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New PDF release: Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy

The courtship and remarriage of a wealthy widow was once a well-liked motif in early glossy comedian theatre. Jennifer Panek brings jointly a wide selection of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court docket files, to check the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to envision early sleek attitudes to remarriage.

E. Sadlack's The French Queen’s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the PDF

A clean biography of Mary Tudor which demanding situations traditional perspectives of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, supplying as a substitute the portrait of a queen who drew on resources of authority to extend the ability of her place: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.

Download e-book for iPad: Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual by A. Funari

This booklet explores the resistance of 3 English poets to Francis Bacon's venture to revive humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, relocating past a dialogue of the strain among Bacon and those poetic voices to indicate theywere additionally debating the narrative of humanity's highbrow path.

New PDF release: Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst

This e-book is a difficult and interesting number of unique essays at the novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Britain’s superior homosexual author and the English novel’s grasp stylist. The essays have interaction the precarious and transferring dating among intercourse and literary sensibility in his novels and, therefore, additionally try to determine the parameters of a brand new serious discourse for destiny examine on Hollinghurst’s novel, queer idea and the modern literary representations of masculinity and sexuality.