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$40.00
2a18a/31

Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature


HAMPTON, TIMOTHY

Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture

$60.00
2a18b/2

English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition


KING, JOHN N.

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history

$150.00
2a18b/3

Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance


HUNT, MAURICE

Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare

$40.00
2a18b/4

The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas


ECO, UMBERTO & BREDIN, HUGH (Trans)

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 287pp, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Thomas Aquinas literature literary criticism religion religious medieval philosophy

$85.00
2a18b/21

Middleton's Vulgar Pasquin: Essays on 'A Game at Chess'


HOWARD-HILL, T. H.

Super octavo, black buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 341pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1995

KEYWORDS: literature historiography politics government chess allegory political plays criticism literary

$40.00
2a18b/22

Interpretation and Theology in Spenser


GLESS, DARRYL J.

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism

$40.00
2a18d/4

Scenic Form in Shakespeare


JONES, EMRYS

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, VG (minimal library marks, light bruising to extrems, moderate water damage to lower spine extrem with paper residue adhered to spine, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate water damage/staining to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Shakespeare structure plays stage drama theatre theater

$80.00
2a18d/5

The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism


BARKAN, LEONARD

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy

$75.00
2a18d/45

The Capsule of the Mind: Chapters in the Life of Emily Dickinson


WARD, THEODORA

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus full title page, x + 205pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy creasing to edges of pgs 17-34) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some minor closed tearing & discreet archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press Harvard University Press 1961

KEYWORDS: first edition Emily Dickinson literary literature biographies memoirs poems poetry criticism

$40.00
2a18e/1

Emily Bronte Criticism 1900-1982: An Annotated Check List


BARCLAY, JANET M.

VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 162pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling & creasing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Meckler Publishing 1984

KEYWORDS: Emily Bronte literary criticism literature bibliography bibliographies

$20.00
xxsre181896

Oxford Addresses on Poetry


GRAVES, ROBERT

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1962

KEYWORDS: robert graves oxford addresses on poetry poetics literary criticism

$20.00
xxsrg181933

Roasting the Swan of Avon: Shakespeare's Redoubtable Enemies & Dubious Friends


SMITH, BRUCE R.

Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Folger Shakespeare Library 1994

KEYWORDS: william shakespeare shakespearean criticism elizabthan literaure literary drama history theatre

$40.00
2a18e/23

Ben Johnson: Volume X: Play Commentary; Masque Commentary


HERFORD, C. H. & SIMPSON, PERCY and EVELYN (Eds)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, xii + 710pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ligth chipping & folding to some page edges & corners, some pages remain uncut, occasional moderate cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, moderate chafing/scuffing, light soiling to spine)

PUBLISHER: Oxford Univesity Press 1950

KEYWORDS: Ben Johnson literature literary criticism plays masques

$60.00
2a18e/33

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


SHELL, ALISON

Octavo, black heavy boatds, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 309pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate amount of discreet tidy annotations to margins in pencil throughout) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: religion English literature literary criticism catholic church catholicism

$55.00
2a18e/34

Ben Johnson and the Lucianic Tradition


DUNCAN, DOUGLAS

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 252pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, occasional markings & annotations in pencil to margins) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, moderate tanning to flaps, prev. bookseller's price label to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: Ben Johnson literature literary criticism Lucianus Samosatensis satire influence history

$16.50
xxste181973

The French Novel Since the War


NADEAU, MAURICE

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co/Evergreen Edition 1969

KEYWORDS: French literature novels literary criticism history post-war

$17.50
xxsth181993

Tragedy and Comedy


KERR, WALTER

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster 1967

KEYWORDS: drama criticism plays theatre theater literature literary Walter Kerr first edition

$30.00
xxsth181997

Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists


BRADSHAW, GRAHAM

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: literary criticism literature renaissance Shakespeare history materialism

$30.00
xxsth182005

The New Historicism: ANd Other Old-Fashioned Topics


THOMAS, BROOK

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism historicism English American

$60.00
2a18h/24

Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity


McCALLUM, ROBYN

Octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to green buckram spine, viii + 285pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light chafing & fading to rear board, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional markings to margins in ink- minimal & unobtrusive)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1999

KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism young adult fiction youth adolescent ideology ideologies Garland reference library

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