Le voyage de Hollande (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, #318)
by Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau
Terre de refuge au XVIIe siecle, la Republique des Sept Provinces-Unies l'est encore au XVIIIe siecle et elle accueille aussi des savants, etudiants, diplomates, militaires, commercants. Vers 1750, le voyage d'agrement tend a l'emporter sur le voyage purement utilitaire et on rencontre de plus en plus de voyageurs francais desireux de decouvrir une contree 'singuliere' et d'y admirer les tableaux de maitres flamands et hollandais. Pour les esprits eclaires, le 'voyage de Hollande' offre aussi l'...
Les Fiances, Histoire Milanaise Du Xviie Siecle, Decouverte Et Refaite (Ed.1832) (Litterature)
by Professor Alessandro Manzoni
Madame de Chateaubriand: Lettres Inedites A M. Clausel de Coussergues (Ed.1888) (Litterature)
by de Chateaubriand C
This study focuses on techniques of romance characterization and, through stylistic analysis, compares speech characteristics of parallel characters in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Philip Sidney's New Arcadia, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
Boleslaw Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called "Jewish question" in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus' social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises. The book traces Prus' evolving worldview toward Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the i...
James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical (Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution, #5)
by Carol Baraniuk
James Orr (1770-1816) was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver poets. He wrote in both Scots and English and has been favourably compared to his near contemporary Robert Burns. A radical and a lifelong supporter of the Society of United Irishmen, Orr took part in the Rebellion of 1798, after which he fled for a period of self-imposed exile in America. Baraniuk looks at Orr's life and work, examining the changing social, political and theological context of his writing and reassessing his contributi...
Poetry & the Dictionary (Poetry &..., #8)
Poetry is an ancient verbal art, which has its roots in the oral epics and fragments that survive from classical times. Dictionaries of English, by contrast, are a comparatively recent phenomenon, beginning with the 'hard words' that Robert Cawdrey gathered in A Table Alphabeticall in 1604 and extending to the present edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, with its ongoing revisions. This innovative collection of essays is the first volume to explore the ways in which dictionaries have stim...
Virginia Woolf Volume 4 (Critical and Primary Sources)
La Seconde Interdiction de Tartuffe: Avec La Lettre Sur La Comedie de l'Imposteur, 1667 (Arts)
by Edouard Thierry
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (Shakespeare's Plays) (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama)
by William Hazlitt
The critic, essayist and painter William Hazlitt (1778-1830) published and lectured widely on English literature, from Elizabethan drama to reviews of the latest work of his own time. His first extended work of literary criticism was Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, published in 1817. This volume from 1908 takes the text of the first edition and adds notes explaining complex terms to readers and an introduction by J. H. Lobban, a lecturer in English at Birkbeck College. As such it is the ideal...
Critical Reflections on the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
Positing a dynamic relationship between print culture and social experience, Bronwen Wilson's The World in Venice focuses on the printed image during a century of profound transformation. City views, costume illustrations, events, and portraits of locals and foreigners are brought together to show how printmakers responded to an expanding image of the world in Renaissance Venice, and how, in turn, prints influenced the ways in which individuals thought about themselves. Woodcuts and engravings...
Der walsche Gast des Thomasin von Zirclaria (Deutsche Neudrucke)
by Thomasin Von Zirclaria
Oeuvres Completes de J. Racine. Tome 8. Correspondance (Litterature)
by Jean Racine
Oeuvres Completes de P. Corneille Suivies Des Oeuvres Choisies de Thomas Corneille. Tome 5 (Litterature)
by Pierre Corneille