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The Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century: Reading and Studying Literature

Autor Anita Pacheco, David Johnson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 apr 2014
The introductory volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, is designed to introduce students to the Renaissance, and the Eighteenth Century. Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching theme, providing a clear focus for study and discussion and introducing readers to an important theoretical concept in literary studies.
The Renaissance is discussed in terms of themes of love and death in tragic drama, with particular reference to Shakepsare's Othello and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. The theme of the section on the long Eighteenth Century is travel, and four travel narratives: two fictional and two non-fictional are discussed: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Voltaire's Candide, the autobiography of the ex-slave Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and a fascinating case-study of the Mutiny on the Bounty. The theoretical concept of the volume is 'context' and each chapter explores how the meaning of texts is affected by reading them in relation to different contexts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849666220
ISBN-10: 1849666229
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 188 x 249 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.18 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Reading and Studying Literature

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Well-established authors. David Johnson has published on Shakespeare with Clarendon Press, and Anita Pacheco is an acknowledged expert on Aphra Behn and early modern women's writing.

Notă biografică

Anita Pacheco is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University and Chair of the undergraduate course Reading and Studying Literature.

David Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University.


Cuprins

Part 1: Love and death in the Renaissance: William Shakespeare, Othello (1604) | John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) | Part 2: Journeys in the long Eighteenth Century : Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (1688) | Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (1759) | A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, Written by Himself (c. 1770) | The Mutiny on the Bounty

Descriere

Introduces students to the literature of the Renaissance and the Eighteenth Century, by reference to Shakespeare's Othello, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Voltaire's Candide, amongst other works.