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 Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.77 |  The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.88 Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to publish prolifically under her own name, but has been... |  This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS)Best Price: $38.18 The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age... |  Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660Best Price: $16.25 This is a brilliant and original book, a magnificent synthesis of 17th-century literary... |  Close ReadersBest Price: $68.76 Humanism, in both its rhetoric and practice, attempted to transform the relationships between... |
 Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)Best Price: $54.00 Tessa Watt's Cheap Print and Popular Piety fires yet another shot in the ongoing battle between... |  Key Concepts in Renaissance Literature (Palgrave Key Concepts: Literature)Best Price: $18.00 The volume provides readers with a clear introduction to English Renaissance literary texts.... |  Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern InquiryBest Price: $21.99 "Pithy and wide-ranging. . . . This study provides a fresh new lens through which to... |  Censorship And InterpretationBest Price: $16.92 This is a critical treatment of the relationship between author and authority in the society of... |  The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and SkeltonBest Price: $69.95 The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity offers the first sustained examination of... |
 Restoration Literature: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $6.75 This anthology brings together a stimulating and entertaining collection of works from the... |  Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century EnglandBest Price: $59.89 This is a good and basic selection of women writers from the period, though I wish the selection... |  Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of PembrokeBest Price: $69.63 Crucial for anyone writing about the Sidneys, this book is balanced, fascinating and readable. ... |  The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660Best Price: $79.90 In The Writing of Royalism, Robert Wilcher charts the political and ideological development of... |  The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley; Volume 2 : Poems (1656); Part I: The MistressBest Price: $30.00 |
 Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to RenaissanceFor many years C. S. Lewis's dismissal of the sixteenth century as a 'drab age' has influenced... |  Augustan Critical Writing: 2 (Penguin Classics) |  Female and Male Voices in Early Modern EnglandBest Price: $8.98 Most anthologies of Renaissance writing include only (or predominantly) male writers, whereas... |  Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century (Oxford History of English Literature (New Version))Best Price: $141.09 C.S. Lewis's "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)," first... |  Privileging Gender in Early Modern England (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies)Best Price: $39.99 |
 Royal Subjects: Essays on the Writings of James VI and IBest Price: $44.95 An examination of the writings of James I and VI. |  The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century EnglandBest Price: $29.95 |  Sir Thomas Wyatt (Twayne's English Authors Series) |  The Longman Anthology of British Literature (The Early Modern Period)Best Price: $10.00 I appreciate the breadth and balance of the selection of materials in the Longman Anthology,... |  Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545-1625Best Price: $123.94 What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This... |
 Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language OriginalsBest Price: $5.51 Published to substantial critical acclaim, Elizabeth I: Collected Works brought together for... |  Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship in the Renaissance PrefaceBest Price: $49.97 Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where... |  Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political TraditionBest Price: $93.73 Doctor Smith has a keen grasp of the subject matter which allowed her to combine others and her... |  Bernard Mandeville's "A Modest Defence of Publick Stews": Prostitution and Its Discontents in Early Georgian EnglandBest Price: $69.80 In A Modest Defence of Publick Stews (1724) its reputed author Dr. Bernard Mandeville argues... |  The Longman Anthology of British Literature (The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century)Best Price: $3.45 The Longman Anthology of British Literature - 2B / 0-321-10669-5 Anthologies are usually... |
 Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance: Relative Values (Early Modern Literature in History)Best Price: $69.95 Discussing the role of women writers working in family groups during the sixteenth and... |  Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative ProseBest Price: $16.90 |  John Milton: The Self and the World (Studies in the English Renaissance)Best Price: $39.95 This book is an excellent companion piece to Milton studies, whether one is an undergraduate... |  Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth NightBest Price: $44.45 Honesty requires a disclaimer. Booth is a friend and colleague. But I would react similarly if... |  The Royal Image: Representations of Charles IBest Price: $86.45 1999 marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, and this volume deals with the... |
 The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)Best Price: $12.35 Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M.... |  Privacy and Print: Reading and Writing in Seventeenth-Century EnglandBest Price: $42.74 |  Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean TimesBest Price: $3.95 A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century... |  Readings In Renaissance Women's DramaBest Price: $21.79 Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the first significant collection of critical and... |  The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of MiltonBest Price: $17.99 A masterful study of how the novel ideas of Milton's time inform his vocabulary and thought. ... |
 Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)Best Price: $35.00 Advancead students working in Renaissance literature, especially English (though there is a... |  The Restoration MindBest Price: $44.50 |  Thomas Norton: Parliament ManBest Price: $64.10 Thomas Norton can be numbered among the universal men of the England of Queen Elizabeth I -... |  Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier PoetBest Price: $38.25 What a great book! This is biography at its best. Katherine Duncan-Jones succeeds in that most... |  A Moving Rhetoricke: Gender and Silence in Early Modern EnglandBest Price: $41.97 The complex history of silence provides an important framework for rethinking gender in early... |
 The Laborer's Two Bodies: Labor and the "Work" of the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350-1500 (The New Middle Ages)Best Price: $62.96 The Laborer's Two Bodies explores the intellectual, cultural, and political consequences of one... |  Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her PenBest Price: $5.95 For a seventeenth-century Englishwoman, Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish did the unprecedented --she... |  The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance DramaBest Price: $5.64 |  Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance EnglandBest Price: $38.75 |  Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689Best Price: $4.97 |
 Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English RenaissanceIn one of the most seminal book in the growing scholarship of women writers of the English... |  The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance (Rhetoric and Society Series)Best Price: $14.71 |  Traherne: Selected Poems and Prose: 2 (Penguin Classics)traherne is writing based upon the reality of his spiritual experience, it is not something... |  The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth-Century EnglandBest Price: $135.00 The Usurer's Daughter examines masculinity in the sixteenth century, the fictional... |  Major Tudor Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical SourcebookBest Price: $14.99 The Tudor era (1485-1603) was one of the most culturally significant periods in history. Under... |
 Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer LewalskiBest Price: $49.50 |  James I and the Politics of LiteratureBest Price: $43.00 |  "When Beauty Fires the Blood": Love and the Arts in the Age of DrydenBest Price: $19.00 Adds new dimensions to our understanding of John Dryden and his times. |  Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration (Studies in the English Renaissance)Best Price: $24.99 This is a great place to start for anybody interested in the influence of alchemical symbolism... | |
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