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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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A Compleat Catalogue of Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets Narcissus Luttrell's Popish Plot Catalogues
Author: Narcissus Luttrell's Popish Plot Catalogues. Introduction by F.C. Francis, Etc. [Facsimiles of the British Museum Copies of "A Continuation of the Complete Catalogue of Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets, & C ... from the 1st of January 1679/80. to the 25th of June. 1680" and "A Second Continuation of the Compleat Catalogue of Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets ... From the 24th of June to Michaelmas Term 1680," with the MS. Notes and Prices Probably by Narcissus Luttrell.].
Author: Sir Frank Chalton FrancisPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Narcissus Luttrell's Popish Plot Catalogues. Introduction by F. C. Francis, etc. [Facsimiles of the British Museum copies of "A Continuation of the Complete Catalogue of Stitch'd Books and Single Sheets, &c ... from the 1st of January 1679
Author: Sir Frank Chalton FrancisPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Narcissus Luttrell's Popish Plot Catalogues
Author: Narcissus LuttrellPublisher: Oxford : Published for the Luttrell Society by B. Blackwell
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Category : Compleat catalogue of stitch'd books and single sheets
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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A Radical's Books
Author: Michael Cyril William HunterPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859914710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The library owned by Samuel Jeake of Rye, nonconformist and local activist, was one of the most remarkable of its time. It is of particular importance in that relatively little information has hitherto been available about the ownership of books in the English provinces, or the reading habits of intellectuals who -- like Jeake --were outside London and university circles from which most surviving libraries have come down to us. The collection of some 1500 volumes includes an extraordinary assemblage of radical pamphlets from the English Revolution alongside works of theology, literature, scholarship and science. Other books reflect astrological and magical interests, and the collection also includes a medical library. Jeake's library catalogue, published here, gives much information about titles that are now lost, about the penetration of foreign books into provincial England, and about book prices. The introduction places Jeake's collection in context, and makes a significant contribution to the history of the book in the early modern period; appendices list surviving volumes from the library and give a complete list of the Jeake manuscripts now in Rye Museum.MICHAEL HUNTER is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London; GILES MANDELBROTE is a Curator, British Collections 1501-1800, at the British Library; RICHARD OVENDEN is Deputy Head, Rare Books Division of the National Library of Scotland; NIGEL SMITH is Reader in English at the University of Oxford.
Reading Fictions, 1660-1740
Author: Kate LovemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351906585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
English society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was fascinated by deception, and concerns about deceptive narratives had a profound effect on reading practices. Kate Loveman's interdisciplinary study explores the ways in which reading habits, first developed to deal with suspect political and religious texts, were applied to a range of genres, and, as authors responded to readers' critiques, shaped genres. Examining responses to authors such as Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Fielding, Loveman investigates reading as a sociable activity. She uncovers a lost critical discourse, centred on strategies of 'shamming', which involved readers in public displays of reason, wit and ironic pretence as they discussed the credibility of oral and written narratives. Widely understood by early modern readers and authors, the codes of this rhetoric have now been forgotten, to the detriment of our perception of the period's literature and politics. Loveman's lively book offers a striking new approach to Restoration and eighteenth-century literary culture and, in particular, to understanding the development of the novel.
The Arms of the Family
Author: John T. ShawcrossPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813158575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
John T. Shawcross's groundbreaking new study of John Milton is an essential work of scholarship for those who seek a greater understanding of Milton, his family, and his social and political world. Shawcross uses extensive new archival research to scrutinize several misunderstood elements of Milton's life, including his first marriage and his relationship with his brother, brother-in-law and nephews. Shawcross examines Milton's numerous royalist connections, complicating the conventional view of Milton as eminent Puritan and raising questions about the role his connections played in his relatively mild punishment after the Restoration. Unique in its methodology, The Arms of the Family is required reading not only for students of Milton but also for students of biography in general. Entire chapters dedicated to Milton's brother Christopher, his brother-in-law Thomas Agar, and his nephews Edward and John Phillips, illuminate the domestic forces that helped shape Milton's point of view. The final chapters reconsider Milton's political and sociological ideology in the light of these domestic forces and in the religious context of his three major poetic works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and Samson Agonistes. The Arms of the Family is a seminal work by a preeminent Miltonist, marking a major advance in Milton studies and serving as a model for those engaged in family history, social history, and the early modern period.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell: 1676-1678
Author: Professor Annabel PattersonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300099363
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly Anglo-American edition. From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier, more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.