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Informationen zum Autor David Womersley has been a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford since 1984. He has published widely on English Literature from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. His previous publications include, Restoration Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell 2000), Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1994), Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays (1997), Augustan Critical Writing (1997), The Transformation of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1988). Klappentext This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work. The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied. Zusammenfassung * This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake (1608--1827). * Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: David Womersley. Notes on Contributors. Part I: Contexts, Issues and Debates: . 1. The Civil War and British Literature: Martin Dzelzainis. 2. Women Writers and Readers: Sue Wiseman. 3. Literature and Party: Brean Hammond. 4. Sentiment and Sensibility: Ann Jessie van Sant. 5. Classical Imitation: David Hopkins. 6. Forgery and Plagiarism: Nick Groom. 7. Literature and Nationhood: Murray Pittock. 8. The Book Trade: Michael Suarez. Part II: Readings: . 9. Milton, Areopagitica: Martin Dzelzainis. 10. Herrick, Hesperides: Peter Davidson. 11. Marvell, Horatian Ode: Thomas Healy. 12. Hobbes, Leviathan: David Wootton. 13. Katherine Philips, Poems: Jane Spencer. 14. Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs: David Norbrook. 15. Bunyan, Grace Abounding: Anita Pacheco. 16. Milton, Paradise Lost: Nicholas von Maltzahn. 17. Aphra Behn, The Rover: Ros Ballaster. 18. Rochester, Satyr Against Reason à: Paddy Lyons. 19. Aphra Behn, Poems: Sarah Prescott. 20. Dryden, Fables: David Hopkins. 21. Congreve, The Way of the World: Malcolm Kelsall. 22. Swift, Tale of a Tub: Claude Rawson. 23. Pope, Windsor Forest: Christine Gerrard. 24. Gay, Trivia: David Nokes. 25. Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year: David Womersley. 26. Eliza Haywood, Fantomina: Sarah Prescott. 27. Thomson, The Seasons: David Fairer. 28. Pope, Dunciad: Valerie Rumbold. 29. Duck, Poems on Several Subjects: Bridget Keegan. 30. Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination: David Fairer. 31. Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character: Katherine Turner. 32. Richardson, Clarissa: Tom Keymer. 33. Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: Tom Kaminski. 34. Fielding, Tom Jones: Richard Braverman. 35. Gray, An Elegy à:Katherine Turner. 36. Johnson, Dictionary: Anne McDermott. 37. Johnson, Rasselas: Anne McDermott. 38. Smart, Jubilate Agno: Alun ...
