Andrew Marvell: Loss and aspiration, home and homeland in by A. D. Cousins

Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660

The Catholic contribution to English literary tradition has been greatly overlooked or misunderstood. This e-book units out to rehabilitate a variety of Catholic ingenious writing, whereas exposing the position of anti-Catholicism as an resourceful stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England.

The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Search of Truth

The Bible and traditional Philosophy in Renaissance Italy explores the reciprocal courting among biblical interpretation and normal philosophy in sixteenth-century Italy. The booklet augments our wisdom of the manifold purposes of scientific services within the Renaissance and of the a number of ways that the Bible used to be learn by way of proficient those that lacked theological education.

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France

Reminiscence and neighborhood in Sixteenth-Century France engages the query of remembering from a few various views. It examines the formation of groups inside of various cultural, non secular, and geographical contexts, in particular with regards to the cloth stipulations for generating texts and discourses that have been the rules for collective practices of reminiscence.

Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust: An Epic Connection (Studies in Comparative Literature)

The 1st a part of Goethe's dramatic poem Faust (1808), one of many nice works of German literature, grabbed the eye of Byron and Percy Shelley within the 1810s, enticing them in a shared fascination that was once to exert a tremendous effect over their writings. during this comparative learn, Ben Hewitt explores the hyperlinks among Faust and Byron's and Shelley's works, connecting Goethe and the 2 English Romantic poets by way of their differing, intricately similar experiments with epic.