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Languages : en
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A Continuation of the Compleat catalogue of stitch'd books and single sheets, and c. printed since the first discovery of the popish plot, September 1678
Author: A General Catalogue of all the stitch'd Books and Single Sheets&c. printed the two last years, commencing from the first discovery of the Popish Plot-September 1678.-and continued to Michaelmas Term 1680, etc. [A reissue in one volume of"A Compleat Catalogue of all the Stitch'd Books"and its two continuations.]
Author: 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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Reading Fictions, 1660-1740
Author: Kate LovemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351906585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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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.
A Catalogue of Books Continued Printed and Published at London in Michaelmas-Term
Author: 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.
Three Centuries of English Booktrade Bibliography
Author: Adolf GrowollPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: W. H. Gee
Author: Maggs Bros