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• Volume 1. The Medieval period
• volume 2. The Renaissance and the early seventeenth century
• volume 3. The Restoration and the eighteenth century
• volume 4. The age of Romanticism
• volume 5. The Victorian era
• volume 6. The twentieth century and beyond.

For the third edition of this volume a considerable number of changes have been made. Excerpts from Thomas Hoby's enormously influential translation of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier are included for the first time. Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke is now represented in the bound book anthology-and selections from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia are now included as well. The range of selections from Elizabeth I's poems, letters, and speeches has been broadened considerably, as have been done with Spenser's Fairie Queene; Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis has been added; there are now more poems by Lady Mary Wroth and George Herbert; and Anne Locke is now represented in the Sonnets section. Bacon's Essay "On Revenge" has been added-as has Thomas Kyd's influential play of revenge, The Spanish Tragedy. Margaret Cavendish, previously included in volume 3 of the full anthology, will now also be included in this volume; we have added a number of her poems, with an emphasis on those with scientific themes. Several additions have been mad to existing Contexts sections, and an all-new Contexts section, "Ranters, Levellers, and Diggers, " has been added. There are many additions the website component as well-including Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury (also being published as a stand-alone BABL edition), and excerpts from Thomas Dekker's plague pamphlets.
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For the third edition of this volume a number of changes have been made. The Old English material has been substantially revised and expanded, including new translations by Roy Liuzza of "Deor, " "Wulf and Eadwacer, " and "The Battle of Brunanburh." A selection from Adrienne Williams Boyarin's new translation of "The Miracles of the Virgin" will be included, along with Sian Echard's translation of selections from Y Gododdin. Matthieu Boyd's translation of the first two branches of the Mabinogi is also new to this edition, together with several Early Irish lyrics. The "Love and Marriage" Contexts section has been expanded to include additional material by Christine de Pizan and excerpts from Holy Maidenhood, and the "Religious and Spiritual Life" Contexts section now includes excerpts from Wycliffite writings. The selection of material by Sir Thomas Malory has also been substantially revised and expanded. In addition, the online component of the anthology includes several new selections, including "The Gifts of Men, " "The Fortunes of Men, " "The Feast of Bricriu, " material by Robert Henryson, and a broader selection of medieval drama. Editorial Team: * Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts, USA * Leonard Conolly, Trent University, Canada * Kate Flint, University of Southern California, USA * Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta, Canada * Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee, USA * Jerome McGann, University of Virginia, USA * Anne Prescott, Barnard College, USA * Barry Qualls, Rutgers University, USA * Claire Waters, University of Virginia, USA.
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'So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading - about the way that, when reading is going well, one books leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time'. In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby ably explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, and sports-related exposes. And, if he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favor of an Arsenal soccer match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him, reveals why we still read, even when there's soccer on TV, a pram in the hall, and a good band playing at our local bar.
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• Illustrations
• Introduction
• 1. The Rule of Medieval Imagination
• 2. Making, Mourning, and the Love of Idols
• 3. The Idol of the Text
• 4. The Sacrament fo the Altar in Piers Plowman and the Late Medieval Church in England
• 5. Langland's Ymaginatif: Images and the Limits of Poetry
• 6. 'Et que est huius ydoli materia? Tuipse': Idols and Images in Walter Hilton
• 7. Sophistic, Spectrality, Iconoclasm
• 8. The Vivacity of Images: St Katherine, Knighton's Lollards, and the Breaking of Idols
• 9. The Iconoclast's Desire: Deguileville's Idolatry in France and England
• 10. Writing and the 'Poetics of Spectacle': Political Epiphanies in The Arrivall of Edward IV and Some Contemporary Lancastrian and Yorkist Texts
• 11. Iconoclasm and Bibliophobia in the English Reformations, 1521-1558
• Afterword
• Works Cited
• Index.
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This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories. Pressures towards iconoclasm are powerfully registered in fourteenth and fifteenth-century writings, both heterodox and orthodox, just as the use of images is central to the practice of both politics and religion. The governance of images turns out, indeed, to be central to governance itself. It is also of critical concern in any moment of historical change, when new cultural forms must incorporate or destroy the images of the old order. The iconoclast redescribes images as pure matter, objects of idolatry worthy only of the hammer. Issues of historical memory, no less than of social ethics, are, then, inherent to the making, love, and destruction of images. These issues are the consistent concern of the essays of this volume, essays commissioned from a range of outstanding late medievalists in a variety of disciplines: literature, art history, Biblical studies, and intellectual history.
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• pt. 1. Wow, Yuk & So-So
• pt. 2. The Texas poetry examiner.

This text examines the various treatments of the myth of the rape of Lucretia in Renaissance England. The first section deals with Shakespeare's narrative poem "Lucrece", while the second analyzes representations of the story on the contemporary stage, including Heywood's play and other material. The author offers a close analysis of the texts, and also contextualizes the representations within the socio-economic circumstances of the time in which they were produced. Topics discussed in an effort to illuminate the ways in which the story reflects, and is reflected by, the early modern discourses of gender and genre include: epistemology, thanatology, ontology, medicine, witchcraft, cartography, and interior decoration.
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• Stromata
• In the field
• Moments
• Fire water
• Messages
• Notes.

Modern fables that explore the concepts of decency, honour and sainthood. The book takes as its literary imagery monsters such as Grendel's Dam, icons such as St Sebastian, the sentient creatures of Indian folklore and the dragon. The author has also written "Feminist Fables".
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• v. 1. The Middle Ages (to ca. 1495)
• The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)
• The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)
• The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)
• v. 2. The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
• The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
• The Twentieth Century.

In this sixth edition, published in two volumes, greater attention has been paid to women authors, such as Aphra Behn, whose "Oroonoko" is included. The anthology is presented in a new format and all supporting material is brought up to date.
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Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.
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So the old snake sheds its skins. Clash of flint with flint that waves hurl against chalk. Risings, sinkings: cycle on cycle. Fresh water, salt water, brackish lagoon. Whirl and loop of streaming gravel. Cloud on cloud of sediment. Yaldhurst: the tilled fields. This collection is the outcome of a creative collaboration between the poet Jeremy Hooker and the sculptor Lee Grandjean. The work originated from Hooker's lifelong knowledge of the New Forest in the south of England and Grandjean's powerful tree images. The book creates a strong sense of the presence of the Forest, but is concerned primarily to realize an imaginative vision that involves new relationships, especially between man and nature. It comprises photographs of sculpture, two woodcuts and unique drawings specifically designed around the text of the sequence of poems, as well as an essay by Hooker on the collaboration, and extracts from his explorations of the Forest in prose.
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• Prose fiction "The life of John Fletcher ... flanked by two sections of poems" - note on cover.

This is a collection of Oscar Wilde's articles, criticism and journalism. Originally written for contemporary magazines and periodicals, it is the first time that much of this material has been published in book form. It also includes three lectures given during a tour of the United States in 1882.
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