This collection of essays examines Austen in relation to her business. Many of these essays, including those by Julia Prewitt Brown, Margaret Drabble, Jan Fergus, Isobel Grundy, Gary Kelly, and Elaine Showalter, were first delivered as papers at the Lake Louise conference on Persuasion .
Explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of Rousseau and Stael. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of alternative conceptions of self, citzenship and politics.
The ten specially commissioned poems in this book pay tribute (directly and indirectly) to Robert Fergusson, the poetic master who Robert Burns most loved, and continue a tradiiton of homage while sounding their own contemporary notes.
Rhetorically analysing their verse within a gender-inclusive context, Women Writing of Divinest Things broadens our understanding of Renaissance women's poetry in literary history.
Examines Shelley's unique utopian vision as a product of the tumultuous eighteenth century that uniquely blended the personal, poetic, and political realms.
This study claims that Spenser sought authority for The Faerie Queene by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. The Faerie Queene is interpreted as an unfolding pattern.
This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers? reworking of Ovid?s texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.
Exploring the boundaries between poetry and history on three of England's epic literary works, Galbraith argues that they enter into a dialogue with classical and contemporary predecessors with implications for understanding the English Renaissance.
Laird sets Moletti's Dialogue within the historical background of medieval and Renaissance mechanics, sketches the life and works of Moletti, and analyses the arguments and the geometrical theorems of the Dialogue.