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Jane Austen

Writing, Society, Politics

By: Thomas Keymer,Tom Keymer

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Jane Austen

Writing, Society, Politics

By: Thomas Keymer,Tom Keymer

Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines critical introductions to each of her six major novels with an exploration of key themes of her work.

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0198861907

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9780198861904

Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language

A Dictionary

By: Vivian Thomas

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Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language

A Dictionary

By: Vivian Thomas

Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The dictionary reveals the conceptual nucleus of each term and explores the contexts in which it is embedded. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs.

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416

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474216080

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9781474216081

The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

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The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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670

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3385520037

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9783385520035

Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War

Reflections on the Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757

By: Thomas M. Truxes

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Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War

Reflections on the Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757

By: Thomas M. Truxes

In March 1757 – early in the Seven Years’ War – a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community, which were to lay undisturbed in the British archives for the next 250 years. Re-discovered in 2011 by Dr. Truxes, this cache of (mostly unopened) letters provides a colorful, intimate, and revealing glimpse into the lives of ordinary people caught up in momentous events. Taking this correspondence (published by the British Academy in 2013) as a shared starting point, the ten essays in this volume are not so much "about" the Bordeaux–Dublin letters themselves, but rather reflect upon themes, perspectives, and questions embedded within the mail of ordinary men, women, and children cut off from home by war. The volume’s introduction situates these essays within a broad Atlantic context, allowing the succeeding chapters to explore a range of topics at the cutting edge of early-modern British and Irish historical scholarship, including women in the early-modern world, the consequences of war across all classes in society, the eighteenth-century penal laws and their impact, and Irish expatriate communities on the European continent. Leavening these broad themes with the personal snapshots of life provided by the Bordeaux-Dublin letters, this edited collection enlarges, complicates, and challenges our understanding of the mid-eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

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267

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Routledge

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1317133447

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9781317133445

The Life of Jonathan Swift

By: Thomas Lockwood

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The Life of Jonathan Swift

By: Thomas Lockwood

Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin and spent most of his life in Ireland, never traveling outside the British Isles. An Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, he was a major political and religious figure whose career was primarily clerical, not literary. Although much is known about Swift, in many ways he remains an enigma. He was admired as an Irish patriot yet was contemptuous of the Irish. He was both secretive and self-dramatizing. His talent for friendship was matched by his skill for making enemies. He hated the English but yearned to live in England. The Life of Jonathan Swift explores the writing life and personal history of the foremost satirist in the English language. Accessible and engaging, this critical biography brings Swift’s writing and creative sensibility into the narrative of his life. Author Thomas Lockwood provides the historical and modern critical context of Swift’s prose satires and poetry, as well as his political journalism, essays, manuscripts, and personal correspondence. Throughout the book, biographically contextualized descriptions of Swift’s most famous works help readers better understand both the writing and the writer. Provides critical profiles of Gulliver’s Travels, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Drapier’s Letters, and Swift’s other famous works Offers insights into Swift’s relationships with Esther Johnson, “Stella,” and Esther Vanhomrigh, “Vanessa” Highlights Swift’s poetry and how verse writing was a vital part of his creative being Summarizes and contextualizes lesser-known works such as The Conduct of the Allies Addresses the historic critical bias against comedy or satire as inferior forms of art, both in Swift’s lifetime and the present The Life of Jonathan Swift is an essential resource for general readers of literature and literary biography, university instructors and researchers, and undergraduate students taking courses in English literature.

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487

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118957180

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9781118957189

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

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The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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425

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3382197154

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9783382197155

The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

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The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another? We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. There is a distinction between a contrite sense of sin and a feeling of guilt. The former is a true and healthy thing, the latter tends to be false and pathological. The man who suffers from a sense of guilt does not want to feel guilty, but at the same time he does not want to be innocent. He wants to do what he thinks he must not do, without the pain of worrying about the consequences. The history of our time has been made by dictators whose characters, often transparently easy to read, have been full of repressed guilt. They have managed to enlist the support of masses of men moved by the same repressed drives as themselves. Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429945281

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9781429945288

Against Better Judgment

Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century

By: Thomas Salem Manganaro

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Against Better Judgment

Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century

By: Thomas Salem Manganaro

Robinson Crusoe recognizes it is foolish to leave for the open seas; nevertheless, he boards the ship. William Wordsworth of The Prelude sees the immense poetic task ahead of him, but instead of beginning work, he procrastinates by going for a walk. Centering on this sort of intentionally irrational action, originally defined as " akrasia" by the ancient Greeks and "weakness of will" in early Christian thought, Against Better Judgment argues that the phenomenon takes on renewed importance in the long eighteenth century. In treating human minds and bodies as systems and machines, Enlightenment philosophers did not account for actions that may be undermotivated, contradictory, or self-betraying. A number of authors, from Daniel Defoe and Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen and John Keats, however, took up the phenomenon in inventive ways. Thomas Manganaro traces how English novelists, essayists, and poets of the period sought to represent akrasia in ways philosophy cannot, leading them to develop techniques and ideas distinctive to literary writing, including new uses of irony, interpretation, and contradiction. In attempting to give shape to the ways people knowingly and freely fail themselves, these authors produced a new linguistic toolkit that distinguishes literature’s epistemological advantages when it comes to writing about people.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813947316

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9780813947310

Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English

Vol. II

By: Thomas Wright

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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English

Vol. II

By: Thomas Wright

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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3375163673

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9783375163679

The Laws Relating to Buildings: Comprising the Metropolitan Buildings Act; Fixtures; Insurance Against Fire; Actions on Builders' Bills; Dilapidations; and a Copious Glossary of Thchnical Terms Peculian to Building; Illustrated with Numerous Engravings

By: Thomas Chambers,George Tattersall

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The Laws Relating to Buildings: Comprising the Metropolitan Buildings Act; Fixtures; Insurance Against Fire; Actions on Builders' Bills; Dilapidations; and a Copious Glossary of Thchnical Terms Peculian to Building; Illustrated with Numerous Engravings

By: Thomas Chambers,George Tattersall

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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3368877771

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language

Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language

The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War

Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War

The Life of Jonathan Swift

The Life of Jonathan Swift

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620

The Living Bread

The Living Bread

Against Better Judgment

Against Better Judgment

Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English

Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English

The Laws Relating to Buildings: Comprising the Metropolitan Buildings Act; Fixtures; Insurance Against Fire; Actions on Builders' Bills; Dilapidations; and a Copious Glossary of Thchnical Terms Peculian to Building; Illustrated with Numerous Engravings

The Laws Relating to Buildings: Comprising the Metropolitan Buildings Act; Fixtures; Insurance Against Fire; Actions on Builders' Bills; Dilapidations; and a Copious Glossary of Thchnical Terms Peculian to Building; Illustrated with Numerous Engravings

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