxtaposing this material with subsequent critical receptions of Shakespeare's works, from Milton to Shaw, this volume addresses a significant critical lacuna in Shakespearean criticism. Rather than reading these plays from a solitary national perspective, the essays in this volume cohere in a wide-ranging treatment of Shakespeare's direct and oblique references to the archipelago, and the problematic issue of national identity.

Book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: