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	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1 David Damrosch 0321093887 Aug 2002 Paperback ·
Book Description The Longman Anthology of British Literature is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged book on the market. Approaching literature from a broad cultural perspective, the anthology offers a rich selection of fiction, drama, and poetry by major British authors. The second edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature includes key major additions of important works, an expanded illustration program, and new translation of Beowulf. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and one hundred illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period through the 18th Century. Perspectives sections shed light on individual periods, but are also positioned to link with...


	Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 0486290360 July 1996 Paperback ·
Review "We hear [Mary Wollstonecraft's] voice and trace her influence even now among the living." --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Book Description The first great manifesto of women’s rights which argued for the education of women, by influential feminist.


	Longman Anthology of British Literature David Damrosch 0321106687 Aug 2002 Paperback ·
From the Back Cover Volume 1C: The Restoration and the 18th Century of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Restoration and the 18th Century. The book includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the 18th Century. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and...


	Paradise Lost John Milton, Philip Pullman 019280619X September 15, 2005 Hardcover ·
Book Description Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges across heaven, hell, and earth, as Satan and his band of rebel angels conspire against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love. This marvelous new edition boasts an introduction by one of Milton's most famous modern admirers, the best-selling novelist Philip Pullman. Indeed, Pullman not only provides a general introduction, but also introduces each of the twelve books of the poem. In these commentaries, Pullman illuminates the power of the...


	A Treatise of Human Nature (Library of Essential Reading) David Hume 0760771723 September 2005 Paperback ·



	The Roots of Romanticism Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (Editor) 0691007136 ·
Book Review In these lectures, originally delivered at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art in 1965, acclaimed historian of philosophy Isaiah Berlin addresses the origins of what he deems "the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred." His focus, apart from some digressions into Montesquieu, Hume, and Rousseau, is on the German philosophers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and he runs through the contributions of Herder, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Schlegel, and others in turn. He also shows how romanticism would later influence both the existentialists and the fascists, but paradoxically have its greatest influence upon the emergence of a liberalism that seems at complete odds with the romantic sensibility. Berlin's tone is informed but rarely obtuse, making The Roots of Romanticism as fun to...


	Face of Battle John Keegan 0140048979 October 2003 Paperback ·
Book Description What is it like to be in battle? John Keegan, a senior instructor at Sandhurst, the British Military Academy, speaks for soldiers who were present in the fray. For examples, Keegan selects Agincourt in 1415, Waterloo in 1815, and the Somme in 1916. What is common about them, what is different? Agincourt was hand-to-hand combat, thrust and cut--a fearful and personal encounter. At Waterloo, 400 years later, the battle was still largely personal. As it swayed back and forth, men on opposite sides came to recognize the same individuals they had fought off in previous charges. Keegan closes his book with the Somme. For him it stands as the distillation of wars in the industrial age: long-distance killing of faceless men by others who merely activate the instruments of destruction. --This text refers to the...


	Guineas Captive Kings British Antislavery Literature of the 18th Century Wylie Sypher 0374976953 June 1969 Hardcover ·



	Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets : Boxed Set (Oxford English Texts) Roger Lonsdale 0199278970 April 27, 2006 Hardcover ·
Book Description Johnson himself wrote in 1782: "I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets." Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins,...


	Adventures in Domesticity Sharon Harrow 0404635458 Jan 2005 Hardcover ·



	The Rights of Man Thomas Paine 0486408930 December 1999 Paperback ·
Book Description One of Paine’s greatest and most widely read works, considered a classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism, defends the early events of the French Revolution, supports social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, abolition of laws limiting wages, and other social reforms. An inspiring book that paved the way for the growth and development of democratic traditions in American and British society.


	Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) Edmund Burke, L. G. Mitchell 0192839780 November 11, 1999 Paperback ·
Book Description This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible proportions--the Industrial, American, and French Revolutions, to name the most obvious--Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France displays an acute awareness of how high political stakes can be, as well as a keen ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory.


	Vocational Philanthropy And British Women's Writing 1790-1810 Patricia Comitini 0754650421 Feb 2005 Hardcover ·



	Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment David Edmonds 0060744901 March 2006 Hardcover ·
From Publishers Weekly In 1766, Scottish philosopher David Hume helped the radical Swiss intellectual Jean-Jacques Rousseau find asylum in England; a few months later, the volatile philosopher accused his benefactor of masterminding a murky conspiracy against him and triggered a virulent response. The argument had nothing to do with philosophy (or Rousseau's dog), but, as in their well-received Wittgenstein's Poker, the authors use the dispute as a pretext for an engaging rundown of the two thinkers' great ideas—with a big swig of human interest to wash down the philosophical morsels. Their (sometimes excessively) detailed, meandering account of the feud points to something larger: the contrast between the affable, urbane rationalist Hume and the moody, paranoid, emotionally overwrought Rousseau prefigures, they believe, the...


	Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) Frances Burney, et al 0192840312 July 18, 2002 Paperback ·
Book Description Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions--as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an...


	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color William Blake 0486281221 September 1994 Paperback ·
Book Description Inspired satire on religion and morality, including 70 aphorisms of "Proverbs of Hell." 27 full-color plates, full text.


	Humans And Other Animals in Eighteenth-century British Culture Frank Palmeri 0754654753 July 2006 Hardcover ·



	The Literary Magazine And British Review, (London 1788-1794) Edward W. R. Pitcher 0773461345 Oct 2005 Hardcover ·



	Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy Park Honan 0198186959 January 5, 2006 Hardcover ·
From Publishers Weekly When it comes to the accumulation of apocryphal legend, few poets can compete with Christopher Marlowe: Scholars have long ruminated over evidence of his activities as a "spy, unceasing blasphemer, a tough street-fighter and courageous homosexual," not to mention his murder at age 29. In this well-crafted biography, Honan (Shakespeare: A Life) sheds light on the much-speculated (and previously erroneously reported) aspects of Marlowe's life without neglecting its more ordinary features (his stable two-parent upbringing, his diligent scholarship at Cambridge) or destroying the poet's aura of intrigue. Honan engages with the work of prior scholars, but draws his own conclusions, employing Cambridge University records, unpaid bills ("he still seems to have owed for lamb chops and beer"), and "suddenly acquired"...


	Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary Henry Hitchings 0374113025 October 2005 Hardcover ·
From Publishers Weekly For the 250th anniversary of Dr. Samuel Johnson's most famous achievement, Hitchings's charming philology-as-biography shows Johnson to be no mere compiler of words but, as he himself put it, "a writer of dictionaries." Authoritative dictionaries for French and Italian were compiled by official academies, but English's first proper dictionary fell to a university dropout and failed provincial schoolmaster turned Grub Street hack—long before he became the Great Cham. The work began as a purely commercial venture at the suggestion of a bookseller-publisher, Johnson labored under less than ideal conditions, assisted only by a group of eclectic and eccentric amanuenses, and burdened by his wife's declining health and his own melancholia. In the end, his four-volume, 20-pound opus defined more than 42,773 common...


	Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 (Oxford World's Classics) Horace Walpole, et al 0192833162 August 1, 2000 Paperback ·
Book Description Thriving during a period of profound revolution in Europe, the British Romantic theatre found itself re-examining social and sexual relations in English society. The five plays collected in this edition--the only one of its kind--represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of the drama created during this period. Horace invented gothic melodrama with his incest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother; Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794); Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred in De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while Elizabeth Inchbald's hugely successful Lover's Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyze some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814);...


	A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 0198751729 February 2000 Textbook Paperback ·
Book Description The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of truly practical and accessible guides to major philosophical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world up to modern times. Each book opens with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist which covers the philosopher's life, work, and influence. Endnotes, a full bibliography, guides to further reading, and an index are also included. The series aims to build a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, forming a reliable and enduring resource for students and teachers alike. David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand...


	The Literary Magazine And British Review Edward W. R. Pitcher 0773461361 Oct 2005 Hardcover ·



	Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, 2-Volume Set Book Builders 0816051321 Mar 2005 Hardcover ·
From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up–Writers "from Christopher Marlowe to John Donne" and of numerous genres are covered: dramatists, novelists, nonfiction authors, poets, historians, publishers, translators, literary critics, and editors. The alphabetical entries are brief–typically a half page to two pages long. Those on individuals contain biographical information, works, and a short bibliography. Some brief examples of writings are given, and a number offer critical analyses. Occasional entries consider schools of writing. The set includes the obvious (Thomas More, John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith, Jonathan Swift, John Milton), as well as a number of lesser-known and obscure authors. Readers may be surprised to find entries on Leonardo da Vinci and Elizabeth I. According to the preface, the editors included a "wide array...


	Beggar's Opera John Gay 0486408884 August 1999 Paperback ·
Book Description A receiver of stolen goods informs on his chief supplier, setting in motion an increasingly absurd turn of events that climaxes in a parody of 18th-century England’s passion for sentimental tragedy. In addition to its burlesque of the then-current vogue for Italian operatic styles, this satirical 1728 play ridicules a broad spectrum of political figures and social conventions, depicting crime and vice at every level of society. Influential prototype for Threepenny Opera.


	Pamela : Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics) Samuel Richardson, et al 0192829602 July 12, 2001 Paperback ·
Book Description One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Written in the voice of its low-born heroine, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. Based on the original text of 1740, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive...


	The Story of Philosophy: From Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment Will Durant 1572704195 October 2004 Compact Disc ·
From AudioFile [Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY: From Kant to William James and the American Pragmatists.]--"Most of us have known some golden days in the June of life when philosophy was, in fact, what Plato calls it, 'that dear delight.'" So writes Durant in the introduction to this immensely entertaining history of thought. The book is larded with savory bits of information. Aristotle thought the brain "an organ for cooling the blood." The German clergy so hated Kant for the blows he struck at God that they named their dogs after him. Plus, we learn an enormous amount and--perhaps more importantly--we sense again that learning matters. Companion and guide, the golden-voiced Grover Gardener gives a bravura performance. He never drops a line, nor overplays one. It's June again. B.H.C. ...


	Writing British Infanticide Jennifer Thorn 0874138191 Aug 2003 Hardcover ·
Book Description Argues both for the role of "writing British infanticide" in an emergent professionalism dependent upon print and for the special utility of a focus upon child-murder to the evaluation of the mutual constitution of gender and class. From the Inside Flap Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British readers of quite various kinds of writing would have been hard put to avoid reading about child-murder. At one end of the spectrum, broadsheets and ballads told often lurid tales of women accused of child-murder; at the other, doctors and lawyers discussed in new journals the professional challenges they faced in relation to child-murder, such as the determination of whether a dead infant had been stillborn and whether an illegitimate pregnancy had been concealed. ...


	Jane Austen and the War of Ideas Marilyn Butler 0198129688 March 10, 1988 Paperback ·
Book Description It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of her time. But as Marilyn Butler points out in Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Austen was not isolated from reading novels, and novels carried controversy. The sentimental novel of the previous generation, the Jacobin novel of William Godwin, the philosophical comedy of Robert Bage and Maria Edgeworth--all conveyed their own kind of ideological meaning. By recognizing Austen's relationship to the literature of ideas, Butler offers acute readings of each of the novels and an intellectual context in which to see them as a whole.