Book · November 7, 2023
Delve into the works of Dante, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Dickinson, Eliot, and Neruda with in-depth literary analysis and fascinating biographies. Find out what odes, ballads, and allegories are. ...
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Journal ArticleModern Language Quarterly · January 1, 2022
This essay describes how commercial publishing in Renaissance England made the age of authors newly salient, especially at the important moment of the literary debut. Drawing on a prosopographic survey of Tudor and early Stuart writers, the essay sketches ...
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Book · July 22, 2021
Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, this volume demonstrates that England's transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of ... ...
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Journal ArticleMilton Studies · January 1, 2019
This article contextualizes Paradise Lost within Milton's work for the Council of State during the Commonwealth and Protectorate. Drawing on archival research and scholarship on the history of diplomacy, it argues that modes of angelic association in Milto ...
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Journal ArticlePmla · March 1, 2015
Recent research has shown how Francis Bacon drew on Renaissance practices of reading and writing to propose a new method for understanding nature. Yet Bacon was well aware that such techniques were vulnerable to error, miscommunication, and failure. Instan ...
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Journal ArticleLiterature Compass · September 1, 2014
Recent scholarship in the history of technology has provided new insights into the early modern investigation of nature, troubling fixed boundaries between invention and discovery, and more broadly, between art and knowledge. Drawing on such research, as w ...
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Journal ArticleSel Studies in English Literature · January 1, 2014
The troubling inscrutability of providence, with its apparent lapses and contradictions, was a Renaissance commonplace. But for Philip Sidney, this very inscrutability offered a narrative opportunity. In his Old Arcadia, Sidney uses the gap between the fut ...
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Journal ArticleReview of English Studies · June 1, 2012
While recent scholarship has done much to illuminate the political and topical thrust of Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House, his use of the language of military theory, reaching its apex in his playful description of Nun Appleton's fortress-shaped garden ...
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